Saxophonist Briggan Krauss has been an internationally recognized key player in New York City’s downtown and creative music scene for more than twenty years. He connects the extreme edges of technique with the unexplored tonal possibilities of the instrument while making his work as much about shape as it is about his unique signature sound. […]
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Gregg Daniel Miller received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Washington in 2005. His research focus is on the philosophy of language, power, and aesthetics within the traditions of critical theory and liberalism (see: Mimesis and Reason, SUNY Press, 2011). He is also an improvising saxophone player. For his Jack Straw project, […]
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Dylan Hayes is originally from San Francisco, and began playing piano at the age of seven. He attended an arts school in Novato, California, Marin School of the Arts, where he started playing in a rock, R&B, motown and funk bands. As time progressed, he joined the school’s top jazz band and realized that jazz […]
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Clarinetist, composer, and improviser James Falzone is an acclaimed member of the international jazz and creative music scenes, a veteran contemporary music lecturer and clinician, and an award-winning composer who has been commissioned by chamber ensembles, dance companies, choirs, and symphony orchestras around the globe. James performs throughout North America and Europe, appears regularly on […]
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Andrew Weathers (b.1988) is a composer and improviser originally from Chapel Hill, NC, currently based in Littlefield, TX. His music engages with notions of place, tradition, repetition, and spirit. He studied composition at UNC-Greensboro and electronic music at Mills College in Oakland, CA. A consistent presence in the underground music scene over the past decade, […]
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The daughter of a Sicilian meat cutter and a cool blonde Norwegian beauty, Julie Cascioppo grew up in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood and attended Western Washington University. She originally intended to have a career as a teacher, but the call of the stage proved too strong. “I was on holiday [in the Caribbean] and a French […]
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David Knott, MM, MT-BC is a board-certified music therapist, fellow in the Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy, instrument maker, improvisor and composer living and working in Seattle. In Fall of 2016 he completed the randomized control study “Immediate Effects of Training with Musical Mnemonics on Verbal Memory in Children” and earned a Master of Music […]
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The Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble (SJCE) exists to create and perform new compositions by Pacific Northwest composers and arrangers, providing sustainable opportunities for continuing education and work advancement for professional musicians. Within this context SJCE strives to provide the public with unique, compelling community events at the lowest cost possible; integrate cross-disciplinary elements to transcend […]
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Del Rey, a guitarist since age four, became fascinated with the ukulele about six years ago, after being surrounded by ukesters chanting “Four strings good! Six strings bad!” at the Ukulele Freedom Front. She and Matt Weiner played in the old-time jazz group the Yes Yes Boys and she plays uke in a duet with […]
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Sandy Diamond studied literature at Brandeis University and earned a BFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts as a Painting Fellow. Her life motifs are manic depression and a fractured spine; she traded painting for poetry, writing about the broken body and mind. Her first book, “Miss Coffin & Mrs. Blood: Poems of Art […]
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