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1 The Senate convenes for a one-of-a-kind show at Triple Door Entertainment
The three-member band The Senate was once billed as a modern jazz trio in advance of an Oregon show, because the presenter either could not quite determine the group's sound or, more likely, made presumptions based on the instruments the trio played.
2/4/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
2 Is that jazz? Explore improvisation, composition and more at Seattle festival Entertainment
But some of the most innovative jazz musicians have taken a seemingly contrary approach, composing music with a strict form as a counterpoint to the improvisation that drives the rest of a song. Formal composition vs.
1/20/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
3 Master pianist Brad Mehldau goes it alone at Seattle's Jazz Alley Entertainment
Known to be a meditative, melodic and evocative pianist, Brad Mehldau was one of many young, proficient jazz musicians to break into the scene in the 1990s, when talent was in great supply but the challenge lay in how to distinguish it. Virtuosity was abundant.
1/14/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
4 Swing on over to Seattle's Triple Door to catch the Squirrel Nut Zippers Entertainment
The two attracted other like-minded musicians from the area and formed a band that was supposed to be a "summer art project," said Mathus, whose recently reunited group will perform two shows tonight at the Triple Door. The Zippers' timing in the 1990s was exceptionally good.
12/27/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
5 Cocoa Martini: Unique, elegant jazz vocals Entertainment
The concept behind the vocal jazz group Cocoa Martini seems both familiar and novel, three women who sing songs that most of us know well, backed by a quartet.
12/10/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
6 Longtime sax buddies rekindle days of soulful club gigs Entertainment
When tenor saxophonists Pete Christlieb and Hadley Caliman first played together as young men, the two were part of a sextet with a regular stand at a Los Angeles jazz club called Marty's.
11/20/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
7 Earshot Jazz Festival celebrated the fundamentals Saturday with work of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones Entertainment
The all-star SRJO played mostly music from the landmark, 1961 album, "Genius + Soul = Jazz," which featured arrangements by Jones, Charles playing the Hammond B3 organ, and musicians from the Count Basie band.
11/8/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
8 Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra plays tribute to Ray Charles and Quincy Jones Entertainment
Ray Charles and Quincy Jones were teenagers when they met in a Seattle nightclub, one of dozens clustered around Jackson Street in the 1940s. They were both aspiring jazz musicians, Charles a pianist, Jones a trumpeter.
11/6/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
9 Earshot Jazz Festival: Week three Entertainment
Cultural ownership of jazz has lately moved far beyond the borders of its birthplace, evidenced by the preponderance of non-American musicians performing the last full week of the 2009 Earshot Jazz Festival.
10/30/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
10 Brandi Carlile looks and sounds right at home on Paramount stage Entertainment
That moment of truth came near the very end of Brandi Carlile's concert Saturday night at the Paramount Theatre, when she took the stool and the spotlight alone in her bare feet to perform "That Year," a ballad from her third and latest album, "Give up the Ghost."
10/25/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
11 Earshot Jazz Festival: Week two Entertainment
Among the nearly 20 musicians and combos performing the second week of the Earshot Jazz Festival is pianist Helen Sung. She came relatively late to jazz, when she was almost finished with college.
10/23/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
12 Earshot Jazz Festival: Week one Entertainment
The 2009 Earshot Jazz Festival convenes tonight for a three-week run that features more than 50 performances at various venues in Seattle and on the Eastside, at a rate of two or three shows per night.
10/16/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
13 Seattle's Earshot Jazz Festival looks beyond tradition Entertainment
The 2009 Earshot Jazz Festival, one of the nation's most eclectic and protracted festivals of its kind, begins and ends its three-week run with reminders of what qualifies Seattle as a great jazz city.
10/11/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
14 Charles R. Cross publishes new, interactive Led Zeppelin book Arts
On May 11, 1969, Led Zeppelin, then a relatively unknown but up-and-coming British rock band, played a concert in Seattle before a few thousand people at the Aqua Theater at Green Lake, drawing noise complaints from some of the area's residents.
10/5/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
15 Greta Matassa and Tula's go together like Champagne and fizz Entertainment
In the relatively small circle of musicians who make up Seattle's jazz scene, only a handful of clubs are as important as Tula's. And to the man who owns Tula's, few performers are as important as singer Greta Matassa. To call Tula's the house that Greta built is only a slight exaggeration.
9/25/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
16 Keith Urban at Tacoma Dome: Country music at its best Entertainment
TACOMA — Frequently, bands and musicians falter in a concert setting. What sounds refined on an album can sound rushed and sloppy when performed out of the controlled environment of a recording studio.
9/14/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
17 McCoy Tyner has come a long way since his Coltrane days Entertainment
For all the years that have passed and all the music McCoy Tyner has made since he went out on his own, his membership in one of jazz history's greatest groups remains a calling card.
9/11/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
18 Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, 88, visits Seattle Entertainment
Fifty being a number that resonates well and is easily marketable, marking the 50th anniversaries of notable events and accomplishments has become a familiar exercise in documenting cultural history, the jazz pianist Dave Brubeck being no exception.
9/10/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
19 Jazz you can dance to at Bumbershoot Entertainment
Bumbershoot is primarily a pop-music festival, and the jazz programming this weekend reflects those priorities with groups like the Olympic Sound Collective and The New Mastersounds — bands that incorporate jazz elements into danceable songs that contain bluesy riff and funky grooves.
9/4/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
20 Jazz trumpeter Thomas Marriott looks forward to the past with tribute to Horace Silver Entertainment
Many young musicians, looking to push their music forward, are now mining the music of the late 1950s and '60s, the birth of what we think of as modern jazz.
9/4/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results