Vai Taya and Olivia McVicker photo courtesy of the artists BY NADYA BARGHOUTY The Next Generation Women in Jazz Combo (NGWIJC), founded by Terri Lyne Carrington, is a program through the Monterey Jazz Festival. This year’s program featured an exclusive offering of...
Trevor Ford photo by Daniel Sheehan BY PAUL RAUCH The musical evolution of bassist Trevor Ford reveals a non-traditional route to jazz excellence. It is a story full of the basic distractions of modern life in America — environment, career, family, and just plain hard...
Matt Jorgensen, Evan Woodle, and John Bishop photo by Daniel Sheehan BY PAUL RAUCH The last time John Bishop and Matt Jorgensen appeared on the cover of this magazine, the city of Seattle, and the music scene within it, were very different places. It was September of...
Heather Chriscaden photo by Daniel Sheehan BY NATHAN BLUFORD Bassist and educator Heather Chriscaden’s journey in jazz has taken her all over the Pacific Northwest, out to New York, and around the world. When she moved back to Western Washington shortly before the...
Johnaye Kendrick photo by Daniel Sheehan BY ROBERT HAM “When I’m singing or performing really beautiful, but challenging material [it] becomes a part of me. I see some of the rhythmic or harmonic or melodic ideas creep out of my original work. I don’t realize that...
