BY ROBERT HAM Ron Weinstein, Jazz Before Hours Self-released, November 2023 Keyboardist Ron Weinstein is the surest bet one can make in the Northwest jazz community. Whether he’s playing the unclassifiable sounds of his project Crack Sabbath, or sitting in with...
BY MATTHEW ADKINS Pony Boy All-Star Big Band, This Is Now (Live at Boxley’s) Pony Boy Records, July 2024 The Pony Boy All-Star Big Band calls their most recent album This Is Now, a phrase reminiscent of Ezra Pound’s famous dictum, “Make it new.” There’s a singular...
Dawn Clement photo by Lisa Hagen Glynn On the Scene is a series that invites budding and professional photojournalists to share another lens of Seattle’s vibrant jazz scene. Our thanks to Lisa Hagen Glynn for these photos from the 2024 Jazz Port Townsend week! Earshot...
Freddy “Fuego” Gonzalez photo courtesy of the artist BY ALEXA PETERS Freddy “Fuego” Gonzalez, trombonist, composer and this year’s commissioned artist for the Earshot Jazz Festival, is an explorer. More aptly, he’s dauntlessly thorough, the sort of musician who jumps...
Skerik photo by Daniel Sheehan BY M. V. SMITH “I like to be in bands.” Forty years into his musical career, Seattle saxophonist Skerik, resident artist of the 2024 Earshot Jazz Festival, has earned the right to a little understatement. At one time or another a...
