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Conclusion of Is That Jazz? Festival

The Avant-Jazz Festival at the Chapel Performance Space wrapped up this past weekend with four more powerful performances. The second weekend began with Vertigo led by Seattle Clarinetist Jesse Canterbury. It was an ethereal almost dream like set that carried the listener on a journey into the stars. Canterbury was joined by Tom Baker on guitar, Joanne DeMars on Cello, and Chris Stover on Trombone. The quartet was strongly attuned to each other which carried them to a higher more intense…

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Is That Jazz? Festival

This past weekend held the first performances of the Is That Jazz? Festival at The Good Shepherd Center. The festival continues this weekend with performances by Jesse Canterbury's Vertigo and Bad Luck on Friday and the Tom Baker Quartet and Cuong Vu Trio on Saturday. Check out our previous post for more info. Until then, enjoy these silent slides of the shows: Sunship Sun Ra Tribute Bill Smith Trio Threat of Beauty Any jazz aficionados want to share their impression of…

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Jazz Festival Coming to Wallingford

Seattle’s Avant-Jazz Music Festival is coming up this weekend and next here in Wallingford at the Chapel Performance Space in the Good Shepherd Center (50th & Sunnyside). This is the second year for the IS THAT JAZZ? Festival, which “embraces jazz as a living, breathing art-form, one that must change and grow.” Headlining this year’s festival is trumpeter and Seattle native Cuong Vu, who will be performing with his Trio from New York. I’m no expert when it comes to jazz,…

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Jazz at Dick’s

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Helen writes: Another “why I heart Wallingford” moment. Moseying over to Dicks at around 10 PM this past Thursday to fill a junk food craving,  I was delighted to be serenaded by a live jazz trio while waiting in line pondering which flavor of ice cream I wanted.  The singer who accompanied them said they got double-booked at a gig and decided to come over to Dicks and provide a little light dinner music to the patrons.  Lovely.

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Wayne Horvitz at the Chapel

One of the treats of living in Seattle is that we share the town with many musical greats, such as Bill Frisell, Sir Mix-a-lot, Caspar Babypants and that jam-band guy who lives in Wallingford. Living here means you get to hear them play here, sometimes, too. No, not that jam band guy, sorry. But you will have the opportunity to hear the world-famous jazz musician and composer Wayne Horvitz this Saturday night at the Chapel Performance Space in the Good Shepherd…

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