Besides acknowledging the cream of each year’s crop—outstanding recordings, ensembles, instrumentalists, vocalists and concerts—Golden Ear voters pay homage to the local legends who bind the scene together, inducting a new member of the Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame, and honor future legends, naming an annual Emerging Artist of the Year.
This program for Earshot Jazz Festival discusses performances by Alex Dugdale Funk Band, Johnaye Kendrick’s Heart Songs, Hiromi Sonicwonder, Gretchen Parlato & Lionel Loueke, Sheridan Riley, Thomas Marriott All Star Quartet, säje, Tina Raymond Trio, The Bad Plus & Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog, Stephan Crump, Ingrid Laubrock, Cory Smythe, Sona Jobarteh, Chief Adjuah, Jonah Parzen-Johnson, Here to Play, Winter in America – An Homage to Gil Scott-Heron, Birch Pereira’s Delta Jump, Preston Singletary’s Khu.éex’, Mo’s Jamily Band feat. Estro Fiesta, Jun Iida, Todd Sickafoose’s Bear Proof, Elsa Nilsson’s Band of Pulses, Jahnvi Madan, Linda May Han Oh & Fabian Almazan, John Escreet’s “Seismic Shift” w/ Eric Revis & Damion Reid, Jane Bunnett & Maqueque, Celebrating Mary Lou Williams: An Evening of Live Performance & Film, Kassa Overall, Craig Taborn, Kassa Overall DJ Set, Phinehas Nyang’Oro, Harriet Tubman, Tim Berne’s Oceans And, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra feat. Marina Albero, Omara Portuondo, Mat Maneri’s Ash Quartet, High Pulp, Johnaye Kendrick’s Grounded, Ted Poor Quartet, Michael Bisio & Timothy Hill, Roman Norfleet and Be Present Art Group, Battle of the Bands: Garfield and Roosevelt High School Jazz Bands, Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra w/ Anat Cohen, and La Dame Blanche and Carlos Snaider.
In a Letter from the Director, John Gilbreath reviews Earshot’s 2023 with a focus on the Earshot Jazz Festival and the Earshot Jazz Team that made it all happen.
See the 2022 Earshot Jazz Festival through the photography of Lisa Hagen Glynn.
Dugdale draws from a skillset that mainly concerns the saxophone and the art of tap dancing. He has occupied both the lead alto and baritone saxophone chairs of the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra (SRJO) and thrilled Seattle jazz audiences with his Fade Quintet, which features his tenor playing.
Earshot Jazz would like to introduce you to Alex Dugdale, board member. The board is a group whose work often goes unnoticed by the broader public, but we value their expertise and their dedication to Earshot Jazz.
Author Steve Griggs describes a scene of Dugdale teaching a class of music students at one of the several schools he teaches throughout the week. He describes being 11 and his epiphany while tap dancing in the hot New York subway of understanding jazz as a language. This inspired him to pursue jazz throughout the rest of his education, his style is shaped by years of hard studying. This month, Seattle can catch him perform with the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra at Town Hall.
On Saturday, December 28th, at Town Hall, Seattle audiences can see a gospel choir and tap dancer Alex Dugdale perform with the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra for Earshot Jazz’s 25th annual presentation of Duke Ellington’s Sacred Music concerts. The three Sacred Music Concerts, which premiered in 1965, 1968, and 1973, convey intense emotion and brought jazz tradition into church. Ellington credits these as his most important music ever written. The sheer scale of these concerts makes them infrequently performed.
Earshot Jazz honors jazz as a vital Black American art form through live performance presentations, artist advocacy, and community engagement.
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