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:
2:30 pm: Ryan Keberle Catharsis
Ryan Keberle, Jazz Times's 2020 Trombonist of the Year leads a band that the Los Angeles Times hailed as a "potent blend of cinematic sweep and lush, ear-grabbing melodies" for its thrilling merger of jazz, chamber music, South American folk and indie rock. The band, which includes guitarist/vocalist Camila Meza, Mike Rodriguez (trumpet), Ike Sturm (bass), and Jimmy Macbride (drums), guarantee drama and intrigue.
The Ryan Keberle and Catharsis performance is supported through a Chamber Music America Presenter Consortium for Jazz grant, a component of the Doris Duke Jazz Ensembles Project funded by the Doris Duke Foundation.
Raisbeck Auditorium is a new performance space at Cornish College of the Arts. Not to be confused with the older Raisbeck Performance Hall next door, the new auditorium is located in the Ivey building on the corner of Lenora St and Boren Ave.
4:00 pm: What's Going On: Conduction, Improvisation, and the Culture of Structure (Workshop)
Presented by The South Hudson Music Project. Co-produced by Earshot Jazz, Nonsequitur, Seattle Modern Orchestra. Major funding from The Live Music Society. Additional support from Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture, ArtsFund/Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, and The Raynier Foundation.
Workshop: Conduction for the people!
An audience participatory event on the principles of conduction and approaches to new improvisation.
Conduction, Improvisation, and the Culture of Structure
Celebrating the legacies of Lawrence "Butch" Morris, Sun Ra, and Julius Hemphill.
6:30 pm: Nduduzo Makhathini Trio (Early Show)
A rare opportunity to hear the transcendent pianist and vocalist South Africa pianist Nduduzo Makathini with his trio in an intimate setting. The Blue Note recording artist, deeply influenced by such countrymen as Abdullah Ibrahim and the great American jazz legends, too, has pursued "a kind of playing that could mirror or evoke the way my people danced, sung, and spoke," he says. His telepathic trio has Zwelakhe-Duma Bell Le Pere on bass and Kabelo Boy Mokhatla on drums. Two shows - at 6:30pm and 8:30pm (tickets sold separately to each show)
Raisbeck Auditorium is a new performance space at Cornish College of the Arts. Not to be confused with the older Raisbeck Performance Hall next door, the new auditorium is located in the Ivey building on the corner of Lenora St and Boren Ave.
