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2017 Alex Dugdale, Om Johari, Industrial Revelation, Overton Berry Trio, Edmonds-Woodway HS Band / Roxy Coss, w/ & , LaVon Hardison Quartet, Jameel Moondoc, Nathan Breedlove, Jamael Nance, Gordon Grdina, Quartet, Happy , Mostly Other People Do the Killing, The Bloodroot, Daniel Barry’ Celestial Rhythm Orchestra, Joe Sanders Quartet, , Roxy Cross Homecoming, Syrinx Effect, Naomi Moon Siegel Band, Dawn Clement Duos, Omar Sosa Quarteto AfroCubano, .S. Monk: Monk on Monk, Taylor McFerrin, SassyBlack, Elliott Sharp plays Monk, Greg Sinibaldi, McTuff ft. Will Bernard & , HUDSON: Jack DeJohnette, Lary Grenadier, , , Marquis Hill Blacktet, Kassa Overall Quartet ft. , Pandit Debi Prasad Chatterjee & Neil Welch, Johnaye Kendrick Quartet, Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal, Marc Seales Band, , Garfield HS , Women’s Jazz Orchestra, Robin Holcomb Trio, Mikolaj Trzaska, Roosevelt HS Jazz Band w/ Matt Wilson, Matt Wilson’s Big Happy Family & Friends, Briggan Krauss: Strings & Reeds, Ivan Arteaga’s CMD (Computers Music Dance), Matt Wilson: Honey and Salt, Insurgency: Joe McPhee, , Dick Griffin, Noel Brass Jr., The Baylor Project, Wayfaring Syncopated Classics Band, Birch Pereira & The Gin Joints, Porter Ray, Bad Luck, The Sky Is A Suitcase, King Tears Bat Trip, DoNormaal, The play ZAPPA, , Black Rock Coalition Get-Down Revue, Burnt Sugar Arkestra, Paul Kikuchi: 9066, Steel House: , , , Amina Figarova Sextet, SRJO w/ , Anton Schwartz Quartet, Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto, The Bad Plus, Gato Libre, Guilia Valle Trio, Lori Goldston & Judith Hamann, Ranky Tanky, Lucian Ban & Elevation, Angela Draghicescu 2016 Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto, Frank Kohl Steve Luceno Duo, Stev Lehman Trio, Honey Ear Trio, Josh Rawlings Trio, , Freddy Cole Trio, & Duo, w/ Edmonds-Woodway High School Jazz Band, Georg Graewe, Kareem Kandi Trio, , Brian Lynch & Thomas Marriott, SWOJO w/ Jenny Kellogg, & Wil Blads, Hunter Gather, Itamar Borochov Quartet, Kris Bowers + NONVisuals, CMD, Los Hermanos Arango, Ann Reynolds & Clave Gringa, Naomi Moon Siegel, Takuya Kuroda Group, Trio, Bill Anschell, Bucial Ban & , Rudresh Mahanthappa Bird Calls, ’Vonne Lewis Limited Edition, Roosevelt HS Jazz Band w/ D’Vonne Lewis, Trio, Conference Call, Bad Luck, Marina Albero Quartet, ’shnorkestra, & Kirk Knuffke Duo, Paul Rucker & Hans Teuber, Derek Gripper, Tiffany Gouche, Maiah Manser, SassyBlack, DJ Riz, Rich Pereira & The Gin Joints, Jaimeo Brown Transcendence, Paul Rucker: Stories From the Trees, Renee Baker, Industrial Revelation, D’Vonne Lewis Triplifried, Meets The Westerlies w/ Anwar Marshall, Maceo Parket w/ The Jones Family Singer, Jaimeo Brown Transcendence, Sofia Rei Trio, Josh Deutsch’s Pannonia, Matt Savage, Dawn Clement & Mark Taylor, Matthew Stevens Trio, Denise Donatelli & Anton Schwartz Quintet, SRJO presents Miles Ahead: & Gil Evans, , Dee Daniels Trio, Rokia Traore, & Wadada Leo Smith Duo, Eugenie Jones: Tribute to Ernestine Anderson, Tarik Abouzied, Joe Doria, Dan Balmer, Damian Erkskine, Seattle Symphony: Sonic Evolution 2015 / New School – All School Jazz Jam, Thomas Marriott w/ McTuff, Wayne Hovitz: Some Places are Forever Afternoon, Somi, Quartet, Edmonds-Woodway HS Jazz Band w/ , Tribute: Action Figure / Focus on Sanity, Ted Poor Quartet, UW Scholarshop Ensemble, Kareem Kandi Trio, Edmar Castañeda, Jovino Santos Neto, Mark Taylor & Dawn Clement Group, Charles Lloyd, Wild Man Dance, ’s Snowy Egret, Kris Davis Trio, The Music of George Stone, Gary Stroutsos: Tribute to Paul , Group, Picoso, Seales Brothers Band, , Nicole Mitchell & , Frank Catalano Quartet, 80th Birthday Celebration, Being John McLaughlin, Jessica Lurie Ensemble, The Westerlies, Skerik, Monktail Creative Music Concern 15th Anniversary, Nate Wooley & , Chano Dominguez Trio, Mimi Fox, Sonic Evolution: SRJO w/ Bill Frisell, Shaprece, Derek Bermel w/ the Roosevelt HS Jazz Band, Jacob Zimmerman Sextet, Joel M. Ross Quartet, Andy Clausen’s Shutter Project, Brad Linde’s straghtHORN, Brockman & Halberstadt Duo: Stayhorn Favorites, Garfield HS Jazz Band, Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra w/ Mimi Fox, Paul Kikuchi: Songs of Nihonmachi, Blades, Ciotti, Coe w/ DJ Logic, Industrial Revelation, & Skerik, Ed Reed & Anton Schwartz Play Hartman & Colstrane, Art Lande Quartet, SRJO Presentes Lush Life: Celebrating Billy Strahorn’s 100th Birthday, Torsten Mueller & Phil Minton, , James McBride: The Good Lord Bird Band, Quartet, Billy Strayhorn Project, Wayne Horvitz @ 60, Larry Fuller Trio, Brad Mehldau Trio, Scott Amendola Band w/ & , Chris Potter Trio, Sara Gazarek & New West Guitar Group, 2014 Monk 10/10, Larry Fuller Trio, John Seman’s Lil Coop Quintet, Gregg Belisle-Chi, Tri Minh’s Quartet, Taylor McFerrin, Oliver Groenewald Newnet, Carmen Lundy Group, Eric Voeimans: Oliver’s cinema, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Johnaye Kendrick Group, Thomas Marriott: Urban Folklore, Amy Denio & , & Dave Douglas Quintet: ft. Lawrence Fields, Linda Oh & , William . Smith, Trio, Ben Flocks Trio, Boban & Marko Markovic Orkestar, Greg Osby Quartet, Kareem Kandi Organ, Living Daylights, Syrinx Effect, 3dom Factor, Daniel Barry’s Celestial Rhythm Orchestra, Quartet, Kate Olson Sextet, Expansions: The Group, Frank Catalano Quartet, Chad McCullough: Spin Quartet, Wayne Horvitz, Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble, Electric Circus, SRJO “Quincy and Ray on Jackson Street”, Frank Catalano Quartet, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, McTuff, Battle Trance, Crystal Beth & the Boom boom Band, Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra ft. , Hal Galper Trio w/ Jeff Johnson & John Bishop, Anton Schwartz Quintet, Quartet, Roosevelt HS Jazz Band, Anton Schwartz Quintet, Bad Luck, Sott Cutshall, Duo, Miguel Zenon Quartet, Industrial Revelation, Ted Poor, , Pete Rende, True : Corey Harris & Alvin Youngblood Hart, Garfield HS Jazz Band, Trio 2013 Keith Jarrett, , Jack DeJohnette, Industrial Revelation, John Scofield’s Uberjam, Bill Ramsey Tribute, Trumpet Madness, w/ Colin Stranahan & Ben Street, La Familia Valera Miranda, SRJO: Play It Again, Sam!, Vinicius Cantuaria, John Hollenbeck Claudia Quintet, Edmonds-Woodway HS Jazz Band w/ Cuong Vu Trio, Yosvany Terry Quintet, Kareem Kandi Group, & Nate Wooley, The Westerlies, The Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble, Dave Douglas Quintet, Jim Woodring, ft. Bill Frisell, Starts Here: The Music of , Overton Berry, , Dave King & Chris Tordini Trio, Bad Luck, DakhaBrakha, Mehliana: Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana, Si o Si, Roosevelt High School Jazz Band, Peggy Lee, Skerik, Wayne Horvitz Trio, Steve Lehman Trio, Cat O’ Nine Tails, George Cooligan , John Medeski, The Bad Plus, Philip Glass, SFJAZZ Collective, Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra w/ , Syrinx Effect, Naomi Siegel Quartet, Nicole Mitchell Ice Crystal Quartet, Steve Treseler Group ft. Ingrid Jensen, Bill Anschell Quartet, NEXT Collection, Peter Brotzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love, TPatricia Barber, Beth Fleenor Workshop Ensemble, B’snorkestra, Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri, Darcy James Argue & Cornish Contemporary Big Band, Bill Frisell w/ Cuong Vu & Robin Holcomb, Marc Seales Group, Brian Haas & Scott Amendola, Chemical Clock, Manhattan Transfer, Paul Kikuchi’s Bat of No Bird Island, SRJO: Take Five: Remembering , Jon Pugh Quartet, Kora Band, Bill Frisell w/ Ted Poor & Luke Bergman, Garfield HS Jazz Band, Omar Sosa Afri-Lectric Sextet, , Dave Douglas w/ Cuong Vu Trio & UW Jazz Students, Bill Frisell’s Big Sur Quintet, McTuff, Charles Lloyd & Friends w/ Bill Frisell 2012 Tribute to Clarence Acox w Garfield HS Band & Guests, Lorraine Feather & Russell Ferrante, Danilo Perez Trio, Andy Clausen’s Wishbone, Ab Baars & Ig Henneman, Trio / Dave Peck Trio, Trio, Trio , Jon Hamar Quintet w/ & Todd DelGiudice, Tatsuya Nakatani, Bettye LaVette, Human Spirit, Vijay Iyer Trio, Cuong Vu’s Triggerfish, Evan Flory-Barnes 2+2, Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin, Phil Dadson Ensemble, Paul de Barros, Organ Trio, Buster Williams Quartet, with Marc Seales Trio, Arga Bileg, Trio, Dos Mas, Gregoire Maret, ’s Voodoo Orchestra West, The Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble, B’shnorkestra, Neil Welch, Elina Duni Quartet, Kate Olson/Naomi Siegel: Syrinx Effect, Anat Cohen Ensemble, Jake Shimabukuro, ’s Tamarindo, Shuffleboil, Quartet, Philip Glass w/ & Adam Rudolph, Susan Pascal’s Soul SauceRupa & The April Fishes, Staff Benda Bilili, Chris Lightcap’s Bigmouth, Sumi Tonooka, Band, Bandalabra, Halloween Party w/ Naomi & The ODAT Band .2, Evan Flory-Barnes: Folks, Mundell Lowe / Mike Magnelli Quartet, Evan Flory-Barnes: Thrown Together with Love, JD Allen Trio, Jaap Blonk, Roosevelt High School Jazz Band, Ballard High School Jazz Band, Murl Allen Sanders w/ Warren Rand, Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra w/ , Experiment 2011 Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette Trio, Brad Mehldau, solo piano, The Bad Plus Trio, BraamDeJoodeVatcher, Roosevelt Highschool Jazz Band, Moutlake Terrace High School Jazz Band, Endangered Blood, Human Spirit, Craig Taborn & Gust Burns, Emi Meyer’s Trio, Rich Halley Trio + 1, Matt Slocum Trio, Avram Fefer Trio featuring Chad Taylor & Michael Bisio, Beat Kaestli Group, Jay Thomas / Shunzo Ohno Group, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom, Robin Holcolmb & Talking Pictures, The Campbell Brothers: Sacred Steel, Johnaye Kendrick Quartet, Sonando, Thomas Mapfumo & Blacks Unlimited, Nelda Swiggett’s Stringtet, Wessell Anderson Quartet, Garfield High School Jazz Band w/ Wessell Anderson, Cory Weeds Group, & , Julian Waterfall Pollack Trio, Hardcoretet, Scrape w/ Jay Clayton, Jay Clayton Group, Bill Anschell Trio, We Four: Celebrating , Evan Flory-Barnes “Acknowledgement of a Celebration: Inheritance, Authenticity & Healing”, Eric Vloeimans’ Gatecrash, Travis Shook Trio, Jerry Granelli Trio, Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra “An Evening with Ol’ Blue Eyes: The Music of ”, SWOJO Plays the Music of Robin Holcomb, Tribute to Jim Knapp, Malcolm Goldstein, Grace Kelly Quintet, Kate Olson/Gary Duo, Chad McCullough/Bram Weijters Group, Burn List, Operation ID 2010 Garfield High School Jazz Band with special guest Roxy Coss, The Kora Band, Robert Pinsky w/ Marc Seales & Paul Gabrielson, Vagabond Opera, Jay Thomas: Tribute to Milt Kleeb, Eugene Chadbourne, Mural, Underground Duo, Robert Glasper Trio, Roxy Coss Quartet, Meklit Hadero, , Four, Richard Cole Quintet, DBR & Emeline Michel, David Haney / Julian Priester Duo, Nelda Swiggett Trio, , John Medeski, “Heaven on Earth” band, Retta Christie Trio, DJ Spooky w/ Joshua Roman, Paul Rucker, Wellstone Conspiracy, Darius Jones Trio, Jean-Michel Pilc, Group, Quartet, Roosevelt High School Jazz Band, Matt Jorgensen: Tattooed by Passion, Scott Amendola Trio, Jay Clayton/Dawn Clement Quartet, The Teaching, Ben Black, Lincoln Briney, & Valerie Joyce: “Channeling Chet”, Mark Taylor Quartet, Charlie Musselwhite, Murl Allen Sanders Quartet w/ Warren Rand, , solo and COIN COIN, Ordo Sakhna, Tessa Souter, Dave Peck, Steve Lehman Octet, Ryuichi Sakamoto, An Evening with Mavis Staples, Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra: Jazz Goes to the Movies, Rufus Reid Trio, Dafnis Prieto Proverb Trio, Cuong Vu/Andrew D’Angelo: Agogic, Natacha Atlas, Blue Cranes, Ballrogg, Bill Frisell Beautiful Dreamers Trio & guests, Gust Burns & Jack Wright Duo, Randy Halberstadt Quintet, Carmen Staaf Trio, Wayne Horvitz/Soren Kjaergaard: TONK, Michael Blake’s Lucky Thompson Project, The Fellowship Band w/ Brian Blade, University District Jazz Walk, Ziggurat Quartet, Thomas Marriott new chamber- jazz ensemble, Gail Pettis and Friends, Jack Wright / Gust Burns Large Ensemble 2009 Garfield High School Jazz Band w/ Miguel Zenón, Miguel Zenón Quintet, Byron Vannoy’s Meridian, Tarbaby, Quartet, Matt Wilson Quartet, Matt Wilson Quartet & Roosevelt High School Jazz Band, 3rd Man, McTuff Trio, Trio M, Chad McCullough Quintet, Omar Sosa Afreecanos Quartet, Marc Seales Groups, Matthew Shipp & , Peggy Lee & Saadet Türköz, Myra Melford Be Bread, Hal Galper Trio w/ John Bishop & Jeff Johnson, Helen Sung Trio, Tom Varner Tentet, Thomas Marriott, & Zeena Parkins Phantom, Orchard, Khoomei Taiko, Anne Drummond Quartet, Eldar Trio, , Orchestra (WACO), Celebrate , , Greg Williamson A-Y- Large Ensemble, Andy Clausen & Sjenka, Quartet, Tish Oney’s Peggy Lee Project, Will Gobel Trio featuring, Wessell”Warmdaddy” Anderson, Foday Musa Suso, Jim Knapp Orchestra, John Hollenbeck Claudia Quintet plus Gary Versace, Hardcoretet, Steve Lehman, Marc Cary Trio, Jay Thomas East/West Double Trio, Kaufmann/Gratkowski/DeJoode, Cyro Baptista’s Banquet of the Spirits, Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto w/ Harvey Wainapel, Quartet, Wayne Horvitz: These Hills of Glory, Claudia Acuña Quintet, Joe Doria, Eric Barber, & Byron Vannoy, Kris Davis’s Stone Trio, Trio 3, John Abercrombie Quartet, Hans Koch, Paul Kikuchi’s Portable Sanctuary, Greta Matassa, SRJO w/ Dean Bowman: Tribute to : Genius + Soul = Jazz, ’s This Against That, Evan Flory-Barnes: Acknowledgment of a Celebration (World Premiere) 2008 Roosevelt HS w/ , Jerry Gonzalez & Fort Apache Band, Jerry Granelli’s V16, Here & Now, Eric Vloeimans: Fugimundi, Quartet, Paul Rucker Ensemble, Frøy Aagre Quartet, Paul Harding & Juju Detective, Agency, Evan Flory-Barnes’ The Teaching, Priester’s Cue, Hadley Caliman Quartet, Johnny A, Four Across, , Wycliffe Gordon & Garfield HSJonathan Pugh: Music of Don Lanphere, Amir ElSaffar: Two Rivers Ensemble, ’s Dapp Theory, Eldar Trio, Nancy King & Steve Christofferson, , Mark Taylor Quartet, Georg Graewe, Gust Burns & Greg Campbell Duo, & Hiero-glyphics fea. Abdoulaye Diabate, Hans Teuber Trio, Quartet, , Floyd Standifer Tribute: Legacy Band, Paul Lytton & Nate Wooley, Tom Varner, Aaron Parks Trio, Quartet, Phil Markowitz Trio, ’s LMO, SRJO w/ James Moody, Marcin Wasilewski Trio, Larry Ochs Drum Core, Pigpen, Zony Mash w/ Horns, Horvitz/Miles/Previte Trio, Robin Holcomb: Larks, They Crazy, Wayne Horvitz: NY Composers Orchestra West & The President, Sam Gray’s Frantic Menagerie Orch., Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra West, Cyro Baptista’s Banquet of the Spirits, Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder, Space in the Heart: a jazzopera, Toumani Diabate 2007 , Roosevelt HS w/ Frank Tiberi, Jimmy Greene Quartet, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, & , Gino Robair: I, Norton, ’s Red Earth, Rudresh Mahanthappa: Codebook, The Tiptons, Trio, Dafnis Prieto Absolute Quintet, Trevor Watts & Jamie Harris, Radding & Rigler, Oliver Mtukudzi, Burns/ Campbell/Radding/Shoup, Gust Burns Trio, Marc Cary Trio, Nels Cline Singers, David Sanchez Quartet, / Billy Mintz Trio, Anat Cohen Quartet, Dawn Clement Trio, Bill Anschell Trio, Jacky Terrasson, Sachal Vasandani, John Hollenbeck’s Refuge, Jean-Michel Pilc Trio fea. Ari Hoenig, Garfield HS w/ Houston Person, Musafir, Butch Thompson Trio, Trio, Cuong Vu Trio, Willem Breuker Kollektief’s Faust, Sunship, Gregg Keplinger & Rick Mandyck, Scott Amendola Band, Michael Bates’ Outside Sources, Fred Hersch Trio, Buell Neidlinger Stringlickers, Festival in the Desert: Tinariwen, Vieux Farka Touré, McTuff, Eric Person & Meta-Four, John Abercrombie Quartet, Michael Brockman Trio, Sextet, Iva Bittová, Trio, Elspeth Savani & Orchestra Zarabanda, October Trio w/ Brad Turner, Jason Moran: Bandwagon, ’s Moonchild 2006 Jay Thomas & East/West Double Trio, Wayne Horvitz w/ Gravitas, Odeon String Quartet w/Bill Frisell, Wynton Marsalis Quartet, Matmos, Walter Kitundu, Garfield .S. w/ David “Fathead” Newman, Manuel Valera Trio, Allen Toussaint, Matt Shipp, Gust Burns, Quintet, Larry Coryell, Roberta Picket / Billy Mintz Trio, Michele Rosewoman’s Quintessence, Bling, Jason Moran & Bandwagon, Trio, Nguyen Le – Tiger’s Tail Quartet, Brian Nova’s Seattle Showcase, Bill Anschell, Mavis Staples, , Quartet, Dawn Clement Trio, John Hollenbeck’s Claudia Quintet, Monktail Creative Music Concern’s, Raymond Scott Project, Lionel Loueke Trio, Ritual Trio w/ Billy Bang, , Dempster Diving, Andrew Hill Quartet, Andrew D’Angelo Trio, Industrial Revelation, , Rochelle House, Tom Varner New Seattle Quintet, Ted Nash Quintet, Roosevelt H.S. w/ Ted Nash, Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio w/ , Victor Noriega Trio, Kamikaze Ground Crew, Django Reinhardt Festival, George Colligan Trio, Annette Peacock, Eric Barber Chamber Quartet, Michael Schiefel, Ana Moura, w/ SRJO, Marc Seales Group 2005 Pyeng Threadgill, World Quartet, Ivo Papasov, , Jon Pugh, Omar Sosa Quartet, Daphnis Prieto Quintet, Dave Douglas Keystone, Kris Davis Quartet, Michael Bisio Trio, Robert Glasper Trio, Joey DeFrancesco Trio, Tobias Delius Quartet, Kamau Daaood, Quintet, Jason Moran, Joe Doria Trio, Ralph Alessi Quinte, Vijay Iyer & Rudresh Mahanthappa, Roscoe Mitchell, Group, Gutbucket, Wall Shoup & Nels Cline, , Claire Daly, Paris Combo, Ravi Coltrane Group, Jeff “Tain” Watts Quartet, Cuong Vu, Ben Thomas Quintet, Bill Charlap Trio, Gary Hobbs Quartet, Fucho Appariccio, Luciana Sousa & , Robin Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz, Cornish Jazz Composers, Konono #1, Reptet, Gangbe , SRJO w/ , Virginia Rodrigues, Gregg Keplinger, Seattle Chamber Players 2004 / Bill Mays, Randy Halberstadt Trio, Peter Brotzmann Trio, Yosuke Yamashita Pacific Crossing, Vijay Iyer & Rudresh Mahanthappa, Rokia Traore, Kelley Johnson with Ingrid Jensen, Brad Mehldau, Robert Glasper Trio, , Julian Priester, Dave Peck Trio, ICP Orchestra, Frieze of Life, w/ Obo Addy, Sex Mob, Inner Mounting Flame Orchestra, TS Monk Quintet, Ben Roseth, Dean Hodges, Wayne Horvitz’s Joe Hill, Don Byron, Greg Williamson, Trio, Hermeto Pascoal Groupo, D’Vone Lewis, Tinariwen, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Paul Rucker LARGE Group, Trio, Gary Bartz w/ Ishmael Reed, SRJO w/ , Tribute to Buddy Catlett, Anne Drummond, Nancy King, Joe Locke, Larry Fuller Trio, Ernie Watts & New Stories, Dawn Clement Trio, Charles McPherson 2003 Ravi Coltrane Quartet, Quintet, Gratkowski/Smith/Bryerton Trio, Dino Saluzzi Trio, Mavis Staples, Marc Seales, Four, Gust Burns / Adam Diller Duo, Trio, Virginia Rodrigues, John Hollenbeck’s Claudia Quintet, Wayne Horvitz / Briggan Krauss Duo, Rene Marie, Julian Priester Quartet, Hamza El Din, ’s Elastic Band, Matt Jorgensen +451, Quartet, Garfield & Roosevelt HS Jazz Bands, Bill Mays Trio, ’s Children of the Corner, Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos, Conference Call, Wally Shoup Trio, Sextet, Marc Seales Quintet, Denzler/Koch, Bill Frisell and the Intercontinentals, SRJO w/ Slide Hampton, Monktail Creative Music Concern, Jessica Williams, Ghazal, Hiromi, The Bad Plus, Bill Smith / Quartet, Omar Sosa / John Santos Trio, Matthias Lupri, Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack deJohnette, , David Murray Big Band 2002 Wayne Shorter Quartet, Ralp Alessi w/ Don Byron, , & Jack DeJohnette, Bobby Previte’s Bump, Tin Hat Trio, Raw Materials, Loren Stillman trio, ’ Open Loose, Bill Charlap Trio, Jessica Lurie Ensemble, Bert Wilson Group, Jazz ’s Collective, Oluyemi Thomas, Ingrid Jensen/Jon Wikan Project O, Saadet Turkoz, Matt Jorgensen +451, Ellis Marsalis & Bobby Hutcherson, Don Lanphere Quartet, Greg Osby Quartet, Djelimady Tounkara, Boubacar Traore, Bill Anschell, Pete Malinverni, Queen Mab, Amy Denio, Ballard Jazz walk, Art Ensemble of Chicago with , Tomasz Stanko, Art Lande, , SRJO w/ James Moody, John Zorn’s Electric Masada 2001 Tribute to Don Lanphere, Wayne Krantz, Living Daylights, Aaron Parks Trio, Don Byron’s Six Musicians, Odean Pope Trio, Kent Werner Trio, Richard Bona Group, Amazade, Reuben Radding & Daniel Carter, Myra Melford’s Crush, Bill Frisell & Vinicius Cantuaria, Fred Anderson/William Parker/Hamid , David Marriott, Bill Frisell & Jack DeJohnette, Von Freeman, Mike Bisio/Joe McPhee/Raymond Boni, , Continued in the Underground, Stackpole, Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette, Troben Waldorf, Steve Turre’s Roland Kirk Tribute, Konk Pack, & , Denny Zeitlin, Bill Frisell’s Intercontinental Quartet, Dave Brubeck Quartet 2000 Tribute to Floyd Standifer, Living Daylights, Davis/Taylor Group, Dave Peck Trio, , Rumba Abierto, Asian American Orchestra, , James Knapp Orchestra w/ , Bill Frisell w/ Konitz, Bley & Bennink, , Jason Moran Trio, Trio 3, Paul Bley, , Cecil Taylor, Rachel , Trevor Watts, Dave Holland Quintet, SRJO w/ , Jane Bunnett’s Spirits of Havana, / Andrea Parkins/, DJ Spooky & Wayne Horvitz, Magnets, Russell Gunn’s Ethnomusicology, Eric Bibb, & Destruction, Coleman Barks, Hamza El Din, Charles Lloyd, Dave Peck Trio 1999 Branford Marsalis, ’s Pocket Brass, SRJO’s “Ellington & Strayhorn”, Willem Breuker Kollektief, Blema Bii, Obo Addy/Julian Priester, , George Lewis & NOW, ’s New Art Quartet, Dave Scott/Tony Malaby Roscoe Mitchell, Equal Interest, Kenny Werner/, David Murray’s Fo Deuk Review, , Jovino Santos Neto, & Origin, Greta Matassa w/ Spectrum Dance, Gonzalo Rubalcaba Trio, Steve Lacy & Irene Aebi, Wayne Horvitz 4+1, , Ingrid Jensen, Dave Douglas Tiny Bell Trio, Briggan Krauss/Wayne Horvitz, Eric Alexander Quartet, Trio, Steve Korn, William Cepeda’s AfroRican Jazz 1998 Broun Fellinis, Omar Sosa/John Santos, Barry Harris, HB Radke In The Moment, Eric Reed, Lee Konitz, Fred Hersch, Charles McPherson, & Adam Rudolph, Combo Craig, Hassan Hakmoun, Wadada Leo Smith, Thomas Marriott’s Afinque, Ruben Gonzales y Groupo Chucho Valdes, SRJO, ’s Legacy, Joe McPhee/Michael Bisio, Jovino Santos Neto, Kamau Daa’ood’s Army of Healers, , , Sonando, Andy Statman, Dave Holland Quintet, Matthew Sperry/Gino Robair/Karla Kihlstedt, Patricia Barber, Dave Frishberg, John Zorn’s Masada, Andrew Drury Group Sphere 1997 Karin Allyson, Anne Drummond, , / Julian Priester, , Charles Lloyd & , Ballard Jazz Walk, Butch Thompson, Matthew Shipp/William Parker, , Dave Peck, w/ New Stories Trio, Maktub, Sharpshooters, Davey Williams, Moving Pictures, Don Byron’s Bug Music, Rebecca Coupe Franks, Operation X Big Band, Quartet, Local 493 Band, Greta Matassa, Greg Osby Group, Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, Dave Scott/Tony Malaby, w/ Michael Marcus 1996 Bill Frisell Quartet, Denney Goodhew, Renee Rosnes Trio, Rick Mandyck Quartet, , Human Flavor, David Sanchez Quintet, , Al Hood Players, Wayne Horvitz Group, Don Lanphere Quintet, Stinkhorn, Quartet, George Graewe/Frank Gratkowski, Dan Faehnle Quartet, , Ted Joans, Dee Dee Bridgewater, What We Live (Four), & Kosmic Krewe, Lynette Westendorf, Tootie Heath and Friends, /Michael Formenek, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Marriott Jazz Quintet, Bebop & Destruction, Garfield Jazz Allstars1995 Roadside Attraction Big Band, Human Feel, Lizard Brothers, Andy Milne Quartet, Joe Lovano Trio, Bert Wilson & Rebirth, Fred Hersch & Jay Clayton, , Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack, DeJohnette, Myra Melford, Combo Craig, Joe McPhee, Urban Medicine, Thingsome , Walter Norris, Jacky Terrasson Trio, Dave Douglas String Group, / with the James, Knapp Orchestra, Don Lanphere, Dan Blunck, Living Daylights, Wayne Shorter Septet 1994 Either/Orchestra, Melody Jones & Freddie Greenwell, & Five Elements, Kilgore Trout, Jessica Williams, Koch/Studer/Schutz, Tribute to , Sumi Tanooka, Mojo Big Band, Big Bang Band, Composers Orchestra (West), Bheki Mseleku & Lee Pui, Ming Kitty Margolis, ’s African Brazilian Connection, Living Spirit Band, Jim Nolet/Bern Nix, Jay Thomas Big Band, Ornette Coleman with Prime Time, Jericho Trumpet Choir, Jessica Williams, Glen Horiuchi, , Jerry Granelli & UFB, Dave Frishberg, Stephanie Skura w/ James Knapp, Charlie Haden Quartet West 1993 Seattle Jazz Homecoming, Double Trio, Wayne Horvitz, David Murray Quartet, Hal Galper, Malachi Thompson, Josh Redman Quartet w/ , Living Spirit Band, Kei Akagi, Ned Rothenberg & Sainkho Namchylak, Joy Harjo & Poetic Justice, Mili Bermejo, Obo Addy’s Kukrudu, Sonando, Francois Houle, Don Byron plays Mickey Katz, Marty Ehrlich 1992 Trio, , Sonando, Zakir Hussain & Shankar, Randy Weston w/ Obo Addy, Ham Carson Quartet, Shelly Hirsch & David Weinstein, Los Munequitos de Matanzas, , Global Village, Jerry Gonzalez & Fort Apache Band, Local 493 Reunion Band, Masakazu Yoshizawa & Hiromi Hashibe, 1991 Hermeto Pascoal, Trio, Andrew Hill, Timebone, & Muntikulti, Bobby Previte’s Empty Suits, Phil Sheeran, /Nancy King, Paul Plimley/, Struntz & Farah, Clarence Acox, Becca Duran, Aster Aweke, John McLaughlin Trio, Courtney Pine Quartet, & Pan Asian Arkestra, Kulintang Arts 1990 International Creative Music Orchestra, Jimmy McGriff, Watershed, Don Pullen Trio, Pacific Jazz Quintet, Super Rail Band of Mali, Freezer Burn, Timebone, Jazz Passengers, Denney Goodhew & Ralph Towner, John Scofield Quartet 1989 Bill Frisell Quartet, John Faddis with Roadside Attraction Big Band, The Jazz Passengers, Circular Cowboys, Carla Bley/Steve Swallow, Red Three, Steve Rice Trio, Tony Williams Quintet, Bert Wilson & Rebirth, Jay McShann/Big Miller, Craig Harris & 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2 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 2018 EARSHOT JAZZ FESTIVAL Welcome to Earshot Jazz Festival #30!

