Roy Parnell (1943-2006) - Earshot Jazz

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1 JA Hiromi, 7:30 JU Sandra Locklear & Inner Circle Quartet, 8 MA PK & Tom Swafford, 7:30 TD Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, 7:30 TU Gail Pettis Trio, 8 1/2 SANDRA LOCKLEAR Seattle-based vocalist-pianist Sandra Locklear records a new CD during these two evenings at Jubilante in Renton, with her Inner Circle Quartet: Jack Klitzman on horns, Mike Barnett on bass and Steve Korn on drums. The show also features guest vocalist Jim Locklear. Sandra Locklear sings standards and originals with great emotion and proficiency, honed during years of singing in Europe, Canada, the Northwest, and Alaska, and influenced by the likes of Astrud Gilberto, Laura Nyro, Carol King, Shirley Horne, and Nina Simone. The club is all-ages until 10pm. 1/3/4/11 GAIL PETTIS You have four opportunities to hear this nominee for last year’s Golden Ear Award for best vocalist. Gail Pettis, originally from Gary, Indiana, and schooled in the art of the jazz vocal locally by Dee Daniels and Greta Matassa, and an admirer of the likes of Bobby Caldwell and Kevin Mahogany, goes from strength to strength, performing a winning, crowd-involving style of vocal jazz. In these pages last July, Todd Matthews wrote of Pettis that “A performance provides Pettis the opportunity to process, learn, reflect, and quite often unpack a tune in search of its core feeling and emotion. It’s a goal that Pettis frequently achieves, and with a soulful grace that makes the process seem almost effortless.” She told Matthews: “As I experience it, the currency of jazz is emotion. That’s what you give and hopefully get back.” She is at Tula’s on March 1, the Sorrento Hotel’s elegant Fireside Get your gigs listed! To submit your gig information go to www.earshot.org/data/gigsubmit.asp or e-mail us at calendar@earshot.org with details of the venue, start-time, and date. As always, the deadline for getting your listing in print is the 15th of the previous month. The online calendar is maintained throughout the month, so if you are playing in the Seattle metro area, let us know! AA Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park, Seattle AF Affairs Cafe, 2811 Bridgeport Way West, University Place, (253) 565-8604 BF Benaroya Hall, 3rd and Union Downtown Seattle, 215-4747 BJ Beacon Pub, 3057 Beacon Ave S, 726-0238 BP (425) 391-3335 C* Concerts and Special Events CC Charlie’s at Shilshole, 7001 Seaview Ave NW, 783-8338 CF Coffee Messiah, 1554 E Olive Way, 861-8233 CF Copperfield’s Restaurant, 8726 S Hosner, Tacoma, (253) 531-1500 CM Crossroads Shopping Center, 15600 NE Eighth St, Bellevue, (425) 644-1111 CV Café Venus and Mars Bar, 609 Eastlake Ave E CZ Cutter Point 7520 27th St. W. University Place, (253) 565-4935 FB Seattle First Baptist Church, Seneca at Harvard on First Hill GT Gallery 1412, 1412 18th Ave GR Grazie Rist., 23207 Bothell-Everett Hwy SE, Bothell, (425) 402-9600 HS Hiroshi’s, 2501 Eastlake Plaza, 726-4966 IB Il Bistro, 93-A Pike St, 682-3049 JA Jazz Alley, 2033 6th Ave, 441-9729 JB Jazzbones, 2803 6th Ave, Tacoma, (253) 396-9169 JF Johnny’s, Fife exit 137 off I-5 at Motel 6, (253) 922-6686 JU Jubilante Restaurant, 305 Burnett Ave S, Renton (425) 226-1544 JW Julia’s of Broadway, 300 Broadway, 860-1818 KR Kirkland Performance Center, 350 Kirkland Ave, Kirkland, (425) 893-9900 LA Latona by Green Lake, 6432 Latona NE, 525-2238 LU Luigi’s Grotto, 102 Cherry, 343-9517 18 • Earshot Jazz • March 2006 Room on the 3 rd and 4 th , and at Bake’s Place Providence Point, on the Eastside, on the 11 th . 