A Mirror and Focus for the Community August 2010 Vol. 26, No. 8 EARSHOT JAZZSeattle,

McTuff: , Andy Coe, Joe Doria, and D’Vonne Lewis Photo by Daniel Sheehan Join the NOTES Earshot Jazz Festival Production Team Talk Back to Mayor McGinn on the attle’s rich jazz history of the 40’s and Nightlife Initiative 50’s. Mayor Mike McGinn an- International Conference of Music The Earshot Jazz Festival is seeking nounced his Seattle Nightlife Initia- Perception & Cognition at UW Production Interns and a Production tive, a proposal with eight components August 23-27 aimed at growing the Emerald City’s Assistant for the annual Earshot The International Conference on nighttime economy. The Mayor, along Jazz Festival, October 15 through Music Perception and Cognition (IC- with the City Council and City Attor- November 7. MPC) is an interdisciplinary confer- ney, is currently soliciting public feed- ence devoted to the dissemination of back and input on this plan through Now in its 22nd year, the Earshot new, unpublished research relating September 15, 2010. “The eight com- Jazz Festival presents local, national, to the field of music perception and ponents that make up the Seattle and international musicians in venues cognition. The 11th Annual ICMPC Nightlife Initiative are designed to throughout Seattle. With hundreds Conference will take place from Au- take advantage of the economic and of artists performing in more than gust 23 – 27 at the University of Wash- social rewards nighttime businesses 60 events during the three-week ington campus in conjuction with the bring to our city, while making pub- festival, this is an opportunity for UW School of Music. The conference lic safety the highest priority,” said musicians, students of music or the will include a keynote by Petri Toivi- McGinn. One of the key components music industry, or current production ainen, a Finnish professor and jazz pia- of the initiative would involve shift- staffers to contribute to this nist who does research on music and ing from the current 2:00 am clos- movement, as well as perception of outstanding community event. ing requirement for alcoholic service rhythm and tonality. There will also be beverage licenses to a “flexible hours” a special concert featuring the Cuong Scheduling flexibility is possible, system. New “Nighttime Amplified Vu Trio on August 24th at the Triple but production team members Sound Rules” are also being proposed. Door (see preview, page 13). A limited will be expected to work some The end result: many bars and clubs number of tickets are available to the long hours, including weekends, would likely stay open later. To learn general public for this event. To learn early mornings, and late nights. more about the nightlife initiative and more about the conference, please visit Applicants should be comfortable how to make your opinion heard, visit www.icmpc.org. handling routine production phone mayormcginn.seattle.gov/nightlife. calls and errands; communicating Esperanza Spalding Named Encore Presentation of Seattle clearly with production members, PDX Jazz Artistic & Community Jazz Legends in Concert on Aug 22 festival management, artists, and Ambassador A special event, “Seattle Jazz Leg- artist management; completing PDX Jazz, the presenting organiza- administrative tasks as requested; ends in Concert,” will return for an encore performance on August 22nd tion of the Portland Jazz Festival, an- lifting up to 50-70 lbs.; and driving nounced the appointment of Esperan- a passenger van. Previous stage at 7:30 p.m. at the Triple Door. The concert is being filmed as part of the za Spalding as Artistic & Community production experience is a plus. feature-length documentary project, Ambassador. The celebrated bassist, In Between the Raindrops, which will vocalist, composer and bandleader To start a conversation about showcase the artists’ performances and will officially begin her newly appoint- helping with the annual Earshot Jazz interviews, in addition to interviews ed position in October. The 2011 fes- Festival, please send a summary of with such greats as musical impresario tival will be held February 18 through your qualifications in an email to and notable trumpeter/ 27 in downtown Portland, Oregon. [email protected]. player Clark Terry. The Among her community activities will film, co-produced by Jessica Davis and be participation in the festival’s cen- See you out there! Joe Andolina, pays tribute to these his- terpiece education event sponsored by torical jazz figures and highlights Se- CONTINUED ON PAGE 22

2 • EARSHOT JAZZ • July 2010 , EARSHOT JAZZ IN ONE EAR A Mirror and Focus for the Jazz Community

Nadine Shanti joins COCOA nw.org for information about upcom- Executive Director John Gilbreath MARTINI ing concerts. Earshot Jazz Editor Danielle Bias Composer and singer Nadine Shanti Sonarchy’s August Lineup Assistant Editor Peter Walton will join Kimberly Reason and Kay Sound wiz Doug Haire is the pro- Bailey as a guest vocalist for the group Contributing Writers Andrew Bartlett, Nathan ducer and mixer of Sonarchy, recorded COCOA MARTINI. Born and raised Bluford, Molly M. Conant, Jessica Davis, live in the studios at Jack Straw Pro- Schraepfer Harvey, Peter Monaghan, in New Orleans, Shanti moved to Se- ductions in Seattle. This hour-long Kimberly M. Reason, Peter Walton, Eliot attle in 1980, where she launched a broadcast features new music and Winder versatile music career that included sound art by Pacific Northwest artists. performances throughout the U.S., Ja- Calendar Editor Peter Walton Now into it’s 14th year of airing on Calendar Volunteer Tim Swetonic pan, Indonesia, and Australia. She has KEXP 90.3 FM, Sonarchy is broadcast Photography Daniel Sheehan performed as a guest artist with the every Sunday evening at midnight. Layout Karen Caropepe Everett Symphony and the Wenatchee This month of August, you can hear Mailing Lola Pedrini Valley Symphony, and toured the U.S. live performances by the following Program Manager Karen Caropepe presenting workshops and concerts in artists: On August 1st, Eli Rosenblatt Send Calendar Information to: Illinois, Tennessee, Alaska and Loui- leads a band through combinations 3429 Fremont Place #309 siana. More recently, she has served of klezmer, cuban and swing music. Seattle, WA 98103 as a guest instructor at the American The group features Rosenblatt on vo- fax / (206) 547-6286 International School in Lagos, Nige- email / [email protected] cals and guitar with ria. Shanti will make her debut with on violin, Hadi Asil also on guitar Board of Directors Paul Toliver (president), COCOA MARTINI on Sunday, No- and Ahamefule J. Oluo on trumpet (vice-president), Lola Pedrini vember 28th from 5 - 6:30pm for the (treasurer), Hideo Makihara (secretary), and clarinet. On August 8th, the Cu- Jazz at Marine View concert series in Clarence Acox, George Heidorn, Kenneth W. rious Mystery presents sixties-style Tacoma. Masters, Renee Staton psychedelia, country-blues and garage Earshot Jazz is published monthly by Northwest African American experimentalism. Band members are Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle and is Museum Announces Live Jazz Shana Cleveland, Nicolas Gonzalez, available online at www.earshot.org. Series Faustine Hudson and Bradford But- Subscription (with membership): $35 The Northwest African American ton. Then on August 15th, the Dan 3429 Fremont Place #309 Museum (NAAM) and Lucid Live Duval Sextet serves up new jazz from Seattle, WA 98103 Jazz Lounge kicked off “4 Beats to the Portland with Duval on guitar, Lee phone / (206) 547-6763 Bar,” a live jazz and happy hour series Elderton on soprano and alto saxo- fax / (206) 547-6286 at NAAM on July 29. The series will phones, Mary-Sue Tobin also on alto Earshot Jazz ISSN 1077-0984 feature some of Seattle’s finest musi- sax, Tom Garcia on tenor and bari- Printed by Pacific Publishing Company cians playing against the backdrop of tone saxophones, Joaquin Toler on © 2009 Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle NAAM’s latest jazz exhibition, After bass and Todd Bishop on drums. On August 22nd, Jonathan Way mixes MISSION STATEMENT Hours: The Joint is Jumpin’. The exhi- bition is composed of vintage jazz era and processes recordings made in the Earshot Jazz is a non-profit arts and service photographs and historic artifacts and remote mountains of northeastern organization formed in 1986 to cultivate a support is on view through December 25th. Washington state revealing the tex- system for jazz in the community and to increase The series was inaugurated on July tures of snowbrush, horsetails and awareness of jazz. Earshot Jazz pursues its 29th with a performance by the band pine bark alongside electronic ma- mission through publishing a monthly newsletter, nipulations. Finally, on August 29th, presenting creative music, providing educational Tenderoney, featuring Alisha Roney programs, identifying and filling career needs for on vocals. On August 26, 2010 from Erin Jorgensen presents a solo show jazz artists, increasing listenership, augmenting 5:30-8:00pm, the museum will fea- of marimba, singing and stories with and complementing existing services and ture musicians Evan Flory-Barnes, songs ranging from punk covers, Bach programs, and networking with the national and Darrius Wilrich, D’Vonne Lewis, and French art songs. international jazz community. and Bernie Jacobs. Visit www.naam-

July 2010 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 3 PROFILE The McTuff Attitude

By Nathan Bluford Seattle pedestrians are generally an aggressive bunch, known for their jay- walking tendencies and free-spirited disobedience towards streets signs. These types better stay on their toes after dark, because a mysterious mu- sician known as McTuff rides around these parts on a sleek black motorcy- cle, and he does not slow down when the light turns yellow. Let me tell you a bit about McTuff, although a lot of what I’ve heard is based on rumors whose details change depending on whom you ask. McTuff’s mama sang back-up for soul men on the Southern chitlin circuit, and his daddy was an organ grinder in a dim Chicago dive bar until the joint MCTUFF: SKERIK, JOE DORIA, D’VONNE LEWIS, AND ANDY COE. PHOTO BY DANIEL SHEEHAN. closed down and the old man disap- peared into the night for the last time, taking with him a double shot and a ful sounds that have ever flowed into myself one of them, but significantly smoke and no desire to be recognized these ears. What instrument, you ask? more relevant is a gang of rough-rid- again. This was all back when McTuff Well, that depends on the night, as he ing Seattle jazz musicians that McTuff was just a child, living in a different knows them all. respects enough to let them play in a city under a different name. No one has managed to record group bearing his name. This group How or why McTuff came to Seattle McTuff yet, as he coldly stares down is more or less led by organ man Joe is unknown. Many say he only ap- any studio man that approaches him Doria and it’s rounded out by Andy pears at night, but I could swear I’ve looking for an easy dollar and he only Coe on guitar and D’Vonne Lewis on caught a glimpse of his unmistakable plays on nights when all of the boot- drums. When his busy schedule allows dark coat in daylight from afar, one leggers have coincidentally run out of for it, the notorious tenor saxophonist day when I was waiting for a bus in tape. known as Skerik joins them, solidi- a part of town that I didn’t know too He’s a man of the moment, and once fying an even quartet. The big man’s well. I jumped up to get closer and give he’s gone his music will in all likeli- endorsement should be enough to con- him a nod, but just then the bus came hood disappear with him. If you want vince anyone, but if you really need to and I had to go. Anyway, he certainly to know more about him but can’t hear it from me, I’ll lay it down: each does come out at night, riding that seem to find yourself in the right place of these musicians cuts lead lines like jet-black bike that I mentioned be- at the right time, there is one good way he’s dancing with a pocket blade, car- fore and ready to play the raw, groovy you can go about it, which brings us to ries rhythm like engine cylinders in music that’s flowed in his veins since the main focus of this writing. top gear, and most importantly, they birth. I’ve seen him play, and he pro- McTuff isn’t the type of guy that you all hit you with a big dose of it, the duces some of the most molten, soul- would say has friends, but he does sweet soul that they get right from the have acquaintances. I like to consider source, the real deal.

