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Ravi Coltrane Quartet Thursday, October 30, Triple Door

Like his legendary father, John Coltrane, tenor and soprano saxophonist, bandleader, and composer Ravi Coltrane is dedicated to walking his own musical
path. Considered one of the driving forces in modern jazz today, Coltrane was initially influenced by soul and funk music, R&B, classical music, and film scores before beginning formal musical studies at the California Institute of the Arts in 1986.
After meeting drummer Elvin Jones in 1991, Coltrane relocated to New York, where he performed with a variety of players, including Rashied Ali, Kenny Barron,
and Steve Coleman. He toured regularly with Coleman and appeared on several of Coleman’s albums before producing his first CD, Moving Pictures, in 1997. Since then, Coltrane has produced five more albums, including Legacy, a four-disc, thematic study of his father’s career; Translinear Light, a collaborative project with his mother, pianist Alice Coltrane; and In Flux, featuring pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Drew Gress, and drummer E.J. Strickland – his primary ensemble since 2003.
In addition to working and touring with his band, Coltrane launched his own recording company, RKM Music, in 2002. He has also performed with McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Carlos Santana, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Michael Brecker, George Duke, Stanley Clarke, and Branford Marsalis, among others.

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Photograph by Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan, a photojournalist specializing in jazz photography, photojournalism and portrait photography for publications and corporations. He is also a Seattle wedding photographer with a subtle, unobtrusive, story-telling approach creating award winning wedding photojournalism ranking him among the best   Seattle wedding photographers.

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Lance Buller with the Floyd Standifer Tribute: Legacy Band
Wednesday, October 29, New Orleans Creole Restaurant
Lance Buller playing Weds night with the tribute band to Floyd Standifer with a photo of Floyd on the wall behinf him looking down on the band.
To celebrate the legacy of the late Floyd Standifer, who for several decades was one of the region’s most influential, talented, and admired jazzmen, the new lineup of the band he headed for many years at the New Orleans Creole Restaurant salutes him. Joining drummer Clarence Acox and his quartet are alumni from Floyd’s time with the band, including guitarist Robin Kuntz.
Clarence Acox is an ambassador of the Seattle jazz scene with impeccable credentials.
His experience includes a 37-year tenure as the director of the award-winning Garfield High School jazz program. He also leads the Seattle University jazz ensemble and co-founded the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra.
A native of New Orleans, Acox came to Seattle in 1971 straight out of Southern University after Garfield High School had recruited him to revive its moribund music program. Since then, Garfield’s jazz ensemble has twice taken first place at the Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington National Jazz Band Competition in New York.
For many years, Acox was the rock-solid drummer of the Floyd Standifer Quartet as it held down a weekly slot at the New Orleans; earlier this year, Acox stepped up to lead a new incarnation of the band, now known as the Legacy Band. With regulars Bill Anschell on piano, Phils Sparks on bass, and Acox on drums, this Wednesday night tradition is in its 22nd year, making it the longest running continuous gig in Seattle.

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Photograph by Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan, a photojournalist specializing in jazz photography, photojournalism and portrait photography for publications and corporations. He is also a Seattle wedding photographer with a subtle, unobtrusive, story-telling approach creating award winning wedding photojournalism ranking him among the best Seattle wedding photographers.

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Richard Bona Quartet

Wednesday, October 29, Triple Door

Bassist and vocalist Richard Bona has dazzled audiences around the world with his engaging personal style, which merges jazz, pop, afro-beat, bossa nova, and funk. Considered one of the best bassists of his generation, Bona is known as a masterful musician and compelling storyteller.
Born in Minta in eastern Cameroon, Bona was drawn to music as a child and often experimented with his own self-made instruments, including a twelve-string guitar constructed of wood and bicycle brake cables. In 1980, at the age of thirteen, he discovered jazz. Inspired by Weather Report’s Jaco Pastorius, Bona decided to reinvent himself as a bass player. In pursuit of a professional jazz career, he moved to Düsseldorf, then Paris, and finally New York, where he now lives.
Much in demand as a collaborator, Bona has worked with musicians as diverse as Michael Brecker, Herbie Hancock, Bobby McFerrin, Paul Simon,
Chaka Khan, Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, Chucho Valdes, Joni Mitchell,
Harry Connick Jr., and Queen Latifah.
He has recorded six albums as a leader, including Tiki (2005), which received a 2007 Grammy nomination in the contemporary world music category. In March he released Bona Makes You Sweat, which was recorded live in Hungary.

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Photograph by Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan, a photojournalist specializing in jazz photography, photojournalism and portrait photography for publications and corporations. He is also a Seattle wedding photographer with a subtle, unobtrusive, story-telling approach creating award winning wedding photojournalism ranking him among the best Seattle wedding photographers.

