Gregg Belisle-Chi, Tom Rainey, and Tim Berne photo by Sarah Berne Wednesday, March 13, 7:30pm The Royal Room 5000 Rainier Ave S $20-25 BY ANDREW LUTHRINGER Since his first solo album in 1979, the relentlessly exploratory composer and saxophonist Tim Berne has charted...
Chester Whitmore performs with the All-Star Big Band at Camp Jitterbug. Photo by Danny Ngan May 24-27 Various Venues BY M.V. SMITH You never know what’s right under your nose. Saxophonist Jacob Zimmerman, an alum of Clarence Acox’s Garfield High band, grew up loving...
Beth Fleenor photo by Karen Moskowitz Earshot Jazz is proud to share brief excerpts from the forthcoming book, After Jackson Street: Seattle Jazz in the Modern Era w.t. (History Press of Charleston, S.C.), by Seattle’s preeminent jazz writer, Paul de Barros, and...
Foleada photo by Lisa Hagen Glynn. (L-R): Gabe Hall-Rodrigues, Jeff Busch, Sam Esecson, Adriana Giordano, Michael Catts, and Jamie Maschler. On the Scene is a series that invites budding and professional photojournalists to share another lens of Seattle’s vibrant jazz...
Bill Anschell, Improbable Solutions Origin, January 2024 BY ERIC OLSON It takes all of five bars for a ring modulator to slink, unassumingly, and rather unexpectedly, into the opening track of Seattle-based pianist Bill Anschell’s newest work. A few seconds on, when...