Welcome!! We are delighted to bodied in Seattle’s own welcome you to our most expansive resident artists, many and exciting festival ever. Through- of whom will appear out this month we’ present over on this festival. 60 events in venues all around the We can’t wait to focus city, celebrating the beating heart this year’s “Resident and deep cultural expression of jazz. Resident Artist” spot- We’ve got marquees of masters, gal- light on Jovino Santos axies of rising stars, and a rising tide Neto. Jovino will grace of women instrumentalists, in an festival stages in a va- abundance of expressions. riety of contexts, from The Earshot Jazz Festival has a a two-piano duo to a strong legacy as one of the most for- full-on big band. He’ll ward-thinking and inclusive festivals also work with the in the country. In 30 years as Se- Roosevelt High School attle’s Jazz Festival, we’ve showcased band program, and ap- an incredible number of essential pear as a special guest artists from around the world, while in their mainstage organically reflecting the passions of concert. A solid renais- ple Door, KNKX, and many others. our own home community. It’s our sance man, Jovino also has interests It takes an entire city! goal to bring today’s evolving art and accomplishments in plant biol- We’re super excited to unleash this form of jazz into creative collabora- ogy, especially as it relates to music. beautiful monster onto Seattle’s cul- tion with the exciting cultural dy- Check the additional events listing tural landscape. There is so much namics of this ever-changing city— for an opportunity to hear him speak great music out there! We’re glad and it’s a good fit. on that subject, in a forest near you. you’re on board, and we hope the The history and innovative trajec- This festival also thrives on cre- spirit of discovery finds you eager tory of Seattle is a great match for ative collaborations with other cul- to “boldly go” to new regions of this an adventurous jazz festival like Ear- tural institutions. This year we are ever-expanding universe of jazz. shot. And just as the city of Seattle is pleased to kick off a new series with- And please consider a gift to Ear- remarkably different than it 30 in the festival called Jazz at Langs- shot Jazz as part of our Access In- years ago, so are the face and sound ton. We’ll feature 10 concerts in the spiration campaign this fall. Your of jazz. This is an incredible period Langston Hughes Performing Arts donations help us keep ticket prices for jazz. In shaking off some of the Institute, working gratefully with low, offer low- and no-cost student polarizing and restrictive labels over the new LANGSTON non-profit tickets, and bring incredible artists the years, the new mainstream of toward their clear mission, “Cel- into creative engagement with the jazz has grown into a creative wave ebrating Black Brilliance.” We’re community through workshops and that carries the traditional and the pleased to continue collaborations panels. innovative, the old and the new, the with Cornish College of the Arts Keep in touch and give us your masters and the mentees, together in and the University of Washington feedback. Have fun and enjoy! Jazz the same great surge. And as always, Jazz Studies Department, and with lives right here! much of what is absolutely right community partners like The Royal —John Gilbreath, Executive Director about jazz today is brilliantly - Room, Seattle Art Museum, the Tri-

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 3 EARSHOT JAZZ 2018 FESTIVAL LINEUP

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7 Samantha Boshnack: Seismic Belt SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 Marquis Hill Blacktet / Logan The Royal Room, 7:30pm Jen Shyu: Nine Doors Richardson blues PEOPLE PONCHO Concert Hall, 8pm SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 KEXP Gathering Space, 5pm George Colligan, Buster Williams, Adam O’Farrill Quartet Lenny White Trio The Royal Room, 7pm & 9:30pm Triple Door, 6pm & 8:30pm The Royal Room, 7pm & 9:30pm Logan Richardson blues PEOPLE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14 LO-Fi Performance Gallery, 9pm SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 Keyon Harrold An Evening with Pat Metheny The Triple Door, 6pm MONDAY, OCTOBER 8 w/ Antonio Sánchez, Helen Sung Oliver Groenewald NewNet CD , & Gwilym Simcock Chapel Performance Space, 7:30pm release featuring Jay Thomas Admiral Theatre, Bremerton, 7pm The Royal Room, 7:30pm Marquis Hill Blacktet D’Vonne Lewis and Friends: The Royal Room, 7:30pm Afrocop / PacesLift Tribute to Dave Lewis LO-Fi Performance Gallery, 9pm Langston Hughes Performing Arts TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9 Institute, 8pm MONDAY, OCTOBER 15 Jovino Santos Neto & Jasnam Daya Clave Gringa Singh & / The Royal Room, 7:30pm PONCHO Concert Hall, 8pm Johnaye Kendrick The Triple Door, 7pm MONDAY, OCTOBER 22 Edmonds-Woodway Jazz Orchestra w/ special guest Helen Sung Caroline Davis Garfield High School Jazz Band Edmonds-Woodway High School Little The Royal Room, 7:30pm Langston Hughes Performing Arts Theater, 7:30pm Institute, 7:30pm TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16 Cuong Vu & Indigo Mist featuring WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10 Max Hatt & Edda Glass Amy Denio The Royal Room, 7:30pm The Royal Room, 7:30pm Chapel Performance Space, 8pm WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17 Quartet / KO TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23 Electric Jazzmeia Horn Tractor Tavern, 8pm Showbox, 7pm Langston Hughes Performing Arts Jazz Quintet Institute, 8pm THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11 The Triple Door, 7pm & 9:30pm Neil Welch: Concepcion Picciotto Elena Maque Chapel Performance Space, 8pm Seattle Art Museum, 5:30pm THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 Subtle Degrees: Travis Laplante Fay Victor’s SoundNoise Trio WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24 & Gerald Cleaver / Wayne Horvitz PONCHO Concert Hall, 8pm Tom Harrell Quartet Snowghost Trio Seattle Art Museum, 8pm Chapel Performance Space, 8pm FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 James Brandon Lewis / Gary Allison Miller Boom Tic Boom FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12 Hammon Quintet PONCHO Concert Hall, 8pm Langston Hughes Performing Arts Ted Poor: The Blues and Institute, 8pm Seattle Art Museum, 8pm Otherwise, ft. Kris Davis & Tyler Marina Albero Chester Schedule subject to change. Please check Chapel Performance Space, 8pm The Church, 8pm earshot.org for updates.

4 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30 Bainbridge Museum of Art Allos Musica Sarah Manning’s Underworld The Royal Room, 7pm & 9:30pm Alchemy: Transmuting Anger Within/Earshot Michael Powers / Deems Chapel Performance Space, 8pm More info at biartmuseum.org Tsutakawa Alex Dugdale Fade Quintet Langston Hughes Performing Arts Langston Hughes Performing Arts Jazz Combo Exhibition Institute, 8pm Institute, 7:30pm October 3–25, 10am–6pm Jazz with Jim FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1 Thursday, October 4, 11, 18 & 25, / Gretchen Chad McCullough & Bram Weijters 7pm Yanover Quartet Langston Hughes Performing Arts Gail Pettis Quartet The Royal Room, 7:30pm Institute, 8pm Sunday, October 7, 7:30pm Randy Halberstadt Septet: Open Raul Midón The Triple Door, 7:30pm Tom Collier Quartet Heart CD Release Sunday, October 14, 7:30pm PONCHO Concert Hall, 8pm Harriet Tubman: The Band Naomi Moon Siegel + Birch Langston Hughes Performing Arts McTuff ft. Skerik Pereira’s Haden / Bley Liberation Institute, 8pm Saturday, October 20, 7:30pm Music Orchestra Tribute Jenny Maybee & Ray Larsen The Royal Room, 8pm FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2 Sunday, October 21, 3pm SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27 Revisited Band Celebrate Dia de los , Joey Baron, Thomas The Triple Door, 7pm & 9:30pm Muertos w/ Malo Combo Morgan Trio Saturday, October 27, 11:30am – Jovino Santos Neto Big Band & Seattle Art Museum, 8pm 1:30pm Quinteto Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra Seattle Art Museum, 8pm Wayne Horvitz & Guests w/ Sheryl Bailey Saturday, October 27, 7:30pm Rainier Arts Center, 7:30pm SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3 In Her Hands Madison McFerrin / SassyBlack Jay Clayton & Dawn Clement w/ Thursday, November 1, 7pm Langston Hughes Performing Arts Julian Priester Institute, 8pm The Royal Room, 7:30pm ¡WEPA! Friday, November 2, 7:30pm SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 Tia Fuller Quartet Circuit Rider: , Bill Seattle Art Museum, 8pm Frisell, Brian Blade / These Hills Maria Schneider with Seattle of Glory String Quartet featuring Repertory Jazz Orchestra Beth Fleenor Benaroya Hall, 7:30pm Northwest Forum Benaroya Hall, 8pm Earshot Jazz SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4 Thiefs w/ Guillermo E. Brown tickets & info: nwfilmforum.org Langston Hughes Performing Arts Maria Schneider with Seattle Institute, 8pm Repertory Jazz Orchestra Kirkland Performance Center, 2pm Full Mantis MONDAY, OCTOBER 29 Saturday, October 27, 4pm Jane Bunnett and Maqueque Roosevelt High School Jazz Band The Triple Door, 6pm & 8:30pm TBA w/ special guest Jovino Santos Thursday, November 1, 7pm Neto Myra Melford: Snowy Egret Roosevelt High School Auditorium, 7pm Seattle Art Museum, 8pm

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TICKETED CONCERTS: SUN., 10/7 GAIL PETTIS QUARTET Classic jazz vocal combo SUN 10/14 TOM COLLIER QUARTET 6 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 Featuring Bill Anschell, Dan Dean & Steve Korn SAT., 10/20 McTUFF FEATURING SKERIK A powerful and jaw-dropping and jazz sound like you’ve never heard SAT., 10/27 WAYNE HORVITZ & GUESTS The Snowghost Sessions (trio) & These Hills of Glory (string quartet and improv soloist) FRI., 11/2 WEPA feat. Ian Jones (saxophone), Jaymes Dunlap (bass), Joseph Rice (piano) and Malo Castro (congas)

MORE JAZZ EVENTS: 10/3-25 JAZZ COMBO II A limited-time exhibition featuring work by Mike Biskup, Cynthia Wessling and classic jazz art 10/4, 11, 18, 25 JAZZ WITH JIM From big band to fusion, immerse yourself in a different genre each week FRI., 11/1 “IN HER HANDS” Join director Kay D. Ray for a screening of her film examining women’s role in jazz THRU NOV. 1 JAZZ GREATS OF WASHINGTON STATE Paintings by Cory Bennett Anderson at Jeffrey Moose Gallery (181 Winslow Way)

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TICKETS & DISCOUNTS FESTIVAL STAFF Tickets to concerts sold separately. For quickest access go to earshot.org/festival- John Gilbreath – Executive Director tickets, find your concert, and click the BUY NOW link. Caropepe – Managing Director All events are all-ages except: Lo-Fi Performance Space, Tractor Tavern, Triple Door Tara Peters – Programs Manager after 9pm, and The Royal Room after 10pm. Lucienne Aggarwal – Marketing & Development Associate Earshot Jazz members and senior citizens (60+) receive $2 discount on most shows. To receive the student and military/veterans discount, present current ID at venue. Halynn Blanchard – Production Manager Peter Monaghan – Brochure Editor Ticket Packages (available only through Earshot Jazz office at 206-547-6763): Caitlin Peterkin – Program Editor • Save 10% on Earshot Jazz concerts when you buy tickets to five or more separate Daniel Sheehan – Festival Photography concerts Carl Lierman – Poster & Brochure Design • Save 15% on Earshot Jazz concerts when you buy tickets to eight or more separate concerts EARSHOT JAZZ BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jazz Festival Gold Card Danielle Leigh (President) A special pass is available for entrance to all festival events: $500 general, $450 John W. Comerford (Vice President) members. Available only through Earshot Jazz at 206-547-6763. Benefits include: Jon Perrino (Secretary) • More than 30% savings off regular price Viren Kamdar (Treasurer) Sue Coliton • Preferred seating for most events Sheila Hughes Chris Icasiano SITES & ADDRESSES Maurice James Admiral Theatre, Bremerton Northwest Film Forum Chris Nutter 515 Pacific Ave, Bainbridge Island 1515 12th Ave, Seattle Gail Pettis Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Paramount Theatre Ruby Smith Love 550 Winslow Way E, Bainbridge Island 911 Pine St, Seattle Diane Wah Benaroya Hall PONCHO Concert Hall, Cornish CO-PRESENTERS 200 University St, Seattle College of the Arts AEG and Madison House Chapel Performance Space 710 E Roy St, Kerry Hall, Seattle Bainbridge Island Museum of Art 4649 Sunnyside Ave , 4th floor, Rainier Arts Center Bremerton’s Admiral Theatre Good Shepherd Center, Seattle 3515 S Alaska St, Seattle Cornish Presents The Church Roosevelt High School Auditorium Edmonds-Woodway High School Music 1300 E Olive St, Seattle 1410 NE 66th St, Seattle Boosters 88.5 FM KNKX Edmonds-Woodway High School Royal Room Garfield Jazz Foundation Little Theater 5000 Rainier Ave S, Seattle 7600 212th St SW, Edmonds KEXP 90.3 FM Seattle Art Museum Langston KEXP Gathering Space 1300 1st Ave, Seattle Nonsequitur 472 1st Ave N, Seattle Showbox at the Market Northwest Film Forum Kirkland Performance Center 1426 1st Ave, Seattle Roosevelt High School Jazz Band 350 Kirkland Ave, Kirkland Tractor Tavern Boosters Langston Hughes Performing Arts 5213 Ballard Ave NW, Seattle Seattle Art Museum Institute Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra Triple Door 104 17th Ave S, Seattle Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra 216 Union St, Seattle Lo-Fi Performance Gallery (21+) Triple Door 429 Eastlake Ave E, Seattle University of Washington

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 7 EARSHOT JAZZ 2018 FESTIVAL PREVIEWS

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, KEXP GATHERING SPACE, 5PM Marquis Hill Blacktet / Logan Richardson blues PEOPLE

Co-presented wih KEXP. from the forward edges of today’s jazz and the eagerly anticipated return of Kick off the 30th Annual Earshot tradition. This free event showcases “dauntingly skilled” Chicago trum- Jazz Festival with a blockbuster double the acclaimed saxophonist Logan peter Marquis Hill and his Blacktet bill at KEXP’s Gathering Space, fea- Richardson with his blues PEOPLE (see description, October 8). turing two hard-driving young groups band (see description, October 7), Free with registration

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, TRIPLE DOOR 6PM (EARLY SHOW) | 8:30PM (LATE SHOW) Regina Carter

Presented by Triple Door. ald-inspired Ella: Accentuate “Widely considered the fin- the Positive. Featuring Fitzger- est jazz violinist of her genera- ald’s former pianist and - tion,” as sical director , plainly states, Regina Carter the album had guest appear- is “a hard-charging soloist ances from Ben Wil- whose precisely focused tone liams and vocalists Charenee and graceful way with a bal- Wade and Carla Cook. With lad hint at her long years of the project, Carter reminded classical training.” jazz listeners that Ella, 100 Her highly original soloing, years after her birth, contin- with its sophisticated tech- ues to provide lessons in elo- nique and rich, lush tone, quence and invention. as well as her compelling Carter says she purposefully concepts and delivery, have chose this moment to cele- drawn such plaudits as the brate, with unabashed joy, the prestigious MacArthur Fel- First Lady of Song’s infectious lowship. and inclusive artistry: “Accen- Carter took the jazz world tuate the Positive, I thought, by pleasant surprise when she was the perfect title consider- arrived in New York from her ing the mood of the country native , where she had and the world right now. We played with the youth divi- need some positive vibes.” sion of the Detroit Symphony For this Seattle appearance,

Orchestra. With her stylis- REGINA CARTER PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER DRUKKER the violinist is accompanied tic range, she has performed by her longtime rhythm sec- with a long list of jazz greats, and Mary . Blige. Filmmaker Ken tion of bassist Chris Lightcap, including Kenny Barron, , Burns also called on her talents for his drummer Alvester Garnett, and pia- Tom Harrell, Wynton Marsalis, and soundtrack for The Civil War. nist Xavier Davis. Oliver Lake, and also with artists as Last year, Carter returned to her $26 advance, $23 Earshot members, diverse as Faith Evans, Elliott Sharp, work as a leader with the Ella Fitzger- $30 day of show, $35 front rows

8 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, LO-FI PERFORMANCE GALLERY, 9PM Logan Richardson blues PEOPLE Restless and ambitious, alto saxo- album Cerebral Flow, gaining critical phonist, composer, and bandleader acclaim with the 2015 release of Shift, Logan Richardson writes, leads, and featuring Pat Metheny, Jason Moran, plays with an expansive musical vision and . His newest proj- inspired by the likes of Ornette Cole- ect, blues PEOPLE, “prioritizes theory man and Miles Davis. With his stun- over practice,” enlisting “rhythm aces ning band blues PEOPLE, he presents mostly from around Kansas City” a haunting sci-fi and ‘80s-steeped ex- (NPR). The group includes: bassist ploration of his life and roots. Dominique Sanders, a versatile, up- Born in Kansas City, Richardson at- and-coming player whose breadth of tended the experience includes work with Willie LOGAN RICHARDSON PHOTO BY CATERINA DI PERRI and , was mentored Nelson, , , by the likes of and Carl Al- Dave Matthews, Clark Terry, and oth- nian-born, Berlin-based guitarist Igor len, and has played as a sideman with ers; drummer Ryan J. Lee, who stud- Osypov, who traces his musical roots , , Am- ied under saxophonist Bobby Watson, to rock and punk, but is a graduate of brose Akinmusire, and many others. and was a participant in the 2014 Betty the Jazz Institute of Berlin where he A member of the NEXT collective, he Carter Jazz Ahead program under the was a pupil of . stepped out on his own with his 2006 direction of Jason Moran; and Ukrai- $12 adults, $10 students & military/ veterans MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, CHAPEL PERFORMANCE SPACE AT GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER, 7:30PM Helen Sung Pianist Helen Sung has spent her eyes and ears by winning the presti- musical life in two distinct worlds: she gious Mary Lou Williams was first an aspiring classical pianist, Competition at the Kennedy Center, then experienced a stunning conver- and then settled in to sion to jazz during undergraduate perform with the likes of , studies at the University of Texas. It Wayne Shorter, and Wynton Marsa- was an evening at Austin’s Bass Con- lis. Sung has since released six highly cert Hall that changed her musical ho- acclaimed , with Anthem For rizons entirely, when a friend invited a New Day (Concord, 2014) topping her to a Harry Connick Jr. concert, jazz radio charts and confirming her and she witnessed his piano style in jazz credentials. Her deft touch and the tradition: “In the ability to direct musical imagery with middle of that show, he sat down and her melody-inspired improvisational played some solo jazz piano, and I re- approach reflect her bridging of two member feeling like I had been hit by distinct musical worlds. Sung’s solo lightning,” Sung says. “I didn’t know performance powerfully displays her you were allowed to play the piano like artistry and imagination. that.” Rather than recoil at the threat of The conversion led to her enroll- exposed vulnerabilities, she dares to ment and graduation from the The- explore the nuances of her style with lonious Monk Institute at the New grace and imagination. Helen Sung HELEN SUNG PHOTO COURTESY OF ARTIST England Conservatory, where she ex- has ascended to the heights of the cre- celled thanks to her inspired, newly ative spaces of jazz, much to the de- $18 adults, $16 Earshot members & acquired love. She continued to open light of her ever-increasing audience. seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 9 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, THE ROYAL ROOM, 7:30PM Marquis Hill Blacktet

Born and raised on the South Side of Chica- go, trumpeter Marquis Hill invigorates jazz with his classical cool with urbane flair. Winner of the 2014 In- stitute Trumpet Competition, Hill was men- tored by some of Chicago’s finest, finding his own voice where post-bop meets hip-hop. His debut with the Marquis Hill Blacktet, 2016’s The Way We Play, was “a definitive introduction” (JazzTimes) of a career bound to get only better. His newest album, Medi- tation Tape, is a collaboration with rappers King Legend and Mic We$t, and combines hip-hop, jazz, &B, and the blues. So too rocks the rest of the Blacktet, includ- ing Braxton Cook (sax), Joel Ross (vibes), Jeremiah Hunt (bass), and Jonathan Pinson (drums). Cook, a graduate of Juilliard, toured with trumpeter Christian Scott while still in school. A singular voice on the saxophone, he has played with the likes of Wynton Mar- salis, Christian McBride, Jon Batiste, and Robert Glasper. He has also recorded prolifi- cally, and the follow up to his acclaimed solo release Somewhere in Between (2017) is due this year. Joel Ross is “a bright young vibraphon- ist on his own rocket-like trajectory” (New York Times). Having recently completed a two-year fellowship at the Brubeck Insti- tute in , Ross’s CV lists gigs with , Gerald Clayton, Christian McBride, and others; his own group, Good Vibes, also releases its debut this year. Along with the up-and-coming bassist Jer- emiah Hunt, who also cut his teeth on the Chicago scene, the Blacktet includes drum- mer Jonathan Pinson, a graduate of Berklee and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at UCLA who has toured with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Am- brose Akinmusire. $18 adults, $16 Earshot members & seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

