JU A Better World w/ Joanne Klein, Marc Smason, A $35 basic membership in Earshot brings the & Buddy Catlett, 7:30pm J A Z Z TU Hal Sherman’s Monday Night Orchestra, newsletter to your door and entitles you to E A R S H O T JAZZ MEMBERSHIP 8 discounts at Bud’s Jazz Records and all Earshot ______events. Your membership helps support our NAME 27-31 ERNESTINE ANDERSON W/ educational programs and concert series. PERSON ______The great singer, and favorite daughter, Check type of donation: ADDRESS Ernestine Anderson, has been warming hearts ❏ New ❏ Renewal each New Year’s for seemingly ever at Jazz Alley. ______She is joined by saxophonist Houston Person, Type of membership: CITY/STATE/ZIP along with bass ace Jeff Johnson, drummer Joe Poole, and pianist . Anderson has ❏ $25 Newsletter only ❏ $35 Individual ______been, over several decades, one of the most PHONE # EMAIL appealing jazz and singers in the business. ❏ $60 Household ❏ $100 Patron Early on she was with such greats as Lionel ______Hampton, , and many others. On ❏ $200 Sustaining ❏ $300 Lifetime EMPLOYER, IF IT PROVIDES MATCHING GRANTS her more than 30 albums, she has exhibited the most profound of understanding of jazz idioms, Other: and of what she sings about. A Seattle favorite, ______so booking ahead is almost essential. Set times WHERE DID YOU PICK UP EARSHOT? ❏ Sr. Citizen – 30% discount at all levels are: Tuesday-Thursday, 7:30pm; Friday 7:30 & 9:30 (admission Tues-Fri $22.50); Saturday 8:45 ❏ Canadian and overseas subscribers please ______& 11 (New Year’s Eve, packages from $47.50- add $8 additional postage (US funds). Please mail to: Earshot Jazz $130.50). 3429 Fremont Place N, #309 ❏ Regular subscribers – to receive newsletter Seattle, WA 98103 st WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 28 1 class, please add $5 for extra postage. JA Ernestine Anderson w/ Houston Person, 7:30 ❏ Contact me about volunteering. TB Kristin Connell & Ryan Smith, 6:30 Earshot Jazz is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization. TU Tatum Greenblatt Quintet w/ Jay Thomas, 8

28 TATUM GREENBLATT QUINTET and organized a scholarship for him to attend 22 LARRY FULLER Jay Thomas, stalwart and star of the scene, the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. Larry Fuller, Ray Brown’s last pianist, plays joins one of the most talented of Seattle-area His mother, Tatiana Sokolova, a college music hard-swinging jazz to great effect. Praised for high-school jazz-band graduates of recent teacher, brought the whole family to Kansas his “quiet, chordal beauty” by Leonard Feather, years, Tatum Greenblatt, on trumpet. Now City. He showed them that the trip was worth and his “muscular, tinkling, harmonically 22, Greenblatt is among a host of Seattleites taking by winning top prizes at the 2001 Lionel advanced blues [that resembles] making a name in New York. Wynton Marsalis Hampton Jazz Festival and the 2002 Peter Nero and ” by Paul deBarros of the cites him on his website as one of his favorite Piano Competition. To help you see what all the Seattle Times, Fuller came to the Northwest while young trumpet players. Greenblatt has appeared excitement is about, Djangirov will bring along working with Ernestine Anderson, with whom he with Marsalis, as well as with Joe Lovano, Mark Marco Panascia (bass) and Todd Strait (drums), traveled, performed, and recorded worldwide, Murphy, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Mingus for his stop at Jazz Alley. until 1993. He then joined the hard-swinging Big Band, Christian McBride, Jeremy Pelt, Alicia trio of Jeff Hamilton, Ray Brown’s drummer. In Keys, Reggie Workman, George Garzone, and the 20 LOOK, MOMMY! 