1 HIROMI Still only in her mid-20s, this extremely gifted Japanese pianist inherited a wealth of knowledge about jazz from her mentor, Ahmad Jamal, and from other piano greats. She blended it with everything from the classics to funk, and emerges as one of the most promising talents in modern piano jazz, as evidenced by her 2003 debut CD Another Mind. Hiromi Uehara was a child classical-music prodigy who discovered jazz in her teens. At 17, she had a now-fabled chance meeting with piano legend Chick Corea who, on hearing her, invited her to perform with him in concert the next day. In 1999, Hiromi enrolled at Berklee College of Music in Boston. She says: “I really don’t have barriers to any type of music. I could listen to everything from metal to classical music to anything else.” And: “I love Bach, I love Oscar Peterson, I love Franz Liszt, I love Ahmad Jamal. I also love people like Sly and the Family Stone, Dream Theatre, and King Crimson... Basically, I’m inspired by anyone who has big, big energy.” At Jazz Alley. 1 STRINGS PACKED IN In the small but music-friendly Matt’s in the Market, upstairs from where Patti Summers’ place used to be, two fine string players, violinist Tom Swafford and bassist PK share their dulcet airs. THURSDAY, MARCH 2 C* Ben Thomas & Tangent Project, Seattle City Hall, 600 4th Ave, noon C* Jeff Hamilton Trio, Bruce Paulson, Wenatchee Jazz Workshop, Wenatchee High School, 7:30 C* Jon Pugh jam for teens, Roy’s Place, 4918 196 th St SW, Lynnwood, 7 JA Monty Alexander & Spirit of Jamaica, 7:30 & 9:30 TD George Kahn, 7:30 TU Greta Matassa vocal workshop, 8 2 VIBES, MAN Seattle vibraphonist Ben Thomas plays swinging, pulsing jazz that has captured the attention of critics far afield. In Jazz USA, John Barrett, Jr. praised Thomas’s second album, The Mystagogue, for its “power -it’s here by the truckload. While Ben Thomas brings his mallets down hard, his band stretches in serpentine, Zappa-like themes. There’s tons of sustain on the title track, endless harmony for the drums to crash against.” Similarly, in All Music Guide, Adam Greenburg praised his “contemporary take on the vibes that’s still influenced by the various masters.” 2 GRETA MATASSA Greta Matassa, a perennial favorite among fans of jazz vocals, leads a vocal workship at Tula’s. She is “stratospherically gifted,” as Earshot Jazz said, and has repeatedly won best-jazz-vocalist awards in Seattle, including this year’s Golden Ear Award for best Northwest vocalist. She has a varied and get-after-it style, and is a student of all the greats. At Tula’s at 8. FRIDAY, MARCH 3 C* Pran, Ballard IOOF, 1706 NW Market, Seattle, 7:30 C* Katy Bourne Quartet, Columbia City BeatWalk- Revival Lighting, 4860 Rainier Ave S, 7 C* Garfield High School Big Band Dance, Swedish Club, 1920 Dexter Ave N, 7:30 C* Michael Biller & Joe Casalini Duo, Columbia City Art Gallery, 4864 Rainier Ave S, 7 HS Jon Hamar Trio, 8 MA Matt’s in the Market, 94 Pike St #32, 467-7909 MK Mr. Lucky, 315 1st Ave N Seattle, 282-1960 NE Norm’s Eatery, 460 N. 36th, (206) 547-1417 NO New Orleans Restaurant, 114 First Ave S, 622-2563 OU On the House, 1205 E