In this Issue
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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.
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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
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.
Skerik: Earshot Jazz Festival Resident Artist
At one time or another a simultaneous member of too many projects to count, from Critters Buggin’s eclectic blend of heavy rock, prog, and North African trance to the groove-oriented, organ-tinged soul jazz of Garage A Trois to the funk of Headhunters drummer Mike Clark’s Prescription Renewal, to the metal maelstrom of LORBO and the foreboding soundscapes of Sound Cipher, the self-proclaimed dark lord of the saxophone has dedicated his career to the art of collaboration.
Freddy “Fuego” Gonzalez: Earshot Jazz Festival Commission
It also gave him a rich bank of compositional starting points, many of which have served as seeds for the set of original music he’s presenting during the Earshot Jazz Festival this year. Fuego’s performance will feature the 20-piece Freddy Fuego Orchestra performing ten to twelve original and stylistically diverse compositions, chosen on-the-fly based on Fuego’s feel on the audience and ensemble.
On the Scene
On the Scene is a series that invites budding and professional photojournalists to share another lens of Seattle’s vibrant jazz scene. Our thanks to Lisa Hagen Glynn for these photos from the 2024 Jazz Port Townsend week!
Pony Boy All-Star Big Band, This Is Now (Live at Boxley’s)
This Is Now is full of energy, from the cymbal that opens the first tune, “Harrod’s Creek,” to the audacious swing of “Bahia,” which closes the album. Certainly, the recording gains enormous energy from being recorded live at Boxley’s. Production values are so stellar it sounds as though it were recorded in the studio
Ron Weinstein, Jazz Before Hours
It’s the original material on the album that allows us to tap into Weinstein at his purest. True to his mercurial form as a player and composer, the tunes don’t hew to one style or mood.