4 • EARSHOT JAZZ • July 2010 The gang first got together when ences, but as a final point, he likes to it and exactly how to get there. Live, Doria was looking for some guys to make it very clear that he likes his Iron they leap into an arrangement with play a tribute show to organ great Cap- Maiden. aggressive kinetic energy to spare, ca- tain Jack McDuff. Having grown up Coe, Lewis and Skerik do not just reening through charged solos that fire in the Pacific Northwest and jammed play these tunes, they bring them to notes into every corner of the room. with a good number of the region’s fin- life, using their adept musicianship to Speaking of the room itself, it hap- est, Joe knew just the right numbers give each number a new face and per- pens to be a pretty big deal for Mr. to call, and in no time at all he was sonality every time they play it. When Doria and his fellow band members. on stage at Egan’s Ballard Jam House this all got started, Joe had a very spe- Because, you see, they don’t just play with Skerik, Lewis, and Coe. Things cific outline for instrumentation and in it, they play to it, with it. At every felt good at that show, so they did an- what kind of musicians would be nec- performance, the audience is crucial. other. Things felt good at that second essary for filling each spot. These guys If I’m there, the music is gonna sound show, too. But right then, things also weren’t his first choice for nothing: he a bit like me. If you’re there, it’s gonna began to change. likes them because they get on top of sound a bit like you. And if McTuff It might have been around this time the music, learning it and breathing it shows up to see his boys, which he of- that they first came to know McTuff, so that by the time they hit the stage ten does, you can bet that the band is but it’s hard to say, as he’d already been they know where they want to go with gonna be smokin’ at that show. Envi- lurking in Seattle’s shadows for some years. Again, it depends on who you 600 Queen Anne Ave N ask. After that second show, though, Seattle, WA 98109 Joe put a hold on the covers and trib- 206-282-7407 ute tunes and started bringing in tunes 888-445-3076 of his own. Somewhere in there, a www.marqueen.com quartet that had come together for a hit-and-run homage to an organ great became something more: they became McTuff, with the big man’s approval, obviously. Now, some say that McTuff the man MarQueen Hotel writes all these tunes himself and then gives them to Doria to play with McTuff the band, with writing cred- its under his own name. That’s one rumor that I can tell you for sure has Seattle’s no truth in it, because Doria’s an hon- est man and when he talks about his Lodging Secrets tunes I can sense that nobody but him could’ve written them (although take Two distinct hotels steps away from Seattle Center. note that Coe is also responsible for some of the band’s compositions, and that covers are still absolutely fair game live or in the studio). Doria is my kind Inn at Queen Anne of guy; he likes to take a little from everything he’s ever heard and wrap it up in his own personal style, resulting in some killer pieces that begin with the Hammond soul of his organ he- 505 First Ave N roes but quickly travel into the realms Seattle, WA 98109 of punk rock, ambient electronica, and 206-282-7357 the original soundtrack to Jaws 2. He 800-952-5043 could spend a while discussing influ- www.innatqueenanne.com

July 2010 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 5 ronment is everything for this group; new studio that mixes in more group’s palette, such as their cover of beyond the individual people present of a traditional jazz sound that will be The Beatles’ “She’s So Heavy”, which it comes down to the color of the paint pushed, pulled and stretched into un- they debuted on a whim at a perfor- on the walls, the street noise outside, charted waters, as per usual. mance without any formal arrange- the general mood that everyone is in. Beyond these , McTuff’s fu- ment or practice. The real McTuff, of Various outside projects, such as The ture is undetermined but filled with course, knew exactly how well this Drunken Masters and The Dead Ken- opportunities for exciting music. The would play out from the beginning. ny G’s, provide a wealth of musical ex- Skerik-less trio plays Tuesdays at Wall- He doesn’t let them use his name for periences that resurface months later ingford’s Seamonster Lounge, as well nothing, you know. in the heat of a live show. McTuff has as regular gigs in the greater North- It’s been a while since I ran into an exceptionally wide range of musi- west area, many of which feature guest McTuff, but he’s the type that shows cal tools and inspirations to work with, appearances from the Seattle jazz up when you least expect it, sitting at and factors that many people would rogues gallery. Each of the members is the back table in some venue or other think arbitrary determine which of involved in at least a handful of other so that you only see him once you’re them will be emphasized in a given groups that both inspire and are in- already on your way out and there’s performance. spired by their work in McTuff. What only time for a brief greeting. I would At the moment, Doria is working on happens next is simply a matter of the guess that the boys in the band have compiling some recordings of their boys taking a few moments and de- seen him more recently, but they don’t performances into a second CD re- ciding which move they would like to like to talk about it much. They prefer lease. This live album would be the fol- make, as everyone is having too good to convey the McTuff attitude through low-up to McTuff, Vol. ,1 a studio al- a time to let their namesake down and their blazing live performances, trad- bum that was released in 2009. Vol. 1 put this band on the backburner. ing description for vigorous illustra- contains relatively straight-ahead rock- In conversation, Doria emphasizes tion. Doria always says that he never and funk-influenced pieces, and while how lucky he is to have found a group did feel too comfortable speaking on it makes for good listening, Doria is of musicians that responds to each oth- the microphone; he likes to say ev- really looking to shake things up on er so naturally and productively. He erything he needs to with his organ. the forthcoming live album and other couldn’t ask for a more fulfilling level All the pieces so far are instrumentals future releases. He wants people who of talent and commitment; spreading though, so as long as the band is play- haven’t experienced McTuff live to get this band’s abilities out and discover- ing, make sure that you remember the a feel for their performances’ unpre- ing what they can do together has car- name: McTuff. dictability and versatility. In order to ried the music far beyond his original The McTuff Trio plays the Seamonster convey these characteristics the band expectations. Every show adds new Lounge every Tuesday evening (“ from has been also been conceptualizing a ideas and even compositions to the now till forever”) at 10pm. No cover.

Earshot Jazz pr E s E n t s Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet with Gerald Clayton Saturday, September 11 & Sunday, September 12

Akinmusire is poised and confident on the bandstand, a resourceful player with a fat, crackling tone and a plethora of ideas. --San Francisco Chronicle

Tula’s Nightclub and Restaurant, 7:30pm For Reservations call 206-443-4221 Ambrose Akinmusire $15 general / $13 Earshot members and seniors / $7 Students w/ ID

6 • EARSHOT JAZZ • July 2010 PREVIEW >> Tom Varner Quintet: New Works, Old Works, and Summer Meditations Chapel Performance Space witness him in a setting he particularly Saturday, August 7, 8pm likes – the Chapel Performance Space, with its resonant, rich acoustics. With It’s too easy to take greatness for him will be Chris Fagan (alto sax), Eric granted. Ours is a city with plenty of Barber (tenor sax), Phil Sparks (bass), it, in jazz circles. Many outstanding and Byron Vannoy (drums) – stalwart players have settled here from New locals and cherished imports. York during the last 15 years or so, and With that lineup, Varner promises many more have returned home here “an evening of summer sound medi- after crucial years of apprenticeship tations,” new works, selections from out East and abroad. And we have al- his new tentet CD Heaven and Hell, ways had stacks of great talent that has and at least two works – “Heaps” and stayed at home. “TVTV” – from his first recording, So, it has been possible to come to originally on LP and now available via expect to hear players of a high caliber. CD or iTunes, that featured Ed Jack- Of course, we do that at our peril. son, the late Fred Hopkins, and Billy Plenty of other cities would be happy Hart, and was released 30 years ago as to have what we have, and would be TOM VARNER PHOTO BY DANIEL SHEEHAN Tom Varner Quartet, on Soul Note. likely to accord them the sorts of ac- Varner remains what he was when claim and audiences they deserve. host of the city’s finest, and often at- he moved to Seattle in 2005 – “the Tom Varner, who is a remarkable tracting old friends from other places, French horn in contemporary jazz,” player of French horn in jazz settings, all while continuing to release albums as Joachim Berendt put it in The Jazz is one of those people we should never of international stature. Book. In the Times, Pe- risk losing. He has been in the city for Here’s another opportunity to hear ter Watrous had praised Varner, too: several years, now, performing with a what makes Varner so special, and to “Breaking up bebop phrases with long