Pike, (206) 324-3974 OW Owl ‘n Thistle, 808 Post Ave, 621-7777 PC Plymouth Congregational Church, 1217 6th Ave, (206) 622-4865 PM Pampas Club, 90 Wall St, 728-1140 PN Poncho Concert Hall at Cornish College of the Arts, 710 E Roy St. RD Richmond Beach Deli, 632 NW Richmond Beach Road, Shoreline, (206) 546-0119 RZ Rendezvous, 2320 2nd, 441-5823 SA The Spar, 2121 N 30th, Tacoma, (253) 627-8215 SB Seamonster Lounge 2202 N 45th St, 633-1824 SF Serafina, 2043 Eastlake Ave E, 323-0807 SQ Scarlet Tree Restaurant, 6521 Roosevelt Way NE, 523-7153 SR Sorrento Hotel, 900 Madison, 622-6400 ST Suite G, 513 N 36th St, 632-5656 SU Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Ave, 784-4480 SY Salty’s on Alki, 1936 Harbor Ave SW, 526-1188 TA Tempero Do Brasil Restaurant, 5628 University Way, 523-6229 TB Tutta Bella Neapolitan Pizzeria, 4918 Rainier Ave. S. 721-3501 TD The Triple Door, 216 Union St, 838-4333 TO ToST, 513 N 36th St, 547-0240 TU Tula’s, 2214 2nd Ave, 443-4221 WB Wasabi Bistro, 2311 2nd Ave, 441-6044
The Frank Gratkowski Quartet appeared at Con Works on February 19, with Frank Gratkowski, bass clarinet; Kjell Nordeson, drums; Torsten Müller, bass; and Fred Lonberg-Holm, cello. Photo: David Wight. JA Monty Alexander & Spirit of Jamaica, 7:30 & 9:30 PN Eyvind Kang, Zachary Watkins, Mark Oi, 8 SB Pantheon, 10 SR Gail Pettis Trio, 9 TU Gary Hobbs Quintet, 8:30 3 COMPOSERS NOW! Cornish Alumni Eyvind Kang, Zachary Watkins, and Mark Oi present new compositions in jazz, electronic, and cross-genre experimental music, at PONCHO Concert Hall (710 E Roy St; $15 general, $7.50 students/seniors/Cornish alumni, at door, or from Ticket Window 206.325.6500, www.ticketwindowonline.com, or Ticket Window box offices). Kang is one of the most compelling musical minds in the country – not to miss. He will appear on viola with Tim Young on guitar (worth the price of admission, alone), and Geoff Harper, bass. Zach Watkins uses electronics linked to live music, with John Seman on bass, Mark Ostrowski on percussion, Izaak Mills on woodwinds, and Joe Gray working video images. Also on the program is guitarist Mark Oi, who spent 10 years working with sax legend John Tchicai, and then taught in Cape Verde. Could be the sleeper concert of the year. 3/11/22 KATY BOURNE Oklahoman transplant Katy Bourne sings standards as Geoff Harper (bass) and Ron Weinstein (keys) play, at 7. Originally a sax player, she first sang in blues bands in Seattle before blossoming into a fulltime jazz devotee and studied with Greta Matassa. The also-poet and writer has performed with some of Seattle’s finest musicians including Michael Gotz, Farko Dosumov, Darin Clendenin, Geoffrey Harper, Clipper Anderson, Mark Ivester, Steve Korn, Frank Clayton and Ron Weinstein, and counts, among her musical influences, everyone from Sarah Vaughan, John Coltrane, and Miles Davis to Joni Mitchell and Todd Rundgren. 3/10/17/24/31 PANTHEON Friday nights at the SeaMonster, “SOUL mixing boomBAP jazz with spaceAGE funk, and still rocking hard like jimi... stretching the limits and paying homage...” with P.K., C.D. Littlefield, Kimo, Thaddeus Turner, Chad Redlight, DJ Woogie, guests. Cover $5. 