Heather Chriscaden photo by Daniel Sheehan BY NATHAN BLUFORD Bassist and educator Heather Chriscaden’s journey in jazz has taken her all over the Pacific Northwest, out to New York, and around the world. When she moved back to Western Washington shortly before the...
Johnaye Kendrick photo by Daniel Sheehan BY ROBERT HAM “When I’m singing or performing really beautiful, but challenging material [it] becomes a part of me. I see some of the rhythmic or harmonic or melodic ideas creep out of my original work. I don’t realize that...
Sara Gazarek photo by Lauren Desberg BY HENRY COBA Eastman School of Music has selected Sara Gazarek as associate professor of jazz voice within the Jazz and Contemporary Media department. Gazarek’s role will be to create, design, and recruit for the newly...
Pax Wallace photo courtesy of the artist BY MELANIE GRIMES Steve “Pax” Wallace is a composer, pianist, and an intrepid musical adventurer. Inspired by the likes of Wayne Shorter, Ralph Towner, Kenny Wheeler, Keith Jarrett, and Chick Corea, Wallace marries influence...
Jean-Paul Builes photo by Jake Hanson BY ERIC OLSON In 2021, as a reliably drab spring burst into summertime and newly vaccinated Seattleites eked free of winter’s many confinements, I found myself at a July Fourth celebration on the southern banks of the Duwamish...
