Jazz Northwest

This week we sample two of the artists appearing at Centrum's Jazz Port Townsend, guitarist Dave Stryker and trumpet player Terell Stafford who will be featured on the opening concerts on July 27 at Fort Worden. Debuting on this week's show is Vancouver BC saxophonist Cory Weeds' latest release, an 11 piece band featuring music by Hank Mobley, Kenny Dorham and others arranged by Vancouver arrangers Bill Coon and Jill Townsend. Also this week, The Jazz Police, Thomas Marriott, The BC Double

"My Favorite Things" was the title of the concerts ending the 2017-18 season for the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra. Dee Daniels was the featured vocalist in a program including songs made popular by Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat Cole, Marvin Gaye, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley. The songs selected by Dee Daniels for this concert represent her varied interests in music and her long career that has taken her to six continents. Highlights from the concerts will air this week on Jazz

For the first weekend of summer, Jazz Northwest features a collection of resident duos and trios playing music for those lazy summer days and nights. Songs about flowers, lullabies, and fishing are a few of the highlights, and there's also music by two Lennies (Bernstein and Tristano). Recent releases by the 200 Trio, Reuel Lubag Trio, duende libre, Hans Teuber & Jeff Johnson, Bill Anschell, Scenes and Dawn Clement are also included. Never miss an episode again. Subscribe to Jazz Northwest

This week on Jazz Northwest we feature highlights from Mercedes Nicole’s recent concert at the Seattle Art Museum. The concert was part of the monthly series presented by Earshot Jazz in partnership with the Seattle Art Museum. Mercedes Nicole sings a selection of songs inspired by some of her favorite singers from Billie Holiday to The Drifters and Gregory Porter. She is accompanied by Craig Hoyer, piano, Rachael Contorer, bass and Larry Vincent Jones on drums. The concert was recorded on June

The last set of the opening night Celebration of the Drum at this year's Ballard Jazz Festival is featured this week on Jazz Northwest. The Nu Trio brought considerable soul and energy to cap the night. Featuring Brian Kirk on drums Nathan Breedlove on trumpet and Phil Sparks on bass, the trio played music by Brian Kirk and modern jazz classics by Booker Little, John Hicks, Mal Waldron, and Woody Shaw. The Nu Trio was the last of four drummer-led bands to perform on this Celebration of the Drum

Two jazz quartets at the Celebration of the Drum opening the Ballard Jazz Festival last month will be featured this week on Jazz Northwest. Drummer Stefan Schatz leads the first group, with Thomas Marriott, trumpet, Jeremy Bacon, piano and Paul Gabrielson, bass. Stefan Schatz recently relocated to Seattle from his birthplace in New York City. They play music by jazz greats Thelonious Monk, Max Roach, Horace Silver, and Clifford Brown. The second group on this program includes young musicians

Sometimes when I build a show, I don't have a specific theme in mind but one emerges. For this show I started with a couple of new releases, and it soon appeared this was a show about unusual arrangements of familiar music. If jazz is "the sound of surprise" as Whitney Balliet so aptly described it, you'll be surprised by some of these arrangements and unusual combinations. You'll hear Reuel Lubag Trio, The 200 Trio, Randy Porter and Nancy King, Syrinx Effect, Jeff Baker, Scenes, Bill Anschell,

Two of Seattle's best improvising jazz musicians teamed up for the May Art of Jazz concert at The Seattle Art Museum. Acoustic bass player Jeff Johnson and saxophone/flute player Hans Teuber have been individually featured in numerous ensembles. They've also collaborated on several albums including the newly issued duo CD "Deuce" on Origin Records . For this concert at SAM, they played a variety of freely improvised music and standards including several selections from the new CD. The long

These are unique performances in that they include scenes from Shakespeare interspersed between movements of the Ellington suite. Darragh Kennan and Hana Lass from the Seattle Shakespeare Company are on stage with the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra in these performances recorded at the Kirkland Performance Center and the Edmonds Center for the Arts. The production was conceived by George Mount of Seattle Shakespeare Company and Michael Brockman, who conducts this performance of the Seattle

Highlights from concert performances of Duke Ellington's "Such Sweet Thunder" are featured this week on Jazz Northwest. These unique performances combine excerpts from Shakespeare's plays with Duke Ellington's musical portraits of the featured characters. Michael Brockman conducts the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra with guest actors from The Seattle Shakespeare Company, Darragh Kennan and Hana Lass. "Such Sweet Thunder" was commissioned by the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, and