Earshot Jazz Festival through November 17

SITES + ADDRESSES + TICKETS

Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center, 4th floor, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N (Wallingford), Seattle | Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006 & www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/9678

EMP Museum: Level 3
325 5th Ave N (Seattle Center), Seattle | Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006 & www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/9678

Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall
200 University St (downtown), Seattle | 1-866-833-4747 & www.seattlesymphony.org

Jones Playhouse Theater
4045 University Way NE (UW Campus), Seattle | www.meany.org & 206-543-4880

Kirkland Performance Center
350 Kirkland Ave, Kirkland | 425-893-9900 & www.kpcenter.org

Meany Hall
4140 George Washington Lane (UW Campus), Seattle | www.meany.org & 206-543-4880

PONCHO Concert Hall
710 E Roy St, Kerry Hall, Cornish College of the Arts (Capitol Hill), Seattle | Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006 & www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/9678

The Royal Room
5000 Rainier Ave S (Columbia City), Seattle | 206-906-9920 & www.theroyalroomseattle.com

Town Hall Seattle
1119 Eighth Ave (at Seneca, First Hill), Seattle | Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006 & www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/9678

The Triple Door
216 Union St (beneath Wild Ginger at Third Ave, downtown), Seattle | 206-838-4333 & www.thetripledoor.net

Tula’s Restaurant and Jazz Club
2214 Second Ave (Belltown), Seattle | 206-443-4221 & reservations@tulas.com

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1

Bill Frisell w/ Cuong Vu & Robin Holcomb
Jones Playhouse Theater UW, 7:30pm

Marc Seales Group
Tula’s, 7:30pm

Brian Haas & Scott Amendola / Chemical Clock
Royal Room, 8pm

Manhattan Transfer
Triple Door, 7pm & 9:30pm

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2

Manhattan Transfer
Triple Door, 7pm & 9:30pm

Paul Kikuchi’s Bat of No Bird Island
Chapel Performance Space, 8pm

SRJO: Take Five: Remembering Dave Brubeck
Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya, 7:30pm

Jon Pugh Quartet
Tula’s, 7:30pm

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3

Manhattan Transfer
Triple Door, 7pm & 9:30pm

SRJO: Take Five: Remembering Dave Brubeck
Kirkland Performance Center, 2pm

Kora Band
PONCHO Concert Hall, Cornish College, 8pm

Bill Frisell w/ Ted Poor & Luke Bergman
Jones Playhouse Theater UW, 7:30pm

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6

Garfield High School Jazz Band
Triple Door, 7:30pm

Omar Sosa Afri-Lectric Sextet
Kirkland Performance Center, 7:30pm

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7

Kneebody
PONCHO Concert Hall, Cornish College, 8pm

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9

Dave Douglas w/ Cuong Vu Trio & UW Jazz Students
Jones Playhouse Theater UW, 7:30pm

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10

Bill Frisell’s Big Sur Quintet / Jim Woodring, Eyvind Kang, featuring Bill Frisell
Meany Hall UW, 7:30pm

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13

Piano Starts Here: The Music of Bud Powell
Royal Room, 8pm

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14

Bill Anschell Quartet
Seattle Art Museum Brotman Forum, 5:30pm

NEXT Collective
EMP Museum: Level 3, 8pm

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15

Industrial Revelation / Overton Berry
Royal Room, Panel discussion at 6:30pm, music at 8pm

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16

Peter Brötzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love
Royal Room, 7pm

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17

McTuff
Tula’s, 7:30pm

Charles Lloyd and Friends
w/ Bill Frisell
Town Hall Seattle, 8pm

Friday, November 1, 7:30pm | Jones Playhouse Theater UW

Bill Frisell w/ Cuong Vu & Robin Holcomb

$20 general | $12 students & seniors
Presented by the University of Washington School of Music
This year’s Earshot Jazz Festival artist-in-residence, world-renowned guitar innovator Bill Frisell, creates at the intersections of jazz, country and pop, all processed through his inimitable personal style. He presents five groups in four concerts, beginning with this collaboration with two other renowned resident musicians – trumpeter Cuong Vu, a veteran of Pat Metheny’s band who has lit up the local scene, and captivating vocalist and pianist Robin Holcomb, who, like Frisell, is equally conversant in an array of American musical realms.

