Roy Parnell (1943-2006) - Earshot Jazz

modern classical influences, expertly rendered
by Noriega and his trio. Ranks with the best
jazz CDs of the year so far.” For this CD release,
Noriega will be accompanied, as he has been
for six years, by Willie Blair, bass; and Eric
Eagle, drums. “Alay” means “gift” or “offering” in
Tagalog. Noriega says he wanted to pay homage
to the music he heard at home growing up.
However, these are “not just jazzed-up Filipino
songs,” Noriega says. Instead they are playful,
sometimes complex and eclectic arrangements.
At 1pm at the Seattle Asian Art Museum in
Volunteer Park; $11; $9 students/museum
members, at the door or www.noriegamusic.
com.
MONDAY, MARCH 20
TD Bellevue Community College Vocal Jazz
Ensemble, 7:30
TU Kelley Johnson jam, 8
TUESDAY, MARCH 21
GT Just Add Water jam w/ Wendy Martin
JA Papa Grows Funk, 7:30
TU Roadside Attraction Big Band, 8
21-22 PAPA GROWS FUNK
Some of the most talented jazz-inflected
funkiest jam merchants of New Orleans comprise
Papa Grows Funk, and they’re heading to Jazz
Alley for two nights. John Gros (Hammond B3,
electric piano, and vocals), Jason Mingledorff
(saxophone, cowbell and vocals), June Yamagishi
(guitar), Marc Pero (bass) and Jeffrey “Jellybean”
Alexander (drums and vocals) were voted #1
Funkiest Band by Offbeat Magazine thanks to
their steaming Hammond B-3, chunky guitar,
wailing sax, and a rollicking rhythm section. The
band has grown from a weekly Monday night
jam-session at New Orleans’s Maple Leaf Bar into
a national and international touring act.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22
JA Papa Grows Funk, 7:30
TB Katy Bourne Trio, 6:30
TU Brian Kirk & SCCC Jazz Ensemble, 8
22 BIG BAND CENTRAL
You don’t always look to colleges for highquality
big-band jazz, but for years the Seattle
Central Community College Jazz Ensemble
came to shine under the direction of Brian Kirk.
At Tula’s.
THURSDAY, MARCH 23
JA Mindi Abair, 7:30 & 9:30
OU Marc Smason jazz workshop, 7:30
TU Mark Taylor, Marc Seales, Jeff Johnson, Byron
Vannoy, 8
22 • Earshot Jazz • March 2006
23 FOUR OF THE BEST
Mark Taylor, sax; Marc Seales, piano; Jeff
Johnson, bass; Byron Vannoy, drums. Four of the
best jazzmen the city has to offer. At Tula’s.
FRIDAY, MARCH 24
HS Karen Shivers w/ Greg Williamson Trio, 8
JA Mindi Abair, 7:30 & 9:30
JW Emily McIntosh & Karin Kajita, 6:30
SB Pantheon, 10
TU Kelley Johnson Quartet, 8:30
SATURDAY, MARCH 25
C* Bar Tabac, Goddess Café (1901 N 45th St),
11am
JA Mindi Abair, 7:30 & 9:30
TU Greta Matassa Quartet, 8:30
SUNDAY, MARCH 26
JA Mindi Abair, 6:30 & 8:30
JU Jubilante Sunday Night jam, 7:00
SU Suffering F*#kheads, 9
TU Fairly Honest Jazz Band, 3
TU Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra, 8
MONDAY, MARCH 27
JA Kobe Sister City Jazz Vocalist audition, 7
RD Bernie Jacobs & Karin Kajita, 7
TU Darin Clendenin Trio jam, 8
27 KOBE BOUND
For the second year, one high-school and
one adult jazz vocalist from the Seattle area
will proceed from Jazz Alley to performances
in Japan thanks to the Kobe, Japan, Sister City
Jazz Vocalist competition (admission $5). In
Kobe, the singers will perform at the Kobe Jazz
Queen Vocalist Contest, in May. Every fall for
the last six years the winner of the Kobe Jazz
Contest has flown to Seattle to debut in the US
at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley. Last year SKSCA sent
local jazz vocalist Kelley Johnson and Roosevelt
High School vocalist Isabelle DuGraf to Kobe for
an October concert event.
27 JACOBS & KAJITA
Seasoned flute and sax player, Bernie Jacobs,
also a talented singer, has quietly won renown
among fellow jazz men since he moved here
about a decade ago. He is often heard with
Woody Woodhouse, Brian Nova, and Larry Fuller,
and here teams with the accomplished pianist,
a local and UW grad, Karin Kajita. She is one of
the too-little-known jewels of the local scene.
Unassuming but expansive and bigminded,
she plays hard-bop standards and her own
compositions with an authority and swing that
should earn her far greater attention. In addition
to her UW studies, she studied privately with
Jerome Gray and William O. Smith, and shows all
the signs of sharing their expansive conception
of jazz music. A mark of her versatility is that
she also performs Italian music on Fridays
at Saviano’s Italian Restaurant in Bellevue,
accompanying a variety of Seattle’s finest opera
singers.
TUESDAY, MARCH 28
TU Hal Sherman’s Monday Night Jazz Orchestra,
8
15/28 MONDAY NIGHT ON TUESDAY
Hal Sherman leads the Bellevue Community
College Jazz Orchestra in his adaptations of
big-band arrangements of Count Basie, Woody
Herman, and Stan Kenton.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29
C* Chicago 7 w/ Joanne Klein & Marc Smason,
Highway 99 Blues Club, 1414 Alaska, 8:30
TU Greta Matassa vocal workshop, 8
THURSDAY, MARCH 30
JA Stanley Clarke, 7:30 & 9:30
TU Beth Winter vocal showcase, 8
FRIDAY, MARCH 31
CM Seattle Womens Jazz Orchestra (SWOJO), 7:30
GT Eric Ostrowski presents Film and Improv
HS Greg Williamson Quartet, 8
JA Stanley Clarke, 7:30 & 9:30
JW Cheryl Serio & Karin Kajita, 6:30
PN Red Hot and Cole: Spring Musical Production,
8
SB Pantheon, 10
TU Milo Peterson & The Jazz Disciples, 8:30
31 PORTERING RED HOT COLES
The “swellegant” musical production Red Hot
and Cole comes to Seattle for two nights, March
31 and April 1 (no foolin’), presenting the life and
music of the great Broadway composer and wit,
Cole Porter. Presenting favorites like “Anything
Goes,” “Kiss Me Kate,” “High Society” and “Can-
Can,” it also presents Porter’s life, which took
him from childhood in Indiana to the stages and
salons of New York, London, Paris, and Venice.
With book by James Bianchi, Muriel McAuley,
and Randy Strawderman, and lyrics and music
by…correct: Cole Porter, this is a production
that is traveling the country. It demonstrates,
according to the Burbank Daily Review, that “the
composer’s enduring, sphisticated, frequently
deliciously wicked rhymes and catchy melodies
provided one of the major sources for the
emergence of our modern American musical
stage.”