Earshot Jazz Presents: Khu.exFriday November 1stDoors 8:30 Show 9:00PM$30 Adult/ $25 Earshot Member & Senior (60+)/ $12 Student and MilitaryPreston Singletary (bass), Sondra Segundo (vocals), Captain Raab (guitar), Arias Hoyle (vocals) and other members of the Tlingit, Haida, and Blackfoot tribes, convenes Khu.ex, Tlingit for potlatch. Inspired by the music of his Alaskan forebears (which the revered glass artist Singletary memorialized in a 2022-23 exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian, Raven and the Box of Daylight, which toured nationally). Singletary and his jazz-funk collaborators create songs that soar with a profound spirituality and exudes celebratory vibrations (Dave Segal, The Stranger). Khu.ex is an Indigenous band full of creative members, including storytellers, activists and artists, that bring this collective energy to the stage as one powerful unit. Their focus is raising awareness of social issues, stemming from the Native American struggle, issues that affect all people. Khu.ex are bringing a much-needed Indigenous perspective while keeping their tribal culture and endangered ancient languages alive through music, storytelling and art. Their latest album released this year, is Siyadlan. Doors 8:30pm.This is a 21+ eventEarshot Jazz COVID-19 Policy: Earshot recommends that all ticket holders be vaccinated.
Clock-Out Lounge Presents:The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewisplus Hound Dog Taylors Hand Saturday September 14th8:30 doors 21+$20adv/$22 dos https://themessthetics.bandcamp.com/album/the-messthetics-and-james-brandon-lewishttps://jamesbrandonlewis.bandcamp.com/Joe Lally was onstage, playing at full throttle, when he realized that his band had found a true kindred spirit. It was the fall of 2021 and the Messthetics the instrumental trio of Lally on bass, his former Fugazi bandmate Brendan Canty on drums and guitarist Anthony Pirog were at Brooklyn venue the Bell House, digging into their uptempo riff workout Serpent Tongue. Joining them for the piece was a special guest, acclaimed jazz saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, making only his second cameo with the group after a drop-in at another New York show back in 2019. That first meeting had been a success, but this time, Lewis presence sparked something new.https://hdth.bandcamp.com/Taking its name from the polydactyl blues guitarist, Hound Dog Taylors Hand creates spontaneous compositions rooted in the language of the blues and free jazz.Reverence for the roots of improvised music meets an unbridled passion to push boundaries, making for a propulsive and unpredictable sound.
Earshot Jazz Festival Presents: High PulpWednesday, November 18:30 pm PDT21+ In-person*$12 students/military$25 Earshot members/seniors (60+)$30 publicSeattle/L.A-based collective, High Pulp draws on jazz, bebop, punk rock, shoegaze, hip-hop, and electronic music to create a sound that is both vintage and futuristic. The core ensemble includes Antoine Martel (keyboard, synthesizer), Andrew Morrill (saxophone), Bobby Granfelt (drums), Rob Homan (keys), Victory Nguyen (tenor saxophone), Trevor Eulau (guitar) and Kaelie Earle (bass). Born out of a loose, weekly jam session hosted at Seattles historic Royal Room, the band now tours nationally with upcoming dates taking them across the country as well as into Canada. Were a bunch of outsiders who refused to be kept out, says High Pulp drummer Bobby Granfelt. Weve never had an academic approach to jazzmost of us grew up playing in DIY bandsso it was the rawness and the energy and the absolute freedom of the music that called to us in the first place. Theyve released three albumsBad Juice (2020) and Pursuit of Ends (2022) which guest-stars such jazz luminaries as Theo Croker, Brandee Younger, and Jaleel Shaw.
