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Jazz Abbey With Al Keith At Egans November 16, 2019

Fun show at Egan's with Jazz Abbey. Tight heads, cool set list. Tunes like Joe Sample's "Mystery Child", "Small Fortune" by Ray Obiedo, "Alan Weight Speaking" by Jim Culter, and...

Marc Seales At Tulas September 27, 2019

Caught Marc Seales at Tula's closing weekend, loss of an institution with the demise of Tula's. Seales was great as usual, flipping between electric piano and the grand piano on...

Miles Okazaki At The Royal Room April 13, 2019

Stoked to have Miles Okazaki play in Seattle. Amazing composer and monster shredder with psycho technique. Moments were Frippian, Crimsonian, but even farther out. Crazy time signatures, crazy lines that...

Neko Case At The Paramount November 29, 2018

Sold out show, played for two hours, with four encores. Rachel Flotard from Visqueen on backing vocals. They did 10 of the 12 tracks from the new album Hell On,...

Christian McBride at Jazz Alley October 19, 2017

Stellar show to a packed, appreciative house, celebrating Ray Brown. Lots of tunes, lots of stories as each player had a go with the mic to tell stories about Brown...

Mostly Others Do the Killing at Barboza October 13, 2017

Cool set, all town names from Pennsylvania. Bass led,  held it down so that the other players could go where they sought. Really innovative bass solo near the end. Drummer...