Friday, November 1, 7:30pm | Tula’s

Marc Seales Group

$16 general | $14 members & seniors | $8 students
Seattle’s hippest and most elegant jazz mainstay celebrates a new CD. For two decades pianist, composer and educator Marc Seales has been a leading jazz figure in the Northwest and has toured and performed with many jazz greats, including Don Lanphere, Joe Henderson, Art Pepper and Bobby Hutcherson. Critics have praised Seales variously for his “meaty piano solos,” and “blues-inflected, Hancock-inspired modernism.” Inducted to the Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame in 2009, Seales is today promoting jazz awareness among young talents at the UW, where he’s a professor.

Friday, November 1, 8pm | The Royal Room

Brian Haas & Scott Amendola | Chemical Clock

$16 general | $14 members & seniors | $8 student
Brian Haas and Scott Amendola perform Haas’ Frames, a through-composed work for piano and percussion written entirely by Haas. Haas has recorded 21 albums and toured the world for two decades with Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey. Now based in Santa Fe, Haas wrote Frames as a suite, equally influenced by stride piano master Fats Waller; the early minimalist works of Philip Glass and Steve Reich. The music is eleven unique compositions – a pastoral, melodic telling of the story of an imagined life.
Led by keyboardist and composer Cameron Sharif, Chemical Clock is a blast of post-genre math jams, combining Ray Larsen’s electric trumpet, Sharif’s crunchy, eight-bit-like electric keys, Mark Hunter’s Hohner-bass sound and Evan Woodle’s impeccable, thoroughly sub-divided deep-snare pops and rim shots in aspects of jazz, prog-metal and EDM.

Friday-Sunday, November 1-3, 7pm & 9:30pm | The Triple Door

Manhattan Transfer

7pm: $40 advance, $45 day of show, $50 VIP | 9:30pm: $30 advance, $35 day of show, $40 VIP
Presented by The Triple Door
For 40 years, Manhattan Transfer has been at the forefront of harmony vocal quartets. With worldwide sales in the millions, Grammy Awards by the dozen, and numerous sold-out world tours, its members continue to prove their uncanny knack for being ahead of the times. The group released their self-titled debut in 1975; their remake of the Friendly Brothers gospel classic “Operator” gave the group their first national hit, from the opening four-part a cappella intro to Janis Siegel’s emotional lead vocal. Their 2006 Definitive Pop Collection provides an opportunity to look back at their body of work in American popular music, in preparation for the 40th anniversary of this vocal group nonpareil. 

Saturday, November 2, 8pm | Chapel Performance Space

Paul Kikuchi’s Bat of No Bird Island

$18 general | $16 members & seniors | $9 students
A Nonsequitur co-presentation; supported by Chamber Music America
Seattle-based percussionist, composer, educator and instrument inventor Paul Kikuchi presents the premiere of his song cycle for chamber jazz ensemble – Stuart Dempster (trombone, conches), Bill Horist (prepared guitar), Tari Nelson-Zagar (violin), Eyvind Kang (viola), Maria Scherer Wilson (cello), Rob Millis (78RPM records) – inspired by the memoir of his great grandfather, Zenkichi Kikuchi, a 1901 Japanese immigrant to the Yakima Valley. Kikuchi has performed in collaborative projects from large to small, with Wally Shoup, Stuart Dempster, and solo, in site-specific works. He’s the artistic director and founder of Prefecture Records. He holds a master of fine arts from the California Institute of the Arts African American Improvisational Music program led by Wadada Leo Smith, of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM).

Saturday, November 2, 7:30pm | Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall
Sunday, November 3, 2pm | Kirkland Performance Center

Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra
Take Five: Remembering Dave Brubeck

$44 adult | $40 senior | $15 youth
Presented by Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra
The region’s all-star jazz aggregation pays tribute to pioneering pianist and composer Dave Brubeck in a concert exploring his long, astounding career. “Take Five” has been the best-selling jazz hit of all time, and is just one of the many Brubeck chart-toppers you will hear in this concert.