MARQUIS HILL PHOTO BY DENEKA PENISTON

10 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, EDMONDS-WOODWAY HIGH SCHOOL LITTLE THEATER, 7:30PM Edmonds-Woodway High School Jazz Orchestra with special guest Helen Sung The Seattle area’s high-school jazz under the baton of Jake Bergevin, has Carrington, and the Jazz at Lincoln culture has become a national phe- been making some noise of its own as Center Orchestra. She has also worked nomenon, culminating in frequent a five-time finalist at the heralded -na extensively with young musicians as recognition at the prestigious Essen- tional high-school competition found- an associate professor of jazz piano at tially Ellington competition at Lin- ed by Jazz at Lincoln Center director Berklee College of Music. coln Center in New York. Wynton Marsalis. This performance celebrates the con- Bandleaders from around the country For this performance, Bergevin wel- tinual replenishment of jazz by young have inquisitively remarked, “Is there comes pianist Helen Sung (see Oc- musicians with fresh ideas and bound- something in the water up there?” tober 8, above) to perform with the less passion for the art form. The ac- Much of that accomplishment has band. The pianist, a force of nature in a complishment and distinctiveness of come from the programs at Garfield big band, won the Mary Lou Williams Seattle’s contribution to the art form and Roosevelt High Schools in Se- piano competition in 2007 and since is prominently on display, prompting attle, led by Clarence Acox and Scott then her career has skyrocketed with hope for the shape of things to come Brown, respectively. But just north of performance and recording credits in the decades ahead. the King County line, the program with the likes of Wayne Shorter, Ron $12 adults, $8 students and seniors at Edmonds-Woodway High School, Carter, Regina Carter, Terri Lynne TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, PONCHO CONCERT HALL, KERRY HALL, CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, 8PM Jovino Santos Neto & Jasnam Daya Singh Jovino Santos Neto, this festival’s their collective fingertips. Having the featured Resident Artist, appears with artistic sensitivity to utilize the ebbs fellow Brazilian pianist Jasnam Daya and flows of the music without over- Singh, with whom he received a Latin playing, or compromising the musical Grammy nomination for best instru- thoughts of your partner, is indeed a mental album. Jasnam Daya Sing, a skill most pianists never have the op- noted composer and concert pianist, is portunity to explore in a performance a perfect foil for the similarly master- setting such as that provided for this ful Santos Neto. concert on Jovino’s home turf at Cor- Jovino and Jasnam are both natives nish. of Rio de Janeiro. They speak with the The cultural and musical ties between same accent, whether chatting in Por- Jasnam and Jovino promise to provide tuguese or communicating musically music that is organic and rich in spon- behind a pair of grand . Both taneity. Whether playing originals or migrated to the : Jasnam music from Brazilian masters Herme- to California in 1987, and Jovino to to Pascoal and Antonio Carlos Jobim, JOVINO SANTOS NETO PHOTO BY DANIEL SHEEHAN Seattle in 1993. It would make sense, the evening promises lyrical, vibrant then, that if ever there were two pia- sounds, rich in the dynamics of the union, festival patrons in Seattle will nists who could successfully take on history of Brazilian music. Jovino and have the rare opportunity to see these the task of creating substantive mu- Jasnam are no strangers to this format. two transcendent Brazilian musicians sic in a piano duo setting, it would They recorded a live duo concert at the create new sounds speaking musically be these two. Four hands on two key- prestigious Caramoor Music Festival in their Carioca accent, in boards can produce a variety of chal- in New York, which earned them a the intimate PONCHO setting. lenges. It is as if the two musicians Latin Grammy nomination in 2008 $18 adults, $16 Earshot members & have an entire symphony orchestra at for Best Latin Jazz Album. In this re- seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 11 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, TRACTOR TAVERN, 8PM Noah Preminger Quartet / KO Electric -based saxophonist Noah cal essay, Meditations on Freedom, as a Preminger’s prodigious talents first musical protest against dark and un- came to broad attention when he won fortunate developments in America. In DownBeat’s Rising Star Best Tenor 2018, he issued The Chopin Project, an Saxophonist; he has since released 12 ambitious interpretation of the piano critically acclaimed albums. genius, with the newly formed Dead The “über-talented” tenor saxo- Composers Club. Co-founded with phonist’s sound is distinctive, though drummer Rob Garcia, the group plans strongly informed by his time men- annual releases of deceased composers’ tored by jazz master Dave Liebman. works. The New York Times said: “Preminger For his Seattle performance, he lands designs a different kind of sound for with a quartet featuring trumpeter each note, an individual destiny and Jason Palmer, bassist Kim Cass, and story.” The Phoenix similarly drummer Dan Weiss. observed: “Noah Preminger’s sound is Opening: Seattle-based saxophonist beholden to no one. That makes him Kate Olson is a musical pilgrim con- continually unpredictable and contin- stantly in search mode. Whether play- ually satisfying.” ing straight-ahead jazz subbing with NOAH PREMINGER PHOTO BY JIMMY KATZ Born in 1986, Preminger grew up in the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra Canton, Connecticut. He released his or exploring interstellar environs in . Bassist David Dawda and debut album, Dry Bridge Road, just her duo Syrinx Effect with trombonist drummer Brad Gibson both are noted after his 21st birthday, and the Village Naomi Moon Siegel, she continually not only for their virtuosity, but also Voice Critics Poll promptly named it explores and probes, adding layers of for their expansive musical versatility. Debut of the Year. He has won praise new sound to her musical voice. Together, this band is an ideal vehicle for his composing, too. The Boston She brings her new Electric Quartet for Olson’s original form of expres- Globe called him “a master with stan- to the festival stage, featuring key- sionism. dards and ballads, as well as an adven- boardist Tim Kennedy who has been $18 adults, $16 Earshot members & turous composer.” making musical waves in the city as seniors, $10 students & military/veter- On Inauguration Day 2017, Prem- pianist with the Thomas Marriott ans; seating is limited & available on a inger released his imaginative musi- Quintet and in his residency at Tula’s first come, first served basis

12 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, CHAPEL PERFORMANCE SPACE, 8PM Amy Denio Though a growing layer of condo- ries a plethora of influences and ideas, miniums and new construction may all aligned with a playful ingenuity sometimes obscure it, the Seattle spirit that is uniquely her own. And though still shines—or, more appropriately, her CV reads like a cut-up of Down- burnishes—with the rowdy spirit of Beat and Life magazines, Denio has its world-famous independent music also put a wealth of intuition, experi- scene of the ‘80s and ‘90s. ence, and quirk into her own projects. “Denio’s voice alone could have made Her first release on her own Spoot la- her reputation,” the Seattle Times bel, 1985’s cassette No Bones—a suite writes of the Seattle Jazz Hall of Famer of avant-jazz close only to Carl Stall- and founding member of The Tiptons, ing in its eclectic energy—marked a Kulture Shock, and . The portentous beginning of her solo ca- musical autodidact and multi-instru- reer. Endeavors such as 2017’s The Big mentalist Amy Denio moved to Seattle Embrace mark her additional skills not in 1985, playing as the second drum- only as a wide-thinking composer, but mer for the Entropics. Her affable hu- also as a producer and arranger. mor and musical craft (she had studied This festival, Denio will step out at on saxophone, accordion, and guitars) the city’s improvisation haven, the brought her into the orbit of under- Chapel Performance Space, for a solo ground rockers, North Indian clas- concert drawing on her wealth of AMY DENIO PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST sical musicians, choreographers like world and out-of-this-world abilities Pat Graney and Cheronne Wong, the and experiences. For any listener who not to spend a night in Denio’s ex- Austrian trio Die Resonanz Stanonczi, thinks that the enlightening edge of panding universe. and a host of artists worldwide. grunge has been lost in today’s polish $18 adults, $16 Earshot members & The music she has made during her and accomplishment, they’d be remiss seniors, $10 students & military/veterans tenure in the Emerald City thus car-

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, BROTMAN FORUM, 5:30PM Elena Maque

Co-presented with Seattle Art Museum and KNKX. A versatile musician whose talents are expansive, Elena Maque is a composer, saxophonist, and vocalist who explores classical, jazz, funk, and . Her strength is in melding all these skills and influences into sincere musical narratives. She hails from St. Petersburg, Russia, where she graduated from the Mussorgsky College of Music, and became a member of the jazz big band led by Gennady Golshtein. Her move to the US, in particular Seattle, led her to explore different musi- cal avenues. Her reputation has grown as a dynamic and assured entertainer whether playing hip-hop inflected post-bop, interpreting Russian ‘60s hits in bossa nova style, or singing jazz standards. Maque leads two ensembles, Maquattack and the Elena Maque Quartet, and in 2017 she, along with her partner, drummer D’Vonne Lewis, began an art project known as SoulCanvas to promote local musicians.

Free and open to the public ELENA MAQUE PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 13 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, CHAPEL PERFORMANCE SPACE AT GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER, 8PM Subtle Degrees: Travis Laplante & Gerald Cleaver / Wayne Horvitz Snowghost Trio ous groups and played with , , Roscoe Mitch- ell, Craig Taborn, and Ellery Eskelin, among others. Subtle Degrees’ debut album, A Dance That Empties, based on a sprawling but precisely measured composition, was written by Laplante on commission from the Brooklyn performance space Roulette. Long based in Seattle but in demand around the country and the world, pia- nist and composer Wayne Horvitz first came to wide attention in the avant- jazz world on the New York downtown scene of the ‘80s and ‘90s. His newest project began in 2015, when producer Brett Allen offered him time to record

GERALD CLEAVER AND TRAVIS LAPLANTE PHOTO BY ADI NACHMAN in his state-of-the-art studio in White- fish, Montana, “Snowghost.” With a Spirited and devotional fervor runs (saxophone) and Cleaver (drums) ap- handful of recent compositions, Hor- through the music of Subtle Degrees, proach their music with a remarkable vitz invited Royal Room regulars, lo- the saxophone-drums duo of Travis reverence. A staple of the NYC scene, cal lion Geoff Harper (bass) and first- Laplante and Gerald Cleaver, and of Laplante leads the acclaimed sax quar- caller Eric Eagle (drums). Textural and pianist Wayne Horvitz’s Snowghost tet, Battle Trance, and has played with contemplative, the music presented by trio. the likes of Peter Evans, Darius Jones, this year’s release, The Snowghost Ses- Having long established their syn- and Mat Maneri. Son of drummer sions, will enchant. ergy previously as a unit with saxo- John Cleaver, Gerald Cleaver now lives $22 adults, $20 Earshot members & phonist , Laplante in New York, where he has led numer- seniors, $10 students & military/veterans EARSHOT JAZZ PRESENTS ’S SACRED MUSIC

Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra + vocalists Stephen Newby & Nichol Veneé Eskridge + NW Chamber Chorus and members of the New Revelations Choir + special guest tap dancer Alex Dugdale

$15-$40 Friday, December 28, 7:30pm earshot.org St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral 1245 10th Ave E, Seattle

14 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, THE ROYAL ROOM, 7:30PM Samantha Boshnack: Seismic Belt Samantha Boshnack is a musical vi- She continues: “Seismic Belt explores sionary in a very real sense. Her writ- the seismic activity along the ing always leads the listener along a of Fire, experimenting with the fric- visual story line projected as a musical tion of geographic shifts to create a narrative. Her previous two projects new harmonic topography. This mu- told the heroic story of Nellie Bly, and sic examines our relationship with the united the sounds of five continents in Earth, including the elements of risk five concertos. Festivalgoers will wit- and faith in that uneasy cohabitation. ness her latest project, Seismic Belt, a Movements of the work draw on influ- project that interprets life, culture, and ences from some of the cultures and SAMANTHA BOSHNACK PHOTO BY DANIEL SHEEHAN cohabitation around the Ring of Fire. people living on the Ring, in places Boshnack wrote the eight-movement such as Chile, Japan, Alaska, Iceland, but of Seismic Belt, with an incredible piece while in residency at 18th Street Western Samoa, and Russia.” lineup of Seattle musicians and one Arts through their annual Make Jazz This performance is the Seattle debut special guest from my Fellowship in Los Angeles. The Herb of Seismic Belt, and features a collec- band—Lauren Elizabeth Baba.” Alpert Foundation sponsors the award tion of Seattle-based players. Pianist In March 2019, the live recording of to support promising, emerging com- Alex Chadsey has been a mainstay of the final LA concert will be released posers; other recipients have included Boshnack’s projects, as has drummer on Orenda Records. Marquis Hill and Tomeka Reid. Max Wood. Saxophonist Chris Credit While prolific as a composer and Boshnack explains the project as a will play tenor and baritone saxo- ever imaginative in conceiving her result of travels that have alerted her phones, creating a striking balance work, Boshnack doesn’t perform live to volcanoes and the cultures that sur- with violinist Begin Scarseth and bass- all that often, or rather, as often as round them. During the Make Jazz ist Troy Shiefelbein. Lauren Elizabeth the jazz community at large would Fellowship, she says, “I composed Baba will make the trip up from Los like. In many ways, this performance eight movements of Seismic Belt, a Angeles and join on both and represents a high-water mark for this suite about the Ring of Fire, which viola. project, performed in her chosen home is located in the basin of the Pacific “I debuted the music in two con- city, in the shadow of Tahoma in re- Ocean. The area is home to most of certs in LA with an all-star LA band pose. the world’s volcanoes and hosts many I put together,” says Boshnack. “This $20 adults, $18 Earshot members & of its earthquakes.” Earshot concert will be the Seattle de- seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, CHAPEL PERFORMANCE SPACE AT GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER, 8PM Marina Albero Now based in Seattle, Marina Al- she composes and improvises with a fiery energy, Albero has added to the bero, master of the piano, vibes, and rich personal . local music scene and has been much psalterium (hammered dulcimer), has Albero has played and recorded with appreciated as the leader of the Marina been touring the world since child- many well-known artists, including Albero Project. hood in her Barcelona family band. ’Arpeggiata, Chano Dominguez, and Tonight, she plays originals and In her early years she studied in - Pepe Habichuela. She navigates ef- works by the Spanish composer Fed- celona’s Conservatory (El Bruc) and fortlessly among Spanish, Cuban, and erico Mompou. She is joined by Se- later in La Havana (ISA), where she jazz styles, coloring her improvisations attle favorites Jeff Johnson on bass, Jeff completed her classical piano degree. with her distinctive palette. Busch on percussion, and D’Vonne Influenced by many different musical She first appeared in Seattle play- Lewis on drums. styles such as jazz, flamenco, early mu- ing vibes in a duo setting with pianist $18 adults, $16 Earshot members & sic, and Andalusian and Latin sounds, Chano Domínguez in 2014. With her seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 15 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, 8PM Tigran Hamasyan Tigran Hamasyan was just 19 years old when he won the Thelonious Monk Institute’s jazz piano competi- tion in 2006, and since then he has steadily evolved into one of the most talked-about and dazzlingly talented pianists on the global jazz scene. Integrating influences as varied as minimalism, jazz improvisational structures, contemporary classical mu- sic, and rock textures, and stitching it all together with a profound immer- sion into the varied musical traditions of his native Armenia, Hamasyan is forging an iconoclastic path defined by free-ranging inventiveness and sur- prise twists and turns. Fellow pianists such as Herbie Han- cock, Brad Mehldau, and Chick Corea have all sung his praises. Corea, with whom Hamasyan shares a certain rhythmic precision and clarity of con- cept, could be heard as a touchstone. Hamasyan is a pianist of similarly im- peccable melodic instincts and sensi- TIGRAN HAMASYAN PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST tive touch. By the age of three, spurred on by as sonic and electronic manipula- a supportive and musically eclectic tions. family upbringing, Hamasyan was Hamasyan’s latest release, For Gy- picking out melodies from records by umri (named after his native town in artists as varied as , Louis Armenia) is largely a solo piano effort. Armstrong, and . At the As much a composer as an improviser, age of 10, he was studying jazz formal- Hamasyan often blurs boundaries: the ly, and in his early teens had already distinction between improvisational begun integrating Armenian melodic and written sections is often delight- and rhythmic textures into his musi- fully difficult to ascertain. Intimate in cal conception. His frequently sub- mood and with a touch of introspec- lime recorded work has integrated all tive melancholy, For Gyumri provides these ideas and more: Atmospheres on a hint of what we can expect in his the ECM label features Hamasyan in Earshot appearance: an opportunity a sensitively improvisational group to hear in a distilled, solo piano format setting, accompanied by trumpeter Hamasyan’s truly global blend full of Arve Henriksen and guitarist Eivind soul, fire, tenderness, and hypnotic Aarset. An Ancient Observer focuses complexity. on Hamasyan’s piano playing, but $24 adults, $22 Earshot members & blends in subtle vocalizations as well seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

16 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, THE ROYAL ROOM, 7PM & 9:30PM SHOWS Adam O’Farrill Quartet Vermillion FIRST THURSDAYS trio Kadawa, and appearing on Finn- October 4th, 2018 | 8-11PM

ish guitarist Olli Hirvonen’s debut

album, New Helsinki. He has played with the likes of Mulatu Astatke, Steve Christian Pincock’s Lehman, and Vijay Iyer. Another family member, brother SCRAM BL E R

Zach O’Farrill, joins the rhythm sec-

tion of the quartet. A standout drum- mer with an equally precocious sound, Seth Alexander Troup

O’Farrill accompanied his brother

in The O’Farrill Brothers Band play-

ing original compositions. Of their 1508 11TH Ave – Seattle 2011 release Giant Peach, All About Jazz wrote that “with all of its hair- pin rhythmic turns, fantastic arrange- Open to All - Free ments, and first-rate soloing, it is one giant success for two of the youngest Latin jazz lions to roar onto the scene Season in quite some time.” 17 A native of Ithaca, New York, Walter Stinson is a bassist on the rise. A stu- dent of Bernie Upson, George Reed, and Scott Colley, he has collaborated with Kevin Sun and Onyx Collective, ADAM O’FARRILL PHOTO BY ALICE PALATI and made his debut as a leader at Jazz Gallery. With a quickly developing Trumpeter Adam O’Farrill, who compositional voice of his own, he is Sunday, October 7, 6 pm graced the Earshot stage in 2016 with of a piece with the O’Farrills. Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Bird Calls Born in Elmira, New York, Lefkow- band, returns with his modern, eclec- itz-Brown is quickly establishing him- Stephanie Porter Quartet tic, word-tradition-inflected band, in- self as a voice to be reckoned with. A Stephanie Porter, vocals cluding Chad Lefkowitz-Brown (tenor prodigy mentored by George Reed, Steve Yusen, drums sax), Walter Stinson (bass), and broth- Lefkowitz-Brown studied at the Dave Michael Barnett, bass er Zach O’Farrill (drums). Brubeck Institute, playing regular- Bill Anschell, piano If the name O’Farrill rings a bell, ly with its namesake, and has since that’s because the trumpeter traces his toured worldwide with the likes of SAVE THE DATE: lineage to the legendary Afro-Cuban Clarence Penn, Ron McClure, and Next concert on November 4 composer Chico O’Farrill, father of others. On his most recent album On- Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto the pianist Arturo O’Farrill, who sur- ward, he “displays a fierce drive, an as- rounded his Brooklyn-born son with sured urgency and an up-from-the-gut 100 Minutes of professional jazz the life-lasting joy of music. Aside from power” (All About Jazz). Family friendly concert / Free parking his award-winning work with Mah- This is a quartet sure to thrill—Adam Seattle First Baptist Church anthappa, O’Farrill’s recent accom- O’Farrill draws from a rich heritage in 1111 Harvard Avenue plishments include playing on Arturo Afro-Cuban music and the classics, O’Farrill’s Grammy Award-nominat- (Seneca and Harvard on First Hill) but is a modernist at heart. Seattle, WA (206) 325-6051 ed : The Conversation Continues, $20 adults, $18 Earshot members & working with the experimental Israeli seniors, $10 students & military/veterans www.SeattleJazzVespers.org/GO/SJV

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 17 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, TRIPLE DOOR, 6PM Keyon Harrold As sophisticated as he is articulate, A no-less-extraordinary trumpeter Keyon Harrold shies away band backs him up, includ- from neither the complexities of poli- ing Burniss Travis (bass), tics nor the simplicity of a beautiful Shedrick Mitchell (keys), melody, which is perhaps why Wynton Charles Haynes (drums), and Marsalis dubbed him “the future of (guitar). Based in the trumpet.” Brooklyn, Travis is a fluent Born in Ferguson, Missouri, and player reared in the tradition educated at The New School in by none other than Stefon New York, Harrold was mentored Harris, and has played with by trumpeter and the likes of Roy Hargrove and got his first professional gig playing Q-Tip. Keyboardist Shedrick with rapper/actor/poet Common. Mitchell similarly balances Since making his name in New York, musical worlds with aston- Harrold has played regularly with ishing ease, and has played Beyoncé and Gregory Porter, and or recorded with Queen Lati- KEYON HARROLD PHOTO BY DENEKA PENISTON COURTESY OF SHORE FIRE MEDIA has toured with the likes of fah, , and Raul Come hear the future of the trum- and Mary J. Blige. He provided all Midón. Based in New York, drum- pet—and expect it to sing. Harrold, the trumpet parts for Don Chea- mer Charles Haynes is a graduate of a self-declared “social music activist,” dle’s 2015 Miles Davis biopic, Miles the Berklee College of Music, and has told : “I want anything I Ahead. About his sophomore release, toured with , Patti Labelle, do to be singable—I don’t like to pur- 2017’s The Mugician, Rolling Stone and MIA, among others. Nir Felder— posefully go over somebody’s head.” wrote: “Harrold’s pop sensibilities “the next big jazz guitarist,” according $22 adults, $20 Earshot members & and activist leanings shine through to NPR—bends rules with everyone seniors, $10 students & military/veterans on the album, which is tied together from , Jack DeJoh- by its catchy melodies.” nette, and .

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, THE ROYAL ROOM, 7:30PM Oliver Groenewald NewNet CD release ft. Jay Thomas Noted Dutch composer and trum- nal compositions by Groenewald as Multi-instrumentalist and Seattle pet/fluegelhorn player Oliver Groe- well as selections from their new CD, native Jay Thomas grew up immersed newald is set to stun with his nonet of I Always Knew. Expect European-in- in the city’s jazz scene of the ’60s. Af- Seattle jazz players. The NewNet band fluenced music that soars beyond its ter a stint in New York, where he was is a “little big band” of accomplished source with layers of fresh, energetic taught by the famed trumpet player musicians who display great dynamic music. Carmine Caruso, Thomas returned to unity, while creating space for each Groenewald was born in Germany Seattle. A prolific musician, Thomas musician to shine. where his talent bloomed. He was a has played on more than 60 albums The band includes Brad Allison on member of the NDR Big Band, and and tours worldwide. He’s a member trumpet and ; Dan Marcus made two albums with a prior incar- of two Japanese bands, has a band on trombone; Jay Thomas on reeds/ nation of the NewNet band. Once in called “The Cantaloupes,” and is a trumpet; Travis Ranney, Pete Gal- the US, Groenewald learned arranging member of the SRJO. He teaches at lio, and Greg Sinibaldi on reeds; John with Chuck Israels and studied trum- Garfield High and at Cornish College Hansen on piano; Michael Glynn on pet with Willie Thomas. Currently, of the Arts. bass; and Adam Kessler on drums. Groenewald lives with his family on $18 adults, $16 Earshot members & Their performance will feature origi- Orcas Island. seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

18 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, LO-FI, 9PM Afrocop / Paces Lift It will be a spacy and trippy night Instead, the trio relies on improvisa- with Seattle’s jazz-ish psych trio Af- tional intuition and their instrumental rocop, which is influenced by early sci- chops. It’s an experiment of exploring fi soundtracks, film noir, and improve. the abstract, inner spaces of the mind. Heading the harmonies for the band Each performance is unique in its once referred to as “Industrial Revela- achievement, every sound a chance for tion’s introverted and more psychedel- discovery. ically inclined cousin” (The Stranger) is Opening: International vinyl by DJ composer and keyboardist Noel Brass, Paces Lift. A local sample-flipping Jr. Since his solo album Broken Shad- favorite, the hip-hop wielding beat ows was released last year, Brass has maker resurrects grooves of the Pa- risen on the scene to become the city’s cific Southeast in an all-wax set. This most in-demand synth-whisperer. industrious creative also masterminds This evening, Brass’s notable coun- Seattle’s specialty label Wax Thema- NOEL BRASS JR. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST terparts are Carlos Tulloss (Screens) tique, through which he and his col- on bass and baritone guitar and Andy laborators have self-released two al- His motto: “Prying the dead artists Sells (Select Level) on drums, with ac- bums inspired by the global sounds out of the living past one record at a companying visuals by John Theroux. of Thai funk, , Eastern soul, time.” Together, they doesn’t deal with the tropical jazz, and more. $12 adults, $10 Earshot members, se- blues or traditional jazz convention. niors, students, military/veterans MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, THE ROYAL ROOM, 7:30PM Caroline Davis The engaging, canny alto saxophon- Paul Bedal Quintet, and the Chicago ist and composer, who took top Ris- Jazz Orchestra. Her debut album, ing Star honors in a DownBeat Crit- Live Work & Play, was featured on All ics Polls, presents her increasingly About Jazz’s best releases of 2012, and acclaimed creations with her “Heart she was named one of JazzTimes’ Best Tonic” project featuring New York New Artists that same year. Her soph- drummer Jay Sawyer and fine Seattle omore album, Doors: Chicago Story- accompanists, bassist Evan Flory- lines, was an audio documentary that Barnes and keyboardist Tim Kennedy. honors her eight-year stint in Chicago Singapore-born, Brooklyn-based prior to Brooklyn, uniquely setting composer, saxophonist, and educa- stories from Chicago’s jazz scene from CAROLINE DAVIS PHOTO BY JACOB HAND tor, Caroline Davis has come to be an the ‘80s and ‘90s alongside her music. active leader and sidewoman in the As an educator, Davis brings her vast grams. She has also participated in national jazz scene. She has shared knowledge of music and psychology to several jazz mentorship programs, in- musical moments with diverse musi- her teaching, as she acquired a PhD cluding IAJE’s Sisters in Jazz and the cians, among them Matt Wilson, El- in music cognition at Northwestern Kennedy Center’s Jazz lis Marsalis, Matt Mitchell, Randy University in 2010. She has been on Ahead program. Brecker, , Ron Miles, the faculty at Litchfield Jazz Camp for JazzTimes described her distinctive and Allison Miller. Aside from her the past 10 years, and has been a guest style of composition and performance own quintet, she collaborates regularly educator at Northwestern, University as “a gauntlet of complex, often fraught with R&B indie band Maitri, and has of Colorado at Boulder, Columbia music that remains approachable.” been a regular of many outfits includ- College, DePaul University, Jazz at $18 adults, $16 Earshot members & ing Whirlpool, Billy Kaye Quintet, Lincoln Center, and many other pro- seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 19 MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, TRIPLE DOOR, 7PM Ethan Iverson & Mark Turner: Temporary Kings / Johnaye Kendrick

