Jazz guitarist Bill Frisell returns to Seattle for a Jazz Alley gig with his trio
Former Seattle resident Bill Frisell, with Tony Scherr (bass) and Kenny Wollesen (drums), plays Jazz Alley June 27-30.
Paul de Barros
Paul de Barros is the former Seattle Times pop music coordinator.
Ballard Jazz Festival celebrates Seattle's vibrant jazz scene
The Ballard Jazz Festival runs May 29 to June 1.
How the world of jazz is opening to thousands of Seattle kids who might have been left out VIEW
Seattle JazzED, a nine-year-old nonprofit that provides jazz classes to kids, with an eye toward racial, economic and gender equity, has seen big success. And...
Roosevelt High School jazz band wins prestigious Essentially Ellington competition
Seattle's Roosevelt High School took first place in the prestigious 2019 Essentially Ellington high school jazz band competition at New York City's Lincoln Center.
Ignacio Berroa, formerly Dizzy Gillespie’s go-to drummer, swings into Seattle
The Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra (SRJO) plays three concerts this weekend with the incomparable Cuban drummer Ignacio Berroa.
Waldo King, founding father of Seattle’s renowned high-school jazz programs, dies at 92
Mr. King started the first student jazz band programs in Seattle, first at Garfield in 1960, then briefly at Franklin High School, and for more...
Maxine Gordon’s ‘Sophisticated Giant’ brings personal touch, sociopolitical savvy to jazz icon Dexter Gordon
Gordon's warm, subjective portrait of her late musician husband trains an astute lens on the social and political circumstances that helped shape his career. It's...
Vocalist Sara Gazarek returns to Seattle, debuting new material at Jazz Alley
Sara Gazarek, who snagged a vocal jazz award as a Roosevelt High School senior at New York’s Essentially Ellington competition in 2000 and who has...
Linda Waterfall, beloved and talented Seattle singer-songwriter, dies at 69
Over a career that spanned five decades, Ms. Waterfall released 13 albums, was in the bands Entropy Service and Skyboys, wrote choral works and taught...
Earshot Jazz Festival 2018 brings both the traditional and the eccentric
Two weeks into the monthlong Earshot Jazz Festival, the program is shaping up as one of the best ever, living up to the fest's reputation...