Your Guide to the Local Jazz Scene
Happy Hours presents the DOUG WHITE QUARTET for joyful and pensive musical conversations through fresh versions of classic modern jazz, including funk, rock and Latin. This show features liquid and rich flute and sax playing by Tom Gullion, smooth and solid bass by Mark Urness, fascinatingly drum rhythms by Dane Richeson, and sensitive, lively piano […]
Founded in 2014, the Bill Roberts Combo brings a tight, nuanced, and rhythmically powerful presentation to blues-jazz unlike anything you’ve heard before. The Combo performs both as an instrumental unit, and in a full band with a vocalist and other instrumentation, allowing the Combo to shine in many different kinds of events and venues. Bill […]
With Jeff Weiss on bass.
Purchase tickets $20 general admission Students free (ticket required) Mead Witter School of Music Guest Artist Series Dennis Mackrel, drums With Jazz Standards Ensemble & UW Jazz Orchestra …… Jazz drummer Dennis Mackrel is the Director of Jazz Studies and Associate Chair of the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College in Flushing, NY. He is […]
TICKET LINK | ONLINE TICKET SLAES END 4 HOURS BEFORE SHOWTIME. TICKETS MAY ALSO BE PURCHASED AT THE DOOR. BlueStem Jazz | Zacc Harris is a guitarist and composer based in Minneapolis, MN. He is a founding member of the acclaimed modern jazz collective Atlantis Quartet, which was formed in 2006 and has since released […]
Hanah Jon Taylor with the assistance of a UW jazz studies student will teach a class for middle school and high school students called “Cool School” where they will explore creative improvisation and the future of this music we have called jazz. Ages 7-13 will be the first group at 10 AM; advanced students attend […]
Tom Waselchuck, guitar John Widdicombe, bass
Jazz piano every Saturday 5:30 – 8:30. Jim Erickson holds a master’s degree in classical piano performance and bachelors in jazz piano performance, both from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Private teachers include Willie Pickens in Chicago and Kenny Barron in New York City. Jim’s compositions and recordings for advertising have won seven local Addys […]
AACM 61st Anniversary Celebration Series: Featuring Healing Vibration Trio Join us for a powerful evening honoring 61 years of boundary-breaking creativity and Black musical innovation through the legacy of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. As part of this milestone celebration, the Healing Vibrations Trio brings an immersive performance rooted in spirit, rhythm, […]
MANTIS is Anders Svanoe (sax), Brad Townsend (bass) and Nick Zielinski (drums). Mutated in the radioactive pressure cooker of covid-era late-stage capitalism, MANTIS uses its triangular head, bulging compound eyes and elongated fore-legs to sow precious seeds of doubt in the musical status quo. Unhinging its gigantic mandibles to latch on to its prey, it […]