The 23rd edition of the Earshot Jazz Festival—"Seattle's most important annual jazz event"—runs OCTOBER 14 to NOVEMBER 6, 2011
Featured artists include the Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette Trio, Brad Mehldau, and The Bad Plus
Seattle's annual Earshot Jazz Festival returns October 14 and continues through November 6 with more than 50 distinctive concert events in venues all around the city.
Known for “adventurous, spot-on programming" (Jazz Times) and praised as “one of the best festivals in America" (Seattle Times), the Earshot Jazz Festival brings jazz greats from around the world into creative collaboration with area artists and audiences. Earshot also celebrates Seattle's place in the world of jazz, with concerts by our award-winning high-school jazz programs and our own renowned resident artists. Some of the highlights planned for this 23rd Earshot Jazz Festival include:
Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette—"Very simply, this is jazz at its finest" (Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times). “The trio of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette is about as good as jazz gets" (Mike Zwerin, International Herald-Tribune). November 1, S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium at Benaroya Hall
Brad Mehldau, solo —The highly regarded jazz genius performs with astounding technique and “almost spiritual resonance" (Time Magazine). October 21, Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall
The Bad Plus—The seminal bad boys of jazz return to ruffle the sedate Town Hall, on a bill with Europe's iconoclastic Das Kapital. October 29, Town Hall Seattle
Roosevelt & Mountlake Terrace High School Jazz Bands—An opening concert with the bands that took 2nd and 3rd spots at this year's Essentially Ellington competition. October 14, Town Hall Seattle
We Four: Celebrating John Coltrane—New York heavyweights Javon Jackson, sax, Mulgrew Miller, piano, Peter Washington, bass, and Jimmy Cobb, drums, pay tribute to Coltrane's jazz legacy. October 22, Venue TBA
Evan Flory-Barnes's Acknowledgement of a Celebration—The Seattle bassist and composer reprises his jazz/rock/classical/hip-hop masterwork. October 22, Kirkland Performance Center
A series of concerts and educational programs with fresh young artists, jazz masters, and returning Cornish alumni and faculty, featuring Myra Melford, Allison Miller, Julian Waterfall Pollack, Jim Knapp, Jay Clayton, Jerry Granelli, and the Mongolian jazz ensemble Arga Belig. October 24 through 29, Poncho Concert Hall, Cornish College of the Arts
Grace Kelly group—The emerging but hard hitting saxophonist premieres in Seattle in Tula's, “one of America's top 100 jazz clubs." November 2 & 3, Tula's
Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra—"An Evening with Ol' Blue Eyes: The Music of Frank Sinatra." November 5, Nordstrom Recital Hall & November 6, Kirkland Performance Center
and many, many, more
Tickets for the Earshot Jazz Festival will be on sale in early September through Earshot Jazz. Complete concert information will be available as it develops at earshot.org and 206-547-6763.
Support for the 23rd annual Earshot Jazz Festival is provided by Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, 4Culture, Washington State Arts Commission, ArtsFund, Seattle Foundation, Chamber Music America, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Featured artists include the Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette Trio, Brad Mehldau, and The Bad Plus
Seattle's annual Earshot Jazz Festival returns October 14 and continues through November 6 with more than 50 distinctive concert events in venues all around the city.
Known for “adventurous, spot-on programming" (Jazz Times) and praised as “one of the best festivals in America" (Seattle Times), the Earshot Jazz Festival brings jazz greats from around the world into creative collaboration with area artists and audiences. Earshot also celebrates Seattle's place in the world of jazz, with concerts by our award-winning high-school jazz programs and our own renowned resident artists. Some of the highlights planned for this 23rd Earshot Jazz Festival include:
Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette—"Very simply, this is jazz at its finest" (Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times). “The trio of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette is about as good as jazz gets" (Mike Zwerin, International Herald-Tribune). November 1, S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium at Benaroya Hall
Brad Mehldau, solo —The highly regarded jazz genius performs with astounding technique and “almost spiritual resonance" (Time Magazine). October 21, Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall
The Bad Plus—The seminal bad boys of jazz return to ruffle the sedate Town Hall, on a bill with Europe's iconoclastic Das Kapital. October 29, Town Hall Seattle
Roosevelt & Mountlake Terrace High School Jazz Bands—An opening concert with the bands that took 2nd and 3rd spots at this year's Essentially Ellington competition. October 14, Town Hall Seattle
We Four: Celebrating John Coltrane—New York heavyweights Javon Jackson, sax, Mulgrew Miller, piano, Peter Washington, bass, and Jimmy Cobb, drums, pay tribute to Coltrane's jazz legacy. October 22, Venue TBA
Evan Flory-Barnes's Acknowledgement of a Celebration—The Seattle bassist and composer reprises his jazz/rock/classical/hip-hop masterwork. October 22, Kirkland Performance Center
A series of concerts and educational programs with fresh young artists, jazz masters, and returning Cornish alumni and faculty, featuring Myra Melford, Allison Miller, Julian Waterfall Pollack, Jim Knapp, Jay Clayton, Jerry Granelli, and the Mongolian jazz ensemble Arga Belig. October 24 through 29, Poncho Concert Hall, Cornish College of the Arts
Grace Kelly group—The emerging but hard hitting saxophonist premieres in Seattle in Tula's, “one of America's top 100 jazz clubs." November 2 & 3, Tula's
Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra—"An Evening with Ol' Blue Eyes: The Music of Frank Sinatra." November 5, Nordstrom Recital Hall & November 6, Kirkland Performance Center
and many, many, more
Tickets for the Earshot Jazz Festival will be on sale in early September through Earshot Jazz. Complete concert information will be available as it develops at earshot.org and 206-547-6763.
Support for the 23rd annual Earshot Jazz Festival is provided by Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, 4Culture, Washington State Arts Commission, ArtsFund, Seattle Foundation, Chamber Music America, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
