A conversation with Seattle
When is the last time someone suggested a jazz musician or a jazz song for you to check out? Yeah, … Continue reading Ryan Keberle Catharsis Brings Indie-Jazz to The Royal Room (and Jazz Back into My Life)
Thursday’s concert, the first of five this weeked at Benaroya Hall, pulsed with energy from beginning to end. Four gifted soloists joined the Seattle Symphony, which included a large augmented brass section with five saxophone players. Robert Breithaupt took on the all important drums, and had one prominent solo in Ella Fitzgerald’s “Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie.” Continue reading A High-Energy “Night at the Cotton Club” with Seattle Symphony
“I suppose I would probably describe myself as a modern torch singer. No matter what style of music I am singing, that is usually the way I deliver a song.” Continue reading Five Questions With Spencer Day
The arrangements are sparse and intimate, sometimes just voice and guitar or piano, allowing the full weight and texture of her voice to shine through. Along with these, hopefully we’ll also be treated to selections from her entire catalog when she visits Jazz Alley, January 18 to 20. Continue reading Rickie Lee Jones Visits the Jazz Alley You Know
Thursday, June 21, the Sunna Gunnlaugs Trio plays at jazz club Tula’s in Belltown. It’s a 7:30 p.m. show with a $10 cover. (Tula’s, if you, like me, haven’t been, features a Mediterranean menu. I thought it was a rule jazz clubs had to be Italian? But no, they’ve got spanokopita on the menu, large as life.) Continue reading The Week Ahead for Fans of Icelandic Music
The man in the flat cap who sat down Thursday night at Jazz Alley to open a four-night run, seemed under the weather only through his raspy voice ID’ing songs and/or praising the musicians between numbers. Continue reading Home Is Where You Put Your Fingers: McCoy Tyner, All These Years Later
Over three days you’ll get to hear world-class jazz musicians, both national touring acts and the creme of the local crop.
The mainstage show this year features two great artists from out of town, the Bobby Broom Trio and Orrin Evans. Broom is a killer guitarist from Chicago who’s trio has been lighting up stages and festivals all around the world. Continue reading The 2012 Ballard Jazz Festival is Not Your Daddy’s Jazz Fest