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ear10_program_cover_4c_r2.pdf 9/22/10 12:30:40 AM Photo of DBR (see schedule; Oct 21) by Julieta Cervantes C M Y CM MY CY CMY K october 15 - november 7, 2010 PROGRAM NOTES Festival Tickets On Sale ceive awards that night. The ceremony co-authored, and co-edited books. He Tickets for the 22nd Annual Earshot will feature a special performance by is currently completing another jazz Jazz Festival are on sale now. Earshot a Garfield and Roosevelt High School book, Speaking in Tongues: Jazz and members receive a $2 discount on all All-Star Jazz band. All awards recipi- Modern Africa. For more information shows. For the true jazz enthusiasts, ents were selected by the 21-member about Kelley’s lecture, please call (206) the Jazz Festival Gold Card offers the Seattle Music Commission. At press 543-3920. best deal: providing a 30% savings off time, limited tickets were still available On the Horizon: the regular price and preferred seat- to the public free of charge. For more The Pony Boy Orchestra ing at most events. The Gold Card information, visit www.seattlecityof- Seattle Art Museum Downtown grants admission to all festival events. music.com December 9, 5:30pm The pass is $275 for Earshot members Noted Scholar Robin D.G. Kelley Pianist Claude Thornhill is often ($325 general public); available only to Lecture on Jazz and Africa, credited as the progenitor of cool jazz through Earshot Jazz. For a complete October 26 and his recordings influenced and list of performers, show times, and impressed many, including Miles Da- ticket information keep reading, visit The Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University vis. His orchestra included arranger www.earshot.org, or call (206) 547- Gil Evans and musician Lee Konitz. 6763. of Washington will present Professor Robin D.G. Kelley in a special lec- His musical legacy will be explored The Seattle City of Music ture on October 26 at 7pm in Kane as part of Earshot’s Art of Jazz series Commission to Honor Clarence Hall, Room 130 on the campus. Kel- on December 9th when the Pony Boy Acox and Scott Brown ley’s talk will be titled “When Af- Orchestra presents the “Cool Jazz” of Claude Thornhill, with research, Two of Seattle’s favorite music educa- rica Was ‘The Thing’: Modern Jazz in manuscripts and interviews from Dr. tors, Clarence Acox of Garfield High Revolutionary Times.” A pathbreak- David Deacon-Joyner. School and Scott Brown of Roos- ing scholar, prolific writer, and en- evelt High School, will he honored gaged intellectual, Kelley is Professor Event Listings on Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at of American Studies and Ethnicity at Reminder: Please send gig listings to 7pm at the Showbox at the Market the University of Southern California [email protected] at least eight with City of Music Awards. Musician and author of Thelonious Monk: The weeks in advance if possible. Be sure to Brandi Carlile and Seattle Symphony Life and Times of an American Original format your gig listings to keep with Maestro Gerard Schwarz will also re- (2009), among many other authored, the appearance of this issue’s calendar. CJR-5: Remembrance Joe McPhee / Michael Bisio Raymond Boni / Paul Harding IN A SOLO PERFORMANCE Celebrating the release of his new solo album SONGBOOK VOLUME 1 Friday, October 29, 8 pm Chapel Performance Space JAZZ IMPROVISATION CLINIC Seattle Drum School L.A.B. Wednesday, October 27, 7:30 pm Recorded LIVE at the Free to the public 2001 Earshot Jazz Festival North Country Distributors See Festival schedule for details Tel: 315-287-2852 s Fax: 315-287-2860 Email: [email protected] 2 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2010 , EARSHOT JAZZ IN ONE EAR A Mirror and Focus for the Jazz Community New York Times Highlights present jazz pianist Dave Peck in a Executive Director John Gilbreath Seattle’s Thriving Jazz Scene free clinic on jazz improvisation for Earshot Jazz Editor Danielle Bias Jazz critic Nate Chinen of the New melodic instruments on Wednesday, Assistant Editor Peter Walton York Times published a major feature October 27th at 7:30 pm at the L.A.B. Contributing Writers Andrew Bartlett, Bill article in the Sunday Arts & Leisure at Seattle Drum School (located at Barton, Nathan Bluford, Jessica Davis, John section on August 29 titled “Alt-Rock 12510 15th Ave NE). Players of all me- Ewing, Schraepfer Harvey, Peter Monaghan, Hub, Purring with Jazz” that explored lodic instruments are welcome. Reser- Greg Pincus, Kimberly M. Reason, Peter Seattle’s “independent-jazz ecology” vations are recommended and may be Walton, Eliot Winder (to quote Chinen quoting John Gil- made to 206.364.8815 or info@seat- Calendar Editor Peter Walton breath, executive director of Earshot tledrumschool.com. For more details Calendar Volunteer Tim Swetonic Jazz). Chinen pointed out the “grow- on the clinic, see the full Dave Peck Photography Daniel