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John Gilbreath Executive Director of Earshot Jazz , on stage at the Triple Door Wednesday, October 29, introducing the Richard Bona Quartet and making announcements about the upcoming shows left to the Earshot Jazz Festival. John has been doing this at almost every show i have seen so far this festival and it is always a pleasure to see his smiling face presenting some of the best music to make it to Seattle all year.

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Photograph by Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan, a photojournalist specializing in jazz photography, photojournalism and portrait photography for publications and corporations. He is also a Seattle wedding photographer with a subtle, unobtrusive, story-telling approach creating award winning wedding photojournalism ranking him among the best Seattle wedding photographers.

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Floyd Standifer Tribute: Legacy Band
Wednesday, October 29, New Orleans Creole Restaurant

To celebrate the legacy of the late Floyd Standifer, who for several decades was one of the region’s most influential, talented, and admired jazzmen, the new lineup of the band he headed for many years at the New Orleans Creole Restaurant salutes him. Joining drummer Clarence Acox and his quartet are alumni from Floyd’s time with the band, including guitarist Robin Kuntz.
Clarence Acox is an ambassador of the Seattle jazz scene with impeccable credentials.
His experience includes a 37-year tenure as the director of the award-winning Garfield High School jazz program. He also leads the Seattle University jazz ensemble and co-founded the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra.
A native of New Orleans, Acox came to Seattle in 1971 straight out of Southern University after Garfield High School had recruited him to revive its moribund music program. Since then, Garfield’s jazz ensemble has twice taken first place at the Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington National Jazz Band Competition in New York.
For many years, Acox was the rock-solid drummer of the Floyd Standifer Quartet as it held down a weekly slot at the New Orleans; earlier this year, Acox stepped up to lead a new incarnation of the band, now known as the Legacy Band. With regulars Bill Anschell on piano, Phils Sparks on bass, and Acox on drums, this Wednesday night tradition is in its 22nd year, making it the longest running continuous gig in Seattle.

Click here for the complete schedule for the rest of the upcoming shows at the 2008 Earshot Jazz Festival

Photograph by Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan, a photojournalist specializing in jazz photography, photojournalism and portrait photography for publications and corporations. He is also a Seattle wedding photographer with a subtle, unobtrusive, story-telling approach creating award winning wedding photojournalism ranking him as one of the best Seattle wedding photographers.

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Ambrose Akinmusire Wednesday, October 29 and
Thursday, October 30 at Tula’s Restaurant

Winner of the 2007 Thelonious Monk Trumpet Competition and the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition, two of the most prestigious
awards in jazz, the Oakland-born Ambrose Akinmusire has established himself as an extremely bright and intriguing rising star.
Having performed with such musicians
as Joe Henderson, Billy Higgins, Steve Coleman, and Joshua Redman (all before he was 18), Akinmusire came of age appreciating the importance of experimentation and ongoing development.
And since his musical trajectory has carried him in several directions at once, the results have been most exciting to watch. His debut album as a leader, 2008’s Prelude: To Cora, confirmed his potential, marking Akinmusire as one sure to enjoy a brilliantly-creative career.

Click here for the complete schedule for the rest of the upcoming shows at the 2008 Earshot Jazz Festival

Photograph by Seattle photographer Daniel Sheehan, a photojournalist specializing in jazz photography, photojournalism and portrait photography for publications and corporations. He is also a Seattle wedding photographer with a subtle, unobtrusive, story-telling approach creating award winning wedding photojournalism ranking him as one of the best Seattle wedding photographers.

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Abdoulaye Diabate performing with Peter Apfelbaum & New York Hieroglyphics

Tuesday, October 28, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center
Apfelbaum’s reformulated Hieroglyphics Ensemble, a tentet now based in New York, performs the original piece Aural Histories, composed with a Chamber Music America/Doris Duke Foundation grant. In each of the piece’s sections, a band member improvises over a composed background while Malian griot Abdoulaye Diabate sings a narrative of that particular musician’s life.
A leading figure in the world-jazz movement, Peter Apfelbaum has always gravitated to transporting melodies and timbres and to a group dynamic that emphasizes extended improvisation over jazz-infused West African and Afro-Caribbean styles. The Guardian called the results, in Aural Histories, “positively fire-spitting.”
With Peter Apfelbaum (tenor sax, piano, percussion) and vocalist Abdoulaye Diabate, who hails from a long family tradition of griots and has also performed in the West with the likes of jazzmen Don Byron and guitarist-folklorist Banning Eyre, are: Peck Allmond (trumpet, reeds), Josh Roseman (trombome), Jessica Jones (tenor sax, flute), Tony Jones (tenor sax), Charles Burnham (violin), David Phelps (guitar), Patrice Blanchard (bass), and – a show unto himself – Dafnis Prieto on drums.

