[Dixielandjazz] Jazz in Seattle

[Stephen G Barbone]

This is a follow up to the New York Times article on Jazz in Seattle.  
Click on the link at the bottom for an mp3 audio that describes the  
youth jazz scene.

CAVEAT - Not OKOM, but the scene itself confirms that jazz is  
certainly not dead, but may be passing us some of us old folks by.  
<grin> Then again, why should that surprise us?

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
Popcast: Seattle Jazz and Ade Blackburn of the British Band Clinic

By The New York Times.

Nearly 20 years after the grunge explosion Seattle is still identified  
with loud guitar rock. But as Nate Chinen discusses in this week’s  
Popcast, The Times’s music podcast, Seattle also has a thriving jazz  
scene filled with ambitious young musicians.

Mr. Chinen, a music writer for The Times, wrote a cover article on  
Seattle jazz for the Arts & Leisure section on Sunday. On Popcast he  
talks with Ben Sisario about his reporting and highlights some of the  
most promising young players in Seattle; many, in a break with  
tradition, are choosing to stay put rather than start their careers in  
New York. “A growing number of young musicians have been focused on  
building an autonomous scene, something distinctive and homegrown,”  
Mr. Chinen writes.



http://podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/2010/08/25/26popcast.mp3