Concerts
Seattle Improvised Music Festival
February 8 – 12 Gallery 1412 1412 18th Ave E, Seattle All shows 8 PM, $10-25 sliding scale, except: workshop on Feb. 11 at noon, free matinees on Feb. 11 & 12 at 3 PM, free co-presented with Seattle Improvised Music (complete festival details at their web site) The longest running festival of its kind …
Seattle Chamber Players + Seattle Mavericks
Benaroya Hall / Nordstrom Recital Hall Co-presented with Earshot Jazz Festival If Seattle can be considered to have distinct “Uptown” and “Downtown” music scenes, you could perhaps call this a meeting of the two tribes. The superb Seattle Chamber Players join Wayne Horvitz, Bill Smith, Stuart Dempster, and Trimpin to play new open form works …
Robin Holcomb & Wayne Horvitz
Consolidated Works 500 Boren Ave. N, Seattle 206-381-3218 Co-presented with Earshot Jazz Festival Two singular Seattle-based pianists reprise their 2005 release on the Songlines label. When these two key figures in the expansions and intersections of jazz and other American music forms sat down to plan that album — over the kitchen table, 25 years …
Wally Shoup, Nels Cline, Greg Campbell
Consolidated Works 500 Boren Ave. N, Seattle 206-381-3218 Co-presented with Earshot Jazz Festival Three highly distinctive figures using improvisation as a method and free jazz as a starting point, mingling electricity, percussion, and reeds into a cohesive stew, equal parts mayhem and calm. Wally Shoup is a Seattle institution, and this concert celebrates his 20th …
Nate Wooley & Lyn Goeringer
Friday, October 21 @ 8 PM Gallery 1412 1412 18th Ave., Seattle Nate Wooley grew up in Clatskanie, Oregon, a Finnish-American fishing and timber town. He has spent most of his musical life whole-heartedly embracing the space between complete absorption in sound and relative absence of the same. Nate’s trumpet playing is considered an organic …