Roy Parnell (1943-2006) - Earshot Jazz

Bumbershoot Deadline
Bumbershoot, Seattle’s Music & Arts
Festival, which in this, its 36th year, will
become a three-day, rather than fourday
event, still over Labor Day weekend
(September 2-4), and still at the Seattle
Center, is accepting applications for artists,
bands, films, vendors, dancers and
more. To get your application, visit our
applications page, http://www.bumbershoot.com/applicationfaq.html,
and
apply (online only) by March 17.
Free Sheet Music
A collection of sheet music, orchestration
parts, skat sheets etc. is available free
to whoever picks it up first – first come,
first served – in South Seattle. The collection
includes about 700 standards.
The full index is available upon request.
Contact barryware@myway.com.
Vancouver Deadline
The Vancouver Creative Music Institute
has extended the application deadline to
March 31. The educational event takes
place June 17-25, 2006 and overlaps with
the Vancouver International Jazz Festival.
For details, see http://www.vcmi.ca/.
The artistic directors this year are pianist
Marilyn Crispell and bassist Mark Helias,
and the faculty includes Nels Cline,
Mats Gustaffson, Dylan van der Schyff,
and Trimpin. Tuition fee: $CAN850 for
International participants.
Call for Unwanted Instruments
Earshot Jazz asks that people who have
instruments that are unused and are
simply taking up space to consider donating
them to needy students. Any and
all instruments are welcome, as finding
Inside this issue...
Notes ________________________________ 2
Golden Ear Awards Evening ____________ 3
In One Ear ____________________________ 4
Earshot Jazz Spring Series ____________ 5
Preview: The Tiptons _________________ 6
Preview: Le Mystère des
Voix Bulgares _______________ 7
2 • Earshot Jazz • March 2006
homes for them with students eager to
play is not a problem. Earshot Jazz is collecting
them, indefinitely, at the address
listed on this page.
Art of Jazz this Spring
The Earshot Jazz/Seattle Art Museum
Spring Art of Jazz series for 2006 begins
in Febuary, with performances slated for
the Garden Court at the Seattle Asian Art
Museum at Volunteer Park. Shows are
free with the very modest museum entry
fee, and run from 5pm to 7pm.
The 2006 Art of Jazz schedule:
March 9: The Tiptons (Sax Quartet)
April 13: Ben Thomas Trio w/ Jovino
Santos Neto
May 11: Fred Hoadley Quartet
June 8: Jeff Johnson Trio
July 13: Paul Rucker, solo cello
Hurricane Katrina Help
Nonprofit organizations continue to
help jazz musicians in New Orleans to
recover from the devastation – material
and personal – of Hurricane Katrina. If
you’d like to see what you can do, two
good sites are WWOZ, the “jazz and
heritage” radio station, which continues
to broadcast (see www.wwoz.org/music_help.php),
and Jim Wilke’s Jazz After
Hours site (www.jazzafterhours.org).
Events Listings
Please send your gigs listings to
calendar@earshot.org. Please also send
us links to your own websites, so we can
keep our links page up-to-date. Soon,
we will post a guide to how to format
your gigs listings at www.earshot.org/
data/gigsubmit.asp so that you can make
easier our job of helping you. Meanwhile,
please consult the online calendar listings
to see how they should be formatted.
Preview: ICP Orchestra ________________ 9
Roy Parnell __________________________ 12
Preview: These Hills of Glory _________ 14
Please Put Me On Hold _______________ 15
On Music: I, The RCA Puppy __________ 16
Jazz on the Radio ______________________17
Calendar _____________________________ 18
On the Cover Photo by Daniel Sheehan.
Han Bennink performing at the 2005 Earshot Jazz Festival.
Bennink is returning to Seattle on March 25 to perform with
ICP Orchestra at the Seattle Asian Art Museum.
E A R S H O T J A Z Z
A Mirror and Focus for the Jazz Community
Executive Director: John Gilbreath
Earshot Jazz Editor: Peter Monaghan
Contributing Writers: Andrew Bartlett,
Robyn Loda, Peter Monaghan, Lloyd
Peterson, Gordon Todd
Photography: Daniel Sheehan
Layout: Karen Caropepe
Distribution Coordinator: Jack Gold
Mailing: Lola Pedrini
Program Manager: Karen Caropepe
Calendar Information: mail to 3429
Fremont Place #309, Seattle WA
98103; fax to (206) 547-6286; or email
jazz@earshot.org
Board of Directors: Fred Gilbert
(president), Paul Harding (vice-president),
Lola Pedrini (treasurer), Jane Eckels
(secretary), George Heidorn, Taina
Honkalehto, Hideo Makihara, Thomas
Marriott, Richard Thurston
Earshot Jazz is published monthly by
Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle and is
available online at www.earshot.org.
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Mission Statement
Earshot Jazz is a non-profit arts
and service organization formed in
1986 to cultivate a support system
for jazz in the community and to
increase awareness of jazz. Earshot
Jazz pursues its mission through
publishing a monthly newsletter,
presenting creative music, providing
educational programs, identifying and
filling career needs for jazz artists,
increasing listenership, augmenting
and complementing existing services
and programs, and networking with
the national and international jazz
community.