2024 Schedule of Events
Tickets are on sale now for the 36th annual Earshot Jazz Festival! We are excited to announce another exciting slate of brilliant artists from Seattle and around the world.
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Jazz Port Townsend Artistic Director; 2025 Jack Straw Artist Support Residency; 16th Annual Seattle-Kobe Female Jazz Vocalist Audition; Food Forest & Open Harvest Music Festival; Seattle Metropolitan Sickle Cell Task Force Sickle Cell Walk; Staycation Music Festival; Call for Earshot Jazz Writers
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We love the jazz global continuum and our home community with equal measure! We recognize both the honor and the responsibility to bring in a world-class jazz festival every year that reflects both the changing face of jazz and that of our community.
Martin Budde, Back Burner
Martin Budde’s new album titled, “Back Burner” published by Origin Records is reviewed. The album is a case study in bucolic soundscapes and rich, undulating dynamics
Nick Torretta, Vesper Suite
Nick Torretta’s new self-released album, “Vepser Suite” is reviewed. The album is a five-movement suite for string orchestra, woodwinds, harp and Torretta’s own tenor sax improvisations
Gail Pettis
Gail Pettis, a jazz vocalist, is interviewed for an upcoming book on jazz titled After the Bottle Clubs Closed: Seattle Jazz in the Modern Era.
A New Works Cocktail
The article writer Dylan Koa, interviews musician and Royal Room co-owner, Wayne Horvitz about the New Music Ensemble. The New Music Ensemble is a group for young musicians who want to explore avant garde music by groundbreaking jazz musicians and also the modern technique known as conduction.
Marina Albero
Fresh from her New Orleans residency, pianist Marina Albero, discusses her experiences there and her upcoming album that resulted from the residency. The new album titled, “A Nomad of Sound” features more than a dozen musicians including trumpeter Chris Cotton, bassists Amina Scott and Yusa, and reeds-player Rex Gregory among others
Jackson Street Jazz Walk
The lineup for this year’s annual Jackson Street Jazz Walk (JSJW) includes Elnah Jordan, Gail Pettis, The Daimonics and more. The executive producer of the JSJW, Eugenie Jones, emphasizes the main thematic pillars of the organization: music, community, and legacy
KEXP’s New Indigenous Radio Show Sounds of Survivance
There’s a new show on local Seattle radio station KEXP called “Sounds of Survivance” that features two indigenous DJ’s Kevin Sur and Tory J.“ Sur explains that “we’re continuing a tradition of reclaiming sonic space through accompaniment and empathy for each other…