Sheehan ing number of young musicians [who] Festival preview below. Layout Karen Caropepe have been focused on building an au- Sonarchy’s October Lineup Mailing Lola Pedrini tonomous scene” in Seattle. One of the Sound wiz Doug Haire is the pro- Managing Director Karen Caropepe many aspects of our homegrown jazz ducer and mixer of Sonarchy, recorded Send Calendar Information to: scene highlighted in the article includ- live in the studios at Jack Straw Pro- 3429 Fremont Place #309 ed trumpeter Cuong Vu’s praiseworthy ductions in Seattle. This hour-long Seattle, WA 98103 work with jazz students at the Univer- broadcast features new music and fax / (206) 547-6286 sity of Washington. In the article Vu email / [email protected] sound art by Pacific Northwest artists. is quoted as saying “Seattle could be Now into it’s 14th year of airing on Board of Directors Paul Toliver (president), a model for all the other places in the KEXP 90.3 FM, Sonarchy is broadcast Cuong Vu (vice-president), Lola Pedrini U.S. that need a scene like this.” You (treasurer), Hideo Makihara (secretary), every Sunday evening at midnight. can still read the article online at www. Clarence Acox, George Heidorn, Kenneth W. Th October schedule is as follows: On nytimes.com (search: Seattle Jazz). Masters, Renee Staton October 3rd, Afrocop presents a late- Earshot Jazz is published monthly by Jazz Now Seattle! Podcast Debuts night street soundtrack with Andy Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle and is Jason Parker of J&J Music recently Sells on drums, Jayson Powell on per- available online at www.earshot.org. announced the debut of Jazz Now Se- cussion, Quinten Musgrove on bass, Subscription (with membership): $35 attle!, a brand new podcast set to de- Noel Brass Jr. on keyboards and Col- 3429 Fremont Place #309 but on October 1st. From big bands to lin Higgens on guitar. October 10th Seattle, WA 98103 bebop to free jazz to fusion, the show finds Harry Zeitlin offering up solo phone / (206) 547-6763 will cover all corners of Seattle’s jazz acoustic guitar improvisations. Then fax / (206) 547-6286 scene, and will include an up-to-date on October 17th, the Rich Pellegrin Earshot Jazz ISSN 1077-0984 concert calendar to encourage listeners Quintet presents new jazz music with Printed by Pacific Publishing Company to go out to see and support live jazz. Pellegrin on piano, Scott Morning © 2010 Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle Jazz Now Seattle! is hosted by Parker on trumpet, Neil Welch on tenor and David Marriott, Jr., both active sax, Evan Flory-Barnes on bass and MISSION STATEMENT Seattle jazz musicians. For more infor- Chris Icasiano on drums. On Octo- Earshot Jazz is a non-profit arts and service mation, please visit www.jazznowse- ber 24th catch an encore performance organization formed in 1986 to cultivate a support attle.com. of Cipher that was first broadcasted system for jazz in the community and to increase in November of 2003. Cipher is Tari Dave Peck presents Free awareness of jazz. Earshot Jazz pursues its Nelson-Zagar and Tom Swafford mission through publishing a monthly newsletter, Jazz Improvisation Clinic on on violin and Jesse Canterbury and presenting creative music, providing educational October 27 Greg Sinibaldi on clarinets. Finally, programs, identifying and filling career needs for As part of the educational offer- jazz artists, increasing listenership, augmenting on October 31, Lara Candland and and complementing existing services and ings of this year’s Earshot Jazz Festi- Christian Asplund layer text, drones programs, and networking with the national and val, Let’s Play Stella Records, Seattle and live sampling to create lush and international jazz community. Drum School and Earshot Jazz will evocative ecotopes. October 2010 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 3 Hadley Caliman by Kimberly M. Reason On Wednesday, September 8, renowned Seattle tenor saxophon- ist Hadley Caliman died after a two-year struggle with liver can- cer. He was 78. To write about Caliman is an exercise in superlatives and re- dundant praise. Redundant, be- cause the words that rise from those who knew him resonate with like opinion. “With Hadley, it was all about the music.” “He was a story-teller.” Or: “All Had- ley wanted to do was play.” The superlatives that add up to Caliman, a beloved and respected member of the West Coast and Seattle jazz scenes, came from 71 years of earning his chops: Once Caliman picked up the horn at the age of seven, he never put it down. “Hadley was always trying to get better up to the very end,” says Se- attle bassist and close friend Phil Sparks. “No matter how great he was, he practiced every day.” Clarence Acox, Director of the Garfield High School Jazz Band and Co-Director of the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, of which Caliman was a member, says of Caliman: “He was a beau- tiful person inside and out.