Hans Teuber Photo by Daniel Sheehan Letter from the Director Earshot Jazz a Mirror and Focus for the Jazz Community
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A Mirror and Focus for the Jazz Community January 2018 Vol. 34, No. 01 EARSHOT JAZZSeattle, Washington Hans Teuber Photo by Daniel Sheehan LEttER FROM thE DIRECTOR EARshOT JAZZ A Mirror and Focus for the Jazz Community Executive Director John Gilbreath Click! Managing Director Karen Caropepe Earshot Jazz Editor Caitlin Peterkin Contributing Writers Steve Griggs, Ian Gwin, Happy New Year, from all of us at Earshot Jazz! Jean Mishler, Paul Rauch Calendar Editors Jane Emerson & Caitlin Peterkin The cool thing about marking the Photography Daniel Sheehan New Year holiday is that it gives us Layout Karen Caropepe the sensibility and permission to Distribution Karen Caropepe & Earshot Jazz start, anything or everything. On volunteers the remix of Freedom Jazz Dance, Miles Davis can be heard telling send Calendar Information to: someone, “Just put it on the ONE!” 3429 Fremont Place N, #309 And here it is. Seattle, WA 98103 With most of us going through email / [email protected] our days (our years, our lives) with Board of Directors Danielle Leigh our noses down, and our heads full (President), John W. Comerford (Vice of worry and work, the “New Year” President), Sue Coliton (Secretary), Viren holiday can present us with a much Kamdar (Treasurer), Sheila Hughes, Chris needed, even if mainly symbolic, Icasiano, Ruby Smith Love, Jon Perrino, clean slate. The ways of the world munity. Among our resolutions for Diane Wah 2018 are: to increase performance will certainly remain as they are, Emeritus Board Members Clarence Acox, but we have an opportunity here opportunities for Seattle artists, convene information and planning Hideo Makihara, Kenneth W. Masters, Lola “on the one” to back up, rethink Pedrini, Paul Toliver, Cuong Vu our approach, reapply our resourc- discussions from the community, es, and go into our time as if it were designate a program committee of Founded in 1984 by Paul de Barros, a beginning. Seattle artist, examine options for Gary Bannister, and Allen Youngblood. Earshot Jazz is published monthly by We have a lot to be thankful for the annual Golden Ear Awards, digitize the entire library of Earshot Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle and is here in the Seattle jazz community, available online at www.earshot.org. and lot of new work in front of us. Jazz publications for public access, Kicking off our 34th year of publica- increase residency and community subscription (with membership): $35 tion, this issue of Earshot Jazz cap- engagement by visiting artists, sup- 3429 Fremont Place #309 tures the ongoing momentum of port and enhance jazz education in Seattle, WA 98103 Seattle jazz with a recommendation the community, and much more. phone / (206) 547-6763 Miles to go before we sleep. to experience Seattle on the Spot: The Earshot Jazz ISSN 1077-0984 Photographs of Al Smith at MOHAI, In order to see that bigger pic- ture through fresh new eyes, we Printed by Pacific Publishing Company a profile of one of Seattle’s most © 2017 Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle prolific “under the radar” artists, very much welcome your input and and listings of recurring jazz perfor- ideas. We invite you to reimagine mances and presentations around the landscape and join our work to “cultivate a vibrant jazz communi- M I ss I O N S T A T EMEN T the Puget Sound region. To ensure the legacy and progression ty” for this great city. This New Year will bring exciting of the art form, Earshot Jazz cultivates Happy New Year! new opportunities to the Earshot a vibrant jazz community by engaging Jazz organization, which we’ll put –John Gilbreath, Executive Director audiences, celebrating artists, and into motion for the entire com- supporting arts education. 2 • Earshot Jazz • January 2018 NOTES Saturday Family Concert with CMA New Jazz Works Earshot Jazz Is Hiring! Johnaye Kendrick Quartet Applications are now open for Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Earshot Jazz seeks applicants Town Hall Seattle and Phinney for part- and full-time support Neighborhood Association present the Works program. The New Jazz Works program provides grants to U.S. jazz staff positions. Compensation is Johnaye Kendrick Quartet on Satur- $15/hour. day, January 13, 11am, at Phinney ensembles to create, perform, and, if desired, record new works. The new A small non-profit, Earshot Center (6532 Phinney Ave N). Part Jazz is run by two full-time staff; of Town Hall’s Saturday Family Con- work may be composed by the ensem- ble leader or another member of the therefore, prospective employees cert series, the event features vocalist/ must be flexible, with a strong composer Kendrick accompanied by ensemble. Applications are due February 4, work ethic, positive attitude, and pianist Dawn Clement, bassist Chris