It would be difficult to imagine a more well-matched pair of talents than pianist Ethan Iverson and tenor saxo- phonist Mark Turner. The two musi- cians have maintained a long associa- tion stretching back to the ‘90s, but are now making their first foray into playing as a duo. On their new ECM album, Temporary Kings, Iverson and Turner probe deeply into modernist, chamber music-like structures and wide-ranging improvisational webs, informed by keen intellect and idio- syncratic journeys in search of their own unique voices. Iverson’s singular feel for bracing MARK TURNER AND ETHAN IVERSON PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST modern piano textures layered with a broad spectrum of deep jazz knowl- ing in recent writings for the esteemed Northwest she’s nothing short of a trea- edge is the perfect foil for Turner’s airy New Yorker magazine. sure. Though her skill and feel for the and uniquely expressive sound and ap- It’s arguably not an overstatement to jazz tradition is impeccable, Kendrick’s proach. At times coolly cerebral, but call Mark Turner the most influen- new album Flying displays everything a forged with a hot core of jazz inspira- tial saxophonist of the past 20 years. versatile and exploratory modern mu- tion, their duo performances are un- Not since has a sax- sician should be, with aspirations and like anything else on the current cre- ophonist been as widely imitated by interests that range far afield into soul- ative music scene. new generations of musicians. While ful R&B, Latin groove, stripped-down Pianist, composer, and writer Ethan Brecker updated and extended parts folkish simplicity, and reimagined Iverson was a founding member of The of the language passed on from John transformations of pop and rock. Bad Plus, a paradigm-shifting piano Coltrane, Turner has defined an en- Kendrick has breathtaking techni- trio that pulled new, younger audienc- tirely different direction. With an un- cal skills, but what sets her apart is into the jazz fold, and rode a wave derstated but equally deep conceptual her ability to pull the listener into her of major label momentum over their foundation, Turner draws more from world with an intimacy that very few 17-year run. In addition to more than the realm of the /Len- vocalists can achieve, a talent that has a decade sharing the bandstand with nie Tristano school, with a touch of Joe nothing to do with chops or genre and Turner in the critically acclaimed Billy Henderson’s clear, intentional tone and everything to do with humanity, posi- Hart Quartet, Iverson has appeared control. Though Turner doesn’t share tivity, and communication. She feels with jazz royalty such as Ron Carter an immediately obvious affinity with deeply what she’s singing about and and Albert “Tootie” Heath. Other Coltrane, the two do have something inhabits her music with a grounded collaborators include Joshua Red- in common: a dedication to explor- authority and authenticity. man, Bill Frisell, and the Mark Morris ing new realms of expression, and an Accompanying Kendrick is her flex- Dance Group. Not only a remarkable almost spiritual intensity of approach. ible and sensitive trio of Seattle stal- performer but also a keen observer and Opening: Vocalist (and Cornish warts: Bill Anschell (piano), Chris theoretician, Iverson’s website “Do the professor) Johnaye Kendrick has been Symer (bass), and D’Vonne Lewis Math” has for over 15 years been a championed by heavy hitters such as (drums). treasure trove of musician interviews Nicholas Payton, Terence Blanchard, $26 adults, $24 Earshot members & and well-informed analysis, culminat- and Ellis Marsalis, and in the Pacific seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

20 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, THE ROYAL ROOM, 7:30PM Max Hatt & Edda Glass The quirky guitarist and idiosyn- York City’s Lincoln Cen- cratic vocalist have “a unique sound” ter, where their novelty and (NPR Mountain Stage) that elevates freshness stunned audienc- Glass’ “voice that must be heard to be es and won them the 2014 believed” (Nels Cline). Their award- Grand Prize of the Inter- winning “jazz Americana” evokes national Mountain Stage great plains and small lives; their Bra- NewSong Competition. zilian bossa nova resounds with the Glass and Hatt have gone vibrant parades and bronzed beaches on to perform in many of Rio. high-profile settings, such Hatt and Glass formed a duo in Mon- as the Kennedy Center in tana after Glass sat in with Hatt’s jazz Washington, D.., and trio to perform Brazilian songs. While Wilco’s Solid Sound Festi- claiming the title of the state’s only val. But they did not spirit bossa nova band, they also worked up their success out of thin air. MAX HATT AND EDDA GLASS PHOT BY ELZAG LITTLE original material. Driving between Both had steeped them- for example, wrote that “Edda Glass’ gigs, Glass wrote lyrics to accompany selves in jazz and other American idi- primal singing and skywide-on-a- Hatt’s guitar compositions. She re- oms in their youth and since. Hatt, a stormy-night lyrics left me breathless.” calls that his cinematic sound and the Chicagoan, had studied at Gospel and jazz vocalist , scenery they traveled through almost Indiana University and taken classes a singer of impressive chops, herself, dictated the lyrics she penned—lyrics from Pat Metheny, Lee Ritenour, and praised their compositions as “hyp- about migrating geese, dispossessed others. Glass, the daughter of a jazz notic” and “like hand-printed photo- tribes, and mysteries in the wheat trombonist, had taught herself to sing graphs that speak and sway.” fields: “You look out the window and in Portuguese by studying an obscure This evening, they are accompanied it’s like the camera’s panning for you, Nara Leão album as well as a host of in the sonically friendly Royal Room over these enormous landscapes, and other vocalists as distinctive as she by a peerless Seattle bassist, Clipper you start expecting something to hap- would become. Anderson. Expect transport and de- pen—a story to begin.” The Santa Fe-based duo have gar- light. Their collaboration has been a huge nered praise from many musical quar- $18 adults, $16 Earshot members & success. It has taken them to New ters. Nicole Atkins of Nashville Scene, seniors, $10 students & military/veterans ART OF JAZZ

ELENA MAQUE GROUP THU OCT 11, 5:30 – 7:30 PM

Hear why this alto saxophonist and vocalist is being hailed as Seattle’s newest jazz star.

Seattle Art Museum, Brotman Forum 1300 First Avenue Sponsored by Free visitsam.org/performs

Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 21 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, TRIPLE DOOR, 7PM & 9:30PM SHOWS

David Sanborn Jazz Quintet

Described by critic Scott Yanow as “the most influential saxophonist on pop, R&B, and crossover players of the past 20 years,” David Sanborn has transcended genres and musical boundaries throughout his career. Steadily forging new possibilities for jazz, Sanborn has been recog- nized with six Grammy Awards, and nine gold or albums. He continues to be one of the most active musicians of his genre, de- fined as an artist who pushes the limits and continues to make music that challenges the mind and goes straight to the heart. Sanborn has collaborated with popular artists as diverse as , , Todd Rund- gren, Bobby Charles, Roger Waters, , , and . In 2014 he released Enjoy the View with Bobby Hutcherson, Joey DeFrancesco, and Billy Hart. The following year he reunited with for their first col- laboration in 15 years: Time & the River features Sanborn in a large group setting with guest vocals by Randy Crawford and Tower of Power’s Larry Braggs. On this tour, Sanborn, with his alto saxophone style that is “force- ful and tender, sensuous and subtle” (NY Times), revisits his passion for straight-ahead jazz with a stunning band: Wycliffe Gordon (trombone), Billy Kilson (drums), Andy Ezrin (piano/keyboards), and Ben Wil- liams (bass). $55 tier one, $45 tier 2, $30 tier 3

DAVID SANBORN PHOTO BY LYNN GOLDSMITH

22 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, THE SHOWBOX, 7PM Kamasi Washington Presented by AEG & Madison House. Clarke and , to collabo- Epic: sprawling, longform textures No jazz release in years has hit with rating extensively with Kendrick La- built on thick, percolating grooves the instant impact and broad appeal mar on his To Pimp a Butterfly album. powered by double rhythm sections, of Kamasi Washington’s 2015 debut, Washington also functions as a key choirs, , and bubbling elec- The Epic. The album was indeed epic member of the vital L.A. creative mu- tronics, interwoven with brilliant solos in both length and concept: ambitious sic scene centered around Flying Lo- and vocal interludes. The overall effect yet accessible, the sprawling 3-hour tus’s Brainfeeder , which is thoroughly cinematic in scope, and, opus topped numerous year-end “Best includes bassist and longtime associ- like film, the work rewards patient at- Of” lists, and opened up new realms ate, Thundercat. tention and full immersion. This is of jazz awareness in segments of the Washington recently released Heav- jazz of the moment, for the current population who previously were not en and Earth, another hugely ambi- era, funneled and formed by an artist tuning in. tious release, which Pitchfork called of deep vision and open ears, whose The tenor saxophonist/composer/ “a multi-genre feast of musical ideas, true essence is best heard in the mo- conceptualist has developed at a re- his most sweeping and complete state- ment of creation. lentless pace, from appearing with el- ment yet.” To some degree, the album Sold Out der statesmen legends such as Stanley is an extension of ideas laid out on The THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, PONCHO CONCERT HALL, CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, 8PM Fay Victor’s SoundNoise Trio

Co-presented with Cornish Presents. later she raised the stakes. She moved Versatile and accomplished are words to Amsterdam, where for eight years that don’t do justice to Fay Victor’s co- she deepened and expanded her musi- pious talents. Victor is an improvising cal approach and expression. Utilizing vocalist, lyricist, composer, and educa- her multiple skills, and weaving them tor whose musical presence beckons together in serendipitous ways, she has with mastery and magic. “If you have created her unique approach known as never seen her perform live, she is joy “Freesong.” incarnate,” writes Richard Kamins Victor has eight much-lauded albums (Step Tempest). “She scats, she wails, under her belt, and as well as perform- coos, squalls, caresses, plays with ing worldwide, she has taught at pres- words as if writing a play on stage, and tigious schools such as the Amsterdam does so with a twinkle in her eye.” Conservatory and UC Berkley. Cur- Victor’s creativity is inspired in part rently she teaches at the New York Jazz by her love of Thelonious Monk, Or- Workshop. nette Coleman, and Herbie Nichols, Victor brings to the 2018 Earshot among others. Noted flutist/composer Jazz Festival her project SoundNoise Nicole Mitchell has said of Victor‘s Trio. Organized by Victor, this trio, homage to jazz masters, “the whole which includes drummer Reggie legacy of jazz is in her voice.” Nicholson and soprano saxophonist FAY VICTOR PHOTO COURTESY OF FULLY ALTERED MEDIA As well as Victor’s ability to draw on , was birthed with an the past, her talent rests on her ability aim to create a space to showcase each Convocation to reimagine the future of jazz. Vic- artist’s compositional powers and abil- Fay Victor | Oct. 18, 12pm | tor began her career in the art form ities with . PONCHO Concert Hall | Free in the ‘90s, specializing in interpret- $18 adults, $16 members and seniors, ing jazz standards in New York, but $10 students and military/veterans

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 23 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, PONCHO CONCERT HALL, CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, 8PM Allison Miller Boom Tic Boom Co-presented with Cornish Tic Boom’s self-titled debut Presents. was voted “Top 10 Jazz Al- An extremely busy player bums of 2010” (LA Times). with an irrepressible spirit, Miller’s core trio continued drummer and composer to record, expanding to an Allison Miller is certain to intriguing sextet for 2016’s leave a big impression with Otis was a Polar Bear. her jazz project Boom Tic Now celebrating an up- Boom. coming studio release, Glit- Miller has been the rhyth- ter Wolf, Boom Tic Boom mic force behind a stream of embarks on a two-week tour mainstream and jazz artists to play old favorites and alike, from singer-songwrit- preview fresh tunes. Spe- ers Natalie Merchant and cial pre-release material will Brandi Carlile to organ leg- be available. The virtuosic end Dr. Lonnie Smith and lineup sees Miller’s longtime avant-garde trailblazer Mar- collaborators Jenny Schein- ty Ehrlich. Additionally, the man (violin), Ben Goldberg Brooklyn-based drummer ALLISON MILLER PHOTO BY SHERVIN LAINEZ (), and Kirk Knuffke has been spotted in the band Where she really flies is in her own (cornet), with on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and projects. Miller’s fierce clarity and nu- (bass) and Seattle’s beloved Dawn is a three-time Jazz Ambassador for anced writing make for original music Clement (piano). the U.S. State Department. comprised as much of melodic inven- $22 adults, $20 Earshot members & tiveness as rhythmic probing. Boom seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, THE CHURCH, 8PM Ted Poor: The Blues & Otherwise, ft. Kris Davis and Tyler Chester Co-presented with University of Washington. Ted Poor, the “adventurous, truly dynamic, and forward-thinking” leader (Modern Drummer), appears with commanding, innovative pia- nist Kris Davis and bassist Tyler Chester, in search of jazz of this mo- ment. A drumming professor of jazz and improvisational music and an Artist in Residence at the University of Washington (he has also had residencies at Eastman School of Music, Berklee College of Music, Cal Arts, Lawrence University, the University of , and the HR Big Band of Frankfurt), Poor has been a go-to percussionist for artists around the world since the early 2000s. At last year’s Earshot festival, he performed in the trio led by Greg Sinibaldi that opened for New York guitar experimentalist Elliott Sharp’s explorations of the composi- tions of Thelonious Monk. TED POOR PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

24 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 Poor has appeared on dozens of re- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, THE ROYAL ROOM, cordings, including the recent Andrew 7PM & 9:30PM SHOWS Bird album Are You Serious alongside renowned guitarist Blake Mills, bass- George Colligan, Buster Williams, ist Alan Hampton, and producer Tony Berg. Additionally, he’s a member of several renowned bands, including Lenny White Trio Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Cuong Vu, guitarist , Bad Touch, and the Respect Sextet, and has performed on stage as a sideman with Bill Frisell, Chris Thile, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mark Turner, Chris Pot- ter, Kenny Werner, Maria Schneider, Aaron Parks, Ralph Alessi, and others. The positive reviews for his playing are numerous. In the New York Times, Nate Chinen called him “a sharp young drummer who has had the ef- fect, in recent months, of galvanizing any group in which he plays,” and Pe- ter Margasak of DownBeat said: “Ted Poor propels the music with crisp re- straint—flexing muscle where it makes sense while helping to shape the emo- tional arc of each performance.” The Ted Poor Trio isn’t the drum- GEORGE COLLIGAN PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST mer/composer’s only experience as a bandleader. Trier Records released George Colligan is a multi-instru- there aren’t a whole lot of cats from his first record as a bandleader, titled mentalist who has played with great his generation that are any better than All Around, in 2005. He also formed artists (Cassandra Wilson, Ravi Col- him.” Mt. Varnum, a project that combines trane, and Tom Harrell, to name but Jazz great Buster Williams is a splen- his love of deep swing and , a few) and who creates remarkable did musician and composer. An NEA that cumulated in the release, Wound- art. A recipient of a Chamber Mu- and New York Foundation grant ed Caroline. Alongside Ben Monder sic America/ Foundation awardee, the bassist has played with and Ralph Alessi, he founded the trio grant, Colligan is primarily known Chet Baker, , Sonny Third Wheel. 2015 saw the release of for his performance as a pianist, but is Rollins, and Herbie Hancock, among Amateur Dentist on Pirouet Records, also noted for his work as an organ- others. As The Penguin Guide to Jazz an album he recorded with Matt Pen- ist, drummer, trumpeter, teacher, and notes: “Buster’s harmony is impeccable man and Joris Roelofs. bandleader. With more than 20 re- and he has a rhythmic sense that is un- In addition to his solo work and per- cordings of his own and contributions failing, feeling, and utterly original.” formances, he is featured on the highly on more than 100 albums, Colligan Famed drummer Lenny anticipated Cuong Vu’s Change in the can lay claim to being a highly genera- White is an exceptional bandleader Air, which also features Bill Frisell; it tive musician. and sideman, most renowned for his appeared in late September on Rare- But his prolificacy is only part of the work with such icons as Miles Davis. Noise. And Poor can often be seen as story. Both a composer and an impro- He is a Grammy Award-winner who part of the house band in Chris Thile’s viser, Colligan is noted for his stun- has rounded out his career with scor- “Live From Here,” previously known ning and charismatic technique. “As ing film music and producing. as “A Prairie Home Companion.” a creative artist, he’s really up there,” $22 adults, $20 Earshot members & $18 adults, $16 Earshot members & writes Don Braden in JazzTimes. “In seniors, $18 students & military/veterans seniors, $10 students & military/veterans terms of technique, knowledge of music, and improvisational creativity,

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 25 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, PONCHO CONCERT HALL, CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, 8PM Jen Shyu: Nine Doors

Co-presented with Cornish Presents. Vocalist, composer, performer, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist Jen Shyu achieves an extraordinary feat of solo performance in this multi-dimensional window on her world. “The singer Ms. Shyu represents a new kind of improviser-composer-ethnomusi- cologist hybrid,” writes the New York Times. Her latest project, Nine Doors, explores the boundaries of the personal and the ritual in a virtuosic polyphony of language, sound, and gesture. The idea for the project came from the trag- ic death of her friend, the Indonesian percus- sionist and puppeteer Sri Joko Raharjo, in a car crash, along with his wife and young son. Shyu casts the accident’s sole survivor, Raha- rjo’s 6-year-old daughter, as the main charac- ter of Nine Doors. Her journey becomes the starting point for an enactment of time and myth as the audience encounters legends of East Asian folklore, sung in Indonesian Java- nese, Taiwanese, Mandarin, Tetum, Korean, Japanese, and English. Born to Taiwanese and East Timorese par- ents in Peoria, Illinois, Shyu was a piano prodigy who graduated from Stanford Uni- versity studying opera and trained in classical violin and ballet. She has studied traditional music in , China, South Korea, East Timor, and elsewhere, receiving numerous commissions and prizes for her studied and poetic works including the 2016 Doris Duke Foundation Award. A former member of Steve Coleman’s band Five Elements, Shyu’s solo releases have gar- nered critical praise; NPR wrote of her 2015 release The Sound and Cries of the World, in words that equally apply to Nine Doors: “This is research and experience, absorbed and reimagined.” $22 adults, $20 Earshot members & seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

JEN SHYU PHOTO BY RYU IJUN

26 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 27 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, ADMIRAL THEATRE (BREMERTON), 7PM An Evening with Pat Metheny w/ Antonio Sánchez, Linda May Han Oh & Gwilym Simcock

Presented by Bremerton’s Admiral con and the Snowman. The single was Haynes, Steve Swallow, Tony Wil- Theatre. another hit; it reached number 14 in liams… The list goes on and on. The incomparable jazz legend Pat the British Top 40 in and made it to Metheny also has a long history of Metheny has an uncanny ability to number 32 in the U.S. impressive guitar experimentation. In assemble stellar bands. His latest fea- His collaborators are numerous and addition to mastering the standard tures longtime drummer Antonio include , Bill Frisell, Lyle 6-string and 12-string guitars, he has Sánchez, star bassist Linda Oh, and Mays, Billy Higgins, Brad Mehldau, played a custom-made 42-string “Pi- British piano revelation Gw- kasso I” created by Cana- ilym Simcock. dian luthier Linda Manzer. First inspired by Wes An astonishing instrument, Montgomery (he credits the the Pikasso is featured on live 1965 collaboration with Metheny’s albums Quartet, Trio, Smokin’ Imaginary Day, Jim Hall & at the Half Note, for teach- Pat Metheny, and Trio → ing him how to play), it Live, and the live DVDs wasn’t until Metheny heard Speaking of Now Live and Ornette Coleman’s 1968 al- Imaginary Day. bum New York Is Now! that He was also at the fore- he was inspired to branch front of use out from Montgomery’s sig- among jazz guitarists, pio- nature style and truly find neering use of the Roland his own voice as a guitarist. GR-300 Guitar Synthesizer, The winner of 20 Grammy of which he said: “You have awards (the only person to to stop thinking about it as win Grammys in 10 cat- a guitar, because it no longer egories) and in 2018 the re- is a guitar.” cipient of title of NEA Jazz Since 1976, Pat Metheny Master, Metheny is a musi- has created nearly 50 albums cal force of nature. He has of music. Most recently, been dazzling jazz fans since he released Cuong Vu Trio the 1976 release of his debut Meets Pat Metheny with jazz album, . trumpeter Cuong Vu (and He began performing with fellow Earshot Jazz Festival the 2018 performer—see Octo- in 1978, and the band had ber 22, below). The collabo- their first major success PAT METHENY PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST ration was regarded warmly, when their second album, landing on the AllMusic , made it to list of Favorite Jazz Albums the top of the Billboard Jazz chart. Charlie Haden, Chick Corea, Dave of 2016, which noted, “Together, the Metheny has worked in numerous Holland, , Eberhard quartet plays a set of original songs styles and settings with apparent ease. Weber, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJoh- that straddle the line between ambient In 1985, for example, his Pat Metheny nette, Jaco Pastorius, John Scofield, tone poems, exploratory , group collaborated with David Bowie Joshua Redman, , Mi- and punk-inflected noise jams.” on the single “” chael Brecker, Mick Goodrick, Roy Tickets $35-105, available through for the soundtrack of the filmThe Fal- Admiral Theatre

28 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, THE ROYAL ROOM, 7:30PM Clave Gringa Fusing American jazz with Cuban styles. For the group’s name, she fused and Afro-Cuban music is the Seattle- “gringa,” the female form of “gringo,” based band Clave Gringa, led by com- and “clave,” which refers to both a poser, vocalist, and pianist Ann Reyn- percussion instrument consisting of olds. She regularly visits the island to two wooden sticks commonly used in immerse herself in its rich music scene. Cuban music, as well as to a rhythmic Her musical exploration reaps rich re- pattern. wards, as she recreates Cuban music Expect to be entranced and invigo- forms such as son, danzón, mambo, rated by dance-provoking music (“Cu- and rumba with flair and elegance. ban is really about get-

“As a pianist she has a distinct light ting people to dance,” says Reynolds, ANN REYNOLDS PHOTO BY JIM LEVITT and airy voice marked by brightness a dancer herself) with both original and a genteel tone… Her playing is compositions by Reynolds as well as we have been separated by embargo informed by an ability to turn the the band’s take on Cuban classics, for so many years, the Cubans have most complex phrases into beautiful from the charm of the cha-cha-cha to always made it clear to me that they and simple acts of music” (Latin Jazz deep veins of less familiar AfroCuban love Americans (and all things from Network). rhythms. the US) and want to be friends–it is Reynolds formed Clave Gringa with Reynolds’ project, she says, is part our governments that don’t get along.” musicians either from Cuba or experi- musical, part friendship between $18 adults, $16 Earshot members & enced in its diverse musical forms and peoples, beyond politics: “Although seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, LANGSTON HUGHES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 8PM Tribute to Dave Lewis featuring D’Vonne Lewis and Friends

Co-presented with Langston. tribute to his musical and sociological Drummer/composer/bandleader impact in a very personal way. D’Vonne Lewis is like a whirlwind— The elder Lewis made his mark with seamlessly surging from project to an instrumental brand of project, from gig to gig, like no other that found its way into West Coast musician in Seattle. While he may be dance halls in the ‘50s and ‘60s. His the most in-demand player on the Se- trademark style on the Hammond B-3 attle jazz scene, he manages to uphold organ produced regional hits such as D’VONNE LEWIS PHOTO BY DANIEL SHEEHAN “Little Green Thing” and “David’s a standard of artful creativity, as well Mood,” but never received acclaim on performance, joined by guitarist Andy as a family tradition of musicianship a national level. His sound is largely Coe and Lewis on drums. Special that spans four generations. unknown to younger generations. guests are anticipated for this perfor- Lewis’ grandfather, Dave Lewis, was For D’Vonne, this performance not mance set in the very neighborhood a transformative figure in the history only aims to bridge that generational that spawned the “Seattle Sound” of of music in Seattle, both for his impact gap, but provides an avenue for him Dave Lewis. For one evening at Langs- as a musician and as a pioneering force to express his respect and love for his ton Hughes, the musical legacy of the to integrate music in the city. On this grandfather’s legacy. Lewis family takes center stage. evening at Langston Hughes Perform- Seattle B-3 master Joe Doria will $22 adults, $20 Earshot members & ing Arts Center, his grandson pays take the elder Lewis’ chair for this seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 29 WITHIN/EARSHOT presented by Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

BIMA and Earshot Jazz are excited to partner once again to present Within/Earshot, a month-long, all- ages festival celebrating jazz and the diverse talent of the region through live performances, lectures, art exhibitions, and other special events, located a ferry ride away from downtown Seattle on beautiful Bain- bridge Island. For ticket information, visit biartmuseum.org

Listen Thursdays in October bring the Jazz with Jim Some of the region’s most lecture series, presented by inspiring artists will turn the James Cauter, professor of island inside out with a smat- music at Seattle Central tering of innovative sounds. College. Topics covered in- Starting off the series on Oc- clude Notable Big Bands tober 7 is two-time Golden (October 4), Notable Voices Ear Vocalist of the Year, Gail (October 11), Notable In- Pettis. Dishing out rich vo- strumentalists and Compos- cals with a retro flair, the true ers (October 18), and Jazz is magic lies in Pettis’ vulner- Fusion (October 25). ability and deep engagement Join BIMA for a free com- with the audience. munity celebration of Dia Next up on October 14 is de los Muertos with the legendary master vibraphon- Malo Latin Jazz Combo on ist, marimbist, and percus- Saturday, October 27, from sionist, Tom Collier, and his 11:30am–1:30pm. top-tier quartet featuring Bill GAIL PETTIS PHOTO BY DANIEL SHEEHAN have long Anschell on piano, Dan Dean fought for equality and rec- on bass, and Steve Korn on string quartet and improvising solo- ognition. In Her Hands shines light on drums. Collier’s vibrations reverberate ist, These Hills of Glory, on Saturday, the obstacles and opportunities facing with ease between jazz, classical, and October 27. American women in jazz today. Expe- pop genres. Bringing infectious Latin sounds, rience an exclusive rough-cut screen- Get ready to get down on Saturday, Malo Castro and his ¡WEPA! quartet ing of this new jazz documentary on October 20, with the jaw-dropping move through Brazilian, salsa, swing, Thursday, November 1, at 7pm. funk and jazz grooves of McTuff, fea- blues, Cuban, and Puerto Rican melo- turing the one-of-a-kind saxophonist, dies with ease on Friday, November 2. Off-site Skerik, Joe Doria on the Hammond Learn Kick off the Within/Earshot Jazz B-3 organ, and D’Vonne Lewis on Dive deeper into the history of the Festival with Latin jazz at Realogics drums. art form with a number of educational Sotheby’s (240 Winslow Way E) as Bloedel Reserve’s Creative Residents, events. On view October 3–25, the part of the First Friday Art Walk in vocalist and pianist Jenny Maybee Jazz Combo Exhibition features imag- downtown Winslow on Friday, Octo- and trumpeter Ray Larsen—at once inative watercolor and India ink by ber 5. expansive, intimate, and innovative— Port Townsend painter Mike Biskup, a From September 7 to November 1, offer up island-found inspiration on special collection of jazz album covers the Jeffrey Moose Gallery (181 Win- Sunday, October 21. with awe-inspiring photography, and slow Way) presents an exhibition of A tireless musical seeker and neces- a piano-turned-art-piece by Cynthia -pop paintings by Cory Bennett sary figure in the Seattle jazz scene, Wessling from the ever-popular Pianos Anderson that bring to life the color- Wayne Horvitz leads his Snowghost in the Park public art celebration. ful characters of jazz history. Trio, followed by compositions for

30 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 EARSHOT JAZZ FESTIVAL FILMS presented by Northwest Film Forum

Northwest Film Forum & Earshot Jazz team up to present films that shed light on the vibrant history of this great American art form. For ticket information, visit nwfilmforum.org.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 4PM, NORTHWEST FILM FORUM Milford Graves Full Mantis Presented by Northwest Film Forum. length portrait of renowned percus- Graves has performed internation- Milford Graves Full Mantis, directed sionist Milford Graves, exploring his ally since 1964, both as a soloist and by Jake Meginsky and co-directed by kaleidoscopic creativity and relentless in ensembles with such legends as Al- , is the first-ever feature- curiosity. bert Ayler, Giuseppi Logan and Sonny Sharrock. He is a founding pioneer of avant-garde jazz, and he remains one of the most influential living figures in the evolution of the form. The film draws the viewer through the artist’s lush garden and ornate home, into the martial arts dojo in his backyard and the laboratory in his basement—all of this just blocks from where he grew up in the housing proj- ects of South Jamaica, . Graves tells stories of discovery, struggle and survival, ruminates on the essence of “swing,” activates elec- tronic stethoscopes in his basement lab to process the sound of his heart, and travels to Japan where he performs at a school for children with autism, igniting the student body into an ec- static display of spontaneous collective energy. Oscillating from present to past and weaving intimate glimpses of the art- ist’s complex cosmology with blister- ing performances from around the globe, Milford Graves Full Mantis is cinema full of fluidity, polyrhythm and intensity, embodying the essence of Graves’ music itself.

