Jackson Cotugno photo by Daniel Sheehan BY JONATHAN SHIPLEY The kid’s young. But what’s age? “Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.” David Bowie said that. He’ll be ageless for ages. Saxophonist Jackson Cotugno is...
Alex Dugdale photo by Daniel Sheehan BY PAUL RAUCH “A Mirror and Focus for the Jazz Community” is the credo that greets Earshot Jazz members and the public at large with every monthly edition of Earshot Jazz that lands in mailboxes and populates racks and tables in...
(L-R): Erik Esvelt, Carlos Snaider, Gabriel Cerna, Kelsey Mines, Daniel Mendoza, Elijah Clark, Brandon Hunter. Photo by William Muñoz. BY M.V. SMITH Seattle nurtures a longstanding, widely-respected Afro-Latino music scene, anchored by SODO’s Club Sur and salsa nights...
Hannah Mowry photo by Daniel Sheehan BY MATTHEW ADKINS We know what jazz offers us as listeners: a way of capturing our most complex emotions; an experience that’s never twice the same; a fleeting zen moment in the now. A few of us are lucky enough to experience...
Steve Smith photo by Daniel Sheehan BY JONATHAN SHIPLEY Leonard Bernstein’s “Young People’s Concerts” was playing on the TV, and Steve Smith was watching it with his family in the living room of their Richland, Washington home. This was about 60 years ago. Smith was...
