2024 Schedule
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.
Tickets & Information
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Remembering Robert E. Knatt (1949-2024)
Continuing Knatt’s legacy through his values, not his incomparable personality, was the answer. Honesty, hard work, and a relentless pursuit of musicality for ourselves and our friends was the formula.
… 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Blast Off!!
Welcome to Earshot Jazz Festival 2024! We launch on October 17 and streak across the next 18 days with more than 35 supersonic concerts and events around the city.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
