Dave Holden photo courtesy of the family BY PAUL DE BARROS Dave Holden, a Seattle jazz and rock keyboard player known for his distinctive sound on the Organo electric keyboard, died March 19, 2023, from side effects of vascular dementia. Holden was 85. “Music was his...
Tari Nelson-Zagar photo by Cat Jobes BY PETER MONAGHAN Tari Nelson-Zagar, a highly-valued member of the Seattle improvising and new-music scenes, died in late October from breast cancer. Nelson-Zagar began to play a violin she inherited from her grandmother while...
Chuck Deardorf photo by Michelle Smith Lewis BY PAUL RAUCH The Seattle jazz community suffered a huge loss on October 9, 2022, with the passing of musician and mentor Chuck Deardorf. As the city’s first call bassist, emeritus professor at Cornish College of the Arts,...
Jessica Williams photo by Jimmy and Deana Katz Jessica Williams, one of the finest jazz pianists of the modern era, passed away on March 12, 2022, just five days shy of her 74th birthday. Williams lived in Seattle off and on, performing here often through the 1990s...
Bob Hammer photo courtesy of Vito’s BY PAUL RAUCH Bob Hammer, celebrated composer/arranger/pianist, who had a long and successful career in New York and Los Angeles before coming to the Pacific Northwest, passed on December 26 at the age of 92. Born Howard...