Saturday, November 2, 7:30pm | Tula’s

Jon Pugh Quartet

$16 general | $14 members & seniors | $8 students
Stylish cornet player Jon Pugh was the featured trumpet and cornet soloist with the legendary Northwest saxophonist Don Lanphere for 30 years. Toinight, he’s with Seattle jazz stars pianist Bill Anschell, bassist Chuck Deardorf and drummer Mark Ivester. 

Sunday, November 3, 8pm PONCHO Concert Hall, Cornish College

Kora Band

$18 general | $16 members & seniors | $9 students
Drawing well-deserved attention far from its Portland and Seattle roots, this ensemble combines elements of jazz and West African music – with pianist Andrew Oliver, kora player Kane Mathis, drummer Mark DiFlorio, trumpeter Chad McCullough and bassist Brady Millard-Kish.
The art of playing the kora, a 21-string gourd-harp that originated with the Mandinka people of West Africa, has been passed down for generations among the Jeli, musicians who act as historians, teachers and philosophers in countries such as The Gambia, Guinea, Senegal and Burkina Faso. Today, the instrument has gained a greater degree of attention around the world, mainly due to crossover fame of kora master Foday Musa Suso and extensive touring by Mali’s Toumani Diabaté. Kane Mathis, the kora player here, could perhaps be considered a Jeli in a new, international sense of the term. The Kora Band puts its namesake in an entirely new context that highlights the instrument’s character in a way that hasn’t been done previously, providing energetic, charged rhythms and melodies for Mathis to fly over.

Sunday, November 3, 7:30pm | Jones Playhouse Theater UW

Bill Frisell w/ Ted Poor & Luke Bergman

$20 general | $12 students & seniors
Presented by the University of Washington School of Music
In imagining new music, it’s no surprise that Bill Frisell would call on in-demand young bassist Luke Bergman and New York-Seattle drummer Ted Poor, both of whom range from the most subtle to the thunderous. All three are now on the UW jazz faculty.
After graduating from the Eastman School of Music, drummer Poor moved to New York City. Poor performs with Cuong Vu, guitarist Ben Monder, and the Respect Sextet. Poor has held residencies at the Eastman School of Music, Berklee College of Music, Cal Arts, Lawrence University, the University of Oregon, and the HR Big Band of Frankfurt. He is currently an artist-in-residence at the UW.
An innovative bassist, composer and producer, Luke Bergman has become an integral part of the music scene in the Northwest. His artistic and educational efforts as well as his dedication to creative music have served as a touchstone for a new generation of Seattle musicians – through his music with Heatwarmer, Speak, Thousands and with Cuong Vu. He is the co-creator, organizer and artistic director of the Racer Sessions and a board member, producer, recording engineer and co-founder of Table and Chairs Music.

Wednesday, November 6, 7:30pm | Kirkland Performance Center

Omar Sosa Afri-Lectric Sextet

$38
Presented by Kirkland Performance Center
The Cuban composer and pianist fuses jazz and global elements with Afro-Cuban spiritualism to create a captivating, urban Latin-jazz sound. He presents material from his new CD, Eggun, a tribute to Miles Davis’ seminal Kind of Blue, with his multinational band – Marque Gilmore (drums), Childo Tomas (electric bass), Joo Kraus (trumpet, flugelhorn), Leandro Saint-Hill (alto sax, flute), and Peter Apfelbaum (tenor sax).
Sosa’s soul lies in his unique blend of Afro-Cuban rhythms. But within his poetic, swirling performances, you may encounter whiffs of everyone from Tchaikovsky to Bud Powell to Brian Eno. Sosa and his eclectic group of musicians combine electronic loops, found sound, children’s toys and African and Middle Eastern instruments, all tastefully employed to create a colorful fabric of sound.

