Last Thursday brought a night of raucous jazz jams to The Showbox in Seattle courtesy of Thundercat. PBDY, pronounced pea-body, opened the night with a DJ...
World-renowned guitarist Leo Kottke performed to a sold out audience at Yakima’s The Season’s Performance Hall. Kottke is known for a fingerpicking style influenced by blues,...
by Jonathan Sindelman photos by Bill Bungard For as many times as the present-day saxophone colossus Chris Potter frequented Seattle over the years while on...
by Jonathan Sindelman photos by Bill Bungard Jack DeJohnette Quartet @ Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley on 2/20/12 “The man sounds like a tub of water.” That’s...
by Jonathan Sindelman Chris Potter is among the busiest of jazz musicians working today, though one might be hard-pressed to find any comparable subject when...
by Jonathan Sindelman In celebration of his 70th birthday, legendary drummer Jack DeJohnette will return to Seattle for what could otherwise be slated as the “Lifetime Achievement Tour.”...
By Jonathan Sindelman Candido @ Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley on 10/20/12 This week Seattle had the distinct pleasure of hosting one of music’s most beloved treasures,...
by Jonathan Sindelman Not halfway into the first track, Swept Away resonates as a perfectly suitable title for this event, Marc Johnson’s first ECM album...
by Jonathan Sindelman In anticipation of 2012’s Earshot Jazz Festival in Seattle, I am introducing a series of reviews based on ECM Records, whose extraordinary...
Ravi Coltrane @ Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley on 8/1/2012 Most well-known popular artists of today find it difficult to avoid having their names engraved into mainstream...
By Jonathan Sindelman At 47, Ravi Coltrane now carries within him a musical legacy that encompasses a special combination of history, family, and a uniquely...