Performing in the KNKX studios, young jazz upstarts Dylan Hayes (keyboards) and Xavier Lecouturier compose intricate jazz with improvisational energy. It’s a tricky balancing act that these two Californians continue to refine, made easier by their relatively longtime working relationship. They’ve been collaborating since high school, and now wrapping up
Guitarist Dave Peterson has been the “secret sauce” in the Seattle jazz scene for decades. He taught at Cornish College of the Arts for 35
Pianist Emmet Cohen has a passion for music, and still in his late 20s, he’s only begun to share that passion with audiences and fellow
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
