RIP Dee Dee Rainbow
Frequent concert attendee and jazz fan Dee Dee Rainbow died November 12, of heart disease, at 81. She was a beloved art teacher at Meany Middle School, and was known to wear colorful outfits to jazz and cultural events from Monterey to Seattle. Seattle Times reports a celebration of Ms. Rainbow’s life, including a New Orleans-style funeral march, is scheduled for 1pm, January 4, at University Unitarian Church, 6556 35th Ave NE, Seattle.

PIE Features, November
Episode 2.6 of the KCTS 9 program PIE, aired November 7, features Evan Flory-Barnes playing bass and narrating a segment about the history of AFM Seattle Negro Musicians Union Local 493, the black musicians’ union. The episode also features an interview with and performance by the Kora Band. Find the episode at kcts9.org/pie/journey.

Chamber Music America Features
In a recent installment of the Sounding Board Features interview series, CMA speaks with percussionist Paul Kikuchi – recipient of a 2012 New Jazz Works grant – about the attention to bodily sensation that governs the improvisation in his new works, why he’s sometimes compelled to invent his own instruments and the inter-generational narrative behind his new CMA commission, Bat of No Bird Island. More at chamber-music.org/sounding-board-features/paul-kikuchi.

Seattle Office of Arts & Culture 2014 City Artists
Filmmaker Kay D. Ray is among the recipients of Seattle’s City Artist Projects awards. She’ll complete the final re-edit of a documentary film based on interviews of American women instrumentalists in jazz from the 1920s to 1970s.

ArtistTrust Award Recipients
Sound artist and engineer Robb Kunz, who creates kinetic works with handmade electronics and repurposed materials, is a 2013 ArtistTrust Fellowship recipient; composer and trumpeter Samantha Boshnack is a 2013 Grants for Artists Projects recipient. The 2013 ArtistTrust grant recipients were celebrated at an awards party at the EMP, November 8.

Jazz Radio

88.5 KPLU hosts Saturday Jazz Matinee, Jazz Sunday Side Up, Ken Wiley’s the Art of Jazz and Jim Wilke’s Jazz After Hours and Jazz Northwest, in addition to its weekday NPR and late-night and prime-time jazz programs. For KPLU’s full jazz schedule, see kplu.org/schedule.
Jim Wilke’s Jazz Northwest, Sundays, 2pm, features the artists and events of the regional jazz scene. For JazzNW podcasts of archived programs, see jazznw.org.

90.3 KEXP, late-night Sundays, features Jazz Theater with John Gilbreath, 1am, and Sonarchy, midnight, a live-performance broadcast from the Jack Straw Productions studio, produced by Doug Haire. Full schedule information is available at kexp.org and jackstraw.org.
Sonarchy’s December lineup: December 1, Gyre, deep-listening electronics trio Michael Shannon, David Stanford and Carl Lierman; December 8, guitarist Rik Wright’s Fundamental Forces with James Dejoie (reeds), Geoff Harper (bass) and Greg Campbell (drums); December 15, Syrinx Effect, Naomi Siegel and Kate Olson, jazz- and folk-informed trombone and soprano sax with electronics; December 22, Ron Fein, live improvisation at the piano with pre-recorded material; December 29, Trans-Pecos, a desert soundtrack for a long winter night.

91.3 KBCS, on late Sundays and prime-time Mondays, features Floatation Device with John Seman and Jonathan Lawson; Straight, No Chaser with David Utevsky; Giant Steps with John Pai. More about jazz on KBCS at kbcs.fm.

94.9 KUOW, Saturdays, 7pm, features Amanda Wilde’s the Swing Years and Beyond, popular music from the 1920s to the 1950s. More at kuow.org/swing_years.php.

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