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July 2010 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 7 melody notes, Varner is now at the In 1986, he moved to Like so many New York jazz players, point where his lines, complicated but on a National Endowment for the Arts Fagan tired of the rigors of the city logical, hurtle to their destiny.” grant to study with tenor titan, David and began looking for what he calls “a He has similarly been praised for his Murray. more humane environment,” and that witty invention as a composer and for Fagan recalls on his website that brought him to Seattle in 1995. what Nate Chinen, now of the New Murray “was working with his octet Two years later, he recorded Signs York Times described as his “Mingus- and big band at the time and thanks of Life, a postbop project with bass- like gift for intertwining complex to John Purcell’s reluctance to attend ist Chuck Bergeron, drummer Brian counter-melodies in a manner that’s rehearsals, I got to play the alto chair Kirk, and pianist John Hansen. more soulful than acrobatic. This ap- in rehearsals a lot. I ended up having Nowadays, Fagan most often per- proach creates countless opportunities a nine-year freelance career in NYC, forms with the quartet Big Neigh- for inspired improvisation, resulting in played with guys like [trumpeter] Dave borhood with David White (guitar), a marvel of cohesive ensemble writing Douglas, [organist] Jack McDuff, big Doug Miller (bass), and Phil Parisot and playing.” bands, doing my own thing, etc.” (drums). The band has two albums on You can read the full story of Var- In 1990, Fagan moved to Amsterdam Origin. ner’s fabled international career online for a year to become guest saxophone In the Seattle Times, Paul DeBarros in many places, including his own instructor at the Sweelinck Conserva- praised Fagan’s: “juicy, piquant tone website. But the main thing to know tory. He says: “That was really cool on alto, a brisk, non-clichéd sense is simply that you should not pass up because Europeans are really focused of phrasing, and a dynamite feel for opportunities to hear him play. on art and having a good time so there swing.” For this date, he is accompanied by would always be big audiences when There’s further encouragement, then, some of the city’s finest. Eric Barber, I played in the clubs.” [Seattle, take to get out to hear Tom Varner’s quin- for example, is an oft-acclaimed and note!] tet. Don’t slumber while performers –awarded saxophonist. Byron Van- Then, says Fagan, “I made an album of this accomplishment and spirit ser- noy and Phil Sparks comprise as solid with [mentor and enade the city. a rhythm section as the city can offer. compatriot, trumpeter] Bobby Brad- -Peter Monaghan Chris Fagan is, perhaps, less well- ford, [drummer] Andrew Cyrille, and known than they, but not due to any [bassist] called Lost More information: www.tomvarner- lack of talent. He, too, is a refugee Bohemia [1992] which I’m very proud music.com and www.omnitone.com/ from the over-the-top New York jazz of.” And why not? The lineup spoke heavenandhell. Chapel Performance life. He has been playing professional- to his own outstanding talent, and Space, Good Shepherd Center, 4649 ly since 1984, when he appeared with was one that any red-blooded jazzman Sunnyside Ave N, Wallingford; admis- drummer Dick Berk at The Becket would kill for. sion: sliding scale, $5 to $15. Jazz Festival in Claremont, California.

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8 • EARSHOT JAZZ • July 2010 PREVIEW >> Sounds Outside Music Festival

ASK THE AGES: JOHN SEMAN, GREG CAMPBELL, BRIAN HEANEY, MATT REID. PHOTO BY DANIEL SHEEHAN. KAHIL EL’ZABAR OF THE LEGENDS DUO.

Saturday August 14, 2010 2:30pm - Double Yoko their website as “a sometimes yodeling, Cal Anderson Park, 1pm – 8pm always scintillating Latin-American, A collaboration between two ex- Afro-Sephardic, eastern European tremely versatile musicians, in Double On August 14th, the cutting edge gypsy chamber music band.” The trio Yoko’s Sounds Outside performance of Seattle’s jazz scene returns to Cal stands out in the Sounds Outside line- “original composition and improvisa- Anderson Park. The event, sponsored up by bringing influences mainly from tions will seamlessly flow together in primarily by the musician’s collective outside the jazz tradition. The timbres a set of new music for clarinet/bass Monktail Creative Music Concern, of- of instrument such as the accordion, clarinet, violin, voices and electron- fers up five bands that paint a different the cuatro, and the Venezuelan harp ics.” Beth Fleenor and Paris Hurley picture of jazz than you might hear on calls to mind a green country side both have a history of experimenta- KPLU. From the aggressive sounds of more than the dark club atmosphere tion in a myriad of genres on a vari- the Suffering F@#kheads to the more of Tula’s or Seamonster. The virtuosic ety of instruments. Hurley has per- earthy, acoustic sounds of AMA and performances on these rarer instru- formed large-scale multi-media works The Legends Duo, the festival has ments coupled with shimmering vocal throughout Germany, at The Moore, something for everyone. work are not to be missed. and at Los Angeles’ experimental mu- 1pm - Ask the Ages sic hall, REDCAT, while Fleenor has 5:30pm - Suffering become omnipresent in Seattle’s music Ask the Ages is a new group com- scene, winning a Golden Ear Award F@#kheads posed of Sunship guitarist, Brian He- in 2007 with the Monktail Raymond Although their name brings to aney, Monktail director John Seman, Scott Project. mind a teenage metal trio, Suffering drummer Greg Campbell and Matt F@#kheads is a collection of staples Reid on Trumpet. They will be per- 4pm - AMA from the Seattle straightahead jazz forming compositions by avant-garde (Amy Denio, Madeleine Sosin, Abel Rocha) scene. Brothers David () and heroes Sun Ra, , and On eight instruments between 3 mu- Tom (trumpet) Marriott, Craig Flory Alice Coltrane alongside originals by sicians, AMA has been described on (saxophones), Ron Weinstein (organ), Brian Heaney. and Mike Peterson (drums) are obvi-

July 2010 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 9 ously a little frustrated with the trap- pings of the mainstream jazz musician. As their MySpace says, “The Suffering F@#kheads are not sonic wallpaper. They are not going to behave and play background music. They are not going to play your next s@#ty dinner party. They are not going to play your wed- ding, but they might do your divorce.” As this indicates, they provide refresh- ing, backbeat laden takes on the stan- dard jazz repertoire and their own ma- terial alike. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17 PRE-SHOW HOSPITALITY TICKETS AVAILABLE ALL SHOWS RESERVED SEATING AND INCLUDE FREE PUYALLUP FAIR GATE ADMISSION. TICKETS AT THEFAIR.COM, 7pm - The Legends Duo: TICKETMASTER OUTLETS OR 1-800-745-3000 NO SERVICE FEE AT PUYALLUP FAIR BOX OFFICE. 24 HR. HOTLINE 253-841-5045 Kahil El’Zabar and Hamiet FREE YOUR GLEE, SEPTEMBER 10-26, 2010 THEFAIR.COM Bluiett The day of music comes to a close with long-time collaborators Kahil El’Zabar and Hamiet Bluiett. With roots in the Association for the Ad- vancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) of Chicago and St. Louis’ Black Artists’ Group, the Legends Duo brings decades of experience performing the avant-garde and ex- perimental styles of jazz the Sounds Outside Festival has come to repre- sent. The two impressive resumes include appearances with Dizzy Gil- lespie, Stevie Wonder, and Paul Simon for El’Zabar and Sam Rivers, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye for Bluiett. The Legends Duo promises an excit- ing performance of musicians bred on bebop, blues, and funk that have taken their technical prowess to the further reaches of improvisation. -Eliot Winder Cal Anderson Park is located at 1635 11th Ave, between Denny and Pine, at the back of the east side of the Seattle Central Community College campus. More details about Sounds Outside are available at www.soundsoutside.com and www.monktail.com.

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PREVIEW >> Joe McPhee

Saturday, August 14, 8pm Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center

One of the most satisfying albums in his available discography, Joe McPhee’s Common Threads: Live At The Tractor Tavern, Seattle (Deep Listening, 1995) established Seattle as an important marker in McPhee’s musical development. The album, which also features , , Loren Dempster, and , captures many of McPhee’s great strengths as a performer – the rare mastery of both brass and woodwinds and an openness to all sounds around him. The heart of the performance, “Spirit Traveler (For Don Cherry)” was laid down just before McPhee learned of Cherry’s death that day. McPhee returns to Seattle this August (he also played the city in 1998 with Michael Bisio and again in 2001 for the Earshot Jazz Festival with Bisio and Raymond Boni), now sadly playing in honor of two more lost masters – Bill Dixon and Fred Anderson. McPhee performs here in the context in which he has perhaps made his greatest contributions – solo improvisation. As ever, McPhee’s arrival makes a true occasion – an evening to look forward to and a performance to savor. McPhee’s unique and magnificent language was slow to reveal itself, and it has been fascinating to watch his continued growth. Born in Miami, FL in 1939, McPhee began playing the trumpet when he was eight years old. McPhee began studying jazz harmony and improvisa- tion while stationed in Germany with the U.S. Army Band. McPhee JOE McPHEE. PHOTO BY PETER GANNUSHKIN / DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET.