Wednesday, November 6, 7:30pm | The Triple Door

Garfield High School Jazz Band

$16 general | $14 members & seniors | $8 students
The region’s perennial powerhouse of high-school jazz, under the baton of its long-serving, multi award-winning director, Clarence Acox, shows that it carries the very spirit of Seattle’s remarkable jazz continuum. An instrumental figure in the Seattle music scene, Acox has nurtured young musicians for the past 35 years as director of the jazz program at Garfield High School.
An accomplished musician, educator and drummer, Acox has received many awards and honors over the years including Educator of the Year by DownBeat in 2001. Under Acox’s direction, Garfield has won Jazz at Lincoln Cen­ter’s Essentially Ellington Jazz Band Competition four times (2003, 2004, 2009, 2010), and gar­nered second (2002, 2008) and third place (2006) finishes. Notable Garfield graduates include Clark Gayton, Anne Drum­mond, Tatum Greenblatt, Nick Roseboro and the Marriott brothers.

Thursday, November 7, 8pm | PONCHO Concert Hall, Cornish College

Kneebody

$18 general | $16 members & seniors | $9 students
MASTERCLASS: Kneebody | Thursday, November 7, 12:30pm | PONCHO Concert Hall, Cornish College | Free
A “resolutely un-pindownable band” (Nate Chinen, NYT), Kneebody melds urban genres into its own signature sound – with keyboardist Adam Benjamin, trumpeter Shane Endsley, tenor saxophonist Ben Wendel, bassist Kaveh Rastegar and drummer Nate Wood. Their explosive rock energy and nuanced chamber ensemble playing, with highly wrought compositions balanced with adventurous no-holds-barred improvising, is fueled by a unique group cueing system that allows changing tempo, key, style and more, in an instant. The quintet met at Eastman School of Music and Cal Arts and converged amid the eclectic music scene of 2001 Los Angeles. This fall, the group celebrates their debut with Concord Records, The Line, their fourth release.

Saturday, November 9, 7:30pm | Jones Playhouse Theater UW

Dave Douglas w / the Cuong Vu Trio & University of Washington Jazz Students

$20 general | $12 students & seniors
Presented by the University of Washington School of Music
A rare opportunity to hear two renowned jazz trumpeters perform together – here with UW faculty members and top students.
Dave Douglas, the most original trumpeter-composer of his generation, explicitly cites diverse influences from Igor Stravinsky to Stevie Wonder to John Coltrane. As a composer, Douglas adapts and synthesizes unusual forms and creates his own out of disparate elements. As a trumpeter, he possesses a comprehensive technique in expressive and extended manipulations of timbre and pitch. Douglas grew up in the New York City area, started playing piano at the age of five, then trombone at seven before discovering the trumpet at nine. He learned jazz harmony in high school and began playing improvised music as an exchange student in Barcelona, Spain. He studied in Boston, at Berklee, then the New England Conservatory. He moved to New York City in 1984, where he attended NYU and studied with Carmine Caruso. The early 90s saw Douglas recording and touring in earnest – the Tiny Bell Trio, with drummer Jim Black and guitarist Brad Shepik; his string group with violinist Mark Feldman, cellist Erik Friedlander, bassist Mark Dresser; and his quartet and sextet, including drummer Joey Baron; and with John Zorn’s Masada quartet. Douglas began his own Greenleaf Music label in 2005. In 2012, Douglas released Be Still with a new quintet, featuring vocalist Aoife O’Donovan with saxophonist Jon Irabagon, pianist Matt Mitchell, bassist Linda Oh and drummer Rudy Royston. In 2013, Douglas returned with the same quintet, minus O’Donovan, for Time Travel.

