Alicia Olatuja photo courtesy of artist February 18-28 Various venues, Portland, OR The Portland metro area is set to host 100 jazz events in over a dozen venues for the 13th annual PDX Jazz Festival this February. Running Thursday, February 18, through Sunday,...
Friday, February 26, 8pm Seattle Art Museum Seventeen years into its existence, drummer Brian Blade’s Fellowship Band possesses full assurance as it explores a quietly edgy style of jazz. Tuneful, stylish, and imaginative, the unit takes its lead from one of the most...
Saturday, February 20, 8pm Seattle Art Museum A true legend of modern jazz, seldom seen outside of his work with Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock returns to Seattle with his sparkling trio of Marc Copland, piano, and the great Joey Baron on drums. The senior statesman...
Tuesday, February 16, 8pm PONCHO Concert Hall Ches Smith, one of the most exciting drummer/composers on the fertile Brooklyn jazz scene appears here with veterans of the jazz vanguard (and his ECM release The Bell), Craig Taborn (piano) and Mat Maneri (viola). What...
Christian Pincock photo courtesy of artist January 22-24 Café Racer, 5828 Roosevelt Wy NE Suggested donation at door The late Andrew Carrico, a Seattle baritone saxophone player, often described the sound of his instrument as a noise between a “cry and a roar.” This...
