2016 Golden Ear Award Winners

A Mirror and Focus for the Jazz Community April 2017 Vol. 33, No. 4 EARSHOT JAZZSeattle, Washington 2016 Golden Ear Award Winners Front row: Julian Priester, Dawn Clement, Mark Taylor Back row: Bill Anschell, Kate Voss, Birch Pereira, Alex Dugdale Photo by Daniel Sheehan LetteR FROM THE DIRectOR EARSHOT JAZZ A Mirror and Focus for the Jazz Community Executive Director John Gilbreath JAAAM Managing Director Karen Caropepe Program Manager Caitlin Peterkin By now, we all “Jazz is the ulti- Earshot Jazz Editor Caitlin Peterkin know that April mate in rugged Contributing Writers Halynn Blanchard, Levi is Jazz Appre- individualism Gillis ciation Month and the truest (JAM). We also expression of Calendar Editor Caitlin Peterkin know that our community.” Photography Daniel Sheehan new president Those days ap- Layout Caitlin Peterkin has proposed pear to be over. Distribution Karen Caropepe & Earshot Jazz the elimination While Presi- volunteers of the National dent Barack send Calendar Information to: Endowment for Obama said, 3429 Fremont Place N, #309 the Arts, the “Jazz is fearless Seattle, WA 98103 National En- and true,” and email / [email protected] dowment for quoted Duke Hu m a n it i e s , Ellington in re- Board of Directors Sue Coliton (president), and the Corpo- ferring to jazz Danielle Leigh (vice president), Sally ration for Public as our best “ba- Nichols (secretary), Viren Kamdar (treasurer), Ruby Smith Love, John W. Broadcasting, rometer of free- Comerford, Chris Icasiano, Diane Wah while building new walls around the dom,” our new president equates the country and greatly increasing mili- vast personal fortunes of the few as Emeritus Board Members Clarence Acox, tary budgets to defend them. We’re barometers of freedom and projects Hideo Makihara, Kenneth W. Masters, Lola beginning to see just how much of a fearlessness by dramatic increases in Pedrini, Paul Toliver, Cuong Vu “jam” we’re in. military might, at the risk of person- Founded in 1984 by Paul de Barros, This year, we’re asking you to take al liberties and cultural values. Gary Bannister, and Allen Youngblood. JAM two steps further. Let’s make Jazz reminds us all to remember Earshot Jazz is published monthly by it Jazz Appreciation, Advocacy, and our role in the American experi- Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle and is Action Month. It’s time to get in- ment: a government “of the people, available online at www.earshot.org. tentional about preserving and sup- by the people, and for the people.” subscription (with membership): $35 porting America’s cultural treasures. All of the people. And we are ask- 3429 Fremont Place #309 Last year’s Jazz Appreciation ing you to join us in making direct Seattle, WA 98103 Month culminated in the hippest contact with our elected officials to phone / (206) 547-6763 International Jazz Day ever, with express our concerns and to save the our hippest president ever open- NEA, NEH, CPB, and to preserve Earshot Jazz ISSN 1077-0984 ing the White House (which he re- those aspects of our own govern- Printed by Pacific Publishing Company named the Blues House) to an in- ment that reflect all of the cultures it © 2017 Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle credible concert by many of the top represents. Check our website, ear- names in jazz. And, over and above shot.org, for contact information for the great music, what resonated your elected officials. And remem- MI ss I O N S tateme N T most for many of us was the natural ber that you do make a difference. To ensure the legacy and progression prestige in which jazz was cast, and Your voice is part of the band. Let’s of the art form, Earshot Jazz cultivates the elegance and respect with which get in tune and make some noise. a vibrant jazz community by engaging Barack Obama spoke of “America’s –John Gilbreath, Executive Director audiences, celebrating artists, and great gift to the world,” saying that, supporting arts education. 2 • Earshot Jazz • April 2017 U CALL FOR ARTISTS Jazz: The Second Century Deadline June 1 Earshot Jazz seeks submissions from Seattle-area individual artists and ensembles for the 2017 Jazz: The Second Century series. The series brings the progression of jazz into creative motion on the concert stage. Projects that question and expand the conven- tions of the jazz form are wel- come. Seattle-area individual artists or groups, in any instrument combination, are eligible. Sub- missions must include a recorded sample of a project that can be performed in a concert setting. We encourage applicants to include a letter that speaks to their musical interpretation of the meaning of jazz and of the next stage of jazz music. Individual artists or ensembles are selected by a blind-jury pro- cess. Second Century artists and ensembles perform during July 2017, and are paid a competitive fee for the performance. Please send submissions elec- tronically to 