CityArtist Projects Awards
Trumpeter/composers Samantha Boshnack and Jason Parker, vocalist/composer Jessika Kenney, drummer/composer Paul Kikuchi and pianist/composer Wayne Horvitz are among the 31 individual artists receiving Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs CityArtist Projects awards totaling $160,000. The CityArtist Projects program advances new works and works-in-development by funding different artistic disciplines in alternating years – dance, music and theater in 2012.
Rucker Receives Artist Trust Grant
Interdisciplinary sound and video artist, cellist and composer Paul Rucker received the Artist Trust Conductive Garboil Grant. More at artisttrust.org.
Jam Session News
Session organizers and attendees, send session news and anecdotes to editor@earshot.org.
Jazz Radio
In addition to its weekday NPR and late-night and prime-time jazz programs, 88.5 KPLU hosts Saturday Jazz Matinee, Jazz Sunday Side Up, Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz, Ken Wiley’s the Art of Jazz and Jim Wilke’s Jazz After Hours and Jazz Northwest. Jazz Northwest, Sundays, 1pm, features the artists and events of the regional jazz scene. For JazzNW program information, see jazznw.org. For KPLU’s full jazz schedule, see kplu.org/schedule.
Late-night Sundays on 90.3 KEXP features Jazz Theater with John Gilbreath and Sonarchy, a live-performance broadcast from the Jack Straw Productions studio, produced by Doug Haire. Full schedule information is available at kexp.org and jackstraw.org.
Sonarchy’s November lineup: November 4, Afrocop late-night street soundtrack with Andy Sells, drums; Jayson Powell, percussion; Quinten Musgrove, bass; Noel Brass Jr., keys; Collin Higgens, guitar; November 11, Noise-A-Tron, noise and beats in service of the drone experience, with Jason Bledsoe, drums, and Lea Bledsoe, bass, keys and samples; November 18, PLY, new music for jazz quartet, with Michael Owcharuk, piano; Beth Fleenor, clarinet; Paul Kemmish, bass; Max Wood, drums; November 25, Bill Horist, solo prepared-guitar improvisations.
Late Sundays and prime-time Mondays on 91.3 KBCS feature Floatation Device with John Seman and Jonathan Lawson; Straight, No Chaser with David Utevsky; Giant Steps with John Pai. More about jazz on KBCS at kbcs.fm.
