Monday, March 16, 7 pm
The Royal Room
Music at 7pm: Kareem Kandi Trio
Awards Presentation at 8pm
More Kareem Kandi Trio at 9pm
In its 26th installment, the Earshot Jazz Golden Ear Awards recognize and honor local artists who have markedly contributed to Seattle’s jazz community in the past year.
The 2014 Golden Ear Awards take place on March 16 at the Royal Room in Columbia City, one of the city’s best listening spaces, complete with food and a full bar. The ceremony begins at 7pm with a set of local jazz to warm the space.
Performing this evening will be the Kareem Kandi Trio. The saxophonist has shaped lessons from Seattle masters like Don Lanphere, Hadley Caliman, and Julian Priester into solid, hard-grooving jazz. Kandi’s fat tone is a perfect fit for Delvon Lamarr’s B3 organ and Julian MacDonough’s drumming.
The awards ceremony, emcee’d by the always affable jazz-radio host, field recorder, and area jazz luminary Jim Wilke, provides an opportunity to take stock of just how enormously some figures on Seattle’s jazz landscape have contributed to our scene. There are nominations for eight categories, and voters may write in nominees not found on the ballot.
To be among nominees is itself an acknowledgement of a year of fine performance and recording in and around Seattle. Nominees are selected by a poll of readers of this publication, jazz performers, audience members, journalists, and industry professionals.
The highest honor each year goes to inductees to the Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame. This year’s nominees are Seattle’s well-traveled multi-instrumentalist Amy Denio; the late co-founder of Earshot Jazz and talent booker for Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley Gary Bannister; seasoned vocalist of wide renown Greta Matassa; and pianist, vocalist, and Seattle jazz treasure Ruby Bishop.
Please vote by March 15, one ballot per person, online at www.earshot.org, email to vote@earshot.org, or mailing it to the Earshot Jazz office at 3429 Fremont Place N, #309, Seattle WA, 98103. Tickets $10 ($5 students) available through The Royal Room.
2014 NW Recording of the Year
Ann Reynolds’ Clave Gringa, Para Cuba Con Amor
Burn List, Burn List
Chemical Clock, Bad Habitat
Thomas Marriott, Urban Folklore
Other _________________________
2014 NW Acoustic Ensemble
Alex Dugdale & the FADE Quartet
Jacob Zimmerman Quintet
Sequoia
Steve Griggs Ensemble
Other _________________________
2014 NW Alternative Group
Bad Luck
Crystal Beth & the Boom Boom Band
Industrial Revelation
Trimtab
Other _________________________
2014 NW Concert of the Year
Table & Chairs Showcase (netcat, Cavity Fang, Japanese Guy, King Tears Bat Trip), Ballard Jazz Walk, April 18
Human Feel / The Westerlies, Seattle Art Museum, June 27
Tribute to Charlie Haden, Chapel Performance Space, September 25
Monk 10/10, Town Hall, October 10
Other _________________________
2014 NW Instrumentalist of the Year
Anton Schwartz
Evan Flory-Barnes
Kate Olson
Thomas Marriott
Other _________________________
2014 NW Emerging Artist
Ann Reynolds
Carmen Rothwell
Delvon Lamarr
Levi Gillis
Other _________________________
2014 NW Vocalist of the Year
Greta Matassa
Johnaye Kendrick
Katie Jacobson
Leah Natale
Other _________________________
2014 Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame
For a list of Seattle Jazz Hall of Famers, go to earshot.org/events/awards/halloffame.html
Amy Denio
Gary Bannister
Greta Matassa
Ruby Bishop
Other _________________________
Ballot due by March 15.
