Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra photo by Jim Levitt Tuesday, December 13, 7pmThe Royal Room5000 Rainier Avenue S$15-20 BY MELANIE GRIMES The Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra (SWOJO) will be at The Royal Room on December 13 performing holiday classics along with...
Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra photo courtesy of SRJO Friday, December 30, 7:30pmTown Hall Great Hall1119 Eighth Avenue$10-50 BY REBECCA JANE “In the beginning, God!” This declaration repeats through various instruments and voices in Duke Ellington’s liturgical...
Michael Glynn and Marc Seales photo by Lisa Hagen Glynn BY M.V. SMITH For anyone looking to learn about jazz, there’s no substitute to diving right in. From all-ages concerts and jam sessions to music and dance lessons, Seattle offers young performers many...
New Deal Films, April 2022 BY MATTHEW ADKINS Rarely has so little sounded like so much as in Steven Peters’ soundtrack to the Agnes Martin documentary, Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World. Martin, a painter who made her home in the Southwest, drew inspiration from...
Self-released, May 2022 BY MATTHEW ADKINS There’s a great little book for artists or aspiring artists—Steal Like an Artist (2012) by Austin Kleon—that makes the point that if you imitate enough people for long enough, eventually what you produce as an artist becomes...