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July 2010 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 11 announced his presence on the creative A thoughtful theoretician, McPhee jazz scene with the recording of Clif- is foremost a performer of profound ford Thornton’s Freedom and Unity, emotion. McPhee’s arresting sound and he moved into more extreme terri- (“still one of the most beautiful tones tory entirely with the powerful and po- on the planet, even when he’s reaching litically charged Underground Railroad for jazz’s outer limits.” -Time Out New (Atavistic Unheard Music, 1968) and York) became much in demand in the (Atavistic Unheard Mu- 1990s and early-2000s. Welcomed by sic, 1970). In the mid-1970s McPhee a younger generation of Chicago musi- gained the attention of the Swiss Wer- cians including and ner X Uehlinger, who birthed his hat , McPhee became rather HUT operation to record McPhee ubiquitous on record, and recent years exclusively. As documented on the have seen the release of some of the hat HUT releases, McPhee soon de- most daring and innovative music of veloped an approach to solo horn per- his career. McPhee is now a member of formance that defies critical categori- the much celebrated Peter Brötzmann zation – by turns darkly surreal and Chicago Tentet, and he also made orthodox in its traditional saxophone key contributions to Mats Gustafs- timbre. Though much of it is now son, Paal Nilssen-Love, and Ingebrigt out of print, McPhee’s tenure with hat Håker Flaten’s The Thing, with whom HUT (he was also a vice-president of he continues to perform with some the label responsible for promotion regularity. The famous trio with bass- and marketing from 1981-1985) pro- ist Dominic Duval and drummer Jay duced some of the most remarkable Rosen, named Trio X in honor of the and enduring music of the period. media’s chilly (or non-existent) cover- It did not, however, necessarily lead age of their debut, has to increased performing opportunities. released several albums on CIMP and So rare were his performances in the , and have gone many assumed McPhee a long way to extend McPhee’s fasci- resided abroad exclusively. And while nating body of work. his music generally found a more re- McPhee’s every performance has ceptive audience across the Atlantic, something of the unpredictable about Modern Romance with McPhee struggled to balance his work it, and with a whole era of his solo re- Jeff Johnson and Joe La with hat HUT and his desire to per- cordings now unavailable, this perfor- Barbera is available at form – nearly forsaking the latter alto- mance presents an intimate opportu- www.DavePeckMusic.com gether. A chance encounter with Pau- nity to explore and celebrate this whol- or at your local record stores line Oliveros and exposure to her theo- ly compelling practitioner of the art. or favorite online retailer. ries of “deep listening,” though, may Presented by Nonsequitur’s Wayward

have strengthened McPhee’s resolve Music Series at the beautiful Chapel Join Dave for his to once again focus on performance, Performance Space at the Good Shep- SECOND ANNUAL extended instrumental technique, herd Center in Wallingford, this con- BIRTHDAY BASH and the process of musical discovery. cert is also part of a nation-wide cel- McPhee was also deeply influenced by ebration of the 30th anniversary of The At Tula’s Edward de Bono’s Lateral Thinking: A Improvisor magazine. Textbook of Creativity, which lessons August 27th and 28th Admission for the performance is $5-15, McPhee applied to improvisation in sliding scale; Chapel Performance Space, With Jeff Johnson and the form of his Po principles – a form Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Eric Eagle of “sideways thinking” and a “process Ave N, 4th floor, Seattle (corner of Sun- of provocation” that helps move from Reservations 206 443 4221 nyside & 50th St in Wallingford). a fixed setting towards a new angle of [email protected] discovery.

12 • EARSHOT JAZZ • July 2010 PREVIEW >> Cuong Vu Trio & Friendly Creatures

Tuesday, August 24 a sonic tour de force that begins atmo- Fittingly, the duo Friendly Creatures Triple Door, 7:30pm spherically but gradually intensifies, comprised of UW alums Brennan with Takeishi creating his own layers Carter on trumpet and effects with of sound and Poor playing orchestrally Jarred Katz on drums will open for the rather than rhythmically.” Cuong Vu Trio on the Mainstage of Perhaps best-known to most music the Triple Door for this concert. The fans as a regular member of the Pat group originally formed in the spring Metheny Group, Vu is also increas- of 2009. They explore free improvisa- ingly gaining accolades for his work tion in a way that aims to be accessible as an educator and mentor to younger without pandering. Remarkably, the musicians here in his hometown of Se- band creates an ensemble-sound far attle. In June of this year, he was one of larger than the duo format suggests. seven edu- -Danielle Bias cators awarded the 2010 UW Distin-

CUONG VU PHOTO BY VIRGINIA VALDES guished Teaching Award, a notable ac- Presented by Earshot Jazz and the complishment for a young professor in University of Washington as part of the The Cuong Vu Trio has been referred only his third year of teaching. Writing International Conference on Music Per- to as “the jazz version of a in the Seattle Times, journalist Hugo ception and Cognition. Tickets are $18 power trio” (Jazz Weekly.com). For this Kugiya referred to “The Vu Effect” to general/$16 Earshot Members. Purchase upcoming concert at the Triple Door, describe the impact that the trumpeter- tickets online at www.TripleDoor.net, the group brings together trumpeter educator has had on the program since by phone at 206.838.4333 between Vu with bassist Luke Bergman and his arrival. Kugiya wrote that Vu “has 10am – 10pm, Monday thru Sunday, or drummer Ted Poor. (Past iterations of by all accounts vitalized the school’s in person at 216 Union Street, Monday the trio have featured electric bassist jazz program with his fresh outlook thru Sunday, 10am – 10pm. Stomu Takeishi.) Vu is well-known for and demanding teaching style.” his formidable ability to create music that zigzags styles, mocks genre and skews conventional language in pur- suit of a new and boundless sound. In The Bass Church The Bass Church The Bass Church this trio format, he is arguably at the The Northwest double bass specialists The Northwest double bass specialists The Northwest double bass specialists height of his musical powers. In a 2008 All About Jazz review of www.basschurch.com www.basschurch.com www.basschurch.com the CD Vu-Tet released online via Art- istShare, writer John Kelman wrote that “With the possible exception of Sales, Rentals, Sales, Rentals, Sales, Rentals, Norway’s Nils Petter Molvaer and Repairs, Restorations, Repairs, Restorations, Repairs, Restorations, , there’s simply no Lessons Lessons Lessons other trumpeter on the radar today Convenient North Seattle Location Convenient North Seattle Location Convenient North Seattle Location as innovative in blending and electronic processing to (206)784-6626 (206)784-6626 (206)784-6626 expand the of his instru- 9716 Phinney Ave. N. 9716 Phinney Ave. N. 9716 Phinney Ave. N. Seattle, WA. 98103 Seattle, WA. 98103 Seattle, WA. 98103 ment. Utilizing both to dramatic ef- ~by appointment only~ ~by appointment only~ ~by appointment only~ fect, Vu turns the opening “Intro” into

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HERBIE HANCOCK’S The Imagine Project AUGUST 29

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14 • EARSHOT JAZZ • July 2010 PREVIEW >> Northwest Jazz Festivals: Summer & Fall 2010

Compiled by Peter Walton Brothers, Pink Martini, Straight No Chaser, & Weber Iago Jazz Trio, John Moak Jazz Harry Connick Jr., more Quartet, John Hammond, Brubeck Brothers You needn’t travel far to experience http://brittfest.org/ - (800) 882-7488, (541) Quartet, Spyro Gyra, David Sanborn, John any number of Pacific Northwest- 779-0847 Gross Trio Featuring Pianist Dave Frishberg, original summer and fall jazz festivals. Tim Wilcox Jazz Quartet, Portland State Jazz in the Valley Most within a days drive from Seattle, University Jazz Faculty Sextet, Stanley festival locations this year include ur- July 30 – August 1 Jordan, The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band, The ban centers, beaches, valleys, wineries Downtown Ellensburg, WA Rippingtons Roster: Alma Villegas Quintet, Gail Pettis, http://www.vancouverwinejazz.com/ - (360) and breweries, and other scenic desti- Lenny Price Quintet, Little Bill and the nations, such as under St. John’s Bridge 906-0605 Bluenotes, Greta Matassa, Brent Edstrom, [email protected] in Portland, OR. The diversity of art- Randy Oxford, Too Slim and the Taildraggers, ists is astounding and includes both Michael Powers Group, more Bumbershoot Arts Festival visiting jazz luminaries and countless http://www.jazzinthevalley.com/ - (509) 899- September 4 – 6 regional artists that contribute to the 3639 - [email protected] Seattle Center lasting quality of the Northwest jazz Roster: Matt Jorgensen Quintet, Greta Snoqualmie Valley Festival of Music scene. Traditional jazz enthusiasts will Matassa Quartet, McTuff Trio, Billy Bragg, August 7 & 8 be particularly happy to note the many many more Mountain Meadows Farm, North Bend, foot http://bumbershoot.org/ - (206) 816-6444 traditional and swing lineups. Select of Mt. Si performance highlights include (by Roster: Vardi Chamber Players, Cascade Pentastic Hot Jazz Festival my estimation) the Globe Unity Or- Jazz Quintet, Voices of the Valley September 10 – 12 chestra, Terence Blanchard, Tomasz http://www.svfom.com/ - (425) 888-74326 Penticton, BC Stanko, Stanley Clarke & Hiromi, the Roster: Cornet Chop Suey, Tom Rigney & Blues and Seafood/ Jazz and Oysters Alexander Von Schlippenbach Trio, Flambeau, Tom Hook, Draga’s Dragons, New Chick Corea & Terry Clarke, Mario in Oysterville Orleans Rhythm Makers, Black Swan Classic Pavone, Barry Guy & Maya Hom- August 13 – 15 Jazz Band, Igor’s Jazz Cowboys, Blue Street burger, Meshell Ndegeocello, and Ka- Old Oysterville, WA Schoolhouse Jazz Band hil El’Zabar & Hamiet Bluiett. Roster: Merlot Tide Quartet, Pearl Django, http://www.pentasticjazz.com/ - (250) 770- Lloyd Jones Struggle, the Strange Tones, 3494 - [email protected] So do take advantage of these diverse- OYSTERS! ly excellent offerings. Details are accu- www.watermusicfestival.com/ - (360) 665-4466 Pony Boy Jazz Picnic rate at the time of print, though we do September 12 recommend checking event websites A Case of the Blues & All That Jazz Magnuson Park Amphitheatre, Seattle, WA as the dates approach for lineup addi- August 21 Roster: Artists from the Pony Boy stable, 2009 tions, breaking news, ticket availabil- Sarg Hubbard Park, Yakima, WA lineup included Greg Williamson Quartet, Jay ity, schedule changes, and so on. Roster: Stickshift Annie, Kimball and the Thomas, Vern Seilert Dektet, Victor Noriega, And please let us know (editor@ear- Fugitives, the Dusty 45s, the El Loco Band Karen Shivers, Mark Taylor, Thomas Marriott, http://www.yakimagreenway. org/blues - (509) Tom Varner, many more shot.org) about any additional North- 453-8280 west-area jazz festivals that we may www.ponyboyrecords.com have missed! 2010 Vancouver Wine & Jazz Pender Harbour Jazz Festival Festival September 17 – 19 Britt Festivals August 26 – 29 Pender Harbour, BC June 13 – September 25 Esther Short Park, Vancouver Washington Roster: Dee Daniels, Dmitry Baevsky, Five Britt Pavillion, Jacksonville OR Roster: The Norman Sylvester Blues Band Alarm Funk, Nancy Ruth, Will Campa y su Roster: Gypsy Soul, Steve Martin, Bela featuring Janice Scroggins, Robert Moore and Gran Union, Jennifer Scott & Rene Worst, Doc Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer, Brubeck the Wildcats, Mavis Staples, David Valdez Fingers, Astrid Sars Quintet, Zapato Negro,