November 1, 7pm, Film TBA Check nwfilmforum.org for film and ticket information.

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 31 WEEK 1 SUNDAY OCTOBER 7 Marquis Hill Blacktet / WEEK BY WEEK Logan Richardson blues PEOPLE 5pm, KEXP Gathering AT THE EARSHOT Space Regina Carter 6pm & 8:30pm, Triple JAZZ FESTIVAL Door Logan Richardson blues PEOPLE 9pm, Lo-Fi Performance Gallery WEEK 2 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY OCTOBER 8 OCTOBER 9 OCTOBER 10 OCTOBER 11 OCTOBER 12 OCTOBER 13 OCTOBER 14

Jovino Santos Neto & Helen Sung Amy Denio Elena Maque Tigran Hamasyan Adam O'Farrill Quartet Jasnam Daya Singh Keyon Harrold 7:30pm, Chapel 8pm, Chapel Performance 5:30pm, Seattle Art 8pm, Seattle Art Museum, 7pm & 9:30pm, Royal 8pm, PONCHO Concert 6pm, Triple Door Performance Space Space Museum, Brotman Forum Plestcheeff Auditorium Room Hall, Cornish College

Subtle Degrees: Travis Edmonds-Woodway Laplante & Gerald Oliver Groenewald Jazz Orchestra w/Helen Noah Preminger / KO Marina Albero Marquis Hill Blacktet Cleaver / Wayne Horvitz NewNet CD Release ft. Sung Electric 8pm, Chapel Performance 7:30pm, Royal Room Snow Ghost Trio Jay Thomas 7:30pm,Edmonds- 8pm,Tractor Tavern Space 8pm, Chapel Performance 7:30pm, The Royal Room Woodway High School Space

Samantha Boshnack: Afrocop / Paces Lift Seismic Belt 9pm, Lo-Fi Performance 7:30pm, Royal Room Gallery WEEK 3 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY OCTOBER 15 OCTOBER 16 OCTOBER 17 OCTOBER 18 OCTOBER 19 OCTOBER 20 OCTOBER 21 Ethan Iverson & Mark Fay Victor's SoundNoise Allison Miller Boom Tic An Evening with Pat Jen Shyu: Nine Doors Turner / Johnaye Max Hatt & Edda Glass Kamasi Washington Trio Boom Metheny 8pm, PONCHO Concert Kendrick 7:30pm, Royal Room 7pm, Showbox 8pm, PONCHO Concert 8pm, PONCHO Concert 7pm, Bremerton's Admiral Hall, Cornish College 7pm, Triple Door Hall, Cornish College Hall, Cornish College Theatre

George Colligan, Buster D'Vonne Lewis and Ted Poor: The Blues and David Sanborn Williams, Lenny White Friends: Tribute to Dave Caroline Davis Otherwise ft. Kris Davis 7pm & 9:30pm, Triple Trio Lewis 7:30pm, Royal Room & Tyler Chester Door 7pm & 9:30pm, Royal 8pm, Langston Hughes 8pm, The Church Room Performing Arts Institute

Clave Gringa 7:30pm, Royal Room

32 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 WEEK 4 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY OCTOBER 22 OCTOBER 23 OCTOBER 24 OCTOBER 25 OCTOBER 26 OCTOBER 27 OCTOBER 28

Circuit Rider: Ron Miles, Garfield High School Brandee Younger / Jakob Bro, Joey Baron, Bill Frisell, Brian Blade / Jazz Band Jazzmeia Horn Tom Harrell Quartet Allos Musica Gretchen Yanover Trio These Hills of Glory 7:30pm, Langston 8pm, Langston Hughes 8pm, Seattle Art Museum, 7pm & 9:30, Royal Room 8pm, Langston Hughes 8pm, Seattle Art Museum, String Quartet ft. Beth Hughes Performing Arts Performing Arts Institute Plestcheeff Auditorium Performing Arts Institute Plestcheeff Auditorium Fleenor Institute 8pm, Benaroya Hall

Randy Halberstadt Seattle Women's Jazz Cuong Vu and Indigo Neil Welch: James Brandon Lewis / Michael Powers / Thiefs w/Guillermo E. Septet: Open Heart CD Orchestra w/Sheryl Mist featuring George Concepcion Picciotto Gary Hammon Quintet Deems Tsutakawa Brown Release Bailey Garzone 8pm, Chapel 8pm, Langston Hughes 8pm, Langston Hughes 8pm, Langston Hughes 8pm, PONCHO Concert 7:30pm, Rainier Arts 8pm, Royal Room Performance Space Performing Arts Institute Performing Arts Institute Performing Arts Institute Hall, Cornish College Center

Naomi Moon + Birch Madison McFerrin / Pereira's Haden/Bley SassyBlack Liberation Music 8pm, Langston Hughes Orchestra Tribute Performing Arts Institute 8pm, Royal Room

WEEK 5 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY OCTOBER 29 OCTOBER 30 OCTOBER 31 NOVEMBER 1 NOVEMBER 2 NOVEMBER 3 NOVEMBER 4

Roosevelt High School Sarah Manning's Vernon Reid Band of Jay Clayton & Dawn Maria Schneider Jazz Band w/Jovino Underwold Alchemy: Chad McCullough & Gypsys Revisited Clement w/Julian w/SRJO Santos Neto Transmuting Anger HALLOWEEN Bram Weijters Quartet 7pm & 9:30pm, Triple Priester 2pm, Kirkland 7pm, Roosevelt High 8pm, Chapel 7:30pm, Royal Room Door 7:30pm, The Royal Room Performance Hall School Auditorium Performance Space

Alex Dugdale FADE Jovino Santos Neto Big Jane Bunnett and Quintet Tia Fuller Quartet Raul Midón Band & Quinteto Maqueque 7:30pm, Langston 8pm, Seattle Art Museum, 7:30pm, Triple Door 8pm, Seattle Art Museum, 6pm & 8:30pm, Triple Hughes Performing Arts Plestcheeff Auditorium Plestcheeff Auditorium Door Institute

Maria Schneider Harriet Tubman: The Myra Melford: Snowy w/SRJO Band Egret 7:30pm, Benaroya Hall, 8pm, Langston Hughes 8pm, Seattle Art Museum, Illsley Ball Performing Arts Institute Plestcheeff Auditorium Recital Hall

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October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 33 MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, LANGSTON HUGHES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 7:30PM Garfield High School Jazz Band The Garfield High School Jazz Band into the DownBeat Jazz Education has won nearly every major competi- returns for the 2018 festival as part of Hall of Fame last year. He was induct- tion on the West Coast, and taken first this year’s Jazz at Langston series. The ed into the Earshot Jazz Hall of Fame place four times (2003, 2004, 2009, presentation brings together two cul- way back in 1994. 2010) at New York’s Essentially El- tural forces of the Central District and A hallmark of his conducting style — lington National Jazz Band Competi- city of Seattle. equal parts musical inspiration and in- tion at New York City’s Lincoln Cen- Thanks to the leadership of Director spirational teaching — is to give every ter—the country’s most prestigious Clarence Acox over the last 45 years, one of his teenage charges their mo- high school jazz competition. the name Garfield has become synon- ment in the spotlight, all while each of Each year he turns out a polished ymous with excellence in high school them contributes to the glorious unit band, and each year he turns up some jazz. An instrumental figure within that is a big band in full flight. stellar instrumentalists. the Seattle jazz scene, Acox has won Since Acox founded the jazz program $20 adults, $18 Earshot members & many accolades including induction in 1979, the Garfield Jazz Ensemble seniors, $10 students & military/veterans MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, THE ROYAL ROOM, 7:30PM Cuong Vu & Indigo Mist featuring George Garzone Initially the brainchild immense impact have of electroacoustic pio- had a profound influ- neer/composer Richard ence on generations of Karpen and trumpeter jazz saxophonists. Gar- Cuong Vu, Indigo Mist zone, also a leading jazz has expanded to be- educator in the Boston come a vehicle for the area, is celebrated for, musical explorations among other accomplish- of a group of forward- ments, carrying forward reaching artists who the innovations of the embrace experimenta- late saxophone titan John tion. Coltrane. “Like Trane,” In addition to Karpen, Mark Corroto write on a pianist, renowned All About Jazz, “his mu- electro-acoustic com- sic resonates from what poser, and director of must be a warm and the School of Music at beautiful soul.” Expect the UW, and Cuong CUONG VU PHOTO BY DANIEL SHEEHAN Garzone to push the Vu, the group includes group into unchartered, fellow members of the ably, —a 15-Grammy exhilarating territory. University of Washington music fac- Award-winning bassist and producer Indigo Mist already is out in un- ulty whose musical interests, while best known for his three decades with chartered terrain. Critics described its disparate, somehow magically jell in the Pat Metheny Group beginning in 2014 recording as “gorgeous, far out, this setting: Juan Pampin, electro- 1981, who is now artist-in-residence at haunting, and evocative…in a word: acoustic composer and director of the UW music program. special” (Outside Inside Out) and the university’s cutting-edge DX- Invited into Indigo Mist’s UW fold, “mysterious, provocative, fanciful” Arts program; Ted Poor, a prodigious for this concert, is world-renowned (Something Else). drummer with a vast array of credits improviser George $20 adults, $18 Earshot members & including Bill Frisell; and, remark- Garzone, whose musical concepts and seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

34 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, LANGSTON HUGHES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 8PM

Jazzmeia Horn Co-presented with Langston. “Jazzmeia Horn IS the future of Jazz!” the legendary, late producer Larry Rosen once pro- claimed of the superb vocalist, whose electrify- ing stage presence has won her the Thelonious Monk prize and the hearts of every audience she’s regaled. Reared in Dallas churches and steeped in the spirit of Betty Carter, “every word, gesture, and ornament becomes an expression of her total conviction” (London Jazz News). Follow- ing a stellar appearance at this year’s Jazz Port Townsend, Jazzmeia Horn returns to the Pacific Northwest, along with her band of Victor Gold (piano), Barry Stephenson (bass), and Henry Conerway III (drums). Winner of the 2015 Thelonious Monk Interna- tional Vocal Jazz Competition and 2013 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competi- tion, Jazzmeia Horn has a name that captures her essence. Intent on pursuing a solo career, Horn graced the New York scene from 2009 and earned her degree in jazz and contemporary music at The New School in Manhattan. Sooner after, she began performing with Winard Harp- er, , , Vincent Gard- ner, Delfeayo Marsalis, and many others. She then began to appear at leading jazz festivals and legendary jazz clubs such as The Blue Note, Minton’s, and The . Her accolades include DownBeat Student Music Award Re- cipient 2008 and 2009 and Best Vocal Jazz So- loist Winner 2010, The 2013 Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program at The Kennedy Center, the Rising Star Award for the 2012 Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Jazz Competition, Finalist for Mid-Atlantic Jazz Vocal Competition 2014, and the 2015 16th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium’s Young Lioness Award. Currently, Horn is a teaching artist in The NJPAC Wells Fargo Jazz for Teens Program and Jazz In The Schools Program in Newark, . She also appears in various clubs on the jazz scene nationally and internationally leading her dynamic group The Artistry of Jazz Horn. $22 adults, $20 Earshot members & seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

JAZZMEIA HORN PHOTO BY JACOB BLICKENSTAFF

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 35 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, CHAPEL PERFORMANCE SPACE, 8PM

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36 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, PLESTCHEEFF AUDITORIUM, SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, 8PM Tom Harrell Quartet

The legendary Tom Harrell, instantly recog- nizable for the burnished sound of his trumpet and flugelhorn, presents the unparalleled harmonic and rhythmic sophis- tication of his playing WITHIN/ and writing with regu- lar bandmates (bass) and EARSHOT Adam Cruz (drums). JAZZ FESTIVAL This time around, the quartet is completed with a true emerging giant of TICKETED CONCERTS: Cuban , Da- SUN., 10/7 GAIL PETTIS QUARTET vid Virelles, DownBeat’s Classic jazz vocal combo 2017 piano Rising Star. TOM HARRELL BHOTO BY ANGELA HARRELL SUN 10/14 TOM COLLIER QUARTET Featuring Bill Anschell, Dan Dean & Steve Korn “A supreme trumpet/ SAT., 10/20 McTUFF FEATURING SKERIK flugelhorn player, Tom A powerful and jaw-dropping funk and jazz sound like you’ve never heard Harrell has an endless flow of bubbling, intricate ideas conveyed with an almost SAT., 10/27 WAYNE HORVITZ & GUESTS serene delivery,” said Mojo Magazine. His recordings prove his “equal ability as a The Snowghost Sessions (trio) & These Hills of Glory (string quartet and improv soloist) formidable post-bop composer”—“from dangerous tear-ups…to near abstract… FRI., 11/2 WEPA to conventional balladry…Harrell is a master.” Latin jazz feat. Ian Jones (saxophone), Jaymes Dunlap (bass), Joseph Rice (piano) His selection this year as the Jazz Journalists Association Trumpeter of the and Malo Castro (congas) Year comes as no surprise, more than five decades and 280 recordings into a stellar career. The innovative and resourceful Harrell paid his dues with the MORE JAZZ EVENTS: 10/3-25 JAZZ COMBO II likes of , , , and Charlie Haden’s Liberation A limited-time exhibition featuring work by Mike Orchestra, to name but a few. From there, his career has flowed along multiple Biskup, Cynthia Wessling and classic jazz album art 10/4, 11, 18, 25 JAZZ WITH JIM From big band to fusion, immerse yourself currents of the jazz tradition. He has been acclaimed for his prolific abilities as in a different genre each week an arranger and composer for larger ensembles and small. His performance at FRI., 11/1 “IN HER HANDS” Join director Kay D. Ray for a screening Earshot 2018 allows us to experience his dynamic sound in a quartet setting. of her film examining women’s role in jazz THRU NOV. 1 JAZZ GREATS OF WASHINGTON STATE “Being the only horn gives me the opportunity to take a different approach to Paintings by Cory Bennett Anderson at phrasing,” says Harrell.” It allows for some freedom to embellish the melody. As Jeffrey Moose Gallery (181 Winslow Way) a writer, I wanted to explore the resources of the quartet with piano, bass, drums and trumpet.” So deep now into a fabled career, Harrell has managed to stay fresh, current, and active. His music is at once intelligent, soulful, fresh, and accessible. No matter the size of the group he works with, he deftly weaves complex and in- MORE EVENTS ARE BEING ADDED. CHECK THE SCHEDULE ONLINE. novative harmonies with daring rhythmic concepts and unforgettable melodies. For any great bandleader, playing with young, on-the-rise musicians can be a DETAILED INFO & TICKETS: WWW.BIARTMUSEUM.ORG creative breath of . The addition of pianist Virelles to the band promises Image: Mike Biskup, Evolution (detail), 2018, watercolor. to be a new jumping-off point for Harrell’s warm and imaginative trumpet style. Virelles represents a new school of modern Cuban pianists. Combined with the far-reaching modernism of Harrell, the results should be magical. WITH SUPPORT $24 adults, $22 Earshot members & seniors, $10 students & military/veterans FROM:

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 37 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, LANGSTON HUGHES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 8PM James Brandon Lewis Trio / Gary Hammon’s Last of the Tribe

Co-presented with Langston. Byard, , The powerful New York City- Stevie Wonder, and many other based tenor saxophonist carries key figures in jazz and R&B. He the torch of today’s Black avant- has been back in Seattle for sev- garde with the verve and drive of eral years, teaching jazz at Bal- bassist Luke Stewart and drum- lard High School and performing mer Warren “Trae” Crudup III. relatively infrequently. In recent Raised in the church in Buffalo, months, however, he has been New York, James Brandon Lewis back on the scene, encouraged by has earned a reputation not only Nathan Breedlove, who says of in jazz but also gospel and R&B. Hammon’s reemergence: “People Ebony Magazine hailed him as really sense the real thing when one of the “7 Young Players to they see/hear it.” Watch” and it is his versatility as Memphis-reared, two-time well as passionate approach that Grammy-nominated trumpeter/ have drawn attention. composer Nathan Breedlove has In jazz, he leads several groups performed over the years with a and has also worked with a sty- vast array of the more adventur- listically diverse range of well- ous and original figures in jazz, known figures, many of them including statesmen like Art among the more adventurous, Blakey and adventurers in the such as William Parker, Hamiet JAMES BRANDON LEWIS PHOTO BY INGRID HERTFELDER Black avant-garde such as Cecil Bluiett, Ravi Coltrane, Joe Lova- Taylor. He spent several years no, Dave Douglas, and Marc tal duo” (DownBeat) that thrives on working in European cities, and Ribot. He echoes other champions “scalding, cathartic surges of energy.” has also been a traveler among musical of independent musical thought and Opening the evening are five Se- styles, at one time a member of the Li- performance like James Blood Ulmer attle masters who are kindred souls of onel Hampton Orchestra, and a front- and Ornette Coleman, all while “not Lewis and Co. In his Last of the Tribe, man for the The Skatalites. Over the clearly evoking a particular past” (New veteran saxophonist Gary Hammon years, Breedlove has also spent long York Times). He is steeped in the tra- features fellow saxophonist Booker stretches in or near Seattle, and has dition so profoundly that tenor legend T. Williams and trumpeter Nathan worked here memorably with the likes Sonny Rollins has observed that he Breedlove, with a rhythm section of Hadley Caliman, Julian Priester, had the “potential to do great things, of bassist Phil Sparks and drummer Buddy Catlett, and Bert Wilson. Seat- having listened to the elders.” Adam Kessler. Hammon, a renowned tle owes him huge gratitude for getting Drummer Warren “Trae” Crud- Seattle “,” grew Gary Hammon back on the scene, too. up III, who also came up playing in up in the Central District and began He has done that so successfully that church, told The Washington Post playing tenor saxophone as a junior at another icon, Booker T. Williams Jr., that his models were diverse, including Garfield before gigging around Seattle tenor saxophonist and flutist, also has not , Milford Graves, and clubs. He then was in the first cohort joined their band. With Last of the Paul “Buggy” Edwards. Crudup and of African-American jazz students ad- Tribe, the pulse of a rich, deep vein of -raised, Washington, DC- mitted to the New England Conserva- Seattle cultural life beats strong. resident bassist Luke Stewart work as tory of Music, in 1969, and went on $18 adults, $16 Earshot members & a “heady yet emotionally transcenden- to work in New York with the likes seniors, $10 students & military/veterans of Big John Patton, Ray Charles, Jaki

38 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, THE ROYAL ROOM, 7PM & 9:30PM SHOWS Allos Musica “I’m interested in the space where Falzone’s rotating ensemble expand- tions. From these disparate pieces, the freedom liberates form and form ed for 2016’s Gnossienne, for which, in mysterious draw of Allos, Greek for contextualizes freedom,” Chicagoan- a nod to the Eastern-inspired French “other,” emerges in the new synthesis turned-Seattleite clarinetist, compos- composer Debussy, the trio was joined of Falzone’s ensemble—an unknown er, and educator James Falzone has by Jeremiah McLane. Born in New worth getting to know. remarked on his approach to music. England and raised on jazz before Allos Musica’s “emotional clarity and Chair of Music at Cornish College of studying the gamelan and traveling lyrical grace are universal,” said the the Arts since 2017, Falzone’s spiritual Europe, McLane’s taste for folk— Chicago Reader. depth and intellectual curiosity have his band Le Bon Vent specializes in $22 adults, $20 Earshot members & affected students and audiences alike, Breton and French music—shifts seniors, $10 students & military/veterans and takes living form with his acoustic the ensemble’s sphere into new direc- group, Allos Musica. Founded in 2006, the group features Falzone (clarinet and launeddas, a Sar- dinian three-pipe woodwind), Jeremi- ah McLane (accordion), Ronnie Mal- ley (oud, harmonium, voice), and Tim Mulvenna (percussion). Drawing from the improvisational structures of jazz, the formal challenges of contemporary classical music, and the scales, modes, and moods of the Middle East and Europe, the quartet finds cross streets that are continents away. “When they launch into a tune,” writes Robert Rodi for Newcity, “the time zones drop away, the centuries, too.” Allos Musica’s first release, 2010’s Lamentations, grew composition- ally from Falzone’s interest in Arabic aesthetics, and drew on Malley’s and Mulvenna’s sympathetic graces. Mal- ley, a multi-instrumentalist, educator, and theatrical performer, understood well the material’s dramatic yearn- ing and mounting joy. A composer of plays such as Ziryab, the Songbird of Andalusia, he has also produced and performed in works such as The Sul- tan’s Dilemma. Mulvenna, another maestro of Chicago, marks fine nu- ances with the touch of a veteran who has played with the likes of Ken Van- dermark, John Abercrombie, and Ros- coe Mitchell.

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 39 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, LANGSTON HUGHES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 8PM Michael Powers / Deems Tsutakawa Co-presented with Langston. up the guitar as therapy after a skate- For more than three decades and boarding injury as a teenager and it’s across over half a dozen albums as a been a focus of his life ever since. He bandleader, Seattle contemporary jazz left his native New York City for Se- legend Michael Powers has dazzled attle’s Cornish College of the Arts, music fans with his chops and his where he studied under Gil Evans and grooves, which sway from easy blues Sam Rivers, bassist Gary Peacock, pia- to funk and jazz. His current band nist Art Lande, and trombonist Julian features Ronnie Bishop on drums and Priester. In 1982, he graduated Magna Douglas Barnett on bass. Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Guitar wasn’t Powers’ first love— Arts in Composition and Performance. that was skateboarding. Powers picked Since then, he’s performed and re- MICHAEL POWERS PHOTO BY SUSAN SCOTT corded with some of the biggest names in music across a variety of genres, including Herbie Hancock, Eddie “Clean Head” Vinson, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Gil Scott Heron, Keiko Mat- sui, Nancy Wilson, Les McCann, Najee, and many, many more. The Tacoma News Tribune said of Powers: “His technique is stunning, EATS & DRINKS but he never employs it at the expense of the musicality of the melodic line. Blues has always been at the core of RESTAURANT REVIEWS, HAPPY HOUR Michael’s inspiration and expression.” Opening is another Seattle institu- HANGOUTS, RECIPES AND MORE. tion, keyboardist Deems Tsutakawa, a performer who has carved his own place in Seattle’s music scene while continuing his family’s long, prized NEWSLETTER dynasty in Seattle art and culture. A true Seattle native, Tsutakawa has Interested in incredible edibles and refreshing been playing piano since the age of five beverages? Visit st.news/eatsanddrinks and won his first award for performing when he was just nine years old. He has performed with Kenny , Roy Ay- ers, Tony Gable, and Julian Priester, to name a few, and has opened for Spyro Gyra, Hiroshima, Maynard Ferguson, and more. Deems says: “My music is accessible to most people because it’s not harsh or frantic. It’s a smooth groove, a style of music that comes across peaceful and makes you feel good.” $18 adults, $16 members & seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

40 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, LANGSTON HUGHES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 8PM Brandee Younger / Gretchen Yanover Co-presented with Langston. Of harpist Brandee Younger, saxo- phonist Ravi Coltrane has said: “No harpist thus far has been more capable of combining all of the modern harp traditions—from Salzedo, through , through Alice Col- trane—with such strength, grace, and commitment.” Young shares a double bill with the extraordinary cellist Gretchen Yanover. Born in Hempstead, New York, Younger studied classical music at The Hartt School, but moved to impro- vised music at the behest of the late Jackie McLean. Since then, she has blazed a trail of her own, working with popular artists such as , , Drake, and Mack Wilds, along with jazz legends Pharoah Sand- ers, Charlie Haden, and Reggie Work- man. Produced by of the Robert Glasper Experiment, her 2016 album Wax and Wane (featur- ing Seattle-reared flutist Anne Drum- mond) paid tribute to Coltrane and Ashby through a contemporary lens. Benjamin said of the project. “I can’t think of a better person than Brandee to channel the true essence and con- tinue the lineage of Ms. Ashby’s work through her own voice, spirit, and ex- perience. Younger said: “I wanted to place the harp in a totally different context than what listeners are generally accus- tomed to and continue to position the harp in a way that’s relevant today.” Like-minded cellist Gretchen Ya- BRANDEE YOUNGER PHOTO BY JERRIS MADISON nover, a Seattle native, moved simi- larly from the classical world into im- Northwest Sinfonietta, playing with “The invention is wonderful, the tex- provisation, pairing her daring instru- the indie rock band Built to Spill, and tures meltingly beautiful,” conductor mental skill with electronic looping to advancing the singular vision of violist David Lockington said of her first al- poignant and transformative effect. Eyvind Kang. She plays in the multi- bum, Bow and Cello. She has brought the emotional depth chamber project, Different Drummer, $22 adults, $20 Earshot members & of her playing to varied projects: re- and has released three solo albums to seniors, $10 students & military/veterans cording classical symphonies with the date.

