JALC Essentially Ellington Results
Garfield High School, directed by Clarence Acox, received honorable mention at the annual Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington Competition, New York City. The honor comes with an award of $750, to be re-invested in the school’s jazz program. Several Seattle-area students received outstanding or honorable mention soloist awards: pianists Conner Drake, Mount Si High School, and Jack Swiggett and Alice Mar-Abe, Garfield High School; bassists Christian Henriksen, Mount Si High School, and Will Langlie-Miletich, Roosevelt High School; guitarist Peter Stoessel, Roosevelt High School; drummer Luke Woodle, Roosevelt High School; alto saxophonist Anna Dolde, Roosevelt High School; tenors Santosh Sharma, Jesse Beckett-Herbert, Taka Olds, Roosevelt High School, Isak Washburn-Gains and Charles Sawyer, Garfield High School, and Boone Hapke, Mount Si High School; trombonist Porter Jones, Roosevelt High School; trumpeters Jeffrey Gustaveson, John Otten, Rubin Hohlbein, Roosevelt High School, Leslie Kolke, Mount Si High School, and Charles Feig and Thomas Renehan, Garfield High School.
Artist Trust Award Recipients
Artist Trust partners with the Millay Colony for the Arts – a nonprofit artists’ residency program and artists’ center located in the Berkshires, Austerlitz, New York – to provide month-long residencies for artists. Clarinetist, vocalist and composer Beth Fleenor is a residency recipient this year. Congratulations, too, to 2014 Artist Trust Fellowship awardee Daniel Barry, a trumpeter, composer, conductor and the music director for the Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra.
Student DJs, KPLU
During 88.5 KPLU’s School of Jazz Week, May 12-16, students from area high schools joined Evening Jazz host Abe Beeson to share an hour of music selections on air. The guest DJs were invited to the station to celebrate the award-winning outreach program, School of Jazz, now in its tenth year. The program engages jazz professionals with Western Washington high school jazz bands, resulting in an annual fundraising School of Jazz CD compilation. Congrats to the students for their on-air opportunity to share what they are listening to. More at kplu.org.
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 June lineup: June 1, McTuff Trio presents the Dave Lewis Revue, with D’Vonne Lewis (drums), Joe Doria (B-3 organ) and Andy Coe (guitar), covering tunes from the 60s that Seattle jazz hall-of-famer Dave Lewis played during the defining years for the organ trio sound; June 8, Existence Habit, from Astoria, Ore., bring the sound of the Columbia River, with Gregg Skloff (bass process, objects), Roger Hayes (guitar, object processing) and Derek Ecklund (voice, keys, samples); June 15, Jesse Canterbury and Vertigo play new compositions for acoustic ensemble, with Jesse Canterbury (clarinets), Chris Stover (trombone), Lori Goldston (cello) and Tom Baker (guitar); June 22, Dean Moore / Dennis Rea improvisations, with Dean Moore (percussion, processing) and Dennis Rea (guitar); June 29, Spectral Waves, psychedelic rock, with Jack Gold-Molina (drums), Simon Henneman (guitar), Cary Kindberg (bass), Adam Kindberg (guitar).
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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