The smiles were wide and contagious when Martin Taylor and Frank Vignola returned to the KNKX studios for a guitar duet performance. Regarded as two of the best acoustic guitarists in the world, our studio audience also shared their intense love of music and joy of playing that came shining
The Tiptons Saxophone Quartet and Drums was formed in Seattle in 1988. Now with only Amy Denio still based in the Puget Sound area, the
The Westerlies unique combination of two trumpets and two trombones, nothing else, has been described as “folk-like and composerly, lovely and intellectually rigorous.” In the
In November concerts, The Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra played big band Jazz of the Harlem Renaissance. This is music created by some of the greatest African-American jazz orchestras led by Jimmy Lunceford, Horace Henderson, Fletcher Henderson, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and others. It comes from a period in the 1920s
Live Seattle radio broadcasts by Johnny Griffin and Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis from 1962 provide source material for a new release on
Saxophonist Kate Olson brought her KO Ensemble to The Seattle Art Museum for November’s Art of Jazz concert presented by
