
Vocalist Grace Love performs with Seattle Symphony and Garfield Jazz Band on the closing night of the festival.
Photo by Daniel Sheehan
Each year, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Daniel Sheehan captures the action of the Earshot Jazz Festival and shares his incredible images on his blog, EyeShotJazz. Here are a few selections from this year’s festival. Visit eyeshotjazz.com to view Sheehan’s photos in color.
- Hunter Gather keyboardist Cameron Sharif
- Vocalist Dee Daniels, a Northwest favorite
- Freddy Cole, the brother of the late Nat King Cole, performed with his quartet at Triple Door
- Feliciano Arango performed at Nectar Lounge with his family band, Los Hermanos Arango
- Pianist Fred Hersch gave an astounding solo concert at PONCHO Hall
- Saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, with Tom Rainey, at Chapel Performance Space
- Jon Rune Strøm at Chapel Performance Space
- Brian Lynch teamed up with local trumpeter Thomas Marriott for a scorching two-night run at Tula’s
- Violist Mat Maneri performed with Lucian Ban at the Chapel Performance Space
- Pianist Maya Kronfeld at Tula’s
- Bird Calls’ Adam O’Farrill at Seattle Art Museum
- Rokia Traoré delivered a buoyant show at Triple Door
- Rudresh Mahanthappa performed with his Bird Calls group at Seattle Art Museum
- Takuya Kuroda at PONCHO Hall
- Thione Diop was a featured soloist on Samantha Boshnack’s Global Concertos project
- Tarik Abouzied, along with Joe Doria, Damien Erskine, and Dan Balmer, closed the festival at Tula’s