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 41 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, PONCHO CONCERT HALL, CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, 8PM Randy Halberstadt Septet: Open Heart CD Release Co-presented with Cornish Presents. His performance at the festival is, a variety of standards. Joining him Pianist/composer Randy Halberstadt as Halberstadt calls it, a “harmonic will be six of the city’s best, creating has been a major force on the Seattle convergence” of happy coincidences. a formidable septet. Included is bassist jazz scene for over 40 years, both as an The concert will celebrate his first CD Chuck Deardorf, a longtime colleague educator at the esteemed Cornish Col- release in eight years, occurring just at Cornish, as well as a valued musi- lege of the Arts and as a highly regard- after his announced retirement from cal collaborator. “My relationship with ed pianist. His tenure at Cornish, and Cornish, and, in fact, taking place at Chuck Deardorf goes back to even his time holding down the piano chair PONCHO Concert Hall on the Cor- before I started teaching at Cornish with the Seattle Repertory Jazz Or- nish campus. in 1977,” says Halberstadt. “I kind of chestra have been his most visible con- Halberstadt will perform original alternate between thinking of him as a tributions to the jazz scene in Seattle. music from his upcoming release, colleague/friend/brother and thinking Open Heart (Origin, 2018), as well as of him as a god.” The frontline features three of the true giants of Seattle jazz. Jay Thomas has been amazing jazz audiences inter- nationally for over 40 years, and does so with the rare ability to play bril- liantly on both brass and woodwind instruments. Saxophonist Mark Taylor has gained international prominence both as a leader and sideman. Trom- bonist David Marriott Jr. has thrilled audiences with his compositions and arrangements, as well as his adept skills on trombone. Cornish alumnus Adam Kessler adds his intuitive skills on drums, while vibraphonist Ben Thomas brings another dimension, previously unexplored by the veteran pianist. Halberstadt’s acute listening skills, and unquestioned sense of swing has made him the perfect pianist for vo- calists. His skills have accentuated the talents of such notable vocal artists as Greta Matassa, Ernestine Anderson, Dee Daniels, and Jay Clayton. Open Heart marks his first recording strictly as an instrumentalist since his 2010 release Flash Point (Origin, 2010). His performance at the 2018 Earshot Jazz Festival is indeed a convergence—one not only of happy coincidences, but of varied aspects of Halberstadt’s brilliant career coming home to roost. $18 adults, $16 Earshot members & se- niors, $10 students & military/veterams

42 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, THE ROYAL ROOM, 8PM Naomi Moon Siegel + Birch Pereira’s Haden/Bley LMO Tribute

Naomi Moon Siegel, a trombonist guitarist Andy Coe, Bad Luck drum- of the amazing Carla Bley. “I’m call- and composer of great style and dis- mer Chris Icasiano, and bassist Pereira. ing it the Haden/Bley LMO because tinction, presents a performance of For Seattle fans, this performance is I don’t think she got enough credit for her small group works, and then col- an opportunity to catch up with the arranging this record,” says Pereira. lectively with bassist Birch Pereira, ever-evolving Siegel, who thrilled fes- “I’ve been very inspired by the album, delves into the speci ic a l ly critically ac- drawn to the claimed ar- arrangements rangements of Bley made. Carla Bley for She worked The Charlie t r a d i t i o n a l Haden Lib- and modern eration Music songs from Orchestra. countries like Siegel, a El Salvador, former Se- P o r t u g a l , attle resident, Chile, and now lives and C a t a l o n i a works in rural s e a m l e s s l y, Montana. Her with origi- latest compo- nals by herself sitions reflect and Charlie that major Haden. I’m change in life- p r e s e n t i n g style inspired NAOMI MOON SIEGEL PHOTO BY STEVE KORN BIRCH PEREIRA PHOTO BY DANIEL SHEEHAN side A of the by closeness LP, which has to the natural world. tival goers in 2017 in her duo with seven songs that seamlessly move from “I’m thrilled to be coming back to saxophonist Kate Olson, Syrinx Effect. one to the other.” Seattle with a new band debuting Her work connects with her audience The Liberation Music Orchestra fo- some brand-new pieces of music from authentically and honestly. cused on oppression and injustice in a body of material I’m working on for Bassist Birch Pereira has become different areas of the world, within my next live studio album,” she says. largely known for his band The Gin multiple cultures. Pereira explores “This new material is a stream-of- Joints, who explore Prohibition Era the musical expressionism forged by consciousness response to living in a jazz and swing. But Pereira’s musical Haden and Bley, utilizing the talents small-town closer to the natural world, foundation is extensive, beginning as of Albero, Siegel, Icasiano, and Coe, as holding paradox, and all the broken a classical cellist, and then morphing well as saxophonist Kate Olson. parts that make up wholeness. Playing into the jazz world, studying with bass Featuring original compositions and at The Royal Room feels especially ap- titans Doug Miller and Phil Sparks. groundbreaking historical arrange- ropos, because it is like my home turf, For this performance, Pereira turns ments, Siegel and Pereira seek the my musical home. It is a place where I to the inspiration he experienced from commonality between the two, and have felt supported to express, reach, the groundbreaking 1983 release, The the inspiration they both proclaim. collaborate, and connect.” Ballad of The Fallen, by The Charlie $18 adults, $16 Earshot members & Her quintet features sensational Bar- Haden Liberation Music Orchestra. seniors, $10 students & military/veterans celona-born pianist Marina Albero, The album featured the arrangements

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 43 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, RAINIER ARTS CENTER, 7:30PM Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra w/ Sheryl Bailey A tribute to guitar virtuoso Em- formance and composition as a career. based jazz guitarist and educator - ily Remler (1957-1990) with special Since the first rehearsal in January of eryl Bailey. Bailey set out to guest Sheryl Bailey who “combines an 2000, the band has appeared at clubs, become a rock guitarist, but switched astonishing command of the finger- jazz festivals, and concert halls on two to jazz after hearing Wes Montgom- board with a seemingly endless flow of continents and performed with many ery on the radio. She studied at Berk- melodic invention” (Soundstage), this distinguished artists including Don lee College of Music, where she now performance by the beloved Seattle Lanphere, Mimi Fox, Becca Duran, teaches. Just Jazz Guitar has ranked Women’s Jazz Orchestra also features Susan Pascal, Nelda Swiggett, Greta her “among the best bop guitar players the world premiere of the 2018 Com- Matassa, Gail Pettis, Kelley Johnson, with a fresh approach and something position Contest winner, A Step To My Hazel Leach, Jill Townsend, Christine new,” while DownBeat has called her Dream, by Tracy Yang. and Ingrid Jensen, Sherrie Maricle, “one of the new greats of her chosen Barbara Hubers-Drake and Ellen and Grace Kelly. instrument.” Finn formed SWOJO to encourage In this festival performance, they $20 adults, $18 Earshot members & women to become involved in jazz per- welcome Pittsburgh-born, New York- seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, 8PM Jakob Bro Trio

The Jakob Bro Trio, based out of Co- penhagen, brings its darkly intense yet texturally ethereal sound to Seattle. The Danish guitarist, who appren- ticed with and Tomasz Stanko, has found a home at the vaunt- ed ECM label. His current project, the Jakob Bro Trio, features avant-garde jazz drummer Joey Baron (also known for his work with Bill Frisell and John Zorn) and bass phenom Thomas Mor- gan (who has performed with Bill Frisell and Paul Motian). The trio per- JAKOB BRO, JOEY BARON, THOMAS MORGAN PHOTO BY EMANUELE MANISCALCO forms uplifting compositions that The mer member of Paul Motian & The Prize in 2016 for Jazz Composer of Guardian described as both “highly Electric Bebop Band (Garden of Eden, the Year and Danish Music Award for melodic and unpredictably dramatic” ECM, 2006) and a current member of Album of the Year in 2015 and full of “laid-back character.” Tomasz Stanko’s Dark Eyes Quintet for the album Gefion. In June 2018, he Streams, their highly acclaimed debut (Dark Eyes, ECM, 2009). was noted as Rising Star – Guitarist album released in 2016, was lauded for Bro’s list of works as a bandleader is by the 66th Annual DownBeat Inter- its “spherical, beautiful and melan- expansive. He has released 13 records national Critics Poll. cholic soundscapes” and its “fascinat- as a bandleader featuring musicians Bro’s style, marked by “an under- ing and original lyricism.” like Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Paul Mo- stated soulfulness” (JazzTimes), guar- In addition to his work with the Ja- tian, Kenny Wheeler, Paul Bley, Chris antees a transporting listening experi- kob Bro Trio, Bro is actively working Cheek, Thomas Morgan, George Gar- ence. with Palle Mikkelborg and has an- zone, Craig Taborn, , $24 adults, $22 Earshot members & other project called Bro/Knak, a col- and many more. seniors, $10 students & military/veterans laboration with the Danish electronica He also boasts numerous awards producer Thomas Knak. Bro is a for- since 2003, most recently The Carl

44 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, LANGSTON HUGHES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 8PM Madison McFerrin / SassyBlack Co-presented with Langston. released this past February, and touch- to confide in them, that she willingly Two arresting singer/songwriter/pro- es on themes of self-love and police makes herself even more vulnerable.” ducers in daring solo performance: brutality. The wonder is how compellingly she New Yorker Madison McFerrin de- Olivia Horn wrote in Pitchfork: does it. ploys “wonderful vocal Opening: One of dexterity, deftly swerv- Seattle’s most explor- ing from sharp, clearly atory producers, Cat enunciated staccato Harris-White, a..a. bursts to fluttery, free- SassyBlack. Many first form melismata” (New heard her as one-half York Times), while Se- of Afrofuturist duo attle’s SassyBlack (Cath- T HEE Satisfaction erine Harris-White) or with Shabazz Pal- conjures up “electronic aces. Since going solo, psychedelic soul” and SassyBlack’s collection “hologram funk” root- of self-released EPs ed in classical and jazz and LPs have spanned music. from the soulfully Two years ago, New strange No Weak Dates Yorker Madison McFer- (2016) to this sum- rin booked her first solo mer’s Wakanda Funk show. It is inherently an Lounge, embodying extreme idea: perform- Black’s self-coined ing alone leaves you ex- term “hologram funk.” posed; it demands a lev- Last June, the mod- el of rigorous technique ern songstress nailed and showmanship pos- a promising niche sessed by very few. Of with her ‘90s-inspired course, in that regard New Black Swing. Madison McFerrin had Packed with spacious an ideal role model: her synth and R&B tones, father, Bobby McFerrin. SassyBlack’s signature But the younger McFer- melody remains front- rin has been spared no and-center, falling challenge while carv- somewhere between ing out a path for her- haunting alto harmony self distinct from those and rich silk. She has of the members of her solidified her knack family of celebrated mu- for tactful tongue-in- sicians, including not MADISON MCFERRIN PHOTO BY KARSTON “SKINNY” TANNIS cheek lyricism and only Bobby McFerrin dishes up her own ver- but also 2017 Earshot Jazz Festival fa- “What she does onstage is inherently sions of “pop” love songs loosely woven vorite Taylor McFerrin. risky—being a one-woman band re- around the topics of technology and McFerrin debuted her vocally lush quires a tricky combination of rigor- diversifying gender roles. and layered EP Finding Foundations: ous technique and showmanship. But $20 adults, $18 Earshot members & Vol. I the same year as her inaugural she’s so eager to befriend her audience, seniors, $10 students & military/veterans show. A powerful sequel, Vol. II., was

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 45 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, ILLSLEY BALL NORDSTROM RECITAL HALL AT BENAROYA HALL, 8PM Circuit Rider: Ron Miles, Bill Frisell, Brian Blade / These Hills of Glory String Quartet featuring Beth Fleenor

The quiet ge- and find perfectly nius of trum- complemented peter/cornetist by Miles, an em- Ron Miles is brace of melody, gaining the distinctive con- long-deserved tributions by international all members of acclaim en- their outfits, and joyed by his a masterful way Circuit Rider with their instru- band mates, ments. d r u m m e r DownBeat said Brian Blade of Circuit Rider: and Miles’ fre- “Trumpeter Ron quent collabo- Miles revels in rator way back wide-open spac- to the 1990s, es ... But more guitarist Bill importantly, he Frisell. makes judicious For years use of silent pas- Miles, along BILL FRISELL, RON MILES, BRIAN BLADE PHOTO BY JOHN SPIRAL sages to craft with drum melodies that are giant Brian musicians, are traveling Circuit Riders magnetically lyri- Blade, have worked with Frisell to preaching every day at any place avail- cal yet just off-kilter enough to convey create a jazz-oriented genre of Ameri- able and are always on the move.” the right amount of mystery.” cana that is all their own. With Cir- Like Frisell’s bands, Miles’s possesses Opening: The distinctive classical cuit Rider, Miles steps out front with an uncanny, almost telepathic em- compositions of another frequent Bill the same bandmates, but with results pathy among the players. He says of Frisell collaborator, keyboardist and quite his own, as heard now on two Frisell and Blade: “Their astounding composer Wayne Horvitz (see also, albums, Quiver (2012) and the self- capacity for playing impacted how I Horvitz’s Snowghost Trio, October 11, titled Circuit Rider (2014). The music approached the music. When you have Chapel Performance Space, above). is lyrical, translucent, and transport- musicians as perceptive and responsive In the vein of his work for the Seattle ing, extending from deep in the jazz as Bill Frisell and Brian Blade, the mu- Symphony Orchestra, debuted at an idiom through compositions deeply sic just takes off!” whether originals earlier Earshot festival, this year Hor- inlaid with folk and gospel traditions. or covers of such sleeper modern jazz vitz presents the premiere of his con- Throughout, Miles’ tone is perfectly standards by the likes of Jimmy Giuf- certo, “These Hills of Glory,” scored balanced between quietude and at- fre and . for string quartet and improvising tack, contemplation and elation. Many bandleaders have enjoyed clarinetist, Beth Fleenor. Miles is, indeed, known for his com- Miles’s own capacity for creating mu- As a pianist, keyboardist, electron- positions with spiritual inflections. sic in that way. He has worked with ic musician, and composer, Wayne Circuit riders were, indeed, traveling the likes of , Don Horvitz has traveled extensively with clergymen who took Christianity to Byron, Myra Melford, Ben Goldberg, his acclaimed groups, including the the furthest corners of the country in The Bad Plus, Jason Moran, and Josh- Gravitas Quartet, Sweeter Than the the 18th century. Miles says: “We, as ua Redman. They all have in common, Day, Zony Mash, and The Four plus

46 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 One Ensemble, and was a co-founder SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, LANGSTON HUGHES PERFORMING of the New York Composers Orches- ARTS CENTER, 8PM tra. He has performed and collaborated Thiefs w/ Guillermo E. Brown with world-renowned leaders like Bill Frisell, , John Zorn, George Lewis, and Carla Bley, among others. Commissioners include the NEA, Meet the Composer, Kronos String Quartet, Seattle Chamber Play- ers, BAM, and Earshot Jazz. He also has mentored and inspired two genera- tions of younger Seattle players find- ing their way in innovative music of various forms. He has long been active in dance and film, and has received numerous national and regional awards. He is the music programmer for The Royal Room, a cherished Seattle venue, and a professor of composition at the Cor- nish College of the Arts. CHRISTOPHER PANZANI, GUEILLERMO E. BROWN, KEITH WITTY BY MATT MEREWITZ Beth Fleenor is a composer, clarinet- Presented with support from the French-American Jazz Exchange. ist, and vocalist renowned both for her With the Paris-meets-New York trio Thiefs, musical worlds conjoin in a sur- skill as a clarinet player and for her ex- prising salvo of international musicality that redefines the possibilities of “jazz.” pressive daring in the guise of “Crys- Joined by original member Guillermo E. Brown, Thiefs, consists of Parisian tal Beth” of her performance ensem- Christophe Panzani (sax, electronics) and New Yorkers Keith Witty (bass, elec- ble Crystal Beth & the Boom Boom tronics) and David Frazier Jr. (acoustic & electric drums). Begun with “no rules Band. Her work has been heard inter- about roles,” according to Witty, Thiefs steals what it can from the diverse but nationally in 100,000 seat rock festi- unified experiences of its members. vals, maximum-security prisons, rural One of the premier saxophonists in France, Panzani has made a name with his bars, art galleries, bunkers, sidewalks, own acclaimed groups, such as Drops, and as a sideman with the likes of Carla sacred spaces, and prestigious concert Bley. With Frazier, a graduate of NYU whose collaborations include work on halls, museums, clubs and theaters. Gabriel Garzón-Montano’s Jardín, he also has worked in the worlds of hip-hop When not overturning sonic and per- and . formance convention, she expands ex- Witty, who has played with leaders like and Jonathan Finlay- pectations as a member of such bands son, also keeps roots in jazz but plays with singers such as Somi, Amel Larrieux, as the Sam Boshnack Quintet, Wayne and Pyeng Threadgill. Horvitz: Royal Room Collective Mu- Guillermo E. Brown, a performer disciplined in multi-disciplinarity, has per- sic Ensemble, and Wayne Horvitz: formed solo theater, created sound installations, and is currently the drummer Electric Circus. for ex-Seattleite Reggie Watts’ band on “The Late Late Show with James Cor- On this blockbuster evening of inno- den.” He has collaborated with David S. Ware, Vijay Iyer, DJ Spooky, Arto vative performance and composition, a Lindsay, Twin Shadow, Wangechi Mutu, and others. fine time is guaranteed for all. He features on Thiefs’ 2018 releaseGraft (La Greffe), which includes collabora- $35-100 ($100 ticket includes pri- tions with pianist Aaron Parks, Rwandan-French MC Gaël Faye, and American vate reception before performance; tick- poet/hip-hop artist Mike Ladd. ets available through Benaroya Hall; The buzz about the new Thiefs outfit — and there is quite a buzz — stems for lower ticket fees go to the Benaroya from its “natural and synthetic, resonant and fractured” (New York Times) mix Hall Ticket Office on Third Avenue and of jazz, hip-hop, electronica, spoken word that becomes more than the sum of Union Street.) those parts. $18 adults, $16 Earshot members & seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 47 MONDAY OCTOBER 29, ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM, 7PM Roosevelt High School Jazz Band with Special Guest Jovino Santos Neto The Roosevelt Jazz Band—regarded From its triumphs as regional and As Scott Brown says—can say, every as one of the nation’s top high school national annual competitions, the year: “We’re going to have a great band jazz orchestras—takes to their home ensemble’s trophy case becomes more this year!” stage with 2018 Festival Resident Art- and more crowded. Most recently, Appearing with the young musicians ist, pianist Jovino Santos Neto. Roosevelt garnered an Honorable is Jovino Santos Neto, a celebrated Under Scott Brown, a dedicated Mention at this spring’s Essentially musician and educator and this Ear- teacher and accomplished jazz musi- Ellington Competition at New York shot Festival’s Artist in Residence. cian who has led the program for more City’s Lincoln Center. Known for his fine piano players and than 30 years, the Roosevelt Jazz Band A hard-swinging unit that can out- his arrangements for big bands, his ap- maintains its long tradition of excel- pace many of the nation’s college pearance with the Roosevelt Jazz Band lence in big-band jazz. The renowned bands, Roosevelt has competed in the is sure to provide a rare learning op- program has put out some of the best finals at Essentially Ellington 18 times, portunity over the course of an ener- talent in the Seattle scene today, in- and has won three times, getic and inspiring evening. cluding fellow festival artists D’Vonne and second place five times, and third $20 adults, $18 Earshot members & Lewis and Alex Dugdale. place twice. It’s a staggering record! seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, LANGSTON HUGHES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 7:30PM Alex Dugdale Fade Quintet

Co-presented with Langston. after obtaining a degree in jazz per- Saxophonist and tap master Alex formance at Eastman School of Mu- Dugdale is a rare performer: an in- sic in Rochester, NY. In his live per- strumentalist and tap dancer, both. formances, his high-energy saxophone Though not well known outside of the virtuosity, and personality, light up Pacific Northwest, Dugdale’s energet- audiences. He creates joyous interpre- ic, free-flowing style on both tenor and tation of classics and original alto saxophones, combined with his compositions. artistic interpretation of tap, sets him Joining Dugdale for this perfor- apart as a complete jazz artist. mance will be the members of Seattle’s Dugdale, who has occupied both 200 Trio. Guitarist Cole Schuster, the second alto and baritone chairs of bassist Greg Feingold, and drummer the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, Max Holmberg bring an uncommon, burst onto the scene several years ago intrinsic chemistry. Schuster has been ALEX DUGDALE PHOTO BY JIM LEVITT with his skillful tap interpretation as opening ears on the Seattle scene with part of the band’s annual concert fea- his organ trio as well, and delivered ability to unite the variant musical im- turing Duke Ellington’s Sacred Music. a stellar performance as part of the pulses of any performance. While the Ellington classic is a perfect Ballard Jazz Festival’s annual Guitar This concert grants Dugdale the op- vehicle for more traditional tap fare, Summit. portunity to present his music to the Dugdale has been turning heads ap- Longtime piano ace John Hansen community at large, in a classic set- plying the art form to hard bop, and adds a refined harmonic and melodic ting, with the respect his artistic integ- post-bop modern rhythms. sensibility to the band. A constant rity deserves and warrants. He has been back in Seattle and so- on the Seattle jazz scene, Hansen has $18 adults, $16 Earshot members & lidifying his reputation since 2012 a great sense of swing, and uncanny seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

48 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, CHAPEL PERFORMANCE SPACE, 8PM Sarah Manning’s Underworld Alchemy: Transmuting Anger “Sarah Manning proves to be a har- ment, guitar. A longtime player on the and has spearheaded projects like monious creature herself, capable of New York scene, Krauss has relentless- Echo Painting, a ten-piece Vancouver balancing order and chaos, shadows ly explored new sonic territories with improvising collective. Crossing lines and light, and the simple and complex Wayne Horvitz, , and of chamber and jazz, theirs is a “music without issue,” All About Jazz that possesses great personal- writes about the mercurial ity without an interest in cat- saxophonist. egory” (Musicworks). This evening, Manning Another Vancouverite, and her band, Underworld drummer Dylan van der Alchemy, perform her com- Schyff has toured throughout position Transmuting Anger. North America and Europe, Premiered in January 2014 with over 200 recordings un- as part of the NYC Winter der his belt in multiple genres Jazzfest, the work is a framed of jazz and new music. His improvisation focused on the 2006 album The Distance, principle of women’s anger recorded with guitarist Ben relating to sexism and sexual Monder and pianist Chris harassment. The alchemi- Gestrin, “is ongoing evi- cal symbols that code the dence that free improvisation improvisor’s roles reflect re- needn’t imply a lack of either curring themes of emotional direction or focus” (All About transformation in the alto- Jazz). A research fellow in saxophonist, composer, and the Faculty of Music at the bandleader’s music. University of Oxford, he is Manning began her career also an accomplished scholar in before relo- whose multidisciplinary work cating to New York. She has centers on cognitive science played and toured with a host and the meaning of music. of musicians, including John Together, the band promises Zorn, Ebony Bones, and Ey- a memorable performance. vind Kang, but has also led “Not only is Sarah Manning multiple groups with her dis- SARAH MANNING PHOTO BY JAIME BLEY a fearless and intense player, tinctive compositional voice. she’s a fearless and intense Her fourth album as a leader, Harmo- others on albums for Knitting Factory composer,” wrote Lucid Culture, “rest- nious Creature (2014), received four Records and on his own releases. less, irrepressible, unafraid and unfail- stars in DownBeat, and the LA Times Canadian cellist and improvisor ingly terse, much of what she does here chose it as a Top Ten Jazz Album of Peggy Lee has a background in classi- is transcendent.” 2014. She has received several awards cal performance, but after a residency And her own musicianship is par- including a Fellowship in Composi- in ’s Banff Centre, she began ticularly arresting: “Manning played tion from the MacDowell Colony in to approach other systems of music. her alto saxophone like a blade cutting 2012. She has since become a member of the into viscera” (Josh Jackson, WBGO. Manning’s fellow alchemists in Un- New Orchestra Workshop, and collab- org). derworld Alchemy include saxophonist orated with the likes of Tony Smith, $18 adults, $16 Earshot members & Briggan Krauss, who transmutes base Butch Morris, and George Lewis. She seniors, $10 students & military/veterans metal into gold on his second instru- has five releases with her own group,

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 49 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, ROYAL ROOM, 7:30PM Chad McCullough & Bram Weijters Quartet

Seattleite John Bishop, drummer of also experimented with tape recorders now. We’ve recorded two albums in choice for a multitude of visiting lead- and electronic circuits, influences still Seattle and the most recent one in ers, brings three of his longtime musi- heard in his open-eared music, today. 2014 in Brussels.” cal friends to town. He and Chicago- Then, Bishop recalls, he and Mc- McCullough and Weijters also re- based Chad McCullough leased a duo album last worked together at the year. Reviewing Abstract international Seattle la- Quantities, Bird is the bel, Origin Records, Worm wrote: “Together that Bishop so ably runs they make music that fea- with fellow drummer tures fine tunesmithing Matt Jorgensen, while and expertly paced and McCullough was build- sparkling execution that ing a reputation as one rivets attention. Whether of the city’s finest trum- melodic and savored, or peters and flugelhornists upbeat and driving, it all around. progresses with tightly About a decade ago, sprung restraint and re- McCullough met pia- lease.” nist/keyboardist Bram Their sound is at once Weijters at a workshop in classic and of-the-mo- Banff. Even before gradu- CHAD MCCULLOUGH PHOTO BY DANIEL SHEEHAN ment, as Harold Taylor of ating in jazz piano from KUCI, Irvine observed: Antwerp Conservatory “Like Robert Glasper, Vi- and then in jazz composition and ar- Cullough “were going to MIDEM in jay Iyer, The Bad Plus, and Kris Bow- ranging at the Brussels Conservatory, Cannes every year, so we figured out ers, sometimes they use traditional Weijters had become an accomplished that we could stop off in Belgium and jazz instrumentation and structure and eclectic musician in his childhood do some gigs with Bram and his favor- to enhance melodies and beats that and youth. He trained classically in ite bass player, Piet Verbist. We’ve been might resonate for audiences weaned piano, but also taught himself per- doing Belgian tours every year for the on and hip-hop.” cussion, including by playing drums past eight years now….Antwerp is $18 adults, $16 Earshot members & in several alternative rock bands. He a little home away from home for us seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, TRIPLE DOOR, 7:30PM Raul Midón Presented by Triple Door. A native of New Mexico who was ed- The singer-songwriter and guitarist ucated in the jazz program of the Uni- with seven acclaimed albums, when versity of —and who now lives not collaborating with Herbie Han- in Maryland after years in New York cock, Stevie Wonder, Jason Mraz, City—Midón has earned acclaim the Queen Latifah, and , is world over. — as tonight — “a one-man band who Ever since being told by some when turns a guitar into an orchestra and his he was a child that his blindness meant

RAUL MIDON PHOTO BY BLAIR ALLEN voice into a chorus” (New York Times). that “you can’t do this, you can’t do that,” Midón has lived a life devoted to

