Earshot Jazz Spring Series Presents Sierra Maestra
Share In this third presentation of the Earshot Jazz Spring Series, Sierra Maestra put on a spell binding performance on Saturday March 31st at Town Hall, that had a large portion of the audience up on the floor dancing the entire concert with some so moved they came up on the stage for brief cameos. Revered [...]
Ben Williams Group at Seattle Art Museum
Share In the second presentation of the Earshot Jazz Spring Series, Ben Williams put on a tremendously pleasing show last Saturday night. Rising-star bassist Ben Williams performed with his group at the Seattle Art Museum, downtown. The Washington DC-born, Harlem-based bandleader, musical educator, composer, electric and acoustic bassist was the winner of the 2009 Thelonious [...]
Travis Shook Trio Live at Tula’s
Share Travis Shook Trio at Tula’s Earshot Jazz Festival 2011 presented the Travis Shook Trio at Tula’s last Friday and Saturday nights. this was one of my favorite performances of the festival so far. Travis with Matt Jorgensen (drums) and Essiet Essiet (bass) played some really cool sounding jazz from some standards, to Beetles tunes to his own [...]
Wessell Anderson’s Quartet
Share Wes “Warm Daddy” Anderson at Tula’s Monday Earshot Jazz Festival 2011 presented a special jazz lesson from soulful, searing alto saxophonist Wessell “Warm Daddy” Anderson, with Phill Sparks on bass, Bill Anschell, piano and D’Vonne Lewis, drums. A former member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet and charter member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, [...]
Bill Anschell Trio
Share Bill Anschell at Tula’s in the last performance of the Earshot Jazz Festival. Earshot Jazz Festival 2011 presented the Bill Anschell Trio as its last performance on Sunday Nov 9th. closing out the three week long annual festival.Nearly 10 years have passed since Seattle native Bill Anschell returned to the Emerald City after spending 25 years studying, [...]
Grace Kelly
Share Grace Kelly Quintet at Tula’s in the last week of the Earshot Jazz Festival. Earshot Jazz Festival 2011 presented the 19-year-old jazz wonder, saxophonist/vocalist Grace Kelly who “plays with intelligence, wit, and feeling,” says one of her many fans, Wynton Marsalis. Just five years ago at the age of 14, Grace Kelly garnered the first of her ASCAP [...]
Evan Flory-Barnes
Share Earshot Jazz Festival 2011 presented Evan Flory-Barnes Acknowledgement of a Celebration at the Kirkland Performance Center and it was my second time to see and hear it. As a reprise of the 2009 Earshot Golden Ear performance of the year, Evan brought back his Earshot- and Meet the Composer-commissioned work for large-ensemble fusion of jazz, hip-hop, [...]
Emi Meyer and the Japan Trio at the 2011 Earshot Jazz Festival, Seattle,WA
Share Emi Meyer and her Japan Trio performed at Tula’s as part of the 2011 Earshot Jazz Festival and I was taken aback with how wonderful she played and sang. The Kyoto-born, Seattle-raised pianist and vocalist, who won the Seattle-Kobe Jazz Vocalist Competition in 2007 and has topped Japanese jazz charts, appeared with Motoki Yamaguchi (drums) [...]
Eric Vloeimans
Share Eric Vloeimans and his group Gatecrash, put on an amazing and mesmerizing performance at The Seattle Art Museum as the first week of the Earshot Jazz Festival opens. The stellar Dutchman’s Gatecrash chain-links lazy lounge, hard-core beats, spaced-out moods and Zappaesque meters. Eric Vloeimans has joined the ranks of European jazzmen altering the art form [...]
Threat of Beauty
Share Amazing bassist Evan Flory-Barnes with his group Threat of Beauty had a great set at the Twisted Cork Lounge at Hyatt Regency Bellevue as part of the 2011 Bellevue Jazz Festival last Thursday. Also in the group is Jason Holt on drums and and Jacques Willis on Vibes. Here are a few images from their performance which I throughly enjoyed. [...]
Tierney Sutton
ShareThree-time GRAMMY® nominee for Best Jazz Vocal Album, Tierney Sutton and the Tierney Sutton Band performed at the Theatre at Meydenbauer Cente Friday, June 3rd, and were really great. Tierney Sutton Band has collaborated for a span of 17 years. They have also been awarded the JazzWeek Award for Vocalist Of The Year, earned consecutive nominations for Jazz [...]
