18 Free Jazz for Free
Imagine it is 1970 and our fair town is the hip place it could then be. The Ave was a haven for real beatniks and they would never, ever pass by a coffeehouse show of free jazz as if it was important only to get to shopfronts where one could only shop. That is the vibe of the Sureshot coffee house on select Sunday afternoons such as one in April when the Jack Gold-Molina band performed free jazz FREE OF CHARGE and it was, to be honest, a little depressing to see how few passersby took the opportunity to stop and drop in. The music was hot and it was seeping generously out onto the Ave. Why just saunter by? Well, perhaps we can do better for this show, a performance by the drummer/composer, joined by Paul Kemmish (bass) and Chris Pugh (guitar) of the intense guitar/drums symphony "Emasculata Symphonica." It is a FREE performance, and the coffee sold at Sureshot is sure and hot, and it is an ALL-AGES show. It begins at 2pm, and it is FREE OF CHARGE.

24 Satie & the Ukraine
The Michael Owcharuk Trio will welcome clarinetist Beth Fleenor in this performance at Egan's Ballard Jam House, at 9pm; cover $5. For this gig, Owcharuk, one of the most promising up-and-coming jazz composers in the region, will not only present his catalog of original music, but also will play some new trio compositions as well as his take on the Erik Satie piece, "La Balancoire." And, the band will be joined by Beth Fleenor on clarinet to present and improvise around original arrangements of traditional Ukrainian folk tunes. The arrangements are for clarinet, bass, drums and accordion, which Owchuruk, best known as a pianist, has begun to play in public. The evening, he promises, will be one of "fun, high-energy music mixing joy and melancholy as only the Slavs can."

4 Cyrille Gosselin & Students
French guitarist Cyrille Gosselin is a pleasure to listen to as he interprets standards like "St. James Infirmary," "Don't Get Around Much Any More," and "Besame mucho." He does venture at times into post-Django styles, but predominantly he evokes Parisian boulevards and cafés on both acoustic and electric jazz guitar. Gosselin came to live in Seattle in 2002, after an earlier career in a progressive rock band. The Lubeck Heads, which he says took its leads from the likes of Pink Floyd, Genesis, Clapton, and "all the great blues names." He has played on the Seattle blues and jazz scenes, including in a jazz duet, Orinewa, with vocalist Nikko Olajoyegbe, and in the Fred Radke Big Band. There, he met the guitarist and singer Billy Brandt, with whom he now has a trio that also includes Felix Serneus on tenor saxophone and flute. He has also recently completed another musical story album with Eric & Anne Benoist (from the Lubeck Heads) called "Agath." For this early-evening show at the always pleasant and affordable Egan's Ballard Jam House, Gosselin presents and accompanies his students.