July 2010 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 15 Pearl Django, more Sun Valley Jazz Jamboree Diggin’ Dixie at the Beach www.phjazz.ca - [email protected] October 13 – 17 TBA Djangofest Northwest Sun Valley, ID Ocean Shores, WA Roster: Cornet Chop Suey, Bill Allred’s Roster: TBA, 2009 lineup included Hume September 22 – 26 Classic Jazz Band, Blue Renditions, Big Bang Street Preservation Jazz Band, Electric Park Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, Jazz Band, Blue Street Jazz Band, Boise Jazz Band, Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band, No Whidbey Island, WA Straight Ahead, John Cocuzzi & 2muchfun, Inhibitions Jazz Band, Mud Bay Jazz Band Roster: Angelo Debarre Quintet w/ Ludovic Bob Draga, Dixieland Express, Forever Plaid, http://users.techline.com/diggindixie/ - (360) Beire, Stochelo Rosenberg w/ Tim Kliphuis, Kings of Swing, Jerry Krahn Quartet, more 289-4094 John Jorgenson Quintet, Howard Alden w/ www.sunvalleyjazz.com - (877) 478-5277 - Bucky Pizzarelli & Bria Skonberg, Hot Club Think Swing! New Orleans Jazz [email protected] of Detroit, Pearl Django, Robin Nolan Trio, Festival Gonzalo Bergara Quartet, Kruno w/ Ludovic Earshot Jazz Festival TBA (November) Biere, Hot Club Sandwich, Billlet Deux, Nick October 15 – November 7 Spokane WA Lehr Quartet w/ David Seriff, many more Various venues, Seattle WA Roster: TBA, 2009 lineup included Shanghai http://www.djangofest.com/nw/ - (360) 221- Roster: TBA Woolies, 6’ Swing, Washboard Chaz, Pete 8268, (800) 638-7631 www.earshot.org - (206) 547-6763 Petersen Septet, Hot Club of Spokane Vancouver Dixiefest www.myspace.com/thinkswing October 1 – 3 Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel, Surrey, BC Trumpeter Jay Thomas – Jazz Faculty, Music Department www.cornish.edu/music Roster: Climax Jazz Band, Grand Dominion 800.726.ARTS Jazz Band, Hoppin’ Mad Orchestra, New Orleans Ale Stars, No Inhibitions Jazz Band, South Burgundy Street Jazz Band, Stompin’ Hot Jazz Band, more http://www.vcn.bc.ca/vdjs/dixiefest.html - (866) 796-9934 Glacier Jazz Stampede October 7 – 10 study with Red Lion Hotel, additional venues, Kalispell, MT the best Roster: Big Mama Sue’s Follies, Blue Street Jazz Band, Cool Jazz Band, Don Lawrence If you like to push the boundaries of what’s possible — musically, Orchestra, Flathead Ragtime Society technically, artistically — Cornish Orchestra, Grand Dominion, High Sierra, just might be the place for you. Rocky Mountain Rhythm Kings, Titan Hot 7, Uptown Lowdown, more Earn your Bachelor of Music http://www.glacierjazzstampede.com/ - (406) in Composition, Instrumental or 755-6088 Vocal Performance. Medford Jazz Jubilee October 8 – 10 Medford, OR Roster: Blue Street Jazz Band, Bob Draga, Blue Renditions, Club 7, Cornet Chop Suey, Gator Beat, High Street Band, Midiri Brothers, Mixers Band, Oregon Coast Lab Band, Queen City Jazz Band, Sister Swing, Stompy Jones, Wally’s Warehouse Waifs, Tom Rigney & Flambeau, more www.medfordjazz.org - (541) 770-6972, (800) 599-0039 cornish college of the arts art design music performance production theater | humanities & sciences

16 • EARSHOT JAZZ • July 2010 PRACTICE THIS! The Calendar as a Practice Tool

By David Marriott, Jr. ond week, continuing on to augment- ed and finishing the month with di- With so many things to work into minished scales. As before, if this pace our practice routines -- chords, scales, is too slow, work on major and minor transcriptions, vocabulary, and more for a week, then switch it up to aug- -- one can easily get overwhelmed with mented and diminished the next week. trying to deal with everything all the However, it is the day-to-day, week- time. But there’s a tool out there that to-week practice schedule that tends many of us overlook, that can help us to give many musicians the most trou- organize all the harmonic-related ma- ble. As it turns out, the seven days in terial of our practice routine into man- a week can correspond to the seven ageable, focused chunks. That tool is modes of the major scale. Monday is your calendar. Yes, that calendar! The Ionian, Tuesday is Dorian, Wednesday one that maybe hangs on your wall, is Phrygian, and on through the Locri- sits on your desk in a book, or perhaps an on Sunday. For more advanced stu- resides online. Regardless of your pre- dents, Week One could be the seven ferred scheduling method, many of major modes, Week Two the melodic the natural divisions of time that our minor modes, Week Three the har- calendar inherently provides corre- monic minor modes, and Week Four spond directly to groups of harmony the harmonic major modes. and theory that we must practice for Any one of these means of organiza- our development. tion can help bring balance and fo- For starters, we have twelve months cus to your practice regimen. By no in a year. As it happens, we also have means are these the only ways to use twelve keys. Jiggs Whigham coined the calendar, just some common ones. the phrase “Key-of-the-Month Club” Maybe you want to practice all twelve for this kind of practicing: taking keys every week, so you practice two one key each month and focusing all keys per day and take one day off. Put your efforts into that key. If one key your “math brain” to work and come per month is too drawn out for you, up with one that works best for you. then try one key every two weeks and Regardless, harness the power of your get through all twelve keys every six calendar as an organizational tool for months. Another variation is one ma- practicing and start seeing the positive jor/minor pair per month, either par- effects in your playing. Good luck! allel keys (C Major and C minor) or relative keys (C Major and A minor). Practice This! is an educational project Each month is roughly made up of organized by David M. Marriott, Jr. for four weeks. Lucky for us, there are Earshot Jazz with sponsorship from The four main types of chords and scales: Seattle Drum School. Each new lesson major, minor, augmented, and dimin- by a different local jazz artist is intended ished. So the first week of the month, for students to learn from and for non- I might practice all my major scales, musician readers to gain insight into the then work on minor scales in the sec- craft of improvising.

July 2010 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 17 JAZZ AROUND THE SOUND august 08 SUNDAY, AUGUST 1 TD Nathaniel Rateliff w/ Pearly Gate Music & TK Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson & Tad Britton, 8 BA Here. Now., 7:30 Battleme, 7:30 TU Dave Anderson Quartet CD release: Clarity, 7:30 BP Michael Gotz, 9am TU Jay Thomas Big Band, 7:30 C* Kevin McCarthy & Friends Jam Session, Darrell’s FRIDAY, AUGUST 6 Tavern (18041 Aurora Ave N, Shoreline), 8 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4 AM Lonnie Williams, 9 CR Racer Sessions, 8 C* Marc Smason Trio, Capitol Music Center (1303 C* Mejor Mundo, Island Soul Restaurant (4869 GB Primo Kim, 6 NE 65th), 6 Rainier Ave S), 6:30 JA Mose Allison, 7:30 DC Eric Verlinde, 6:30 C* Deems Tsutakawa, Lakeside Bistro (11425 MM Adam Creighton, 7:30 JA Guy Davis, 7:30 Rainier Ave S), 7 SF Jerry Frank, 6:30 LJ Cheryl Hodges, 8:30 C* Dana Lupinacci Band, Woody’s On The Water SF Pasquale Santos, 11am LJ Vocal workshop w/ Cheryl Hodge, 2 (1715 Dock St, Tacoma), 7 SY Victor Janusz, 10am LJ Improv theory clinic w/ Cliff Maddi, noon C* Geoffrey Castle, Cypress Lounge at Westin TD Jim Messina, 7:30 MM Bonnie Birch, 7:30 Bellevue (600 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue), 8 TU Reggie Goings/ Hadley Caliman Quintet, 3 NO Legacy Band w/ Clarence Acox, 8 DL Who Da Bossa, 9 TU Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra, 8 SF Passarim, 8 HS Jazz & Sushi, 7:30 TD Soul Hole w/ Me & DJ Eli, Musicquarium, 9 JA John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey, 7:30 & 10 MONDAY, AUGUST 2 TD David Bromberg Quartet, 7:30 LJ Prospect, 9:30 AM Ronnie Pierce Jazz Ensemble, 7:30 TK Ron Weinstein Trio, 8 MM Joseph Rojo, 9 GB Primo Kim, 6 TU Smith/ Staelens Big Band, 7 SF Alex Guilbert Trio, 9 MM Howard Dixon, 7:30 TD Isabella Du Graf, Musicquarium, 5:30 NO New Orleans Quintet, 6:30 THURSDAY, AUGUST 5 TD First Annual Seafarer Follies, 11 PT Better World w/ Marc Smason & Joanne Klein, 8:30 BC Clark Gibson Trio, 9 TH Lance Buller w/ Phil Sparks, Chris Spencer, & TO Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder, 9 C* Gail Pettis Trio, Bad Monkey Bistro (400 Boren Mike Slivka, 9 TU Greta Matassa vocal jam, 7:30 Ave N), 8 TU Susan Pascal/ Neil Andersson Quartet, 7:30 C* Pearl Django, Interbay Golf Center (2501 15th WS Victor Janusz, 5 TUESDAY, AUGUST 3 Ave W), 5 DC Eric Verlinde, 6:30 C* Killerbees, Waid’s Haitian Cuisine (1212 E SATURDAY, AUGUST 7 JA Guy Davis, 7:30 Jefferson St), 9 BP Little Bill & Bluenotes, 7:45 LJ Bergman Broom & Andi Francouer, 8 JA John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey, 7:30 & 10 C* Ray Baldwin w/ Tony Mamon, Lakeside Bistro MM Karin Kajita, 7:30 LJ Hang w/ Teaching, 9:30 (11425 Rainier Ave S), 7 MX Don Mock, Steve Kim, & Charlie Nordstrom, 9 MM Jerry Zimmerman, 7:30 C* Kevin McCarthy Quartet, Sullivan’s Steakhouse NO Holotradband, 7 NO Bob Jackson Quintet, 7 (621 Union St), 5 OW Jam w/ Eric Verlinde & Jose Martinez, 10 TD Afrocentric: Ibrahima Camara & Safal, C* Jazz in the Corner, Wayward Coffee House (8570 SB McTuff Trio, 10 Musicquarium, 9 Greenwood Ave N), 8 TD Speakeasy Series: Miami, Musicquarium, 8 TD Call-Out Global Poverty, Musicquarium, 6 C* Snoqualmie Valley Festival of Music, (10106 TD Red Stick Ramblers, 7:30 422nd Lane SE, North Bend), 3:30