50 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 beating the odds and shattering stereo- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, LANGSTON HUGHES types, learning his own lessons along PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 8PM the way. “As someone who has never seen, I’ve Harriet Tubman: The Band always felt at a disadvantage in that lyric writing is usually very visual,” he Co-presented with says. “People really relate to images, Langston. and I’ve never seen images. But what I realized early on is that you have to The New York power write from what you know, and I hear, trio of Brandon Ross touch and feel intensely — and those (guitars), Melvin Gibbs are sensations and experiences that ev- (bass), and JT Lewis eryone can relate to.” (drums) is named for the The title of Midón’s 2017 release slave who freed hundreds Bad Ass and Blind came from an apt of others, and has for 20 description of its maker that soul icon years engaged her spirit Bill Withers endorsed; the album saw of liberation. With cre- Midón collaborating with such top dentials miles long, their jazz players as trumpeter Nicholas “Open Music” invokes Payton and pianist Gerald Clayton, forebears like Ornette MELVIN GIBBS, JT LEWIS, BRANDON ROSS PHOTO BY MICHAEL HALSBAND and it earned the singer his Grammy Coleman, , nomination for “Best Jazz Vocal Per- Parliament-, formance.” and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. This past spring, Midón performed Harriet Tubman formed in 1998, inspired by Tubman’s ideals of freedom. The in National Public Radio’s popular band’s pursues liberated musical expression in the spirit of musical forebears, “Tiny Desk Concert” feature, with with a credo: “Recontextualizing musical technology to create innovative com- NPR prefacing the broadcast by say- positional and cultural spaces is an important part of the African-American ing: “Raul Midón lives in a world of cultural tradition. Harriet Tubman is part of our contribution to that tradition.” sound — blind since birth, Midón’s That’s a credo that has a historic context, the band says: “Harriet Tubman’s interpretation of his surroundings is music reflects the essential impulse of the wave of energy that entered and em- borderless. He sings with the passion braced our world at that time [the late 1960s]: depth, creativity, communication, of the best classic soul singers, and spirituality, love, individuality, determination, expression, revelation. We feel his instrumental chops stand along- that our choice to perform Open Music has a value and relevance that connects side the most accomplished jazz musi- with the re-awakening, the new search for restored meaning that we see and cians.” experience wherever and whenever we perform.” Now, with his new album If You Re- The trio certainly has personnel able to breathe fresh cultural life into any ears ally Want, Midón’s voice and guitar it reaches. All have long, fabled histories in cutting-edge jazz and many other ar- ride the waves of an actual orchestra: eas of music. Brandon Ross’s CV includes time with , Cassan- the acclaimed Metropole Orkest, the dra Wilson, Arrested Development, Oliver Lake, , Ar- Grammy Award-winning Dutch en- chie Shepp, and many, many others. Melvin Gibbs is a one-time member of the semble that has collaborated with art- Rollins Band and Arto Lindsay’s samba-cum-no wave groups, and many others: ists from and Punk-Funk All-Stars, DJ Logic, Arto Lindsay, Power Tools (with Bill Frisell), to and Snarky Puppy. and J.T. Lewis, similarly, has been there for major developments in American Already garnering praise, this album music, with , Dave Sanborn, Stanley Jordan, Lou Reed, Herbie finds Midón drawing “energy from Hancock, and Don Pullen. The Observer the brass and the strings and the or- Harriet Tubman is a band unlike any other. As observed last chestra has an understanding of the year: “Going on two decades, Harriet Tubman…have been a steadfast anchor myriad musical influence that this art- of NYC’s experimental music scene” bringing “a message of freedom, hope, and ist brings to fore” (Soultracks). protest in the form of their soul-baring, politically-tweaked fusion of funk, rock, $27 advance, $30 day of show (front jazz, and dub that is spiritually cleansing as it is earth-scorching when we most row $35), Earshot members & seniors $25 need it.” $22 adults, $20 Earshot members & seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 51 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, TRIPLE DOOR, 7PM & 9:30PM SHOWS Vernon Reid Band of Gypsys Revisited On the final day of the 1960s, Jimi powered the original Band of Gypsys. produced albums from avant-blues Hendrix recorded one of the great- As Reid says: “We are not going to play guitar maestro James “Blood” Ulmer. est live albums in the history of rock: a note-for-note recreation of the Band Reid also has an activist bent: In 1985, Band of Gypsys. A trio comprised of of Gypsys, but reinterpret it from an he co-founded (along with journalist Hendrix along with drummer Buddy improvisational viewpoint.” ) the vitally important (and Miles and bassist Noel Redding, Band Vernon Reid occupies a revered spot active to this day) non-profit music of Gypsys out- advocacy or- lined a tem- ganization the plate and set Black Rock Co- a standard for alition, a collec- modern rock tive formed to guitar, creating “maximize ex- a musical shock posure and pro- wave that is still vide resources echoing to this for Black artists day. As lasting who defy con- and influen- vention.” tial as much of Reid and the Hendrix’s work rest of the Band was with his of Gypsys Re- original band, visited band The Jimi Hen- share a lot of drix Experi- history and ence, the earthy, have played to- funky, and gether in vary- deep-grooving VERNON REID, ANDRÉ “DRÉ GLO” LASSELLE, JARED MICHAEL NICKERSON, JAMES “BISCUIT” ROUSE PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST ing configura- sound of the tions since the Band of Gypsys dug to a deeper level, in the pantheon of modern creative mid-1980s. The quartet is all heavy providing Hendrix with a thick bed guitarists. To simply call him “eclec- hitters: André “Dré Glo” Lassalle of rhythmically flexible sound that tic” is to drastically underrepresent (guitar) has performed with the Burnt pushed him to new heights of freedom the staggering variety of music he has Sugar Arkestra, Miles Davis, and and fiery creativity. made, over a career spanning close John Scofield; James “Biscuit” Rouse Nearly a half century later, iconic to four decades. Best known as the (drums) served for five years as the guitar master Vernon Reid lands in founder of the multi-platinum rock musical director for Lauryn Hill, and Hendrix’s hometown, riding the still- band Living Colour, Reid’s de facto has also worked with Nile Rogers, Ste- breaking wave of inspiration from mission has seemingly been to defy vie Wonder, and Chaka Khan; Jared Band of Gypsys. Powering a blazing the boundary expectations of what a Michael Nickerson (bass) came out of quartet of like-minded musicians, black musician, a rock musician, a jazz the legendary Dayton funk scene that Reid’s updated project is not merely musician, or an avant-garde musician spawned the Ohio Players and Slave, paying tribute to the original band is supposed to play. and has also worked with Charlie but using it as a launching pad for this Reid came to prominence in the early Musselwhite, , Bernie Wor- band’s own sonic interpretations and ’80s as a key member of iconoclastic rell, Wadada Leo Smith, and many of high-flying improvisations. Band of and influential drummer Ronald Vernon Reid’s other projects, to name Gypsys Revisited is channeling some- Shannon Jackson’s Decoding Society. just a few. thing deep and resonant, tapping into He made a duet album with Bill Frisell $24 adults, $22 Earshot members & the same mystically psychedelic well (Smash & Scatteration), worked with seniors, $10 students & military/veterans of transcendent rocking groove that John Zorn and Public Enemy, and

52 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, 8PM Jovino Santos Neto Big Band & Quinteto In the 25 years since his arrival in his days of studying and performing says. “Chuck (Deardorf) and Mark Seattle from his native Brazil, Jovino with Brazilian legend, Hermeto Pas- (Ivester), then Jeff (Busch) came after Santos Neto has captivated Northwest coal, from whom he learned to write that, and Ben (Thomas) a couple years audiences with his compositional flair for big band. after. That was really beautiful in that and instrumental dynamism. The pia- “That’s something I’ve never done we’re still great friends and enjoy play- nist/composer has been chosen as the in Seattle. I’ve done it pretty much all ing music together.” Resident Artist at this year’s festival. over the world,” Santos Neto says. “I’ve Santos Neto cites the influence of Jim “I feel very honored and extremely been working with big bands since Knapp as essential in his progression appreciative,” he says. “This year is 25 1986, with Hermeto.” as a large ensemble composer and per- years since I arrived in Seattle from At the epicenter of this musical icon- former. It was the next logical step after Brazil with my family. It’s a nice mile- oclast’s activities has been his Quin- his time with Pascoal. “Since then, I’ve post.” teto; he has performed with its four done a lot more large ensemble work, For this performance, Santos Neto stellar members since first arriving in both with Hermeto’s big band and my debuts his talents as a big band com- Seattle. own,” he says. Festival patrons will at poser, with his longtime quintet serv- “Since I arrived, I’ve hit the ground last be able to witness this aspect of his ing as the core members of the band. running musically. The moment I got musical persona here in Seattle. In a very real and full sense, he will put here, the guys that play with me to- $22 adults, $20 Earshot members & on display his varied musical skills that day, my band, I began playing with seniors, $10 students & military/veterans have been honed to a fine point since maybe a month after I arrived,” he

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, THE ROYAL ROOM, 7:30PM Jay Clayton & Dawn Clement Birthday Celebration w/ special guest, Julian Priester Many friendships and musical al- with her closest musical collabora- in with the influx of blues musicians liances have formed among faculty tors, has gained critical acclaim. Her moving north to Chicago from the ru- members and students alike within performances as a member of Jane Ira ral south. Before long, Priester was per- the walls of Cornish College of the Bloom’s band illuminate her ability to forming with Muddy Waters, Sun Ra, Arts. A perfect reflection of this is the take the music into uncharted terri- , and Dinah Washing- connection between dynamic vocalist tory. ton. His association with Max Roach Jay Clayton and pianist Dawn Clem- Clement counts Clayton as a major and began in 1959, cul- ent. Add an iconic figure in jazz in the influence during her time as a student, minating in a torrent of recordings un- person of trombonist Julian Priester, when the veteran singer was thrilling der his leadership, as well as under such and a perfect storm of jazz lineage is audiences and enlightening students historic jazz notables as Roach, Lincoln, formed. during her time here in Seattle. With Booker Little, and . He Clement was hired immediately more than 40 recordings to her credit, participated in John Coltrane’s Africa/ upon graduating from the esteemed Clayton has an impressive resume of Brass sessions as well, and, after a brief arts college, and until her recent move performances including those with stint with the Duke Ellington Orches- to Denver, became a valued mentor longtime collaborator, minimalist tra, became a founding member of Her- to up-and-coming jazz artists over composer Steve Reich. bie Hancock’s Mwandishi Band. Clay- nearly two decades. At the same time, Special guest Julian Priester has been ton, Clement, and Priester represent a she developed an international pro- at the center of many of the most im- historic jazz lineage that has to our great file as a recording and touring artist. portant performances and recordings fortune, passed through Seattle. Her latest release, Tandem (Origin, in jazz history. He began by roving the $20 adults, $18 Earshot members & 2018), an album of duo performances blues clubs of his native Chicago, sitting seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 53 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, 8PM Tia Fuller Quartet Saxophonist Tia Fuller has a sound direct and intelligent, but articulate in its passion, a “versatile, creative voice on alto saxophone, so- prano, and ,” according to trumpeter . Having just released her fifth album as a leader, Diamond Cut, featuring Jack DeJoh- nette and Dave Holland, Fuller comes to the Earshot Festival with her quartet. Fuller grew up in a musical family listening to the likes of Sarah Vaughan and John Col- trane. After earning her undergraduate degree at Spelman College in and her mas- ter’s degree at the University of Colorado in Boulder, she is now a faculty member at Berk- lee College of Music. In musical performance and recording, her collaborators have include the late Ray Charles, Nancy Wilson, Esper- anza Spalding, and Ralph Peterson, and she is currently a member and featured soloist of Beyoncé’s all-female touring band. Fuller’s band includes guitarist Andrew Ren- froe, bassist Chris Smith, and drummer Mark Whitfield, Jr. A graduate of Juilliard and the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz, Renfroe has played in groups led by , Steve Da- vis, and Terrace Martin, and played in work- ing groups with Braxton Cook, Jonathan Bar- ber, and others. Bassist Chris Smith has played with a dizzy- ing variety of artists, including , Jeff “Tain” Watts, Joshua Redman, and Rob- ert Glasper. He also collaborated with Thun- dercat on ’s Grammy Award- winning To Pimp a Butterfly. Hailing from Brooklyn, Mark Whitfield Jr., the son of guitarist Mark Whitfield, is a graduate of the Berklee who has studied with the likes of Joe Lovano, Hal Crook, and Ralph Peterson. His current collaborators include and Yasushi Nakamura. Together they promise an evening of riveting music from a singular figure in jazz. As Ron Savage, chair of music at Berklee when Fuller signed on there, told DownBeat: “It’s not typi- cal for any musician to go from playing hard- core, straightahead jazz to playing with one of the world’s biggest pop stars, and also have a master’s degree. She’s a complete package.” $26 adults, $24 Earshot members and seniors, $10 students and military/veterans

TIA FULLER PHOTO BY JERRY MADISON

54 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, ILLSLEY BALL NORDSTROM RECITAL HALL, BENAROYA HALL, 7:30PM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, KIRKLAND PERFORMANCE CENTER, 2PM Maria Schneider with Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra

Presented in partnership with SRJO. genres—she is, in fact, one of the few The 2019 NEA Jazz Masters Fel- musicians to have received Grammys low leads Seattle’s all-star SRJO in in multiple genres, in her case in the performances of her genre-redefining jazz and classical categories. compositions which combine ethereal, With that stylistic range, she has layered sounds with rich density and received many, varied commissions. unexpected rhythms. They extend from Jazz at Lincoln Schneider is highly experienced and Center, to The Saint Paul Chamber accomplished as a band leader, and Orchestra, to the Australian Chamber with her expressive conducting style Orchestra, to David Bowie. Her col- she promises to lift the polished per- laboration with Bowie resulted in his formance of the SRJO to new heights. single, “Sue (Or In A Season of Crime),” Schneider is, says NPR, “a national and brought her a 2016 Grammy for treasure.” The New York Times simi- best arrangement: instruments and larly praises her as “a composer and vocals. orchestrator of penetrating insight” Schneider also has several film cred- and leader of “the pre-eminent large its, but her core love clearly is big band MARIA SCHNEIDER PHOTO BY BRIENE LERMITTE ensemble of our time.” jazz, as will be apparent during her Schneider has led her jazz orchestra in SRJO concert featuring compositions tor of bands at Seattle’s Garfield High New York since 1992, producing sev- from her many top-selling jazz albums School, and saxophonist/arranger Mi- en albums, appearing in 80 countries, including Hang Gliding, Last Season, chael Brockman, a longtime faculty and collecting 12 Grammy nomina- and Coming About. member at the University of Washing- tions and five Grammy awards along The Seattle Repertory Jazz Orches- ton School of Music, the orchestra’s the way. Ever since her orchestra’s first tra includes a host of top players from repertoire is drawn from the 100-year release, in 1994, critics the Seattle region, all dedicated to the history of jazz, from turn-of-the-20th have hailed her music in such terms organization’s mission of promoting century to turn-of-the-21st as evocative, majestic, magical, heart- appreciation of large ensemble jazz. century avant-garde. stoppingly gorgeous, and beyond cat- Co-directed by drummer Clarence $55 standard, $20 students. Tickets egorization. She blurs the lines among Acox, a nationally recognized direc- available through SRJO.

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 55 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, TRIPLE DOOR, 6PM & 8:30PM SHOWS Jane Bunnett and Maqueque

Supported by the Government of in the country’s many conservatories Bunnett organized for some Cuban . were female, and yet the jam sessions artists, the vocalist sat in and proved Maqueque is a Cuban women’s en- she attended at night would be almost so remarkable that a few months later, semble led by soprano saxophonist exclusively male. Of the woman mu- when she served as artistic director for Jane Bunnett that has thrilled festival sicians, Bunnett says: “When they “Funny Girls and Dynamic Divas,” an and concert goers around the world finish all their training, you don’t see annual fundraising event for Sistering, since its debut now several a -based social ser- years ago. The group blends vice agency for women, she scintillating Afro-Cuban brought Arocena to Toronto rhythms, folkloric influ- to perform and the singer, ences, exhilarating jazz, and Bunnett says, “brought the soulful vocals, with a leader house down.” who has a long history of Bunnett and Cramer exploring Cuban music. scouted Cuba with Aro- With Maqueque, Jane cena, looking for similar Bunnett has reached a peak talent—outstanding female in that long embrace of the musicians in their 20s. The island’s culture, particularly result has been an evolving its Afro-Cuban melodies. It group of early-career and has been a glorious history: more established players. her longstanding ensemble The Seattle lineup is expect- Spirits of Havana, for ex- ed to be Jane Bunnett on so- ample, has provided early prano saxophone and flute, opportunities to such future virtuoso drummer Yissy greats as Dafnis Prieto, Yos- García (a veteran already vany Terry, Pedrito Mar- of the Cuban music scene tínez, and David Virelles. with additional experience JazzTimes said: “Bunnett with David Sanborn and integrates her flute and so- Roy Hargrove), Célia Jimé- prano sax into the Cubans’ nez on bass, Dánae Olano music, giving us the best of on piano, Magdelys Savigne the past and the contempo- on batás and congas, Melvis rary.” JANE BUNNETT AND MAQUEQUE PHOTO COURTESY OF ARTIST Santa, vocals and percus- Bunnett has won five Juno sion, and Mary Paz, congas Awards and several other top honors them out on the scene. At jam sessions, and vocals. in her native Canada, and has been I would notice some of the young girls Arocena’s grandmother, a practitio- nominated for three Grammy Awards. I had seen at the schools just sitting ner of the Afro-Cuban Yorùbá reli- Her Cuban collaborations have been on the sidelines, happy to watch their gion, provided the band’s name, which depicted in two documentary films boyfriends up there playing. It seemed translates to “the spirit of a young girl.” about her work, Spirits of Havana and really strange.” That, says Bunnett, captures the vibe Embracing Voices. It was a chance encounter with a now- of the group: “I imagine that’s what With Maqueque she brings together renowned vocalist, Daymé Arocena, I was like as a ten-year-old girl. I was some of Cuba’s most outstanding fe- that finally prompted Bunnett to do very energetic, I could be sweet and I male musicians. She says she formed something about the situation. First, could be feisty. That’s Maqueque.” the group because, during her decades she and her husband, trumpeter Larry $24 adults, $22 Earshot members & of visiting Cuba, she observed that Cramer, met Arocena during a trip to seniors, $10 students & military/veterans almost three-quarters of the students Havana. At a hotel that

56 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, 8PM Myra Melford: Snowy Egret

Pianist Myra Melford brings her Redman, Fred Hess, Ginger Baker, interludes, and its general tone, which newest release, The Other Side of Air, and others. His 2017 album I Am A is jagged but somehow delicate, like to the Earshot Festival with her stellar Man, with Bill Frisell, Thomas Mor- eggshells in a careful pile” (New York working ensemble, Snowy Egret. Mel- gan, Jason Moran, and Brian Blade, Times). ford’s ambitious musical vision, a post- took on the themes of the Civil Rights Another former member of Zooid, modern skyscraper built on a bedrock era, connecting “African-American has a long collabora- of blues, gets decked out by some of blues and gospel roots to the tangled tive history with Melford, including the most forward-thinking minds in branches of contemporary genre- their trio Crush with Kenny Wollesen. improvised music: cor- Takeishi began in Japan netist Ron Miles, gui- as a koto player, moving tarist , to the US in 1984 where bassist Stomu Takeishi, he attended Berklee Col- and drummer Tyshawn lege of Music, and later Sorey. the New School. Now “Melford is an explo- based in New York, he sive player, a virtuoso has performed with Paul who shocks and soothes, Motian, Pat Metheny, and who can make the and Don Cherry, among piano stand up and do others. things it doesn’t seem to , another have been designed for,” New York veteran and writes the San Fran- 2017 winner of a MacAr- cisco Chronicle. Born thur fellowship, given for in Chicago, Melford “defying distinctions be- studied with Art Lande tween genres, composi- and Gary Peacock at tion, and improvisation,” Cornish College of the has worked with Muhal Arts, moving from the MYRA MELFORD PHOTO BY BRYAN MURRAY Richard Abrams, John Northwest to New York Zorn, and Vijay Iyer. He in 1982. Studying with is “an extraordinary tal- Henry Threadgill, Jaki Byard, and bending jazz with rare perceptiveness” ent who can see across the entire musi- Don Pullen, her force set fire on the (The Guardian). cal landscape” (New Yorker), with six New York scene. A professor at Uni- Brooklyn-based guitarist Liberty Ell- acclaimed recordings as a bandleader. versity of California at Berkley since man wields his rhythm instrument Having taught improvisation world- 2004, she has lead numerous bound- with a percussive bite matched to wide, he is now in Anthony Braxton’s ary-pushing ensembles with artists Melford’s. Having played with Wa- former seat as assistant professor of such as Chris Speed, Cuong Vu, and dada Leo Smith, Steve Lehman, and composition and creative music at Ben Goldberg, and, in 2013, received John Zorn, Ellman, a former member Wesleyan University. a Guggenheim Fellowship and Doris of Melford’s teacher Henry Threadg- With compositions written to the Duke Charitable Foundation Per- ill’s Zooid, channels the tight order of voices of the ensemble, Snowy Egret forming Artist Award. Melford’s compositions. Similarly in- made its debut in 2012 with perfor- As NPR writes, Denver-based cor- quiring, Ellman has produced remixes mances in New York and Los Angeles. netist Ron Miles, “sings through his and worked in hip-hop with artists Balanced on a foundation of history, horn,” rounding out the group’s upper like Midnight Voices. For his fourth it pushes forwards to the new sound- register. A graduate of the Manhat- solo album, 2015’s Radiate, “his touch scapes of tomorrow. tan School of Music, Miles has spread and vision are omnipresent: in the al- $24 adults, $22 Earshot members & his cool with artists including Joshua bum’s stuttering funk, its electronic seniors, $10 students & military/veterans

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 57 JAZZ AROUND THE SOUND October

JA Trio, 7:30pm CZ Choro Music Open Jam Hosted10 By Stuart MONDAY, OCTOBER 1 CC Cider Jam Mondays, 9:30pm NC Maggie Laird Trio, 7pm Zobel, 2pm EG Tom Kellock, 6pm RR Casa de la Trova hosted by Supersones with DT Darrell’s Tavern Jazz Jam, 8pm ES Eric Verlinde, 6pm Special Guests!, 8pm EG Tom Kellock, 6pm MQ Adam Williams Trio, 5pm SB Super Jam, 11pm ES Eric Verlinde with Josephine Howell, 6pm MT Jazz Night, 9pm TU Overton Berry and Bruce Phares, 7:30pm FB Stephanie Porter , 5:30pm RR Horvitz/Previte Duo // The Voodoo Orchestra VI Casey MacGill, 5:30pm JA Bob James Trio, 7:30pm (The Music of Electric Miles Davis), 7:30pm VI Marina Christopher Trio, 9pm KC Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra: A Night at RR The Salute Sessions, 9:30pm FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 the , 2pm RY Bill Anschell Quartet, 8pm KX Marquis Hill Blacktet / Logan Richardson BT Live Jazz Trio, 6pm blues PEOPLE, 5pm TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2 CL The Pazific and Duende Libre feat. Frank LF Logan Richardson blues PEOPLE, 9pm EG Eric Verlinde, 6pm Anderson, 8pm RR The Elnah Jordan Experience, 4pm ES Daniel Davison, 6pm EG Tom Kellock, 6pm SY Vic Janusz, 10am JA Stanley Jordan, 7:30pm ES Daniel Davison, 6pm TD Regina Carter, 6 & 8:30pm RR Horvitz/Previte Duo // The Voodoo Orchestra JA Bob James Trio, 7:30 & 9:30pm TU Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra, 7:30pm (The Music of Electric Miles Davis), 7:30pm LA Happy Hour Jazz w/ Phil Sparks, 5pm VI Lennon Aldort, 6pm RR The Automat with Darren Loucas, Geoff SY Mel Brown Trio, 7pm VI Ron Weinstein Trio, 9:30pm Harper, and Eric Eagle, 10pm TU Susan Pascal Quartet with Bill Anschell, SB 5 Stories Jazz, 8pm Chuck Deardorf, Mark Ivester, 7:30pm MONDAY, OCTOBER 8 SB Joe Doria Presents, 9:30pm VI Jovino Santos Neto, 9pm CC Cider Jam Mondays, 9:30pm TU Tim Kennedy Band, 7:30pm Helen Sung, 7:30pm SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6 EG Tom Kellock, 6pm WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 BH Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra: A Night at ES Eric Verlinde, 6pm BP The Billy Stapleton 3-Oh’s feat. Annie the Village Vanguard, 7:30pm RR Marquis Hill Blacktet, 7:30pm Eastwood, 8pm BT Live Jazz Trio, 6pm EG Eric Verlinde, 6pm CM Climate Change, 7pm TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9 ES Daniel Davison, 6pm EG Frank S. Holman III, 6pm EG Eric Verlinde, 6pm JA Stanley Jordan, 7:30pm ES Daniel Davison, 6pm ES Daniel Davison, 6pm NC Jazz Jam w/Darin Clendenin Trio, 7pm JA Bob James Trio, 7:30 & 9:30pm EW Edmonds-Woodway Jazz Orchestra w/ special RR One 2 three 4 Music !, 7:30pm NC Forman-Finley Band w/Cherrie Adams, 8pm guest Helen Sung, 7:30pm SC The Jared Hall Quartet, 7pm Megan Moreau Trio, 8pm JA Nikka Costa, 7:30pm TU Eric Verlinde Trio, 7:30pm SB The Lique, 10pm NC Jazz Night School w/ Jay Thomas, 7pm WY Jeff Ferguson’s Triangular Jazztet, 7pm TU Thomas Marriott Quintet, 7:30pm PO Jovino Santos Neto & Jasnam Daya Singh, VI Kareem Kandi, 9:30pm 8pm THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 VI The Tarantellas, 6pm RR Rochelle House with Evan Flory-Barnes & BC Adam Kessler, Phil Sparks and Guests, 9pm WP Mark Lewis Trio, 6pm Andy Coe, 8pm BI Notable Big Bands, 7pm RR The Automat with Darren Loucas, Geoff BP The Darelle Holden Quartet, 8pm SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7 Harper, and Eric Eagle, 10pm EG Eric Verlinde, 6pm AB Jazz at the Beaver with Max Holmberg and the SB 5 Stories Jazz, 8pm EG Jacob Zimmerman Group, 7pm 200 Trio, 9pm TU Emerald City Jazz Orchestra, 8pm ES Alexey Nikolaev, 8pm BI Gail Pettis Quartet, 7:30pm ES Daniel Davison, 6pm CM The Scott Lindenmuth Group, 12:30pm WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10 FD Cool Blarney, 7pm CR Racer Sessions, 8pm CH Amy Denio, 8pm

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AB The Angry Beaver EG Egan’s Ballard Jam House PO PONCHO Concert Hall AT Admiral Theatre (Bremerton) ES El Gaucho RA Rainier Arts Center BC Barca EW Edmonds-Woodway High School Little Theater RO Roosevelt High School Performing Arts Theatre BH Benaroya Hall FB Seattle First Baptist Church RR The Royal Room BI Bainbridge Island Museum of Art FD Foodshion RY Rhythm & Rye BP Bake’s Place Bellevue JA Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley SB Seamonster Lounge BT Brass Tacks KC Kirkland Performance Center SC WJMAC at Sylvia Center for the Arts CC Capitol Cider KX KEXP Gathering Space SE Seattle Art Museum CF Caffe Musica LA Latona Pub SH The Showbox CH Chapel Performance Space LF Lo-Fi Performance Gallery SY Salty’s on Alki CL Clock-Out Lounge LH Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute TD Triple Door CM Bellevue MQ The Triple Door Musicquarium TT Tractor Tavern CR Cafe Racer MT Mac’s Triangle Pub TU Tula’s CU The Church MV Marine View Church VI Vito’s CZ Couth Buzzard Books NC North City Bistro & Wine Shop WP Westside Pizza DT Darrell’s Tavern NL Nectar Lounge WY Whisky West EB El Gaucho (Bellevue) OS Osteria la Spiga

