LaVon Hardison is a singer/songwriter, artist, and general creative and sings jazz standards, originals, and her own eclectic and compelling arrangements of popular songs. Originally hailing from Boston, she has found a musical and creative community in the Northwest. Equally at home at jazz clubs, corporate events, private parties, and sacred settings, LaVon uses her […]
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Murphy Janssen is a recent graduate from UW with an M.M. in Jazz and Improvised music (‘21). With an emphasis on composition, improvisation, and electro-acoustic music in his own work, he looks to pull from and build on the rich traditions of American Jazz, European experimental/electronic and Orchestral/Concert Percussion musics. Murphy has studied under the […]
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Saxophonist and composer Greg Sinibaldi has established himself as one of his generations most inventive musicians, embracing a diverse musical world. Often described as a musicians’s musician, he can be found performing with his own groups, playing in metal bands, or developing new musical sounds with the EWI, he brings a characteristic and unique voice […]
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Kate Olson is an improvising saxophonist and music educator based in Seattle, WA. Since moving to Seattle in 2010, she has done her best to infiltrate the local, regional and international improvised music scenes. She can be heard performing with her own projects KO SOLO and KO ELECTRIC, and as a collaborator with Syrinx Effect, Ask the Ages, the Seattle […]
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EarthtoneSkytone is a multidimensional electro-acoustic songwriting duo from Seattle. Carlos Snaider and Kelsey Mines’ layered polyrhythms, angular jazz harmonies and expansive quiet create mysterious sound worlds where immersive listening can happen. A product of Seattle’s creative music scene, Mines and Snaider bring their varied influences from world creative music traditions, dance music, pop culture and […]
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Julian Priester is a legendary jazz trombonist who has played with a wide range of renowned jazz artists since the 1950s, such as Sun Ra, Max Roach, Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Duke Ellington, and Herbie Hancock. He moved to Seattle in 1979 to join the faculty of Cornish College of the arts, and has been […]
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Amy Denio is a composer, improviser, singer, and multi-instrumentalist whose main instruments are voice, alto saxophone, clarinet, accordion, electric guitar, and bass. She was inducted into the Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame in March 2015. She also is a record producer. Since 1988 she has performed throughout East & West Europe and North America. She […]
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Lee Redfield enjoys creating a personal and meaningful artistic statement that expresses beauty and humanity through sound. His unique approach to jazz saxophone has its roots in rock and the blues but his arrangements and compositions are a fusion that reflect all he has absorbed in his musical studies and travels through Asia and South […]
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Benjamin Hunter is an award winning multi-instrumentalist—violin, mandolin, guitar, percussion, voice—whose interests lie in roots music from around the world. Born in Lesotho, raised predominantly in Phoenix, with stints in Seattle and Zimbabwe, Ben was raised classically on violin, but now plays a variety of styles—roots, folk, jazz, blues, gospel, world. Ben plays in the […]
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Clarinetist and composer William O. Smith died in 2020 after a long and fruitful career, ranging from playing – as Bill Smith – with Dave Brubeck to performing and composing his own pioneering modern classical work. Bill was a longtime friend of Jack Straw and produced a number of projects here, including his 2001 album […]
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