Ask The Ages
Share Ask The Ages played a great set on Saturday night opening up for Gutbucket. They are Brian Heaney, guitar, Greg Campbell, drums, John Seman, bass, and Steven Bell, vibraphone. Here are some pictures from the evening. Share on Facebook Tweet
McCoy Tyner and Bill Frisell
Share McCoy Tyner Quintet with Bill Frisell, Gary Bartz, John Patitucci and Herlin Riley McCoy Tyner has always expanded his vision of the musical landscape and incorporated new elements, whether from distant continents or diverse musical influences. More recently he has arranged for big bands, employed string arrangements, and even reinterpreted popular music. Recently Tyner [...]
BLUE CRANES at the Earshot Jazz Festival
Share The Portland based group Blue Cranes performed with a string section at the Tractor Tavern Tuesday night in the third week of the Earshot Jazz Festival. Part of the recent movement of jazz musicians to bring an indie-rock ethos to their post-bop chops and harmonic sensibilities (think a West Coast version of the Bad [...]
Eyeshot Jazz Photography DAFNIS PRIETO PROVERB TRIO
Share Just got back from THE CROCODILE where Dafnis Prieto Proverb Trio performed and with Cuong Vu / Andrew D’Angelo: Agogic doing the opening set. What a night. It is late so I will post a brief and add more on Tuesday. When the 25 year old Cuban born percussionist Dafnis Prieto’s arrived on the [...]
Bill Frisell Beautiful Dreamers | Jazz Photography from Earshot Jazz Festival
Share What a treat to see Bill Frisell play again in Seattle with Eyvind Kang and Rudy Royston as the Earshot Jazz Festival heads for its last 4 days. In the Beautiful Dreamers trio, Frisell and violist Eyvind Kang join arms with drummer Rudy Royston to take a rustic, wind-blown repertoire (Blind Willie Johnson’s “Nobody’s [...]
Earshot Jazz Festival Coverage | ROBERT GLASPER TRIO
Share Robert Glasper performing Sunday night at the Triple Door with Vicente Archer on bass and Mark Colenburg on drums. On the heels of his acclaimed Blue Note release, Double Booked, pianist Robert Glasper continues to infuse jazz with hip-hop sensibilities. Glasper played a set that confirms his place on the “short list of jazz [...]
The Kora Band
Share Something new on the jazz scene is the The Kora Band , in a recent performance at Tula’s, Thursday Sept 9th. They are pianist Andrew Oliver, Brady Millard-Kish, bass, Kane Mathis, kora and guitar, Chad McCullough, trumpet and Mark DiFlorio, drums and percussion. The 21-string harp played largely by the Mandinka people of West [...]
Ask The Ages | Group Portrait Photography
Share Brian Heaney has a new group, Ask The Ages, that he wanted me to photograph so we made a series of informal individual and group portraits outside his house where the jazz group were rehearsing the other day for an upcoming concert on Thursday, July 15, 2010 7:00pm – 8:30pm, at Egan’s Ballard Jam [...]
Garfield High School Jazz Band Wins Lincoln Center’s 15th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition
Share Seattle’s Garfield High School, under the direction of Clarence Acox, took top honors on Monday, May 10th in New York at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 15th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival. The school, based in Seattle’s historic Central District, made competition history, becoming the first band ever to win the [...]
Portrait of Jessica Lurie
Share While backing up some folders I came across this picture of Jessica Lurie. I photographed Jessica Lurie in an alley in Pioneer Square here in Seattle, a few years ago just before she packed up and moved to Brooklyn, New York. I had previously photographed her with her group Living Daylights and I have [...]
Tomasz Stanko | Jazz Photography
Share Here are some more pictures from last weeks Tomasz Stanko and his New Quintet performing music from their CD release Dark Eyes Tomasz Stanko and his quartet, featuring pianist Alexi Tuomarila, drummer Olavi Louhivuori, Anders Christensen on bass, and Jakob Bro, on guitar, put on a cool, mesmerizing and memorable performance. Playing smouldering Slavic [...]
Gebhard Ullman | Clarinet Trio Jazz Photography
Share Gebhard Ullman Clarinet Trio performing at the Chapel Performance Space. Wow. I was not sure what to expect from a trio of clarinets coming out of Berlin, but I was blown away by the talents of Gebhard Ullman, Juergen Kupke and Michael Thieke and their music from their opening number as they slowly strolled [...]
Ingrid Laubrock
Share Ingrid Laubrock playing with KRIS DAVIS’S STONE TRIO at Tulas as part of the 2009 Earshot Jazz Festival. Ingrid is a jazz saxophone player (alto, soprano, tenor, and baritone saxes) from Germany who is based in London, England. She is a member of the F-IRE Collective. In 1998, she released her first solo album, [...]