2ndcentury@earshot.org or by mail to Earshot Jazz, 3429 Fremont Place N, #309, Seattle, WA 98103. Dead- line to apply is June 1. You can direct questions and comments to Earshot Jazz at (206) 547- 6763 or [email protected]. A list of past Jazz: The Second Cen- tury artists and ensembles can be viewed online at earshot.org. April 2017 • Earshot Jazz • 3 NOtes Mark Your Calendars for for jazz musicians for the 2017 event, Rauch at volunteer@ballardjazzfesti- GiveBIG! which will be held Tuesday, August val.com. 15, in Shoreline. Artists should send The Seattle Foundation’s seventh an- an email, with links to their website, 5th Annual Jazz Contest for nual GiveBIG day is May 10. On this Facebook page, or other samples day of giving, maximize your gift to Women Composers of their music, to Ray Bloom at Earshot by participating in this com- musicdirector@northcityjazzwalk. Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra munity giving event. You can help com, by May 15. (SWOJO) is now seeking submissions with a donation at any level. Each do- for its fifth annual composition con- nation made between midnight and Volunteer at the Ballard Jazz test, this year a drum feature. The win- midnight PDT will receive a prorated ning compositions will be performed portion of the matching funds. Find Festival and recorded live by SWOJO with more information at givebigseattle.org. The Ballard Jazz Festival (May 17-20) special guest Sherrie Maricle of DIVA. is seeking volunteers for the annual Submission deadline is June 18. North City Jazz Walk Accepting event. Interested volunteers should The contest was created to encourage Submissions fill out the online form at http://bal- the composition and performance of lardjazzfestival.com/volunteer.php, or the highest quality jazz ensemble liter- The North City Jazz Walk contact Volunteer Coordinator Paul Committee is accepting submissions CONTINUED ON PAGE 23 IN ONE eaR Seattle-Kobe Female Jazz to the weekly Racer Sessions and per- addition to its weekday NPR and late- Vocalist Competition Winners formances by La Luz, Country Lips, night and prime-time jazz programs. Ravenna Woods, Lonesome Shack, Abe Beeson hosts The New Cool, Nikki DeCaires and Tiia Freeman and more. It is also the meeting space Saturdays, 3pm, featuring 21st cen- were recently named the winners of for a variety of clubs and social orga- tury jazz inspired and informed by the the adult and high school divisions nizations. sounds of today, hip-hop, funk, elec- (respectively) of the 13th Annual Se- “I never really knew what Café Racer tronic & punk rock, followed by Rob- attle-Kobe Female Jazz Vocalist Audi- meant to people until after the tragic in Lloyd’s Jazz Caliente, 5pm, where tions held at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley in shooting [in 2012],” Geissl said. “The jazz meets Latin rhythms. March. They will represent Seattle in outpouring of love and support from Jim Wilke’s Jazz Northwest, Sun- Kobe, Japan, at the Kobe Shinkaichi the community was amazing and the days, 2pm, features the artists and Jazz Queen Vocalist Contest in early fact that we, as a community were able events of the regional jazz scene. For May. to come back from it shows that there JazzNW podcasts of archived pro- is a need for places like Café Racer in grams, see jazznw.org. Café Racer to be Sold the world. 90.3 KEXP, late-night Sundays, Café Racer owner Kurt Geissl re- “My dream is that someone would features Jazz Theater with John Gil- cently announced he will be putting like to keep the café going in the same breath, 1am, and Sonarchy, midnight, the beloved bar/restaurant/venue up manner as it has been for the last a live-performance broadcast from the for sale, citing “increasing concerns twelve years. The community deserves Jack Straw Productions studio, pro- with family, responsibilities in [his] it.” duced by Doug Haire. Full schedule full-time ‘second,’ job and the desire to information is available at kexp.org do other things [that] contributed to Jazz Radio and jackstraw.org. this decision” on the café’s Facebook Sonarchy’s April schedule: April 2, 88.5 KNKX hosts Saturday Jazz Mat- page. Matt Shoemaker, a solo show focused inee, Jazz Sunday Side Up, Ken Wiley’s Café Racer has become a mainstay the Art of Jazz, and Jazz Northwest, in on Seattle’s music scene, as the host CONTINUED ON PAGE 23 4 • Earshot Jazz • April 2017 letteR FROM THE edITOR The Bass Church The Bass Church The Bass Church The Northwest double bass specialists The Northwest double bass specialists The Northwest double bass specialists America Cannot Afford to Lose the National Endowment for the Arts www.basschurch.com www.basschurch.com www.basschurch.com The current president recently unveiled Art is a nation’s most his proposed budget for the 2018 fiscal Sales, Rentals, Sales, Rentals, Sales, Rentals, year, in which there were glaring cuts to precious heritage.

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