New UW Jazz Faculty
Guitarist and 2012 Doris Duke Artist Award recipient Bill Frisell and drummer Ted Poor join the UW Jazz Studies faculty this fall. Frisell joins as an affiliate professor, a position allowing him to use the UW School of Music as a creative laboratory for musical exploration and collaboration with students and faculty as his performance schedule allows, according to the university’s announcement. Ted Poor joins the School of Music faculty as a full-time artist in residence. He relocates to Seattle, from New York, in the fall. The appointments are the first for new jazz department chair, associate professor and trumpeter Cuong Vu.
Jazz Radio
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, in addition to its weekday NPR and late-night and prime-time jazz programs. For KPLU’s full jazz schedule, see kplu.org/schedule.
Jim Wilke’s Jazz Northwest, Sundays, 2pm, features the artists and events of the regional jazz scene. For full JazzNW program information, see jazznw.org.
90.3 KEXP, late-night Sundays, 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 June lineup: June 2, new jazz music by trombonist and composer Michael Vlatkovich, with trumpeter Jim Knodle, bassist Phil Sparks, and drummer Greg Campbell; June 9, Madly In Dub, hip-hop, dub and funky beats by Dartagnan on vocals, Michelle Tomyuk on tabla, beats and samples, Savvy on keys, guitar and beats, and Todd Pruitt on bass and keys; June 16, Phonon, crafty use of electronics by Chris Hanis; June 23, Lowmen Markos, orchestral post-rock; June 30, Mylar, meeting of rhythm section PK (bass) and Olli Klomp (drums) and guitarist Andy Coe and vocalist Maurice Caldwell.
91.3 KBCS, on late Sundays and prime-time Mondays, features 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.
94.9 KUOW, Saturdays at 7pm, features Amanda Wilde’s the Swing Years and Beyond, popular music from the 1920s to the 1950s. More at kuow.org/swing_years.php.
