SEATTLE SINGS
Closing Day of Jackson Street Jazz Walk
Location: Fountainhead Gallery, 625 W McGraw Street, Seattle 98119
- Kim MGuire
- Joan Penney
- Ben Black
- Nancy Erikson
- Lamont & The Shawn Schlogel Trio
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JACKSON STREET JAZZ WALK
Admission By Donation For All Events
Location: Wonder Bar, 1800 S Jackson Street, Seattle 98144
- Good Company featuring Butch Harrison | 5:00pm ~ 7:00pm | Jazz, Blues, Soul
- Pritt & Itson: E. Pritt & Maureese Itson | 7:30pm ~ 9:30pm | Contemporary Jazz, R&B, Funk
Location: Cass Green Dolphin Room, 500 30th Avenue S, Seattle 98144
- Line Dance with The Sliders | 3:00pm ~ 4:00pm
- King Dre Trifecta | 4:30pm ~ 6:30pm | Jazz, Funk, Soul, Instrumental Music
- Frank Salero: Tribute To Ray Charles ~ His Life In Music | 7:00pm ~ 9:00pm
Location: Cheeky Cafe, 1700 S Jackson Street, Seattle 98144
- Tina | 5:00pm ~ 6:15pm | Soulful Singer & Guitarist
- Charles Cunningham Jr. | 6:30 ~ 7:45pm | Solo Jazz Guitarist
Location: Jackson Apartments, 2401 S Jackson Street, Seattle 98144
- The Kelley Johnson Quartet | 500pm ~ 6:30pm | Vocal Jazz
- Alma Villegas | 7:00 ~ 8:30pm | Latin Jazz
Location: Pratt Fine Arts ~ Mural Stage, 1902 South MainStreet, Seattle 98144
- Comfort Food | 5:00pm ~ 6:15pm | Jazz, Afro, Latin, Funk, Reggae
- Joe Brazil Legacy Band ~ 6:30pm ~ 8:00pm | Music Commemorating Seattle Jazz Great Joe Brazil
Location: Pratt Fine Arts ~ Court Stage, 1700 S Jackson Street, Seattle 98144
- Todo Es | 5:00pm ~ 6:15pm | Brazilian & Cuban Vocal Jazz
- Jovino Santos Neto Quarteto | 6:30pm ~ 8:00pm
Location: Jackson Street Pizza Lounge, 2901 S Jackson Street, Seattle 98144
- The Reggie Goines Quartet | 5:00pm ~ 6:30pm | Vocal Trumpeter, Jazz, Blues, Soul
- The Jay Mabin Trio | 7:00pm ~ 9:00pm | Harmonica Led Jazz, Latin, Blues
Location: Shewar~Ber Bar & Restaurant, 1801 S Jackson Street, Seattle 98144
- Maureese Itson | 5:00pm ~ 6:30pm | Soulful Vocalist & Saxophonist
- The Park Evans Trio | 7:00pm ~ 8:30pm | Guitarist, Original Multi~Style Influenced Music
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RED DRESS JAZZ GALA
Location: Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, 104 17th Avenue s, Seattle Washington 98144
- 6:00pm~9:00pm Featuring Nathan Breedlove | Eugenie Jones & A History Worth Preserving by Washington State Historical Society’s Stephanie Johnson~Tolliver
Tickets ~ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jsjw-red-dress-jazz-gala-tickets-691994944507?aff=oddtdtcreator
Location: Wonder Bar, 1800 S Jackson Street, Seattle, Washington 98144
- Blues Bash After~Party featuring Raphael Tranquilino | 9:00pm
Tickets ~ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rafael-tranquilino-blues-bash-tickets-692631568667?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
George Abel Van Eps was born on August 7, 1913 in Plainfield, New Jersey into a family of musicians. His mother was a classical pianist, his father was a ragtime banjoist and sound engineer and his three brothers were musicians. He began playing banjo at eleven years old but after hearing Eddie Lang on the radio, he devoted himself to guitar. By thirteen, in 1926, he was performing on the radio.
Through the middle of the 1930s, he played with Harry Reser, Smith Ballew, Freddy Martin, Benny Goodman, and Ray Noble. Van Eps moved to Los Angeles, California and spent most of his remaining career as a studio musician, playing on many commercials and movie soundtracks.
In the 1930s, he invented a model of guitar with another bass string added to the common six-string guitar. The seven-string guitar allowed him to play bass lines below his chord voicings, unlike the single-string style of Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt. He called his technique “lap piano”, as it anticipated the fingerpicking style of country guitarists Chet Atkins and Merle Travis and inspired jazz guitarists Bucky Pizzarelli, John Pizzarelli, and Howard Alden to pick up the seven-string.
Dixieland had a following in Los Angeles during the 1940s and 1950s, and he played in groups led by Bob Crosby and Matty Matlock and appeared in the film Pete Kelly’s Blues. He played guitar on Frank Sinatra’s 1955 album. In The Wee Small Hours.
Playing guitar into his eighties, he built a career that lasted over sixty years. Swing and mainstream guitarist George Van Eps, who recorded eleven albums as a leader and thirty~two as a sideman, transitioned from pneumonia on November 29, 1998 in Newport Beach, California at the age of 85.
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CHICAGO JAZZ FESTIVAL
Seating Bowl and Great Lawn open at 2:45pm.
Harris Theater Rooftop – Jazz: Next Gen Jazz (Enter on Randolph St.)
- 11-11:40am – Saucedo Alumni Latin Jazz Collective
- 12-12:40pm – Urban Horizons
- 1-1:40pm – Charlie Reichert Powell & New River
- 2-2:40pm – Neon Wilderness
- 3-3:40pm – Mxmrys
Von Freeman Pavilion (North Promenade)
- 11:30-12:25pm – Herbsaint
- 12:40-1:35pm – Tim Fitzgerald Wes Montgomery Project
- 1:50-2:45pm – Christian Dillingham Quartet
- 3-4pm – Petra’s Recession Seven
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
- 4:15-5:05pm – The Pharez Whitted Quintet
- 5:25-6:10pm – Chicago Soul Jazz Collective w/ Dee Alexander
- 6:25-7:25pm – Billy Valentine
- 7:45-9pm – Juan de Marcos and the Afro-Cuban All Stars
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