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HIROMI
I bet in 30 years someone will unearth this fusion quartet's funky "Kung-Fu World Champion" from their recent disc Brain (Telarc) and deem it "rare groove." I'm not always keen on fusion, but toss an accelerating tempo, stuttering drums, and spastically robotic synth line into a sectional prog-rock arrangement and ka-pow! I surrender. Jazz Alley, 2033 Sixth Ave, 441-9729, sets at 8 and 10:15 pm, $18.50/$20.50.
FRIDAY AUGUST 6
PALISSANDRE
Named after a species of Brazilian rosewood common to both oboes and classical guitars, this duo of Cathedral Guitarist Matthew McColl and oboist Taina Karr perform in the comfortably cool cathedral chapel. On the program: music by Mozart, arrangements of songs by Heinrich Schütz, Joaquin Rodrigo's Triptico, and Portland composer Bryan Johanson's Fantasy on a Plainchant. St. James Cathedral, 804 Ninth Ave, 382-4874, 7:45 pm, $15, students and seniors pay as able.
WALLY SHOUP TRIO
Out-jazz skronk at the Scarlet Tree? Usually this nightclub hosts fusion and funk groups, but I gotta applaud any venue with the moxie to mix things up. Alto saxophone firebrand Wally Shoup, bassist Michael Bisio, and percussionist/pot-lid virtuoso Greg Campbell share the bill with the Don Goodwin Trio, purveyors of electric jazz in the mode of Medeski, Martin & Wood. Scarlet Tree, 6521 Roosevelt Way NE, 523-7153, 9:30 pm, $6. SATURDAY AUGUST 7
SARAH CHANG
Where do classical music's child prodigies go when they grow up? Presuming they're not sick of playing the same six concertos over and over, they cruise the festival circuit. The Bellingham Festival of Music has imported this violinist to solo in Dvorak's Violin Concerto. Chang will likely be dazzling, but I'm chiefly interested in Respighi's seldom-heard Trittico Botticelliano. Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 5, nicknamed "Reformation," rounds out the program. Mount Baker Theater, 104 N Commercial St in Bellingham, 360-734-6080, 8 pm, $21-$28.
SUNDAY AUGUST 8
SEATTLE WOMEN'S JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Greta Matassa, one of our burg's best jazz singers, teams up with this almost all-women big band to sing standards and sally through new tunes. Mercerdale Park, 77th Ave SE and SE 32nd St on Mercer Island, 236-3545, 7 pm, free.
JOE McPHEE/MICHAEL BISIO DUO
Bassist Bisio and pocket trumpeter/saxophonist McPhee sounded great together on 2002's Shadow & Light (Drimala); McPhee's mastery at coaxing tender, forlorn sounds from the trumpet's upper register makes him a great match for the ever-attentive Bisio. Reservations recommended. Brad's Swingside Cafe, 4212 Fremont Ave N, 633-4057, 8 pm, $12.
THE COMPLINE CHOIR
Circa 530 AD, St. Benedict prescribed music and manual labor as an antidote to the excesses of monasticism (self-flagellation, standing on a pillar year after year, vermiform mortification, etc.). Benedict outlined seven offices to be spoken and sung. Compline, the last holy office of the day, is sung after dinner, hence the late Sunday start time. The cathedral is refreshingly cool this time of year, so put something on over that too-tight T-shirt. St Mark's Cathedral, 1245 10th Ave E, 323-0300, 9:30 pm, free.
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HIROMI
I bet in 30 years someone will unearth this fusion quartet's funky "Kung-Fu World Champion" from their recent disc Brain (Telarc) and deem it "rare groove." I'm not always keen on fusion, but toss an accelerating tempo, stuttering drums, and spastically robotic synth line into a sectional prog-rock arrangement and ka-pow! I surrender. Jazz Alley, 2033 Sixth Ave, 441-9729, sets at 8 and 10:15 pm, $18.50/$20.50.
FRIDAY AUGUST 6
PALISSANDRE
Named after a species of Brazilian rosewood common to both oboes and classical guitars, this duo of Cathedral Guitarist Matthew McColl and oboist Taina Karr perform in the comfortably cool cathedral chapel. On the program: music by Mozart, arrangements of songs by Heinrich Schütz, Joaquin Rodrigo's Triptico, and Portland composer Bryan Johanson's Fantasy on a Plainchant. St. James Cathedral, 804 Ninth Ave, 382-4874, 7:45 pm, $15, students and seniors pay as able.
WALLY SHOUP TRIO
Out-jazz skronk at the Scarlet Tree? Usually this nightclub hosts fusion and funk groups, but I gotta applaud any venue with the moxie to mix things up. Alto saxophone firebrand Wally Shoup, bassist Michael Bisio, and percussionist/pot-lid virtuoso Greg Campbell share the bill with the Don Goodwin Trio, purveyors of electric jazz in the mode of Medeski, Martin & Wood. Scarlet Tree, 6521 Roosevelt Way NE, 523-7153, 9:30 pm, $6. SATURDAY AUGUST 7
SARAH CHANG
Where do classical music's child prodigies go when they grow up? Presuming they're not sick of playing the same six concertos over and over, they cruise the festival circuit. The Bellingham Festival of Music has imported this violinist to solo in Dvorak's Violin Concerto. Chang will likely be dazzling, but I'm chiefly interested in Respighi's seldom-heard Trittico Botticelliano. Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 5, nicknamed "Reformation," rounds out the program. Mount Baker Theater, 104 N Commercial St in Bellingham, 360-734-6080, 8 pm, $21-$28.
SUNDAY AUGUST 8
SEATTLE WOMEN'S JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Greta Matassa, one of our burg's best jazz singers, teams up with this almost all-women big band to sing standards and sally through new tunes. Mercerdale Park, 77th Ave SE and SE 32nd St on Mercer Island, 236-3545, 7 pm, free.
JOE McPHEE/MICHAEL BISIO DUO
Bassist Bisio and pocket trumpeter/saxophonist McPhee sounded great together on 2002's Shadow & Light (Drimala); McPhee's mastery at coaxing tender, forlorn sounds from the trumpet's upper register makes him a great match for the ever-attentive Bisio. Reservations recommended. Brad's Swingside Cafe, 4212 Fremont Ave N, 633-4057, 8 pm, $12.
THE COMPLINE CHOIR
Circa 530 AD, St. Benedict prescribed music and manual labor as an antidote to the excesses of monasticism (self-flagellation, standing on a pillar year after year, vermiform mortification, etc.). Benedict outlined seven offices to be spoken and sung. Compline, the last holy office of the day, is sung after dinner, hence the late Sunday start time. The cathedral is refreshingly cool this time of year, so put something on over that too-tight T-shirt. St Mark's Cathedral, 1245 10th Ave E, 323-0300, 9:30 pm, free.
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