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AM Amore Restaurant, 2301 5th Ave. 770-0606 MX MIX 6006 12th Ave South, 767-0280 BA BalMar, 5449 Ballard Ave NW, 297-0500 NC North City Bistro & Wine Shop, 1520 NE 177th, Shoreline, 365-4447 BC Barca, 1510 11th Avenue, Seattle, (206) 325-8263 NO New Orleans Restaurant, 114 First Ave S, 622-2563 BP Bake’s Place, 4135 Providence Point Dr SE, Issaquah, 425-391-3335 OW Owl ’n’ Thistle, 808 Post Ave, 621-7777 BX Boxley’s, 101 W North Bend Way, North Bend, 425-292-9307 PT Poggie Tavern, 4717 California Ave SW, 206-973-2165 C* Concert and Special Events SB Seamonster Lounge, 2202 N 45th St, 633-1824 CH Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N SE Seattle Art Museum, 100 University St, 654-3100 CR Cafe Racer, 5828 Roosevelt Way NE SF Serafina, 2043 Eastlake Ave E, 323-0807 DC Dulces Latin Bistro, 1430 34th Ave, 322-5453 SR Sorrento Hotel, 900 Madison, 622-6400 DL District Lounge, 4507 Brooklyn Ave NE, 547-4134 SU Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Ave, 784-4480 EB Egan’s Ballard Jam House, 1707 NW Market St, 789-1621 SY Salty’s on Alki, 1936 Harbor Ave SW, 526-1188 FB Seattle First Baptist Church, Seneca at Harvard on First Hill, 325-6051 TD Triple Door, 216 Union St, 838-4333 GB El Gaucho Bellevue, 555 110th Ave NE, Bellevue, 425-455-2734 TH 13 Coins Restaurant, 125 Boren Ave N, 382-1313 HS Hiroshi’s Restaurant, 2501 Eastlake Ave E, 726-4966 TI Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, 366-3333 JA Jazz Alley, 2033 6th Ave, 441-9729 TK Thaiku, 5410 Ballard Ave NW, 706-7807 LC Local Color, 1606 Pike Pl, 728-1717 TO ToST, 513 N 36th St, 547-0240 LJ Lucid Jazz Lounge, 5241 University Ave NE , 402-3042 TU Tula’s, 2214 2nd Ave, 443-4221 LM Lombardi’s, 2200 NW Market St, 783-0055 WS Sixth Avenue Wine Seller, 600 Pine St # 300, 621-2669 MM Martin’s Off Madison, 1413 14th Ave, 325-7000

18 • EARSHOT JAZZ • July 2010 CH Tom Varner, 8 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11 WS Victor Janusz, 5 JA John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey, 7:30 & 10 C* Huck Hodge, Jack Straw Productions (4261 LJ Trio Real, 9:30 Roosevelt Way NE), 7:30 SATURDAY, AUGUST 14 MM Rotating Cabaret, 8 DC Eric Verlinde, 6:30 BP Gail Pettis Quartet, 7:45 MN Emily McIntosh Trio, 9:30 JA Fahir Atakoglu w/ Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez C* Dana Lupinacci Band, Johnny’s Dock (1900 E D SF Leo Raymundo Trio w/ Sue Nixon, 9 & Anthony Jackson, 7:30 St, Tacoma), 7 SR Gail Pettis Trio, 8 LJ Galen Green, 8:30 C* Sounds Outside: Legends Duo: Kahil El’Zabar & SY Victor Janusz, 10am MM Bonnie Birch, 7:30 Hamiet Bluiett, Cal Anderson Park (1635 11th TD First Annual Seafarer Follies, 11 NO Legacy Band w/ Clarence Acox, 8 Ave), 7 TD Watson Twins, Musicquarium, 7 TD Waifs, 7:30 C* Sounds Outside: Suffering F@#kheads, Cal TH Lance Buller w/ Phil Sparks, Chris Spencer, & TK Ron Weinstein Trio, 8 Anderson Park (1635 11th Ave), 5:30 Mike Slivka, 9 TU Bellevue CC Jazz Orchestra w/ Hal Sherman, 7:30 C* Sounds Outside: AMA, Cal Anderson Park (1635 TU Greta Matassa Quartet, 7:30 11th Ave), 4 THURSDAY, AUGUST 12 C* Sounds Outside: Double Yoko, Cal Anderson Park 7 & 8 SNOQUALMIE VALLEY FESTIVAL BC Clark Gibson Trio, 9 (1635 11th Ave), 2:30 OF MUSIC C* Art of Jazz: Jovino Santos Neto, Olympic C* Sounds Outside: Ask the Ages, Cal Anderson Park The hills will be alive with music during the first Sculpture Park (2901 Western Ave), 5:30 (1635 11th Ave), 1 Snoqualmie Valley Festival of Music on Saturday, C* Gail Pettis Quartet, Plu Jazz Under the Stars C* Dixie Kings, Crossroads (NE 8th & 156th Ave August 7 and Sunday, August 8. Nestled in at the (12180 Park Ave South, Tacoma), 7 NE, Bellevue), 7 foot of Mt Si, outdoors at Mountain Meadows Farm, C* Stick Shift Annie w/ Kimball & Fugitives, Interbay C* Mejor Mundo, Agua Verde Café (1303 NE Boat 10106 422nd Lane SE, North Bend, the festival will Golf Center (2501 15th Ave W), 5 St), 12:30 feature the anticipated debut of The Vardi Chamber C* Killerbees, Waid’s Haitian Cuisine (1212 E C* Susan Pascal, Lakeside Bistro (11425 Rainier Players, the Cascade Jazz Quintet, and a 60-strong Jefferson St), 9 Ave S), 7 Voices of the Valley chorus. Food and drink will be JA Kevin Eubanks Band, 7:30 & 10 plentiful, so spend the afternoon and evening (gates LJ Hang w/ Teaching, 9:30 open at 3:30pm) enjoying fine music in this beautiful MM Jerry Zimmerman, 7:30 environment. NO Ham Carson Quintet, 7 TD Lucy Woodward, 7:30 CURTAIN CALL SUNDAY, AUGUST 8 TD Afrocentric w/ Maya Soleil Electric, BA Here. Now., 7:30 Musicquarium, 9 weekly reccuring performances BP Michael Gotz, 9am TK Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson & Tad Britton, 8 BP Malibu Manouche, 7:45 TU Elspeth Savanl World Jazz Quintet, 8 C* Kevin McCarthy & Friends Jam Session, Darrell’s MONDAY Tavern (18041 Aurora Ave N, Shoreline), 8 12 & 19 JOVINO SANTOS NETO AND AM Ronnie Pierce Jazz Ensemble, 7:30 C* Snoqualmie Valley Festival of Music, (10106 MARC SEALES AT OLYMPIC GB Primo Kim, 6 422nd Lane SE, North Bend), 3:30 MM Howard Dixon, 7:30 SCULPTURE PARK NO New Orleans Quintet, 6:30 CR Racer Sessions, 8 In lieu of the standard Art of Jazz programming at the PT Better World, 8 GB Primo Kim, 6 Seattle Art Museum Downtown, August sees the Jovino TO Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder, 9 JA John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey, 7:30 Santos Neto Quintet and the Marc Seales Group perform TUESDAY MM Adam Creighton, 7:30 outdoors at the Olympic Sculpture Park, 2901 Western SF Anne Reynolds & Tobi Stone, 6:30 DC Eric Verlinde, 6:30 Ave, at 5:30pm on Thursday, August 12 and 19. The MM Karin Kajita, 7:30 SF Alex Guilbert Duo, 11am Olympic Sculpture Park summer concert series brings MX D. Mock, S. Kim, C. Nordstrom, 9 SY Victor Janusz, 10am together art, environment, and community like never NO Holotradband, 7 TD Gypsy Soul, 7 before as it welcomes its own Olympic Sculpture Park OW Jam w/Eric Verlinde & Jose Martinez, 10 TU Jazz Police Big Band, 3 Farmers Market. Arranged along the Olympic Sculpture TU Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra, 8 WEDNESDAY Park’s signature Z-path, the farmers market will feature DC Eric Verlinde, 6:30 more than 30 local farmers and vendors and opens at MM Bonnie Birch, 7:30 MONDAY, AUGUST 9 3:30pm. The afternoon is capped with free musical NO Legacy Band w/ Clarence Acox AM Ronnie Pierce Jazz Ensemble, 7:30 performances, here featuring Jovino Santos Neto’s TK Ron Weinstein Trio, 8 GB Primo Kim, 6 hot Brazilian jazz (12) and the Marc Seales Group THURSDAY MM Howard Dixon, 7:30 fascinating approach to the American Song Book (19). NO New Orleans Quintet, 6:30 BC Clark Gibson, 9 LJ The Hang w/ Teaching PT Better World w/ Marc Smason & Joanne Klein, 8:30 FRIDAY, AUGUST 13 MM Jerry Zimmerman, 7:30 TD William Fitzsimmons, 7:30 AM Lonnie Williams, 9 NO Ham Carson Quintet, 7 TO Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder, 9 BP Greta Matassa & Robert Vaughan, 7:45 TK J. Alberts, J. Johnson & T. Britton, 8 TU Dawn Clement & Double Vision, 7:30 C* Mejor Mundo, Island Soul Restaurant (4869 FRIDAY TU “Rural Blues Variations” by David Haney, solo Rainier Ave S), 6:30 piano, 6 AM Lonnie Williams, 9 C* Butch Harrison, Lakeside Bistro (11425 Rainier DL Who Da Bossa, 8 Ave S), 7 HS Jazz & Sushi, 7:30 TUESDAY, AUGUST 10 C* Manghis Khan, Cypress Lounge at Westin MM Joseph Rojo, 9 DC Eric Verlinde, 6:30 Bellevue (600 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue), 8 TH Lance Buller Quartet, 9 JA Fahir Atakoglu w/ Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez CH Pulse Emitter, Stella Haze, Spare Death Icon, 8 WS Victor Janusz, 5 & Anthony Jackson, 7:30 DL Who Da Bossa, 9 SATURDAY MM Karin Kajita, 7:30 HS Jazz & Sushi, 7:30 SY Victor Janusz, 10am MX Don Mock, Steve Kim, & Charlie Nordstrom, 9 JA Kevin Eubanks Band, 7:30 & 10 TH Lance Buller Quartet, 9 NO Holotradband, 7 LJ Corey Overall’s “As One”, 9:30 SUNDAY OW Jam w/ Eric Verlinde & Jose Martinez, 10 MM Joseph Rojo, 9 SB McTuff Trio, 10 BA Here. Now., 7:30 SF Djangomatics, 9 CR Racer Sessions, 8 TD Waifs, 7:30 TD Paperboys, 8 GB Primo Kim, 6 TD Speakeasy Series: Miami, Musicquarium, 8 TH Lance Buller w/ Phil Sparks, Chris Spencer, & MM Adam Creighton, 7:30 TU Emerald City Jazz Orchestra, 7:30 Mike Slivka, 9 SY Victor Janusz, 10am TU Hadley Caliman Quintet w/ Thomas Marriott, 7:30