Sunday, November 10, 7:30pm | Meany Hall UW

Bill Frisell’s Big Sur Quintet |
Jim Woodring, Eyvind Kang, Bill Frisell

$20 general | $12 students & seniors
Presented by the University of Washington School of Music
After Eyvind Kang and one-of-a-kind cartoonist Jim Woodring join him in an opening performance, Bill Frisell presents his Big Sur Quintet, fresh from a CD release – with Jenny Scheinman on violin, Seattle-based Eyvind Kang on viola, Hank Roberts on cello and Rudy Royston on drums. Playing Frisell’s entrancing compositions, they evoke the singular spacious beauty of the Southern California coastline in this suite commissioned by and premiered at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 2012. Frisell’s unique amalgam of blues, country and jazz combine to form a dynamic invocation of the breathtaking collision of oceanic vistas, redwood forests and rolling plains.
Jim Woodring was born in Los Angeles in 1952 and enjoyed a childhood made lively by an assortment of mental and psychological quirks. A self-taught artist, his first published works documented his disorienting early days ­– The Book of Jim. He is best known for wordless comics depicting the follies of Frank, a generic cartoon anthropomorph whose adventures careen wildly from sweet to appalling. The 2010 Frank story Weathercraft won The Stranger’s Genius Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for that year. The most recent Frank book, Congress of the Animals, was released in 2011. His multimedia collaborations with Frisell won them a United States Artists Fellowship in 2006.

Wednesday, November 13, 8pm | The Royal Room

Piano Starts Here:
The Music of Bud Powell

$12 general | $10 members & seniors | $6 students
Four of Seattle’s brightest pianists – Marc Seales, Sumi Tonooka, Gus Carns, Tim Kennedy – celebrate one of the true giants of jazz piano, Bud Powell. Curated by Wayne Horvitz and Tim Kennedy, the ongoing Piano Starts Here series highlights the work of prolific and talented composers and pianists in jazz history. Each presentation features pianists in an improvised solo-piano tribute. The formidable Earl “Bud” Powell played with the greatest jazz musicians of his generation, including Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Charlie Mingus and Max Roach. His intriguing, storied life and hefty bop pianism remains the awe of generations of new listeners.

Thursday, November 14, 8pm | EMP Museum: Level 3

NEXT Collective

$22 general | $20 members & seniors | $11 students
In collaboration with Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense, with support from The Argus Fund
This supergroup, packed with stars from recent Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competitions, has re-energized the Harlem scene with their own interpretations of songs by contemporary artists Bon Iver, Drake, N.E.R.D, Little Dragon and more. Their Cover Art (2013) was recently released on Concord Records.
Pianist Gerald Clayton joins bassist Ben Williams, saxophonist Logan Richardson, guitarist Matt Stevens and drummer Jamire Williams, a DownBeat Rising Star. All educated at top music schools, this group has apprenticed on incredible bandstands and brings our modern musical landscape, in twists and turns, right back to us. Alto saxophonist Logan Richardson is, “One of the ten burning alto saxophonists worldwide,” declares France’s Jazzman magazine. Guitarist Matthew Stevens contributes to Christian Scott’s projects. Keyboardist Gerald Clayton won the 2011 Edison award for Best International Jazz Album, has three Grammy nominations and was second place in the 2006 Thelonious Monk Institute Jazz Pianist Competition. Bassist Ben Williams tours with Pat Metheny and Stefon Harris. Drummer Jamire Williams performs with Christian Scott, Bilal, Kenny Garrett, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Solange Knowles, Jason Moran, Gretchen Parlato and Robert Glasper. And no one older than 34!

Thursday, November 14, 5:30pm | Seattle Art Museum Brotman Forum

Bill Anschell Quartet

Free
Bill Anschell performs with his sublime piano jazz ensemble. In recent years, Anschell has received multiple awards, including Acoustic Ensemble of the Year (2006) for work with his trio. In 2011, he received his third Instrumentalist of the Year award and the Golden Ear award for Recording of the Year, for solo piano album Figments (Origin). He began his musical career in Seattle and subsequently traveled around the globe, studying mridangam, a South Indian drum. He spent significant time in Atlanta, where he was the jazz coordinator for the Southern Arts Federation (SAF), 1989-1992. At the same time, he created and hosted JazzSouth, a radio show dedicated to discussing, analyzing and dee-jaying jazz by southern artists. Anschell recently toured Peru with his jazz trio.

