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 Tiptons roll on. A new album is due in March, and with their performance in the KNKX studios, the Tiptons showed they’re at the top
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
Roxy Coss grew up with a motto in her house that always stuck with her: do what you love, and the money will follow. She’s
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