Click here for the complete schedule for the rest of the upcoming shows at the 2008 Earshot Jazz Festival

Photograph by Paul Joseph Brown a photojournalist for the Seattle Post Intelligencer. He is also a Seattle wedding photographer photographing weddings with A Beautiful Day Photography group of Seattle wedding photographers.

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Peter Apfelbaum & New York Hieroglyphics featuring Abdoulaye Diabate Tuesday, October 28, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center

Apfelbaum’s reformulated Hieroglyphics Ensemble, a tentet now based in New York, performs the original piece Aural Histories, composed with a Chamber Music America/Doris Duke Foundation grant. In each of the piece’s sections, a band member improvises over a composed background while Malian griot Abdoulaye Diabate sings a narrative of that particular musician’s life.
A leading figure in the world-jazz movement, Peter Apfelbaum has always gravitated to transporting melodies and timbres and to a group dynamic that emphasizes extended improvisation over jazz-infused West African and Afro-Caribbean styles. The Guardian called the results, in Aural Histories, “positively fire-spitting.”
With Peter Apfelbaum (tenor sax, piano, percussion) and vocalist Abdoulaye Diabate, who hails from a long family tradition of griots and has also performed in the West with the likes of jazzmen Don Byron and guitarist-folklorist Banning Eyre, are: Peck Allmond (trumpet, reeds), Josh Roseman (trombome), Jessica Jones (tenor sax, flute), Tony Jones (tenor sax), Charles Burnham (violin), David Phelps (guitar), Patrice Blanchard (bass), and – a show unto himself – Dafnis Prieto on drums.

Click here for the complete schedule for the rest of the upcoming shows at the 2008 Earshot Jazz Festival

Photograph by Paul Joseph Brown a photojournalist for the Seattle Post Intelligencer. He is also a Seattle wedding photographer photographing weddings with A Beautiful Day Photography group of  Seattle wedding photographers.

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Aaron Parks Quartet on stage at the Triple Door, Oct 23
In looking back a couple of nights work I almost missed this shot of Aaron on the piano through Mike Moreno’s guitar.
Seattle’s maturing prodigy returned from New York City on the heels of his acclaimed Blue Note release, Invisible Cinema. The young pianist’s major-label debut comes after experiences in guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel’s band and a five-year stint with trumpeter Terence Blanchard’s band. Parks thinks touring the globe with Blanchard helped him emerge from an accelerated musical education.

At 15 Parks pursued a double major in computer science and music as an early-entrance student at the University of Washington. Then, at 16, the precocious student left for the Manhattan School of Music and lessons with Kenny Barron. “I finished college at 18, but the real school started right after that in [Blanchard’s] band—the school of the road,” Parks says in a recent radio interview for WBGO in New York. Thanks to Blanchard’s leadership approach, Parks offers a similar mutual trust on the bandstand.
From ambient and rock to classical and world-folk music, Parks brings his musical tastes to bear on the Blue Note release, and the group—Mike Moreno, guitar; Thomas Morgan, bass; Marcus Gilmore, drums—expands on that music for Seattle audiences.

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Photograph by editorial photographer Daniel Sheehan a photojournalist who specializes in portrait photography and photojournalism for publications and corporations. He is also a Seattle wedding photographer photographing weddings with a subtle, unobtrusive, story-telling approach creating artistic documentary photography ranking him as one of the best Seattle wedding photographers.

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Andy Milne on keyboards on stage at Tulas Sat Oct 25th

Andy Milne’s Dapp Theory blends “contemporary funk, groove and hip-hop into jazz with such seamless, casual precision it’s almost freaky.” (LA Weekly). Keyboardist Milne’s gifted ensemble includes poet John Moon, saxophonist Loren Stillman, bassist Chris Tordini, and drummer Kenny Grohowski. Influenced by Joni Mitchell, KRS One, Thelonious Monk, and Van Halen, Dapp Theory has amassed a loyal following of fans. Milne, a finalist in the Down Beat rising star keyboardist poll category in 2004, was awarded the Chamber Music America “New Works” commission in 2006. Milne’s band mates, who also have impressive
resumes, have worked with some of the top names in jazz today. Established in 1998, Dapp Theory has released three albums, including Layers of Chance on Contrology Records last April.

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Photograph by editorial photographer Daniel Sheehan a photojournalist who specializes in portrait photography and photojournalism for publications and corporations. He is also a Seattle wedding photographer photographing weddings with a subtle, unobtrusive, story-telling approach creating artistic documentary photography ranking him as one of the best Seattle wedding photographers.

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