Join us for the 36th Annual Earshot Jazz Festival!!!
Year after year, the Earshot festival celebrates Seattle's place in the world of jazz by featuring performances, premieres, and special projects by Seattle's esteemed resident artists alongside international masters.
This year's featured resident artist is SKERIK- a legendary saxophonist, arranger, and studio owner treasured for his work in the Emerald City. Also included in this year's festival is the world premiere of a festival commission from Freddy Fuego that will bend genre, rhythm and harmony to create compelling music. Special projects include workshops (to be announced soon); Garfield, Lincoln and Edmonds-Woodway High School Jazz Bands will take the stage with truly special guests; film screenings; and more. Playlists coming soon for listeners to get a glimpse into each each week of the festival.
Schedule of Events:
7:00 pm: Space Is The Place (Film 10/31)
Northwest Film Forum (NWFF) and Earshot Jazz team together once again to bring you an exciting look into the the world of jazz visionary Sun Ra. Avant-jazz mystic Sun Ra brought his pioneering Afrofuturist vision to the screen with this film version of his concept album. It's a wild, kaleidoscopic whirl of science fiction, sharp social commentary, goofy pseudo-blaxploitation stylistics, and thrilling concert performance, in which the pharaonic Ra and his Arkestra lead an intergalactic movement to resettle the Black race on their utopian space colony.
Please note this film is part of a series. The film will air on October 30 and October 31 at 7:00PM PDT. Tickets sold separately.
NWFF patrons will be strongly encouraged to wear masks that cover both nose and mouth while in the building. Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them. Recent variants of COVID-19 readily infect
and spread between individuals regardless of vaccination status
8:00 pm: The Vijay Iyer Trio Featuring Linda May Han Oh and Jeremy Dutton
Vijay Iyer, the pianist, described as a "social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway" (NYTimes), is a MacArthur Fellow, Doris Duke Performing Artist, Grammy nominee, and leading voice of his generation, as demonstrated again this year on Compassion (ECM). It showcases his trio featuring Grammy award-winning bassist Linda May Han Oh. On this Earshot date, they're joined by drummer Jeremy Dutton, the rhythmic force behind acclaimed recordings by the likes of Joel Ross, James Francies, and Gerald Clayton.