July 2010 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 19 CH Joe McPhee, 8 SF Jerry Frank, 6:30 MM Karin Kajita, 7:30 JA Kevin Eubanks Band, 7:30 & 10 SF Pasquale Santos, 11am MX Don Mock, Steve Kim, & Charlie Nordstrom, 9 LJ New Seattle Percussion Trio, 9:30 SY Victor Janusz, 10am NO Holotradband, 7 MM Rotating Cabaret, 8 TD Livingston Taylor, 7:30 OW Jam w/ Eric Verlinde & Jose Martinez, 10 SF Live Jazz!, 9 TU Jay Thomas Big Band, 4 SB McTuff Trio, 10 SY Victor Janusz, 10am TU Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra, 8 TD Speakeasy Series: Miami, Musicquarium, 8 TD John Roderick, 8 TU Roadside Attraction, 8 TD Das Vibenbass, Musicquarium, 9 MONDAY, AUGUST 16 TH Lance Buller w/ Phil Sparks, Chris Spencer, & AM Ronnie Pierce Jazz Ensemble, 7:30 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18 Mike Slivka, 9 GB Primo Kim, 6 DC Eric Verlinde, 6:30 TU Stephanie Porter Quartet, 7:30 JA Amina Figarova Sextet, 7:30 JA Lenny White’s Anomaly w/ Jimmy Herring, 7:30 MM Howard Dixon, 7:30 LJ Solar Jazz Trio, 8:30 SUNDAY, AUGUST 15 NO New Orleans Quintet, 6:30 MM Bonnie Birch, 7:30 BA Here. Now., 7:30 PT Better World w/ Marc Smason & Joanne Klein, 8:30 NO Legacy Band w/ Clarence Acox, 8 BP Michael Gotz, 9am TD Ta Vaka, 7:30 TD Off Deep End, Musicquarium, 9 C* Kevin McCarthy & Friends Jam Session, Darrell’s TO Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder, 9 TD Fran Healy, 8 Tavern (18041 Aurora Ave N, Shoreline), 8 TU Jam w/ Darin Clendenin Trio, 7:30 TK Ron Weinstein Trio, 8 CR Racer Sessions, 8 TU Katie King Showcase, 7:30 GB Primo Kim, 6 TUESDAY, AUGUST 17 JA Kevin Eubanks Band, 7:30 DC Eric Verlinde, 6:30 THURSDAY, AUGUST 19 MM Adam Creighton, 7:30 JA Lenny White’s Anomaly w/ Jimmy Herring, 7:30 BC Clark Gibson Trio, 9 C* Art of Jazz: Marc Seales Group, Olympic Sculpture Park (2901 Western Ave), 5:30 C* Gail Pettis Quartet, Interbay Golf Center (2501 15th Ave W), 5 C* Killerbees, Waid’s Haitian Cuisine (1212 E Jefferson St), 9 CH Pran (Greg Powers & Stuart Dempster), 8 JA Shemekia Copeland, 7:30 & 10 LJ Hang w/ Teaching, 9:30 MM Jerry Zimmerman, 7:30 NO Ham Carson Quintet, 7 TD Afrocentric w/ Ijo Anyanmo, Musicquarium, 9 TD Quebe Sisters Band, 7:30 TK Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson & Tad Britton, 8 TU Sonando, 8 FRIDAY, AUGUST 20 AM Lonnie Williams, 9 BP Primo Kim Trio, 7:45 C* Sam Chambliss, Lakeside Bistro (11425 Rainier Ave S), 7 C* Leah Stillwell Trio, Sojen Cellars (2818 Hewitt Ave, Everett), 7 C* Solbird, Cypress Lounge at Westin Bellevue (600 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue), 8 CH Michael Pisaro, 8 DL Who Da Bossa, 9 HS Jazz & Sushi, 7:30 JA Shemekia Copeland, 7:30 & 10 LJ Mack Grout Group, 9:30 MM Joseph Rojo, 9 SF Kiko de Freitas, 9 TD Jelly Rollers, Musicquarium, 9 TD Barcelona, 8 TH Lance Buller w/ Phil Sparks, Chris Spencer, & Mike Slivka, 9 TU Greta Matassa Quartet, 7:30 WS Victor Janusz, 5 SATURDAY, AUGUST 21 BP Motown Review w/ Butch Harrison, 7:45 C* AFMB & Chicago 7, Arts and Nature Festival Camp Long (5200 35th SW), 12:30 & 4 C* Deems Tsutakawa, Lakeside Bistro (11425 Rainier Ave S), 7 C* Dana Lupinacci Band, Snohomish Taste of Music (Downtown Snohomish), 5 CH Michael Pisaro, 8 JA Shemekia Copeland, 7:30 & 10 LJ Thomas Marriott, 9:30 MM Rotating Cabaret, 8

