Industrial Revelation photo by Daniel Sheehan By Andrew Luthringer “When we first started playing, I thought, this is ‘everything music.’” Industrial Revelation is not a musical entity easily pinned down, but keyboardist Josh Rawlings’ invocation of “everything music”...
Skerik photo by Michael Weintrob By Andrew Luthringer “One of the biggest differences between contemporary jazz musicians and the people that created this music – Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and people like that – is that the contemporary people aren’t rebelling...
Billy Strayhorn photo by Carl Van Vechten “If it’s a big success, I have the tremendous responsibility of having to bow,” Duke Ellington wisecracked about music he had at his disposal thanks to his prodigious songwriter and arranger of 30 years, Billy Strayhorn. David...
Gregg Belisle- Chi photo by Kyle Turver By Andrew Luthringer Gregg Belisle- Chi is a guitarist and composer of mercurial activity yet grounded focus, a contrast that plays out in his presence on the Seattle jazz and creative music scenes: seemingly ubiquitous, yet...
