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Fashionable Conversationalist
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 Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:05 am
Well a few weeks ago i went to this benefit thing that had a few lectures and a concert by some of the best jazz teachers at the University of Washington. It was at this great new jazz club called The Triple Door.
It was interesting to learn about the early days of Jazz in Seattle apparently Seattle was a hotspot for jazz back in the day. We even rivaled LA as the spot to play at on the west coast.
I'm not suprised by that being some of the greatest jazz musicains came from here like Ray Charles, Earnestine Anderson and Quincy Jones.
There used to be thirty jazz clubs all around the same block and you could go see people like Count Basie, Dexter Gordan, Charlie Parker among others.
It was known as Jackson Street which i already knew a little about since i work at a music museum here in seattle.
I got to learn also about african american history in Seattle as well. There was sit-ins at my old highschool and activists in the very heart of downtown Seattle where Martin Luther King had a speach prepared.
Seattle had zoning restrictions on color and in actual deeds to houses it said they could only be owned by certain colors.
The speakers were very good and entertaining. There was a group of jazz musicians from Seattle that toured overseas and got stuck in Singapore when it was ocupied by Japan.
The piano player had his hands bashed in for no good reason and later on the whole band was executed.
The music was awsome too! They played original pieces that they wrote and that were appropriate for each lecture.
It was a pretty good experience and made me want to learn more about Seattles rich history in jazz.
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 7:22 pm
when was this? was it in the past week?
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:30 pm
It was a couple of weeks ago
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 5:15 pm
A pianists worst dream.
Interesting history, though. Unfortunately for my history obsessed self, my town is pretty new and doesn't have too much of interest to offer, particularily in the jazz section. But that's pretty interesting to learn and I'll have to check out some of the streets you were talking about next time I'm in Seattle. Not soon, but eventually.
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 5:11 pm
Really? I never knew that about Seattle.... Amazing how you can live so near a place, yet know practically nothing about it sweatdrop
That's really sad about that one band though..... another thing that's amazing, the cruelty of people
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:34 pm
i never thought or think of seatle in that way, i always think of like grunge and stuff like that i never new that at one point it was a major jazz city
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Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 8:30 pm
You know what city i was completely shocked to find out had a big interest in jazz? Mine. Cleveland, Ohio used to be really big on jazz, back in it's hayday...
Cleveland's hayday, that is. Not much left here : /
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 2:55 pm
Seattle has a cool jazz scene here there are quite a few places to check out live jazz some with really big names on the Venue.
Did anyone know that Quincy Jones is from Seattle? Actually if you watch Ray the parts in the beginning where he meets Q take place in Seattle. It is true that Ray taught Q to read and write jazz right here in Seattle!
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