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Earshot Jazz Spring Concerts




Ralph Alessi's Baida
Thursday, February 6, 8pm
PONCHO Concert Hall, Cornish College, 710 E Roy St

Ralph Alessi, trumpet; Gary Versace, piano; Drew Gress, bass; Nasheet Waits, drums

Ralph Alessi’s Baida project – his ECM debut as a bandleader – is breathtaking in its
atmospheric depth and melodic allure. Jazz Times says Alessi has “drop-dead trumpet
chops” and calls his music “as clean and airy and sophisticated and disciplined as
post-modern progressive jazz gets.” (more info)

Advance tickets available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com and 1-800-838-3006.
$22 Adult, $20 Seniors and Earshot Jazz members, $11 Students
The quartet also conducts a free masterclass at the Cornish College, February 6, noon.




Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band
Tuesday, February 18, 7:30pm
Plestcheeff Auditorium, Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Avenue

Presented in association with Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense. One of the most
distinctive and versatile future legends of jazz, Brian Blade brings his enduring and ever-changing
Fellowship project to Seattle. It is a co-operative musical environment with the great composer
and arranger Jon Cowherd on piano, Melvin Butler and Myron Walden on saxes, Christopher
Thomas on bass, and Brian Blade on drums. No guitarist this tour. (more info)

Advance tickets available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com and 1-800-838-3006.
$24 Adult, $22 Seniors and Earshot Jazz members, $12 Students




Linda Oh Sun Pictures
Samantha Boshnack Quintet opens
Sunday, March 30, 7:30pm
Plestcheeff Auditorium, Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Avenue

One of the brilliant rising stars in jazz, bassist Linda Oh dazzled Earshot Jazz Festival audiences last
year in the new quintet of trumpeter Dave Douglas. Her Sun Pictures (2013) quartet includes James
Muller on guitar, Ben Wendel (of Kneebody) on saxophone and Ted Poor on drums. The Samantha
Boshnack Quintet opens with a premier of the Nellie Bly Project and other new works. (more info)

Advance tickets available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com and 1-800-838-3006.
$18 Adult, $16 Seniors and Earshot Jazz members, $9 Students
Free Workshop, Monday, March 31, noon, Cornish College of the Arts, Poncho Concert Hall, 710 E. Roy

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About Earshot Jazz: Earshot Jazz is a non-profit jazz-support and presenting organization. In addition to its established concert presenting activities, which includes Seattle's major annual jazz festival, Earshot provides educational programs in jazz and publishes the monthly Earshot Jazz news magazine.

Photo of Ralph Alessi by Daniel Sheehan. Photo of Brian Blade provided courtesy of the artist. Photo of Linda Oh by Vincent Soyez.
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