The Stranger, October 18th, 2007
Jazz/Not Jazz
At Earshot, It's Not an Important Distinction
Earshot Jazz Festival
Fri Oct 19-Sun Nov 4 www.earshot.org.
Seattle's longest-running jazz festival is also its most visionary. Now 19 years old, the Earshot Jazz Festival curates a roster of far-flung musical talent, much of it outside the scope of traditional jazz. But jazz demands evolution: As the classics endure, new music expands into indefinable outer realms. This year, the Earshot Jazz Festival includes young iconoclasts, old masters, films dedicated to old masters, demented screaming, experimental guitar, and a band of Be...
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