Friday, November 15, Panel discussion at 6:30pm, music at 8pm | The Royal Room

Industrial Revelation | Overton Berry

$12 general | $10 members & seniors | $6 students
Music and discussion relating to Seattle’s black music legacy, from the Local 493 veteran pianist Overton Berry (in performance with Evan Flory-Barnes) to the hard-hitting Industrial Revelation, with insights gathered by History Link on Seattle’s segregated Musician’s Unions 76 and 493.
Berry was inducted into the Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame in 2012. Born in Houston, 1936, Berry graduated early from Garfield HS in 1949, studied music at Linfield College, Oregon, then transferred to the UW. For work, Berry gigged at Dave’s Fifth Avenue, then moved to the Colony Club. He became the musical director at the House of Entertainment for the Seattle World’s Fair, and, in the late 60s, went on USO tour with bassist Chuck Metcalf, drummer Bill Kotick and singer Gene Stridel.

Saturday, November 16, 7pm | The Royal Room

Peter Brötzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love

$18 general | $16 members & seniors | $9 students
The torrential duo of German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love represents two generations of the most innovative jazz-infused free improvisation. Brötzmann is one of the most important and uncompromising figures in free jazz and has been at the forefront of developing a unique, European take on free improvisation since the 1960s. Self-taught on clarinet and saxophone, Brötzmann established himself as one of the most powerful and original players around, releasing a number of now highly sought after recordings, including the epochal Machine Gun session.
While Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love had yet to be born when Brötzmann’s legendary record Machine Gun exploded into the jazz world in 1968, he was quickly recognized as a fiercely skilled percussionist upon his arrival on the early 90s European jazz scene. A stalwart of present-day improvised music, Nilssen-Love performs with a wide array of collaborative projects, including The Thing, Atomic and the drum chair in Brötzmann’s own Chicago Tentet. Together, the duo illustrates the raging, discordant passion that audiences have come to expect from Europe’s finest.

Sunday, November 17, 7:30pm Tula’s

McTuff

$16 general | $14 members & seniors | $8 students
Join us closing night with a classic Hammond organ group as tough as its name. Hammond organist Joe Doria brings together some of the best of the NW music scene to create a powerful and jaw-dropping funk and jazz sound. His McTuff is an adventure featuring Andy Coe on guitar and Tarik Abouzied on drums. McTuff began in 2008 as an ode to jazz organ greats Jimmy Smith and Captain Jack McDuff. The band’s current members have performed with an impressive list of world-renowned artists, including Carlos Santana, Stanton Moore, Ravi Coltrane, Bobby Previte, Santana drummer Michael Shrieve, Mike Stern and many others. They’ve held a residency at Seattle’s Seamonster Lounge for over five years. Their Tuesday night show has become a regular stop for local and traveling musicians including Allen Stone, Jeff Coffin (Dave Matthews Band), G Love (and Special Sauce), Blake Lewis, Kevin Sawka, Evan Flory-Barnes, and many others.

Sunday, November 17, 8pm | Town Hall Seattle

Charles Lloyd & Friends featuring Bill Frisell

$28 general | $26 members & seniors | $14 students | $35 preferred seating
The venerable saxophonist has performed breathtaking, transcendent concerts here in Seattle and around the globe, and has built a legacy of some of the most compelling recordings in jazz. This concert promises to be a blissful finale to Earshot 25, as Seattle’s favorite guitarist – and one of the world’s – lends his boundless talents to a quartet that also includes bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland.
A refined, spiritual and uncompromising musical genius, tenor saxophonist Lloyd first came into prominence in the 1960s as the musical arranger for Chico Hamilton and later as a member of the Cannonball Adderley Sextet. His first quartet introduced the young pianist Keith Jarrett, and his 1966 recording Forest Flower (Atlantic/Rhino) was one of the first jazz records to sell 1 million copies. Lloyd then surprisingly walked away from performing. He’s returned in recent years with earnest and adventurous recordings for ECM – Athens Concert with Maria Farantouri (2010), Mirror (2010), Jumping the Creek (2005), Which Way is East (2004) and Lift Every Voice (2002).