Tula's Restaurant & Jazz Club

A Mirror and Focus for the Jazz Community September 2012 Vol. 28, No. 9 EARSHOT JAZZSeattle, Washington Tula’s Restaurant & Jazz Club Jason Moore, Elliott “Mack” Waldron and Sherrill Moore. Photo by Daniel Sheehan. NOTES Seattle’s Women in Jazz Festival bassist celebrates a new band and new current members, contact information The Women in Jazz Festival is sched- CD release. and more. uled for April 26-28, 2013, Seattle. Jazz Series, Bend, Ore. Arts Means Business Funding Festival organizers are currently seek- The Jazz at the Oxford series, at Applications for the Office of Arts & ing charitable donations, event spon- the Oxford Hotel in Bend, Oregon, Cultural Affairs Arts Mean Business sorships, volunteers and performers. launched in 2010 and recently an- funding program are due Monday, Please contact seattlewomeninjazz@ nounced next season’s schedule. The September 10. The program awards gmail.com for more information. monthly series includes Jeremy Pelt, one-time funding to Seattle arts, On the Horizon: Art of Jazz Karrin Allyson, and Portland’s Mel heritage, cultural and arts-service or- Seattle Art Museum, September- Brown Septet, on dates from October ganizations for arts jobs that make a December to March. More information at www. difference in an organization’s ability oxfordhotelbend.com. to generate extra revenue to carry out The Art of Jazz series continues, sec- Gallery 1412 Seeks New Members its mission. Seattle-based arts, culture ond Thursdays, 5:30pm, at the Seattle and heritage non-profits are eligible. Art Museum. Here’s the schedule for The non-commercial, artist-run, cre- More information is available at www. the rest of 2012: September 13, Well- ative and experimental all-ages venue seattle.gov/arts/funding. stone Conspiracy, brilliant jazz quartet in the heart of Seattle seeks new mem- featuring Hall of Famers Jeff Johnson bers. Gallery 1412 members share the Jack Straw Artist Residencies and John Bishop; October 11, Evan small, storefront space used for per- Jack Straw offers opportunities to Flory-Barnes Group, Seattle’s busiest formances, rehearsals, lessons, meet- artists in diverse disciplines to use bassist hits deep grooves in an Ear- ings, readings, workshops, occasional Jack Straw recording studios and par- shot Jazz Festival warm-up; November parties and film screenings. See www. ticipate the organization’s presenta- 8, Jessica Lurie Band, one of Seattle’s gallery1412.org for information on tion programs. The Artist Support lauded NYC exports; December 13, member dues, labor contributions, Jeff Johnson Quartet, Hall of Fame available shared equipment, a list of CONTINUED ON PAGE 22 LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR Along with the reminder that summer This year’s festival follows the same period. Evan brings his huge spirit, here is just too damn short, September general format as in the past – lots of considerable chops and reverence for brings the many promises of Seattle’s amazing concerts, by many of today’s the groove to a variety of settings, most robust cultural season, and news most important artists, in venues all bridging the stylistic and philosophi- of the eagerly anticipated Earshot Jazz around the city. It features artists from cal camps that are so much a sign of Festival, “Seattle’s most important around the globe in creative collabo- the fertile creative environment that is annual jazz event” (DownBeat). ration with Seattle artists, educators Seattle’s jazz scene. We’ve got another fantastic jazz and audiences. It also offers a variety More information is on its way to festival coming up October 11 to of ways for everyone to engage ever your doorstep every week. Visit our November 4. Between now and then, more deeply with today’s jazz music, website, drop us some e-mail, or give event information will be coming out which has got to be the most dynamic us a call with any questions at all. We fast and furious: here in these pages, art form on the planet right now. can’t wait to see you at the upcoming on a special print brochure, on www. We are also proud to inaugurate a jazz festival, as we get a little deeper earshot.org and in print, radio and new “Resident, Resident Artist” pro- into the fall season that we’re begin- alternative media all around the region. gram on this year’s jazz festival. This ning to realize we love the most. As always, don’t hesitate to contact us year we feature the gifted Seattle bass- John Gilbreath if we can answer any questions. ist Evan Flory-Barnes in a variety of Executive Director concerts over the span of the festival Earshot Jazz 2 • EARSHOT JAZZ • September 2012 EARSHOT JAZZ IN ONE EAR A Mirror and Focus for the Jazz Community Roosevelt Grad Composition at vid Pierre-Louis spoke. The meeting Executive Director John Gilbreath Monterey acknowledged that successful move- Managing Director Karen Caropepe Roosevelt High School graduate, pi- ments have all sides at the table, House anist and composer Chris McCarthy says. More