Wessell Anderson’s Quartet
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, alto [...]
Bill Anschell Trio
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, composing [...]
Grace Kelly
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 Foundation [...]
Evan Flory-Barnes
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, and [...]
Emi Meyer and the Japan Trio at the 2011 Earshot Jazz Festival, Seattle,WA
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) and [...]
Eric Vloeimans
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 with [...]
Threat of Beauty
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. Share [...]
Tierney Sutton
Three-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
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
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 has [...]
BLUE CRANES at the Earshot Jazz Festival
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 Plus), [...]
Eyeshot Jazz Photography DAFNIS PRIETO PROVERB TRIO
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 New [...]
Bill Frisell Beautiful Dreamers | Jazz Photography from Earshot Jazz Festival
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 Fault” [...]
Earshot Jazz Festival Coverage | ROBERT GLASPER TRIO
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 pianists [...]
The Kora Band
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 Africa is [...]
Ask The Ages | Group Portrait Photography
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 House, [...]
Garfield High School Jazz Band Wins Lincoln Center’s 15th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition
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 competition [...]
Portrait of Jessica Lurie
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 been [...]
Tomasz Stanko | Jazz Photography
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 soul [...]
Gebhard Ullman | Clarinet Trio Jazz Photography
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 through [...]
Ingrid Laubrock
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, Who [...]
Tomasz Stanko
Tomasz Stanko performed Monday night at the Triple Door as Earshot Jazz Spring Series rolls on. 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 soul music with a grainy-toned trumpet, the [...]
Wayne Horvitz & Briggan Krauss
At The Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center Thursday night, Wayne Horvitz, Briggan Krauss, and Lê Quan Ninh perform as the Earshot Jazz Spring Series continues strong. Keyboardist Wayne Horvitz, tenor saxophonist Briggan Krauss, and percussionist Lê Quan Ninh, made up a diverse and crackling trio. Their set sparked and crackled with energy and [...]
Antonio Sanchez | Migration
Three time Grammy Award winner Antonio Sanchez brought his quartet to Jazz Alley tonight and blistered. Playing off of the saxophone tandem of Chris Potter and David Sanchez, and with veteran bassist Scott Colley, they played through a number of the songs on their 2007 album Migration. “On a jazz scene brimming over with dazzling [...]