A Mirror and Focus for the Jazz Community
The Earshot Jazz magazine is how it all began. Forty years ago Paul de Barros, Gary Bannister, and Allen Youngblood talked for hours about starting a jazz support organization, a magazine, or a jazz center. They talked about producing concerts of original and creative local music and about interviewing older musicians who’d made unheralded contributions to Seattle jazz. In Pauls words, “We drank a lot of coffee. Of all these ideas, each of which was important, the one thing we could probably accomplish, with our limited resources and time, was a modest magazine.”
Here we are, 40 years later, still documenting one of the most vibrant jazz communities in the world!