Earshot Jazz Festival Presents: Jun Iida Thursday, October 198:30 pm PDT 21+$12 students/military$25 Earshot Jazz members/Seniors (60+)$30 publichttps://www.juniidamusic.com/Born in St. Louis and raised in Pittsburgh, the son of Japanese immigrants, trumpeter Jun Iida was exposed to a myriad of musical styles from a young age. Iida sites Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, and Robert Glasper as influences of his art. Since studying both classical and jazz music at college, Iida has been an active musician across America, both in the recording studio and on the stage. Eventually his focus moved in the direction of jazz. Iida says, Jazz has always been a passion of mine, and with age has also become the musical language with which I am most comfortable expressing myself. I have always been a student of the art, and am inspired and intrigued by the evolution of jazz as a direct reflection of the history of America. After working the Los Angeles scene for some time, Iida moved to Seattle in 2020 where he has quickly established a reputation as a dynamic, talented and respected musician. He has performed with Marina Albero, Jay Thomas, Josh Hou, Kelsey Mines, Bill Anschell, Skerik, Ray Larsen, and Chris Symer among others. Much in demand, Iida feels comfortable as a sideman and as a a band leader. Iida appreciates reworking the jazz standards as well as presenting his own compositions and improvising. A new album on Origin Records is in the works with a release slated for sometime in January 2024. While Iida performed in last years Earshot Jazz Festival under other bandleaders, this is his first time leading his own ensemble. For this performance Iida will present his sextetensemble members TBA.
Clock-Out Lounge Presents:Sound Cipher Album Release w/ Special Guest Diminished Men April 21st 8:30 pm 21+$20 cover Sound Cipher is:Skerik (Sax, EFX)Tim Alexander (Drums)Timm Mason (Modular Synths, Bass)https://www.facebook.com/soundcipherhttp://www.skerikmusic.comSound Cipher is the surreal, pulsating audio vision shared by three of modern musics most uncompromising sound sculptors. Its the sort of thing that emerges when Tim Alexander (Primus, Puscifer, A Perfect Circle) finds himself inside a thunderous duo improvisation with Skerik (Critters Buggin, Garage A Trois, Les Claypools Frog Brigade) during a soundcheck for Primus Chocolate Factory tour in Oakland CA. One person surrounded by a circular percussion station of preposterous proportions, another person hurling psychedelic saxophonic screams into the hellfire of analog and digital circuitry.Accident leads to inspiration leads to intentionality leads to attack, and the first official Sound Cipher excursion was scheduled for January 2, 2017 at Studio Litho in Seattle WA with Randall Dunn at the production helm.Timm Mason (aka Mood Organ, alumnus of Master Musicians Of Bukkake, collaborator alongside Wolves In The Throne Room, Eyvind Kang hann Jhannsson and many more) initially came aboard to assist with modular synth processing during this first session, generally a technical advisory role involving lab coats and clipboards and chin-scratching. But accidents will happen, of course. The participants arrived to find Mason setting up in the live room (instead of the control room as expected), and his direct in-the-moment sonic manipulation of the proceedings made it clear that he belonged at the creative core of the project, where he remains today.https://diminishedmen.bandcamp.com/Drawing from elements of film noir, psychedelic exotica, experimental rock, deviant surf and musique concrte, Diminished Men refocus their influences into something entirely unique. Collaged with menacing electricity, the raw materials are broken up and reassembled in their crude private facility.
The Earshot Jazz Festival Presents: Bad Luck w/ Special Guest Kin of the Moon October 20th 8pm doors 21+ $12 cover In Bad Luck, a genre-defying supernova ofmolten electronic jazz little heard in recentyears, Neil Welch (saxophone, live electronics)and Christopher Icasiano (drums) bear downon you like a cyclone of fire and chop up timeand space into jagged, unpredictable shapeslike an asymmetrical avalanche (The Stranger).http://www.badluckband.net/about Kin of the Moonbassist/cellist HeatherBentley, flutist extraordinaire Leanna Keith,and vocalist Kaley Lane Eatonperform multi-disciplinary work withsound installations and visual elements to create improvisation-centricand technology-friendly sound experiences.https://kinofthemoon.org/
