Elnah Jordan photo by Lisa Hagen Glynn September 6-8 Various Locations $10 Suggested Donation BY AKSHAJ TUREBYLU You had to be there. And not just there but then. Being a jazz aficionado in the second century of the art form means facing the harsh reality that many of...
(L-R): Chloe White, Yusa, Marina Albero, Serena, and Chris Cotton. Photo courtesy of the artist BY NATHAN BLUFORD Pianist and composer Marina Albero is a radiant presence in Seattle’s music community. This year, she began an exciting new life chapter by spending...
New Works Ensemble photo by Dylan Koa BY DYLAN KOA “This is a good example of where commerce meets art,” says Wayne Horvitz, as he carefully tucks a cocktail card under a piano leg to balance it. This simple gesture is the epitome of Wayne Horvitz’s New Works...
Gail Pettis photo courtesy of the artist Earshot Jazz is proud to share brief excerpts from the forthcoming book After the Bottle Clubs Closed: Seattle Jazz in the Modern Era w.t. (History Press of Charleston, S.C.) by Seattle’s preeminent jazz writer, Paul de Barros,...
Self-released, February 2024 BY M.V. SMITH While the saxophone is possibly the most prominent instrument in jazz, in classical music, it gets short shrift; nearly a century on from its premiere, the brief, sultry tenor and soprano solos in Maurice Ravel’s Boléro...
