The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 02/02/2010
Businesses often talk about their "brands", which can be code for a manufactured, synthetic image. An alternative way for businesses to imagine and define themselves...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
"Seattle Jazz Legends" concert, with Buddy Catlett, Ernestine Anderson and others, is part of a jazz-documentary project spearheaded by Jessica Davis. Documentary filmmaking is by nature a labor of love, which explains Jessica Davis' dogged pursuit of the ongoing project "In Between the Raindrops," an affectionate, episodic look at the history of jazz in Seattle...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 01/30/2010
"Seattle Jazz Legends" concert, with Buddy Catlett, Ernestine Anderson and others, is part of a jazz-documentary project spearheaded by Jessica Davis.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 12/17/2009
Top jazz CD releases of the year include discs by Seattleites Thomas Marriott ("Flexicon") and Ernestine Anderson ("A Song for You").
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Meet Tony Foster: Currently based in Seattle, Washington, Tony Foster was born and raised in North Vancouver, BC, Canada. He received his initial musical training early on, in the form of classical piano lessons privately. In school bands, his main instrument became the trumpet. His studies on the trumpet continued until college, and it was not until this time that his focus changed to piano. Foster...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Yesterday was the Marine Corps' 234th birthday. Today is Veterans Day and Ernestine Anderson's birthday. To celebrate all three, I gave the Rifftides staff the day off and my Italian friend Vigorelli Bianchi took me on a long, looping tour...
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
(Edited to add WNEW.com link.) When I was a kid, I didn’t miss a lot of school days because of illness, but I remember the slightly disorienting feeling of coming back after being gone. It was clear that the world had continued operating normally without me—and I was always a little surprised. Now that I’m older [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Ray Charles and Quincy Jones were teenagers when they met in a Seattle nightclub, one of dozens clustered around Jackson Street in the 1940s. They were both aspiring jazz musicians, Charles a pianist, Jones a trumpeter. They were among many now- familiar names who got their start in Seattle: Buddy Catlett, Ernestine Anderson, Gerald Wiggins, Floyd Standifer. Jones and Charles eventually achieved the...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Earshot Jazz Festival ends this weekend. A highlight is a concert with vocalist Dean Bowman that pays homage to an early Quincy Jones/Ray Charles recording project, "Genius + Soul = Jazz."
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Courtenay: Jazz guitar great Bill Coon performs in Courtenay with drummer Bernie Arai and bassist Darren Radtke.
breath of life (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
This week we feature jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown and Rio Samba-ista Ana Costa, plus nine versions of Benny Golson's classic composition, "I Remember Clifford," featuring Art Blakey, George Cables, Ernestine Anderson, Don Byas & Bud Powell, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Kalamu ya Salaam and Slide Hampton. R.I.P. Brownie.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
Concert Review: John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, husband-and-wife musicians, opened a four-night stand at Seattle's Jazz Alley with a charming, humorous show. Performances continue through July 26.
LesbianDad (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Sorry that I couldn’t find the Ernestine Anderson version of this, which is my favorite. (”Ain’t nothin’ in Chicago for a sweet little boy like you to do,” sez she.) Apart from his preamble, I do like this Joe Williams version as my second favorite. As you read these words, I will either be en route [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
Peter Hand Big Band The Wizard of Jazz: A Tribute to Harold Arlen (feat. Houston Person) Savant 2009 Nancy Kelly Well, Alright!: Live! with Houston Person Saying It With Jazz 2009 Ernestine Anderson A Song For You HighNote 2008 As he continues on well into his 8th decade as the go-to tenor sax man, the always solid {{Houston Person = 10237}} remains a prolific and first-rate blues man. This latest...
Jazz@Rochester (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
My Sunday, Day 3 of the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival, started out on Jazz Street (Gibbs) listening to some more of the great local high school jazz ensembles, procuring a sandwich and libation. Got into a pretty long line...
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