passion for the work we do. Symer, and drummer D’Vonne Lewis. and are available at chamber-music. org. Interested candidates should e- The all-ages concert series is free for mail their resume and brief letter children (13 and under) and is $5 for of interest to [email protected]. adults. More information available at townhallseattle.org. CONTINUED ON PAGE 18 IN ONE EAR Jazz Pianist Billy Wallace: Northwest, in addition to its week- 1929–2017 day NPR and late-night and prime- 2017 Golden Ear Award time jazz programs. Full schedule Nominations Wanted Jazz pianist Billy Wallace passed and info at knkx.org. away on December 9, 2017, in Den- The Golden Ear Awards recog- Abe Beeson hosts The New Cool, ver, Colorado. nize and celebrate the outstand- Saturdays, 3pm, featuring 21st cen- Wallace got his start performing with ing achievements of the previous tury jazz inspired and informed by Buddy Ryland, Max Roach, Clifford year in Seattle jazz. Nominations the sounds of today, hip-hop, funk, Brown, and Charlie Parker, and played for the 2017 awards are currently electronic & punk rock, followed by as an accompanist for Billie Holiday, being accepted. Please e-mail Robin Lloyd’s Jazz Caliente, 5pm, Carmen McRae, Anita O’Day, and nominations to nominations@ where jazz meets Latin rhythms. many others. As for his impact on the earshot.org by January 15. Jim Wilke’s Jazz Northwest, Sun- Seattle jazz scene, he performed with The official voting ballots for days, 2pm, features the artists and Floyd Standifer, and recorded Soulful the 2017 awards will be printed events of the regional jazz scene. For Delight (1994) with Phil Sparks and in the February issue of this pub- JazzNW podcasts of archived pro- Clarence Acox. lication and available online at grams, see jazznw.org. In his later years, Wallace became a earshot.org. 90.3 KEXP, late-night Sundays, steadfast member of the Denver jazz Send us your suggestions for: features Jazz Theater with John Gil- scene, performing regularly until his NW Recording of the Year; NW breath, 1am, and Sonarchy, mid- passing. He will be missed by many Acoustic Jazz Ensemble of the night, a live-performance broadcast in the music communities of Chicago, Year; Alternative Jazz Group of from the Jack Straw Productions Seattle, and Denver. the Year; NW Concert of the studio, produced by Doug Haire. Jazz Radio Year; NW Jazz Instrumentalist of Full schedule information is avail- the Year; Emerging Artist of the 88.5 KNKX hosts Saturday Jazz able at kexp.org and jackstraw.org. Year; NW Vocalist of the Year; Matinee, Jazz Sunday Side Up, Ken and Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame. Wiley’s the Art of Jazz, and Jazz CONTINUED ON PAGE 19 January 2018 • Earshot Jazz • 3 Access Inspiration! Make a donation TODAY www.earshot.org /donate 206-547-6763 Earshot Jazz has been Seattle’s major ambassador of jazz music over the last 32 years – presenting jazz masters and important new artists, supporting the local scene, and educating young and old about the joys of jazz – all thanks to contributions from folks like you. 4 • Earshot Jazz • January 2018 PROFILE Hans Teuber: In a Humble & Generous Way HANS TEUBER PHOTO BY DANIEL SHEEHAN By Paul Rauch signature sound he brought with him olina in Columbia, and a noted com- three decades ago from South Caro- poser of chamber music, focusing on Hans Teuber is embarking on his lina, and embellished here, is spoken brass quintets. His mother is a singer, 30th anniversary of living in Seattle truthfully within whatever form he is and taught voice six days a week. this year—30 years of seemingly hang- engaging. “My mom and dad were both profes- ing on the periphery of the dynamic “I’m not a record releasing guy,” sional musicians, so I didn’t grow up music scene in the Pacific Northwest. states Teuber. Yet his sound has graced thinking this was going to be a mar- There is not a plethora of recordings dozens of recordings, including his ginalized life, and I haven’t acted that as a leader, much less a steady club gig own release Lucky (Origin, 2000), and way,” says Teuber, referring to the of- under his leadership to speak of. That a palette of wayfaring variance from ten challenging life of an artist in the being said, Hans Teuber has as well Brazilian to bebop. modern age. been a major influence on how the Teuber grew up surrounded by the Somehow, Teuber gravitated towards musical crossroads of this city meet, music of his parents, both of whom jazz in Columbia, a place that the ca- and in the process, being uniquely, were professional musicians. His fa- sual jazz fan might not think of in eloquently, and comfortably, himself. ther, an expert French horn player, was terms of having a thriving scene. He is no musical chameleon, but the a PhD at the University of South Car- January 2018 • Earshot Jazz • 5 “I was in a bebop pocket, playing probing, melodic tenor sensibility is il- I love to swing, and I love to make with 60-year-olds.