2000, Fuller joined Brown’s trio, too. In Fuller’s Duke Ellington Orchestra, among many others. Keith Baggerly’s big band, Roadside Attraction, masterful work, you’ll instantly hear what Brown After an illustrious stint in high-school bands, in action since 1979, plays each third Tuesday of heard. At Tula’s at 8. Greenblatt moved to New York. the month at Tula’s. This month, that’s tonight. With a lineup of 17, their sound stands out FRIDAY DECEMBER 23 THURSDAY DECEMBER 29 like... well, like a huge pineapple beside a lava C* Das Vibenbass, Nectar Lounge (412 N 36th floe in Hawaii, or an oddly hued ox in Bemidji, JA Eldar Djangirov, 7:30 & 9:30 St), 9 MN, or a huge spotted owl, if one were erected TU Thomas Marriott Quartet, 8:30 JA Ernestine Anderson w/ Houston Person, 7:30 outside Darrington. They specialize in big-band TU Milo Peterson & The Jazz Disciples, 8 standards, as well as originals and contemporary 23 THOMAS MARRIOTT arrangements. At 8pm. The Seattle-bred trumpet phenom, Thomas 29 PRAISED BE BOP Marriott, is one of the most impressive graduates Talented drummer (and guitarist, and WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 21 of the area’s unrivaled high-school jazz programs composer) Milo Peterson brings his Jazz JA Eldar Djangirov, 7:30 – Garfield’s, in his case. In 1999 he won the Disciples to Tula’s at 8pm. Can I have an Amen? TB Steve Mason, 6:30 prestigious Carmine Caruso International His acolytes are tight, sympathetic apostles of Jazz Trumpet Competition sponsored by the TU Thomas Marriott & Tumbao, 8 the pioneers of postbop, such as Miles Davis’s International Trumpet Guild and the Herb Albert acoustic quintet with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Foundation. He then worked with Maynard 21 TUMBAO Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams. But Ferguson’s Big Bop Nouveau, the Brian Lynch Petersen writes stylish originals for his band, At Tula’s, trumpeter Thomas Marriott lights it Big Band, Kenny Kirkland, Eric Reed, the Tito up with his popular Afro-Latin combo Tumbao. inspired variously by forebears like the Davis Puente Orchestra, and the Chico O’Farrill quintet, but also sources in diverse cultures: It has the highly talented Carlos Cascante on Orchestra, among others. His quintet albums vocals, Julio Jauragui on piano, Dean Schmidt Cuban, Japanese-American... Jazz After Hours with trombonist brother David have been well- radio host Jim Wilke said: “At a time when a lot (bass), Jeff Busch (drums), and Frank Medina received. Seattle jazz fans voted the Marriott Jazz Jr (percussion). All those, as well, of course, as of emphasis is placed on blends and fusions of Quintet the Best Emerging Group of 1997 in the dissimilar kinds of music, it’s great to hear some Thomas Marriott, one of the finest trumpeters Earshot Golden Ear awards. The same year, the the region has produced in many a year. inspired unhyphenated original jazz.” He has a quintet released its first album, Open Season. In fine team to do that with. Steve Griggs, one of 1998, fans voted Thomas the Golden Ear Best THURSDAY DECEMBER 22 the most subtle and delicate sax players in the Emerging Artist. In 1999, fans again pointed to region joins him, as do bassist Chuck Kistler and C* Leslie Merta, Karin Kajita & Steve Luceno, the Marriott Quintet, this time voting it the Best Blake Angelos of Bellingham on piano. Caffe Pegaso (1520 Wilmington Dr, Dupont), Northwest Acoustic Band. In 2000, the Marriotts 6:30 released their second album, High Country, just GT Briggan Kraus and Eric Barber, 8 as the brothers were moving to New York. Since FRIDAY DECEMBER 30 JA Eldar Djangirov, 7:30 & 9:30 returning to Seattle, Thomas has fired up the JA Ernestine Anderson w/ Houston Person, 7:30 TU Larry Fuller Trio, 8 local scene. & 9:30 TU Michael Emswiller/John Hansen Group, 8:30 22 BRIGGAN KRAUSS Home for the holidays, one of Seattle jazz’s MONDAY DECEMBER 26 SATURDAY DECEMBER 31 favorite sons, saxophonist Briggan Krauss. RD Vocal jam w/ Karin Kajita & Kevin McCarthy, 7:30 JA Ernestine Anderson w/ Houston Person, 8:45 During his days as a student at Cornish College, & 11 TU Jam w/ Darin Clendenin, 8 he emerged as a player of tremendous talent and TU Greta Matassa Quintet w/ Susan Pascal New imagination – not to mention technical prowess. Year’s Eve Party, 9 In a variety of jazz and rock- and punk-inflected TUESDAY DECEMBER 27 jazz, he could, on a dime, fire up into a blistering mode of playing. Now, as a key figure on New C* Kevin McCarthy Quartet, GTS Sports Bar North York’s Downtown scene, he has developed (17711 Highway 99, Lynnwood, 425-787- 31 OH, RIGHT! awesome technical and musical abilities. At 2549), 8 It’s New Year’s Eve. You know what to do. Gallery 1412 with Eric Barber, at 8pm. JA Ernestine Anderson w/ Houston Person, 7:30

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