58 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 EG Eric Verlinde, 6pm SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 ES Daniel Davison, 6pm BT Live Jazz Trio, 6pm JA Nikka Costa, 7:30pm EG Frank S. Holman III, 6pm CURTAIN CALL NC Kelley Johnson, 7pm EG Overton Berry Ensemble, 7pm weekly recurring performances RR Bill Laurance, 8pm ES Daniel Davison, 6pm SB Danny Godinez, 10pm JA John Scofield’s ft. Gerald Clayton, SC The Bill Anschell Trio, 7pm Vincente Archer and , 7:30 & TT Noah Preminger Quartet / KO Electric, 8pm 9:30pm TU Dan Kramlich 90’s Jazz Grunge Trio, 7:30pm NC Jeff Busch Trio w/Marko de Carvalho & Jeff MONDAY VI Rik Wright, 9pm Johnson, 8pm CC EntreMundos Jam, 9:30 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11 OS Rick Mandyke Duo, 8pm RR Adam O’Farrill Quartet, 7 & 9:30pm BC Adam Kessler, Phil Sparks and Guests, 9pm EG Tom Kellock, 6 TU Greta Matassa “Light out of Darkness” BI Notable Voices, 7pm Ray Charles Tribute with Cliff Colón, Darin ES Eric Verlinde, 6 BP The Darelle Holden Quartet, 8pm Clendenin, Clipper Anderson, Mark Ivester, CH Subtle Degrees: Travis Laplante & Gerald 7:30pm Cleaver / Wayne Horvitz Snowghost Trio, 8pm TUESDAY VI Don’t Move, 9pm EG Eric Verlinde, 6pm VI Jerry Zimmerman, 6pm EG Eric Verlinde, 6 ES Alexey Nikolaev, 8pm WP Mark Lewis Trio, 6pm ES Daniel Davison, 6pm ES Daniel Davison, 6 FD Cool Blarney, 7pm SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14 SB 5 Stories Jazz, 8 JA John Scofield’s Combo 66 ft. Gerald Clayton, AB Jazz at the Beaver with Max Holmberg and the Vincente Archer and Bill Stewart, 7:30pm 200 Trio, 9pm SB Super Jam, 11pm BI Tom Collier Quartet, 7:30pm WEDNESDAY SE Art of Jazz: Elena Maque, 5:30pm CR Racer Sessions, 8pm TU Jory Tindall Art Blakey Tribute, 7:30pm CZ Open Jazz Jam with Kenny Mandell, 2pm EG Eric Verlinde, 6 VI Casey MacGill, 5:30pm DT Darrell’s Tavern Jazz Jam, 8pm ES Daniel Davison, 6 VI Jennifer Kienzle, 9pm EG Tom Kellock, 6pm FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12 ES Eric Verlinde with Josephine Howell, 6pm JA John Scofield’s Combo 66 ft. Gerald Clayton, THURSDAY BT Live Jazz Trio, 6pm Vincente Archer and Bill Stewart, 7:30pm CH Marina Albero, 8pm BC Adam Kessler & Phil Sparks, 9 LF Afrocop / Paces Lift, 9pm CM Ranger and the Re-Arrangers, 7pm MV The 100th concert of the series with Special BP The Darelle Holden Quartet, 8 EG Tom Kellock, 6pm EFX featuring , 5pm ES Daniel Davison, 6pm RR Oliver Groenewald NewNet CD release EG Eric Verlinde, 6 JA John Scofield’s Combo 66 ft. Gerald Clayton, featuring Jay Thomas, 7:30pm Vincente Archer and Bill Stewart, 7:30 & ES Daniel Davison, 6 SY Vic Janusz, 10am 9:30pm TD Keyon Harrold, 6 & 8:30pm ES Alexey Nikolaev, 8 LA Happy Hour Jazz w/ Phil Sparks, 5pm TU Jazz Police, 4pm NC Kiki Valera & Cubache, 8pm SB Super Jam, 11 TU Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra, 7:30pm RR Samantha Boshnack: Seismic Belt, 7:30pm VI Lennon Aldort, 6pm SE Tigran Hamasyan, 8pm VI Ron Weinstein Trio, 9:30pm FRIDAY SY Mel Brown Trio, 7pm TU Greta Matassa “Light out of Darkness” Ray MONDAY, OCTOBER 15 BT Live Jazz Trio, 6 Charles Tribute with Alexey Nikolaev, Darin CC Cider Jam Mondays, 9:30pm EG Tom Kellock, 6 Clendenin, Clipper Anderson, Mark Ivester, EG Tom Kellock, 6pm 7:30pm ES Eric Verlinde, 6pm ES Daniel Davison, 6 VI Bar Tabac, 9pm RR Caroline Davis, 7:30pm LA Happy hour w/ Phil Sparks, 5 TD Ethan Iverson & Mark Turner / Johnaye Kendrick, 7pm SY Mel Brown Trio, 7

SATURDAY BT Live Jazz Trio, 6 EG Frank S Holman III, 6 ES Daniel Davison, 6

SUNDAY New! Daily pick up and delivery in Seattle AB Beaver Sessions, 9 and North Lake Washington areas CR Racer Sessions, 8 7 Luthiers, double bass set up and restoration experts, and makers on site DT Darrell’s Tavern Jazz Jam, 8 Free consultation in shop or by EG Tom Kellock, 6 appointment in Seattle ES Eric Verlinde with Josephine Lessons Howell, 6

Since 1964 SY Victor Janusz, 10am

970 5th Ave NW TU Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra, 7:30 Suite 100 Issaquah WA 98027 www.HammondAshley.com VI Ron Weinstein Trio, 9:30

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 59 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 ES Daniel Davison, 6pm EG Eric Verlinde, 6pm BC Adam Kessler, Phil Sparks and Guests, 9pm JA ConFunkShun – 45th Anniversary!, 7:30 & ES Daniel Davison, 6pm BI Jazz with Jim Lecture Series: “Notable 9:30pm JA Walt Wagner Trio with Dan Dean and Ben Instrumentalists and Composers,” 7pm LA Happy Hour Jazz w/ Phil Sparks, 5pm Smith, 7:30pm BP The Darelle Holden Quartet, 8pm NC Rod Cook & Toast, 8pm RR Max Hatt & Edda Glass, 7:30pm EG Eric Verlinde, 6pm PO Allison Miller Boom Tic Boom, 8pm SB 5 Stories Jazz, 8pm ES Alexey Nikolaev, 8pm SY Mel Brown Trio, 7pm TU LineUp! Mark Taylor and Dawn Clement, ES Daniel Davison, 6pm TU Frank Catalano Quartet, 7:30pm 7:30pm FD Cool Blarney, 7pm VI Michael Owcharuk Quartet, 9pm JA ConFunkShun – 45th Anniversary!, 7:30pm SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17 NC Grupo Amoroso, 7pm BI McTuff feat. Skerik, 7:30pm EG Eric Verlinde, 6pm PO Fay Victor Trio, 8pm BT Live Jazz Trio, 6pm ES Daniel Davison, 6pm SB Super Jam, 11pm EG Frank S. Holman III, 6pm JA Walt Wagner Trio with Dan Dean and Ben TU Carrie Wicks Quartet, 7:30pm ES Daniel Davison, 6pm Smith, 7:30pm VI Casey MacGill, 5:30pm JA ConFunkShun – 45th Anniversary!, 7:30 & RR McTuff with Skerik and Will Bernard, 7:30pm VI Marco de Carvalho, 9pm SC Brian Dean with Kevin Woods, 7pm 9:30pm SH Kamasi Washington, 7pm FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 NC Gail Pettis & Jovino Santos Neto, 8pm TD David Sanborn Jazz Quintet, 7 & 9:30pm BT Live Jazz Trio, 6pm OS Clave Gringa Trio, 8pm TU Jim Sisko Bellevue College Jazz Orchestra, CF Instrumental Ladies of Jazz: Leah Pogwizd PO Jen Shyu: Nine Doors, 8pm 7:30pm and Ann Reynolds duo, 7pm RR George Colligan, Buster Williams, Lenny White VI Brad Gibson Presents, 9pm CU Ted Poor: The Blues and Otherwise, featuring Trio, 7 & 9:30pm WY Jeff Ferguson’s Triangular Jazztet, 7pm Kris Davis and Tyler Chester, 8pm TU Frank Catalano Quartet, 7:30pm EG Tom Kellock, 6pm VI The Tarantellas, 6pm VI Tim Kennedy Trio, 9:30pm WP Mark Lewis sax / Overton Berry piano, 6pm SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 AB Jazz at the Beaver with Max Holmberg and the 200 Trio, 9pm AT An Evening with Pat Metheny w/ Antonio Sánchez, Linda May Han Oh, & Gwilym Simcock, 7pm CR Racer Sessions, 8pm CZ Music Improv Session w/ Kenny Mandell, 7pm DT Darrell’s Tavern Jazz Jam, 8pm EG Tom Kellock, 6pm ES Eric Verlinde with Josephine Howell, 6pm JA ConFunkShun – 45th Anniversary!, 7:30pm LH Tribute to Dave Lewis featuring D’Vonne Lewis and Friends, 8pm RR Clave Gringa, 7:30pm SY Vic Janusz, 10am TU Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra, 7:30pm VI Lennon Aldort, 6pm VI Ron Weinstein Trio, 9:30pm MONDAY, OCTOBER 22 CC Cider Jam Mondays, 9:30pm EG Tom Kellock, 6pm ES Eric Verlinde, 6pm JA Christian Sands, 7:30pm LH Garfield High School Jazz Band, 7:30pm RR Cuong Vu and Indigo Mist featuring George Garzone, 8pm RR The Salute Sessions, 9:30pm TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23 CH Neil Welch: Concepcion Picciotto, 8pm EG Eric Verlinde, 6pm ES Daniel Davison, 6pm JA Alice Smith Duo, 7:30pm LH Jazzmeia Horn, 8pm RR Cascadia Big Band with guest artist Alex Dugdale, 7:30pm RR The Automat with Darren Loucas, Geoff Harper, and Eric Eagle, 10pm georgetowninnseattle.com SB 5 Stories Jazz, 8pm TU David Marriott’s Triskaidekaband, 7:30pm WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24 EG Eric Verlinde, 6pm ES Daniel Davison, 6pm JA Alice Smith Duo, 7:30pm LH James Brandon Lewis Trio / Gary Hammon’s Last of the Tribe, 8pm

60 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 RR Peppino D’Agostino, 7:30pm CZ Open Jazz Jam with Kenny Mandell & Friends, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30 SB Cole Schuster Organ Trio, 10pm 2pm CH Sarah Manning’s Underworld Alchemy: SC Axiom Quartet with John Hansen, 7pm DT Darrell’s Tavern Jazz Jam, 8pm Transmuting Anger, 8pm SE Tom Harrell Quartet, 8pm EG Tom Kellock, 6pm EG Eric Verlinde, 6pm TU pH Factor Big Band, 7:30pm ES Eric Verlinde with Josephine Howell, 6pm ES Daniel Davison, 6pm VI Paul Gabrielson Ensemble, 9pm JA Gerald Albright with Special Guest Salina JA Leo Kottke, 7:30pm THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25 Albright, 7:30pm LH Alex Dugdale Fade Quintet, 7:30pm RR The Automat with Darren Loucas, Geoff BC Adam Kessler, Phil Sparks and Guests, 9pm LH Thiefs w/ Guillermo E. Brown, 8pm Harper, and Eric Eagle, 10pm BI Jazz with Jim Lecture Series: “Jazz is SY Vic Janusz, 10am SB 5 Stories Jazz, 8pm Fusion,” 7pm TU Clipper Anderson Quartet, 7:30pm TU Critical Mass Big Band, 7:30pm BP The Darelle Holden Quartet, 8pm TU Greta Matassa Student Showcase, 3:00 pm EG Eric Verlinde, 6pm VI Lennon Aldort, 6pm WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31 ES Alexey Nikolaev, 8pm VI Ron Weinstein Trio, 9:30pm EG Eric Verlinde, 6pm ES Daniel Davison, 6pm ES Daniel Davison, 6pm FD Cool Blarney, 7pm MONDAY, OCTOBER 29 JA Leo Kottke, 7:30pm JA Gerald Albright with Special Guest Salina NC New Rhythmatics, 7pm Albright, 7:30pm CC Cider Jam Mondays, 9:30pm EG Tom Kellock, 6pm SC The Naomi Moon Siegel Quintet, 7pm LH Michael Powers / Deems Tsutakawa, 8pm TU The Vibraphonics “Music of the Imagination” ES Eric Verlinde, 6pm RR Allos Musica, 7 & 9:30pm with Susan Pascal, Brian Monroney, Jared SB Super Jam, 11pm JA Basia, 7:30pm Hal, David Marriott, Bill Anschell, Chuck TU Jared Hall Quartet, 7:30pm RO Roosevelt High School Jazz Band w/ special Deardorf, Mark Ivester, 7:30pm VI Casey MacGill, 5:30pm guest Jovino Santos Neto, 7pm VI Wally Shoup Quartet, 9pm VI Marina Albero Trio, 9pm RR The Salute Sessions, 9:30pm WY Jeff Ferguson’s Triangular Jazztet, 7pm FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 BT Live Jazz Trio, 6pm EG Tom Kellock, 6pm ES Daniel Davison, 6pm JA Gerald Albright with Special Guest Salina Albright, 7:30 & 9:30pm LA Happy Hour Jazz w/ Phil Sparks, 5pm LH Brandee Younger / Gretchen Yanover, 8pm NC Stephanie Porter, 8pm NL Consider the Source with Spyn Reset, & Ari Joshua Band, 8pm PO Randy Halberstadt Septet: Open Heart CD Release, 8pm RR Naomi Moon Siegel + Birch Pereira’s Haden/ Bley LMO Tribute, 8pm SY Mel Brown Trio, 7pm TU Matt Jorgensen +451 performs THE ROAD BEGINS HERE and QUIET SILENCE with Rob Davis, Marc Seales, Phil Sparks, 7:30pm VI Lushy, 9:30pm SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27 BI Celebrate Dia de los Muertos with Malo Combo, 11:30am BI Wayne Horvitz & Guests, 7:30pm BT Live Jazz Trio, 6pm EG Frank S. Holman III, 6pm EG Hopscotch Halloween, 7pm ES Daniel Davison, 6pm JA Gerald Albright with Special Guest Salina Albright, 7:30 & 9:30pm LH Madison McFerrin / SassyBlack, 8pm NC Bossa In Wonderland, 8pm OS Jacob Zimmerman 3, 8pm RA Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra w/ Sheryl Bailey, 7:30pm RR Melodic Poetry of Phoebe Snow (A Tribute Show), 7 & 9:30pm SE Jakob Bro Trio, 8pm TU Matt Jorgensen +451 performs HOPE and ANOTHER MORNING with Mark Taylor, Rob Davis, Thomas Marriott, Phil Sparks, 7:30pm SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 AB Jazz at the Beaver with Max Holmberg and the 200 Trio, 9pm BH Circuit Rider: Ron Miles, Bill Frisell, Brian Blade / These Hills of Glory String Quartet featuring Beth Fleenor, 8pm CR Racer Sessions, 8pm

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 61 NOTES EARSHOT JAZZ A Mirror and Focus for the Jazz Community

Columbia & Hillman Cities applications for its Neighborhood & Executive Director John Gilbreath Designated as Arts & Cultural Community Arts Grant, with a dead- Managing Director Karen Caropepe District line of October 23. Programs Manager Tara Peters On August 18, Seattle’s south side Applicants must be a neighborhood Marketing & Development Associate Lucienne earned official status from Mayor Jen- arts council or local community-based Aggarwal ny Durkan as the city’s newest Arts & group. Groups representing under- Earshot Jazz Editors Peter Monaghan & Cultural District. The historic, diverse resourced communities including Caitlin Peterkin neighborhoods of Columbia City and low-income, people with disabilities, Contributing Writers Lucienne Aggarwal, Hillman City, with their multitude of immigrant and refugee communities, Halynn Blanchard, Marianne Gonterman, and communities of color are encour- Ian Gwin, Emily Harris, Andrew Luthringer, arts and culture venues, organizations, Tara Peters, Paul Rauch and educational programs, have long aged to apply. More information avail- been important forces in the greater able at seattle.gov/arts. Calendar Editors Casey Adams, Jane Emerson & Caitlin Peterkin Seattle community. Now designated Applications for 2019 Jack Straw Photography Daniel Sheehan as the Columbia Hillman Arts & Cul- Artist Residencies Now Available Layout Tara Peters tural District, these neighborhoods Distribution Dan Dubie & volunteers The Jack Straw Artist Residency Pro- have access to the City of Seattle’s grams offer established and emerging Send Calendar Information to: “toolkit,” including a $50,000 stipend, 3429 Fremont Place N, #309 artists in diverse disciplines an op- to help preserve, strengthen, and ex- Seattle, WA 98103 portunity to explore the creative use email / [email protected] pand arts and cultural places. of sound in a professional atmosphere Board of Directors Danielle Leigh CMA Presenter Consortium for through residencies in our recording (President), John W. Comerford (Vice Jazz Grant studios and participation in our vari- President), Jon Perrino (Secretary), Viren ous presentation programs. Applica- Kamdar (Treasurer), Sue Coliton, Sheila Chamber Music America’s Presenter Hughes, Chris Icasiano, Maurice James, Consortium program provides support tions for the 2019 program are now Chris Nutter, Gail Pettis, Ruby Smith Love, for consortiums of three U.S. present- available at jackstraw.org, with a dead- Diane Wah ers to collectively engage up to three line of November 1. Artists may apply Emeritus Board Members Clarence Acox, professional U.S. jazz ensembles to to only one program per year. Taina Honkalehto, Hideo Makihara, Kenneth W. Masters, Lola Pedrini, Paul perform at each presenter’s venue. This Earshot Jazz Welcomes New Board Toliver, Cuong Vu grant program is supported by the Do- Members Founded in 1984 by Paul de Barros, ris Duke Charitable Foundation. Earshot Jazz is proud to welcome Gary Bannister, and Allen Youngblood. Applications are due by 9pm EST is published monthly by three new board members. Each new Earshot Jazz on October 5. For more information, Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle and is board member brings professional visit chamber-music.org. available online at www.earshot.org. skills and enthusiasm that will en- Office of Arts & Culture Subscription (with membership): $35 hance and strengthen the already vi- 3429 Fremont Place #309 Neighborhood & Community Arts brant board. Maurice James is a Se- Seattle, WA 98103 Grant nior Director of Integrated Marketing phone / (206) 547-6763 The City of Seattle Office of Arts & with T-Mobile, a fundraiser, and an Earshot Jazz ISSN 1077-0984 Culture’s Neighborhood & Commu- avid music fan. Chris Nutter, Manag- Printed by Pacific Publishing Company nity Arts Program supports creativity ing Director at Ankura Seattle, brings © 2018 Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle at a grassroots level by investing in both his extensive technical and ana- recurring festivals or events that pro- lytical skills, as well as his energy and mote arts and cultural participation, commitment. And finally, many of MISSION STATEMENT celebrate diversity, build community you will already be familiar with Gail To ensure the legacy and progression connections, and enhance the visibil- Pettis, one of Seattle’s beloved jazz vo- of the art form, Earshot Jazz cultivates ity of neighborhoods through arts and calists and a tireless champion of jazz. a vibrant jazz community by engaging culture. The program is now accepting Welcome aboard. audiences, celebrating artists, and supporting arts education.

62 • EARSHOT JAZZ • October 2018 ON THE RADIO  88.5 KNKX hosts Saturday Jazz by Jordan Leonard, promotes jazz as days from the Nectar Lounge; Tues- Matinee, Jazz Sunday Side Up, Ken a dynamic genre rooted in the Black days at 6pm, Thursdays and Sundays Wiley’s the Art of Jazz, and Jazz American experience. at 2pm, and Saturdays at 5pm, Jazz Northwest, in addition to its weekday Hollow Earth Radio is Seattle’s free- from the Cabinets with Big Poppy. NPR and late-night and prime-time form online radio station that sup- Rainier Avenue Radio will also be jazz programs. Full schedule and info ports the local music communities in broadcasting live during several Ear- at knkx.org. the greater Pacific Northwest and tries shot Jazz Festival events from the Abe Beeson hosts The New Cool, to create an open, encouraging stage lobby of Langston Hughes Performing Saturdays, 3pm, featuring 21st cen- for underrepresented voices. More at Arts Institute. Rainier Avenue Radio tury jazz inspired and informed by the hollowearthradio.org. is an independent media resource that sounds of today, hip-hop, funk, elec- Rainier Avenue Radio, provides opportunities for the com- tronic & , followed by Rob- rainieravenueradio.world, Mondays munities of Rainier Valley. in Lloyd’s Jazz Caliente, 5pm, where and Sundays at 10pm, #MoJamMon- jazz meets Latin rhythms. Jim Wilke’s Jazz Northwest, Sun- days, 2pm, features the artists and events of the regional jazz scene. For JazzNW podcasts of archived pro- grams, see jazznw.org. 90.3 KEXP, late-night Sundays, features Jazz Theater with John Gil- breath, 1am. Full schedule informa- tion is available at kexp.org. 91.3 KBCS, features creative and improvised music on Flotation Device with John Seman and Jonathan Law- son, Sundays at 10pm. The Monday night lineup includes The Caravan with John Gilbreath at 7pm, Straight No Chaser with David Utevsky at 9pm, with John Pai at 11pm, and The Shape of Modern Jazz with Gordon Todd at 1am Tuesdays. Shows can be streamed anytime at kbcs.fm. 91.7 KSVR Mount Vernon, Doctor Donate $60 or more a year for Dee hosts two nights of jazz, Fourth Corner Jazz, featuring recordings of extended access to 1,500+ episodes. live performance in Northwest Wash- KCTS 9 Passport is an added benefit of station ington, Sundays, 6-7pm, and The membership. Now you can stream more of Doctor’s Den, Mondays, 8-10pm. your favorite PBS shows including , 102.9 KLOI-LP Lopez Island, NOVA, Nature, Great British Baking Show and Mondays & Fridays, 3pm, Joy Spring many more—online and in the PBS Video app. with Gary Alexander, classic jazz and the Great American Songbook. Hollow Earth Radio, hollowearthradio.org, Fridays at 6pm, Learn more at KCTS9.org/KCTS9-passport biweekly, Black Roots Radio, hosted

October 2018 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 63 Welcome to Earshot Jazz Festival #30!______3 NON-PROFIT ORG Earshot Jazz Festival 2018 Lineup______4 EARSHOT JAZZ U.S. POSTAGE Festival Support & Tickets______6 3429 Fremont Place N, #309 PAID Marquis Hill Blacktet / Logan Richardson blues PEOPLE______8 Seattle, WA 98103 PERMIT No. 14010 Regina Carter______8 SEATTLE, WA Logan Richardson blues PEOPLE______9 Change Service Requested Helen Sung______9 Marquis Hill Blacktet______10 Edmonds-Woodway High School Jazz Orchestra w/ guest Helen Sung_____11 Jovino Santos Neto & Jasnam Daya Singh______11 Noah Preminger Quartet / KO Electric______12 Amy Denio______13 Elena Maque______13 Subtle Degrees: Travis Laplante & Gerald Cleaver / Wayne Horvitz Snowghost Trio______14 Samantha Boshnack: Seismic Belt______15 Marina Albero______15 Tigran Hamasyan______16 Adam O’Farrill Quartet______17 Keyon Harrold______18 Oliver Groenewald NewNet CD release ft. Jay Thomas______18 Afrocop / Paces Lift______19 Caroline Davis______19 Ethan Iverson & Mark Turner: Temporary Kings / Johnaye Kendrick______20 Max Hatt & Edda Glass______21 Kamasi Washington______23 Fay Victor’s SoundNoise Trio______23 Allison Miller Boom Tic Boom______24 Ted Poor: The Blues and Otherwise, ft. Kris Davis and Tyler Chester______24 George Colligan, Buster Williams, Lenny White Trio______25 Jen Shyu: Nine Doors______David Sanborn Jazz Quintet______22 Jen Shyu: Nine Doors______26 An Evening with Pat Metheny w/ Antonio Sánchez, Linda May Han Oh & Gwilym Simcock______28 Clave Gringa______29 Tribute to Dave Lewis ft. D’Vonne Lewis and Friends______29 BIMA: Within/Earshot______30 A $35 basic membership in Earshot brings NWFF: Earshot Jazz Festival Films______31 the newsletter to your door and entitles you to Week by Week at the Earshot Jazz Festival______32 EARSHOT JAZZ discounts at all Earshot events. Your member- Garfield High School Jazz Band______34 MEMBERSHIP ship also helps support all our educational Cuong Vu & Indigo Mist featuring George Garzone______34 programs and concert presentations. Jazzmeia Horn______35 Type of membership Neil Welch: Concepcion Picciotto______36 Tom Harrell Quartet______37 Individual ($35) Additional tax-deductible donation ______James Brandon Lewis Trio / Gary Hammon’s Last of the Tribe______38 Allos Musica______39 Household ($60) Patron ($100) Sustaining ($200) Michael Powers / Deems Tsutakawa______40 Other Brandee Younger / Gretchen Yanover______41 Sr. Citizen – 30% discount at all levels Randy Halberstadt Septet: Open Heart CD Release______42 Naomi Moon Siegel + Birch Pereira’s Haden/Bley LMO Tribute______43 Canadian subscribers please add $5 additional postage (US funds) Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra w/ Sheryl Bailey______44 Jakob Bro Trio______44 Regular subscribers – to receive newsletter 1st class, please add $10 Madison McFerrin / SassyBlack______45 for extra postage Circuit Rider: Ron Miles, Bill Frisell, Brian Blade / These Hills of Glory String Quartet featuring Beth Fleenor______46 Contact me about volunteering Thiefs w/ Guillermo E. Brown______47 ______Roosevelt High School Jazz Band w/ guest Jovino Santos Neto______48 NAME Alex Dugdale Fade Quintet______48 Sarah Manning’s Underworld Alchemy: Transmuting Anger______49 ______ADDRESS Chad McCullough & Bram Weijters Quartet______50 Raul Midón______50 ______Harriet Tubman: The Band______51 CITY/STATE/ZIP Vernon Reid Band of Gypsys Revisited______52 Jovino Santos Neto Big Band & Quinteto______53 ______Jay Clayton & Dawn Clement Birthday Celebration PHONE # EMAIL w/ guest, Julian Priester______53 Tia Fuller Quartet______54 ______Maria Schneider with Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra______55 Earshot Jazz is a nonprofit tax-exempt organization. Ask your employer if your Jane Bunnett and Maqueque______56 company has a matching gift program. It can easily double the value of your Myra Melford: Snowy Egret______57 membership or donation. Jazz Calendar______58 Notes______62 Mail to Earshot Jazz, 3429 Fremont Pl N, #309, Seattle, WA 98103 On the Radio______63