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!

Current Issue

The most current issue of the magazine can be found here… OR in your email box if you are a subscriber… OR in your mailbox if you are a member… OR you can pick up a copy at a neighborhood cafe or venue.

Stories

Seattle Jazz awards Paul Harding and Paul Rucker

Artist profiles, concert previews, special features, reviews of new releases, and personal stories… it all comes from this community. If you’ve got an idea we want to hear it. If you want to become a contributing writer we want to know.

Advertising

Spread the word! If you have a concert, workshop, new recording, or any other special events — the Earshot Jazz magazine is a great place for you to advertise and be seen by the jazz community.

Archives

Earshot Jazz Magazine 30th Anniversary Collage

Forty years of Seattle jazz history at your fingertips! The archive provides easy access, historical accuracy, and an entertaining lens with which to learn about the jazz culture in and around our city.

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