Chamber Music America
Among the Chamber Music America (CMA) Presenter Consortium for Jazz grantees for 2015: Earshot Jazz, Helena Presents/Myrna Loy Center (Helena, MT), and the John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts (Eugene, OR) presenting Wayne Horvitz and Some Places Are Forever Afternoon and Cornish Presents, the Musical Instrument Museum (Phoenix, AZ), and SF Jazz (San Francisco) presenting the Vijay Iyer Trio. Supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Presenter Consortium for Jazz, established in 2014, provides support to consortiums of three U.S. presenters to collectively engage up to three professional U.S. jazz ensembles to perform. More at www.chamber-music.org.
Jazz Radio
88.5 KPLU, kplu.org, hosts Saturday Jazz Matinee, Jazz Sunday Side Up, Ken Wiley’s the Art of Jazz, 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, kexp.org, 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, now into its 20th year on air. Full schedule information is available at kexp.org and jackstraw.org.
Sonarchy’s March schedule: March 1, Steve Roden, visual and sound artist from LA, performs improvised soundscapes made during a Jack Straw Productions artist residency; March 8, Racer Session #2 continues this Sonarchy series featuring The Racer Sessions with Steve Treseler (tenor sax, bass clarinet), Kate Olson (soprano sax, clarinet, cracklebox), Don Berman, Brandon Lucia and Jen Gilleran (drums and percussion); March 15, Christian Pincock Group with Pincock (valve trombone, electronics, composition), Levi Gillis (tenor sax), Jon Hansen (tuba), Chris Icasiano (drums); March 22, Newaxeyes sounds like the Internet, funerals and government conspiracies, with Tyler Coray (guitar), William Hayes (guitar, prepared guitar), Bret Gardin (electronics), Jordan Rundle (electronics); March 29, Brent Jensen/Scott Farkas, freely improvised saxes, flute, recorder, and percussion.
91.3 KBCS, kbcs.fm 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.
91.7 KSVR, ksvr.org, Skagit Valley Community Radio, broadcast from the Skagit Valley College Campus, features jazz host Dr. D, Mondays, 10pm-midnight.
94.9 KUOW, kuow.org, 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.
In One Ear News
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