3/10/17/24/31 GIDDY UP! Pony Boy Records is presenting a series of shows every Friday night in March and April at Hiroshi’s Restaurant (2501 Eastlake Plaza, 726-4966; www.hiroshis.com) titled Jazz & Sushi. Each week, drummer Greg Williamson, the head honcho of Pony Boy who is renowned for his big groovy beat, will anchor the line-up, joined by different guest artists from the Pony Boy stable. Williamson has been a stalwart of the local scene – one of the busiest jazzers in the business – backing singers, bandleaders, and dancers up and down the West Coast and far afield, and leading his own Pony Boy All-Star Big Band and Double Sax Quintet. He has spent several years on the road with the big bands of Woody Herman and others and toured with the likes of jazz funnyman Steve Allen and Seattle’s own Ernestine Anderson. Of his driving, exciting sound, Jazz Times says: “Capturing a groove and sticking with it how could you miss?” He has appeared on more than 40 CDs. Read more about his collaborators on this series at www.ponyboyrecrods.com. March 3, he’ll present the Jon Hamar Trio in which he and the bassist are joined by guitarist Ryan Taylor (gtr). March 10: singer Carolyn Graye joins the Greg Williamson Trio that includes pianist John Hansen and the incomparable bassist – no one makes the instrument sound better – Buddy Catlett. March 17, Catlett’s own trio takes the stage, with Williamson and trumpet/sax standout Jay Thomas. March 24, it’ll be singer Karen Shivers with a different Williamson Trio, this time with Jon Hamar on bass and the winner of this year’s Golden Ear Award for musician of the year, pianist Bill Anschell. On the last date of the month, the Greg Williamson Quartet brings together Hamar, Hansen, and a man with a sound as big as the Russian steppes, saxophonist Alexey Nikolaev. Shows are from 8pm to 11pm, with no cover; more shows through April. SATURDAY, MARCH 4 BF Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra w/ Ernestine Anderson, Benaroya/Nordstrom Recital Hall, 7:30 C* Greta Matassa Quintet w/ Susan Pascal, Tacoma Jazz & Wine Festival C* Bar Tabac, Goddess Café (1901 N 45th St), 11am GT Zachary Watkins, Son of Rose, Kazutaka Nomura JA Monty Alexander & Spirit of Jamaica, 7:30 & 9:30 SR Gail Pettis Trio, 9 TU Mike Allen Quartet, Tribute to Wayne Shorter, 8:30 4-5 GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK Vocal great Ernestine Anderson is the special guest of the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra in the third installment of its Great American Songbook series. Hailed as one of the greatest Recuring Weekly Performances MONDAYS IB Blake Micheletto MK Reggie Goings & Jazz Suspenders, NO New Orleans Quintet TUESDAYS NO HoloTrad Jazz OW Bebop & Destruction WEDNESDAYS CV Matt Jorgensen/Mark Taylor Group, 9:30 NO Floyd Standifer Group, 8 PC Susan Pascal/Murl Allen Sanders/Phil Sparks, Noon SA Kareem Kandi Band, 8 ST Ryan Burns Trio THURSDAYS CF Monktail Music Series, 8 CM Victory Music Open Mic, 6 JB Kareem Kandi Band, 8:30 LU Robeson Trio, 8 NO Ham Carson Quintet, 7 SQ Darrius Willrich, 10 TA Urban Oasis, 7 WB Wayne Trane, 9 FRIDAYS AF Kareem Kandi Band, 7 JU Urban Oasis, 9 LA LHH Trio, 5:30 LU Robeson Trio, 8 PM Floyd Standifer, 9 SY Victor Janusz & Tim Koss, 8:30 SATURDAYS AF Kareem Kandi Band, 7 CC Andre Thomas & Quiet Fire, 9 LU Robeson Trio, 8 PM Floyd Standifer, 9 SU Victor Noriega SUNDAYS CZ Kareem Kandi JF Buckshot Jazz, 5:30 NE Dangerous Brain Clinic, 10 TD Arturo Rodriguez, 8 March 2006 • Earshot Jazz • 19
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