What to watch: 2 swinging documentaries on jazz greats Ella Fitzgerald and Miles Davis
These are trying times for fans of live music, but if you’re jonesing for a jolt of jazz, you might find sweet relief from these...
Paul de Barros
The Royal Room’s virtual Staycation Festival offers music for fans and a way to earn money for musicians
The festival streams at 7:30 p.m. Sundays from the club and Wednesdays from musicians’ homes all over the world, through Aug. 9, and is accessible...
Seattle-area bands taking part, virtually, in this year’s Essentially Ellington high school jazz festival
Though the Essentially Ellington high school jazz competition and festival is not taking place in New York this year because of the pandemic, there will...
A nonprofit buys the entire collection of Seattle's Bop Street Records
When Dave Voorhees, owner of Bop Street Records, announced last month that the store was closing at the end of June, he wasn't sure if he...
Seattle’s Bop Street Records, once named one of the 5 best record stores in America, to close at the end of June
“I’m hoping I can reopen the store between now and the end of June and that I can sell as many records as I can...
Bill Smith, world-renowned clarinetist, composer and founding member of Dave Brubeck Octet, dies at 93
Known as Bill Smith to the jazz world and William O. Smith in classical circles, Mr. Smith served on the University of Washington faculty from...
At Seattle’s Jazz Night School, where people of all skill levels learn to play jazz, things are swingin’ VIEW
One of maybe a half-dozen schools in the country that offer professional jazz instruction to adults, Jazz Night School (which is open to all ages) is...
Jazz guitarist and former Seattleite Bill Frisell comes back to town with quartet HARMONY and a bluegrass sound
Bill Frisell brings HARMONY, which mixes bluegrass and jazz, to Seattle’s Moore Theatre March 5.
5 Seattle-area bands make finals of prestigious Essentially Ellington high school jazz competition
The five bands have been selected as finalists in the most prestigious competition in high-school jazz, marking the first time in over a decade that any...
With the closing of Tula’s, here are other places in Seattle to find local jazz
When Tula's closed last fall, the Seattle jazz community was devastated, having lost its unofficial clubhouse. But Seattle-area fans still have quite a few choices...