S(teve) Eric Scribner studied composition with Lockrem Johnson. He has lived in Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Japan, with premiers of many of his pieces in each of those places. Many of his recent compositions have been part of an extended series for guided improvisation over prerecorded sound (often processed from environmental recordings […]
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Saxophonist, composer and educator Bryan Smith has been an active member of the jazz and improvised music scene in the Northwest. Having been a musician in both Seattle and Portland, Smith has been able to develop a unique and individualistic voice that is synonymous with West Coast jazz. Influenced by West Coast bebop with players […]
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Composer/clarinetist/vocalist Beth Fleenor harbors a strong love for variety & all sonic manipulation, moving freely through genres such as rock, jazz, classical, contemporary chamber, Slavic & American folk, metal, musique concrete, ambient & pop. Her work has been heard internationally from 100,000 seat rock festivals, maximum-security prisons, and performance art in rural bars, to art […]
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Naima Lowe comes from a long line of Black people who make things. She has parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-great grandparents who are musicians, fashion designers, Sunday school teachers, waitresses, and field hands. Through them she inherited a lineage and aesthetic of Black cultural production that is as enigmatic as it is discernible. These people […]
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The Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra (SWOJO), co-founded by Barbara Hubers-Drake and Ellen Finn, was formed to nurture the musical, educational and artistic growth of individual musicians, to encourage women to become involved in jazz performance/composition as a career or avocation, and to foster community interest in and appreciation of jazz as an art form. Since […]
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Saxophonist Neil Welch is recognized as a major voice of the Seattle free jazz and experimental music fields. He is a co-founder and former performance curator for the acclaimed Seattle music series the Racer Sessions (2010-present), and is an organizer for the avant event organization Table and Chairs Music (2011-present). Neil tours extensively, performing in […]
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Jason Everett (aka Mister E) is a performer, composer, and producer who plays a variety of stringed and percussive instruments with his primary instrument being his seven-string fretless bass guitar. Jason attended Northern Arizona University on a full scholarship for music and started playing professionally at sixteen years old. Jason has played music outside of […]
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Composer and guitarist Greg Ruby is a distinctive voice in the Hot Club jazz tradition. His 2010 CD, Look Both Ways, celebrated the 100th birthday of gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt with 12 original compositions, and reached #1 on the Roots Music Review’s jazz chart. As a former member of the group, Pearl Django, Greg […]
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Michael Owcharuk is a Seattle based composer, pianist, and accordionist. His great love for all music compels him to work in many genres: jazz, new music, rock, Slavic folk, modern chamber/orchestral, and music for theater, dance, and film. Michael co-directs the Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble, leads The Michael Owcharuk Trio, is a member of Crystal […]
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A synesthete with colored-hearing, Memmi Ochi shares her unique internal experiences through marimba performance, conducting, and multi-media presentations. As a marimbist, she has presented concerts and recitals in the United States, Japan, Europe, and South America. Her appearance in Lima, Perú, at the international vibraphone and marimba festival, Vibraciones, has resulted in a return invitation […]
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