information about the Fair Earshot Jazz Editor Schraepfer Harvey receives the Monterey Jazz Festival’s Trade Music campaign is available at Contributing Writers Christine Beaderstadt, big band composition competition local76-493.org. Gregory Brusstar, Libby Graham, Steve Gerald Wilson Award this September. Eyvind Kang New to Cornish Griggs, David Marriott Jr., Peter Monaghan, His winning composition, “Some- Faculty Jason Parker, Sarah Thomas thing Small,” will also be performed Violist, violinist and composer Ey- Calendar Editor Schraepfer Harvey at the festival, September 21-23, by vind Kang joins the Cornish College Calendar Volunteer Tim Swetonic the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, of the Arts adjunct instructor faculty Photography Daniel Sheehan an all-star student band. “Something this fall. The Cornish alum (’94) co- Layout Karen Caropepe Small” debuted at the 2011 Earshot Distribution Karen Caropepe and volunteers founded and co-directs, with Cor- Jazz Festival at Town Hall. McCarthy nish’s Jim Knapp, the improvisational Send Calendar Information to: starts at the New England Conserva- string orchestra Scrape; he’s a recent 3429 Fremont Place N, #309 tory of Music this fall on a presidential Artist Trust Arts Innovator award re- Seattle, WA 98103 scholarship. fax / (206) 547-6286 cipient; has worked extensively with email / [email protected] Ear at the Fair Trade Music Bill Frisell; is a composer and arranger Board of Directors Kenneth W. Masters Meeting for many bands; and can be heard on (president), Richard Thurston (vice- Vocalist Rochelle House attended over 60 records, including his own president), Renee Staton (treasurer), Hideo the Fair Trade Music meeting last recent Grass (2012, Tzadik) and The Makihara (secretary), Clarence Acox, Bill month, hosted by the Musicians’ As- Narrow Garden (2012, Ipecac). Broesamle, George Heidorn, Femi Lakeru, sociation of Seattle. She says that Jam Session News Lola Pedrini, Paul Toliver, Cuong Vu musicians from a variety of genres The Racer Sessions are back home – classical, jazz, rock, punk, metal – Earshot Jazz is published monthly by at the Cafe Racer. September curators attended; conversation leaders were Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle and is are Stupid Man Suit, Chemical Clock, available online at www.earshot.org. good at managing the passion of Carol Weber, Don Berman and An- the people; and bassist Evan Flory- Subscription (with membership): $35 CONTINUED ON PAGE 22 3429 Fremont Place #309 Barnes and LUCID proprietor Da- Seattle, WA 98103 phone / (206) 547-6763 fax / (206) 547-6286 Earshot Jazz ISSN 1077-0984 Printed by Pacific Publishing Company © 2012 Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle �� MISSION STATEMENT �� Earshot Jazz is a non-profit arts and service �� organization formed in 1984 to cultivate a �� support system for jazz in the community and to increase awareness of jazz. Earshot �� Jazz pursues its mission through publishing a �� monthly newsletter, presenting creative music, providing educational programs, identifying and filling career needs for jazz artists, increasing listenership, augmenting and complementing existing services and programs, and networking with the national and international jazz community. September 2012 • EARSHOT JAZZ • 3 PROFILE Tula’s Restaurant & Jazz Club Seattle’s local jazz mainstay keeps that authentic club feeling By Gregory Brusstar tra, Easy Street Band, Music Works education system here, and I hope they Big Band – is one prerogative of Elliott don’t do away with band programs.” Maybe there aren’t many genuine “Mack” Waldron, the self-deprecat- He invites high-school bandleaders to old-style jazz clubs left – those dark, ing, low-key, humorous owner of Tu- bring their bands to the club. narrow, sonorous, swingin’ venues la’s. The retired Navy bandleader used Waldron began his association with tucked between two well-lit places. to play trombone and often books big jazz music in his youth. He played in Tula’s Restaurant & Jazz Club in Bell- town is one of them. For nearly two decades, Tula’s has featured local and regional jazz musicians seven nights a week. Their niche is not national jazz theater with hefty ticket prices. Nor is it primarily a restaurant with an order of jazz on the side. Tula’s serves a large order of primo regional jazz talent at a reason- able price, with good food and booze to enhance the experience. The club has its regular customers, and national and international re- nown. Travelers from Japan, France, Germany and Canada regularly call in advance to save a seat during their stay. The club features in DownBeat’s guide to the world’s “150 Great Jazz Rooms,” and Wynton Marsalis lists ELLIOTT “MACK” WALDRON WITH JASON AND SHERRILL MOORE. PHOTO BY DANIEL SHEEHAN. Tula’s among his top-ten national clubs, for USA Today: “This is a cool bands during the week, but Waldron his high-school jazz band in Kilgore, place,” he says.

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