20 • EARSHOT JAZZ • July 2010 SB McTuff Trio, 10 TU Dawn Clement/ Ben Roseth Group, 7:30 27 RUTH SERRÃO SF Leo Raymundo Trio w/ Sue Nixon, 9 An acknowledged authority on Brazilian music, pianist SY Victor Janusz, 10am FRIDAY, AUGUST 27 Ruth Serrão has presented lectures and concerts in TD How Now Brown Cow, Musicquarium, 9 AM Lonnie Williams, 9 the United States, Europe, and her native country. She TD Black Francis, 7:30 & 10 BP Greta Matassa & John Worley, 7:45 has premiered the works of contemporary composers TH Lance Buller w/ Phil Sparks, Chris Spencer, & C* Butch Harrison, Lakeside Bistro (11425 Rainier such as Guerra-Peixe, Maria Helena Rosas Fernandes, Mike Slivka, 9 Ave S), 7 Guilherme Bauer, Gilberto Mendes, Antonio Guerreiro TU Kelley Johnson Quartet, 7:30 C* Geoffrey Castle, Cypress Lounge at Westin and Dawid Korechendler, many of whom have Bellevue (600 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue), 8 also dedicated their works to Ms. Serrão. She has SUNDAY, AUGUST 22 CH Ruth Serrão, 8 worked with young musicians at the preparatory and BA Here. Now., 7:30 DL Who Da Bossa, 9 college levels, given Master classes and participated BP Michael Gotz, 9am HS Jazz & Sushi, 7:30 in juries and music festivals. This concert offers C* Kevin McCarthy & Friends Jam Session, Darrell’s JA Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin w/ Will Kennedy & Seattle audiences a rare opportunity to hear music Tavern (18041 Aurora Ave N, Shoreline), 8 Melvin Davis, 7:30 & 10 by Claudia Caldeira, Maria Helena Rosas Fernandes, C* Dana Lupinacci Band, Johnny’s Dock (1900 E D LJ Jason Parker Quartet’s Nick Drake Tribute, 9:30 Elaine Agnew, and Cesar Guerra-Peixe. Presented St, Tacoma), 5 MM Joseph Rojo, 9 on Friday, August 27 at 8pm by Nonsequitur as part CR Racer Sessions, 8 SF Fred Hoadley Trio, 9 of the ongoing Wayward Music Series in the Chapel GB Primo Kim, 6 TD Leif Totusek, 5:30 Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center in JA Shemekia Copeland, 7:30 TD Funk Night: Theoretics, Musicquarium, 9 Wallingford (4649 Sunnyside Ave N). MM Adam Creighton, 7:30 TH Lance Buller w/ Phil Sparks, Chris Spencer, & SF Anne Reynolds & Tobi Stone, 6:30 Mike Slivka, 9 27 & 28 DAVE PECK TRIO SF Alex Guilbert Duo, 11am TU Dave Peck Trio w/ Jeff Johnson & Eric Eagle, 7:30 Pacific Northwest pianist Dave Peck returns to Tula’s SY Victor Janusz, 10am WS Victor Janusz, 5 Restaurant and Nightclub for his second annual TD Seattle Jazz Legends in Concert, 7:30 TU Easy Street, 4pm TU Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra, 8 MONDAY, AUGUST 23 AM Ronnie Pierce Jazz Ensemble, 7:30 GB Primo Kim, 6 MM Howard Dixon, 7:30 Tula’s Jazz Calendar August 2010 NO New Orleans Quintet, 6:30 Tula’s2214 SecondRestaurant Ave, Seattle, and Nightclub WA 98121 Reservations:august 206-443-42212010 2214 Second Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121 TULAS.COM PT Better World w/ Marc Smason & Joanne Klein, 8:30 www.tulas.com; for reservations call (206) 443-4221 TO Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder, 9 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY TU Sax Attack, 7:30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Reggie VOCAL JAM BIG BAND JAZZ BIG BAND JAZZ TUESDAY, AUGUST 24 Goings/ Dave Susan Greta DC Eric Verlinde, 6:30 Hadley hosted by Anderson Pascal/ Greta Jay Smith/ Quartet Matassa JA Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin w/ Will Kennedy & Caliman Thomas Staelens Neil Quartet Melvin Davis, 7:30 Quintet Matassa CD Release: Andersson 7:30pm $15 3-7 $8 7:30pm $8 Big Band Big Band MM Karin Kajita, 7:30 Jim Cutler 7:30pm $5 7pm $10 Clarity Quartet MX Don Mock, Steve Kim, & Charlie Nordstrom, 9 Jazz Orch. 7:30pm $10 7:30pm $15 NO Holotradband, 7 8pm $5 OW Jam w/ Eric Verlinde & Jose Martinez, 10 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 David Haney SB McTuff Trio, 10 Jazz Police solo piano BIG BAND JAZZ BIG BAND JAZZ Elspeth Hadley Stephanie TD Cuong Vu Trio, 7:30 Big Band 6-7 no cover Emerald Bellevue Savani Caliman Porter TD Speakeasy Series: Miami, Musicquarium, 8 3-7 $5 Dawn City Jazz CC Jazz World Quintet TU Little Big Band, 7:30 Jim Cutler Orchestra Quartet Clement Orchestra Jazz w/ Thomas 7:30pm $15 Jazz 7:30pm $5 w/ Hal Sherman & Double 7:30pm $7 Quintet Marriott WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25 Orchestra 7:30pm $15 8pm $5 Vision 8pm $10 DC Eric Verlinde, 6:30 7:30pm $10 JA Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin w/ Will Kennedy & 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Melvin Davis, 7:30 Jay JAZZ JAM BIG BAND JAZZ HOT LATIN JAZZ LJ Vocalize It w/ Michelle Searle, 8:30 Greta Kelley Thomas Katie MM Bonnie Birch, 7:30 Big Band w/ Darin Matassa Johnson NO Legacy Band w/ Clarence Acox, 8 4pm $5 Roadside King Sonando Clendenin 8pm $10 Quartet Quartet TD Emily Wells w/ Anomie Belle, 7:30 Jim Cutler Attraction Showcase 7:30pm $15 7:30pm $15 Trio 8pm $8 7:30pm $10 TK Ron Weinstein Trio, 8 Jazz Orch. 8pm $5 7:30pm $8 TU Greta Matassa Workshop, 7:30 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 THURSDAY, AUGUST 26 Easy Street BIG BAND JAZZ Greta Dawn Dave Dave 4pm $8 Sax Matassa Clement/ Peck Peck BC Clark Gibson Trio, 9 Jim Cutler Little Ben C* Killerbees, Waid’s Haitian Cuisine (1212 E Attack Big Band Jazz Trio w/ Trio w/ Jazz 7:30pm $10 Roseth Jefferson St), 9 Orchestra 7:30pm $5 Workshop Jeff Johnson Jeff Johnson 8pm $5 7:30pm $10 Group & Eric Eagle & Eric Eagle CH Raymond MacDonald w/ Paul Hoskin, Tari 7:30pm $10 7:30pm $15 7:30pm $15 Nelson-Zagar, Lori Goldston, Greg Campbell, 8 29 30 31 JA Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin w/ Will Kennedy & Melvin Davis, 7:30 & 10 Fairly Honest Tim BIG BAND JAZZ EARLY ARRIVAL DISCOUNTS Jazz Band MONDAY thru THURSDAY: Make dinner reservations and arrive LJ Hang w/ Teaching, 9:30 3pm $5 Huling’s Critical MM Jerry Zimmerman, 7:30 Jim Cutler Composer’s Mass by 7:00 pm to receive a 10% discount on all food items. NO Ham Carson Quintet, 7 Jazz Orch. Showcase Big Band FRIDAY and SATURDAY: Make dinner reservations and arrive by 7:00 pm to receive a $5 discount on your cover charge. TK Jon Alberts, Jeff Johnson & Tad Britton, 8 8pm $5 7:30pm $5 7:30pm $5

July 2010 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 21 206-937-1262 gretamatassa.com birthday bash on Friday, August 27 and Saturday, TU Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra, 8 GRETA MATASSA August 28 at 7:30pm. Peck is known for his deeply introspective and passionate piano style and his many 29 ZOO TUNES WITH HERBIE “A marvel of virtuosity” —Los Angeles Times trio recordings, including the recent Modern Romance, HANCOCK’S IMAGINE PROJECT Award-winning vocalist, recording have been praised by critics and peers alike. Joining A giant of modern music, Herbie Hancock has Dave on this set is longtime collaborator and bassist transcended the limitations of genre while maintaining artist and teacher offering private Jeff Johnson and drummer Eric Eagle. Both rhythmic his unmistakable voice as a performer. With an instruction, workshops and clinics. and romantic, the trio uses the standard repertoire as a illustrious career spanning five decades and 12 Greta has framework for new composition and form. Their work is Grammy Awards, Hancock continues to amaze jazz coached many rich, intuitive, and harmonically complex. One of the and pop audiences around the world. Set for release winners of the treasures of Seattle jazz. in 2010, Herbie Hancock’s new album, The Imagine Lionel Hampton Project, is a major international recording and film Jazz Festival SATURDAY, AUGUST 28 project featuring collaborations between Hancock and Kobe BP Paul Green & Straight Shot, 7:45 and musical stars from every region of the planet. Sister City jazz C* Mejor Mundo, Agua Verde Café (1303 NE Boat Utilizing the universal language of music to express competitions St), 12:30 its central themes of peace and global responsibility, and helped start C* Susan Pascal, Lakeside Bistro (11425 Rainier the collaborations combine Hancock’s personalized the careers of Ave S), 7 musical vision with the “local” musical identity of several of the JA Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin w/ Will Kennedy & cultures from around the world. Hancock performs as area’s current Melvin Davis, 7:30 & 10 part of the Woodland Park Zoo’s enormous Zoo Tunes jazz headliners. LJ Manghis Khan, 9:30 series on Sunday, August 29 at 5pm. The Woodland For teaching info, performances and cds: MM Rotating Cabaret, 8 Park Zoo is located at 601 N 59th St. Come early and 206-937-1262 GRETAMATASSA.COM SF Gravity w/ Tim Kennedy Trio, 9 meet a baby tapir. Tickets are now on sale at select SY Victor Janusz, 10am Metropolitan Market locations and through Brown TD Das Vibenbass, Musicquarium, 9 Paper Tickets. TD Mat Kearney, Katie Herzig, 8 TH Lance Buller w/ Phil Sparks, Chris Spencer, & MONDAY, AUGUST 30 Mike Slivka, 9 AM Ronnie Pierce Jazz Ensemble, 7:30 TU Dave Peck Trio w/ Jeff Johnson & Eric Eagle, 7:30 GB Primo Kim, 6 MM Howard Dixon, 7:30 SUNDAY, AUGUST 29 NO New Orleans Quintet, 6:30 BA Here. Now., 7:30 PT Better World w/ Marc Smason & Joanne Klein, 8:30 BP Michael Gotz, 9am TD Kinsey Sicks, 7:30 C* Herbie Hancock Imagine Project, Zoo Tunes at TO Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder, 9 Woodland Park Zoo (601 N 59th St), 5 TU Tim Huling’s Composer Showcase, 7:30 C* Kevin McCarthy & Friends Jam Session, Darrell’s Tavern (18041 Aurora Ave N, Shoreline), 8 TUESDAY, AUGUST 31 CR Racer Sessions, 8 DC Eric Verlinde, 6:30 GB Primo Kim, 6 JA Quincy Jones presents Alfredo Rodriguez Trio, JA Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin w/ Will Kennedy & 7:30 Earshot Jazz Magazine, 1-unit vertical adMelvin Davis, 7:30 MM Karin Kajita, 7:30 MM Adam Creighton, 7:30 MX Don Mock, Steve Kim, & Charlie Nordstrom, 9 height, 3 in. SF Alex Guilbert, 6:30 NO Holotradband, 7 width, 2-3/8 in. SF Danny Ward, 11am OW Jam w/ Eric Verlinde & Jose Martinez, 10 SY Victor Janusz, 10am SB McTuff Trio, 10 TD Kinsey Sicks, 7:30 TU Critical Mass Big Band, 7:30 TU Fairly Honest Jazz Band, 3 Client: Greta Matassa, 206-937-1262

Designer: Susan Pascal, 206-932-5336Notes, from page 2 the Portland Trail Blazers, The Incred- feature stories, previews and reviews Revised 4-10-08 ible Journey of Jazz, a week-long mid- of live performances and albums pro- dle-school program celebrating Black duced by local musicians should sub- History Month curated by Spalding’s mit two writing samples to Danielle former Portland State University pro- Bias, Earshot Jazz Editor at editor@ fessor, Darrell Grant. earshot.org. Call for Newsletter Writers! Event Listings We are looking for enthusiastic and Reminder: Please send gig listings to talented scribes who love jazz and want [email protected] at least eight to contribute to this publicaton! Writ- weeks in advance if possible. Be sure to ers intereest in contributing stories format your gig listings to keep with to this publication about the vibrant the appearance of this issue’s calendar. Puget Sound jazz scene, including

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