Live Jazz and Past Reviews

A full scale jazz club & restaurant, a beautiful setting right under the mountains in historic North Bend. Live music featured five nights a week, with more local nights, education programs and fun coming soon. Lights, Steinway Grand Piano, stage, a great menu, even a patio to watch the trains. Just a short drive up I-90 from Seattle. No cover charge.
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA - ph: 425.292.9307
www.boxleysplace.com

pony boy presents
BOXLEY'S FEBRUARY MUSIC SCHEDULE
live music 7-10:00

WEDNESDAYS: PIANO @ NIGHT
3rd: Bob Hammer, piano; Chris Clark, bass
10th: Craig Hoyer, solo piano
17th: Randy Halberstadt, solo piano
24th: John Hansen, solo piano

THURSDAYS: STABLEMATE HORNS
4th: Jay Thomas Trio
11th: Gary Shutes Quartet
18th: Greg Williamson Trio feat Alexey Nikolaev
25th: Pete Petersen Quartet

FRIDAYS: "OCHO PIES" Cuban and World Jazz
Cuban and World Jazz with guitars, vocals and percussion
*new CD coming out next month - first release onto Pony Boy for popular Olympian based group. Ocho's web site.

SATURDAYS: KELLY EISENHOUR QUARTET
Saturday, Feb 27th: Special Vocal Summit Night w/KELLY EISENHOUR and guest vocalists

SUNDAYS: DANNY KOLKE TRIO
North Bend’s own jazz pianist, featuring a blend of Gene Harris style blues and straight ahead jazz. His CD "A New Meaning" is newly released on Pony Boy Records.

TUESDAY, Feb 16th: Mardis Gras
"OUTSIDE NEW ORLEANS" BIG BAD GROOVE SOCIETY JAZZ SEXTET
Special 5:15pm show for Mardis Gras Parading
*see CD "Swing Your Big Head" for fun parade preview.

Saturday, February 27: Vocal Summit Saturday Night...
Guest vocalists will be joining Kelly Eisenhaur onstage. A very special night.

Mondays & Tuesdays: Special Education Programs, Local Bands, Blues Nights.

Greg Wiliamson's A-Y-P Large Ensemble
Jazz Music for Seattle's 1909 AYP Expo
2009 Earshot Jazz Festival

4Culture's Model-T Site
Video & Pics

• October 29, "Seattle Presents" @ City Hall, noon - 1:00
700 5th Ave (@ Cherry St), Seattle, WA
Free

• November 4, The Triple Door, 7:00 - 8:00
216 Union Street, Seattle
$18/$16 tickets
BUY TICKETS ONLINE

A mash-up and jazz improvisation of music written for, and performed at Seattle's "First World's Fair" - the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Including the newly uncovered "Gloria Washington March" theme song written by AYP Bandmaster Fr. Innes in 1909; and marches, vocal songs like "Meet Me In Seattle." Collaged, contrasted and culminating with modern big band classics by Basie, Ellington and Seattle's own Quincy Jones. All of this in front of compelling slides and films of the 1909 Expo. Featuring an All-Star cast of musicians with a fun sense of artistic expression.

"This is sick, it's like changing the radio dial from 1909 to 2009. You're a twisted puppy. Thanks." - Dan Marcus, trombone

Conversations & Deconstructions by this ensemble was nominated "Earshot Golden Ear Award Concert of the Year"

more info and "Gloria Washington" Preview

Earshot's Art of Jazz Series @ SAM

Thursday, October 8
Greg Williamson Quartet
Seattle's swingingest drummer joined by John Hansen on piano, Jon Hamar on bass, and the mighty Alexey Nikolaev on tenor saxophone!

Seattle Art Museum Downtown
1300 First Avenue, Seattle
5:30 PM on the 2nd Thursday
of every month. Free with museum admission.

Pony Boy All-Star Big Band
A-Y-P Expo / Model T Rally

Pony Boy All-Star Big Band CSI 
(Crime Scene Investigation)

Monday, March 30, 7:30pm
Pony Boy Records Presents: 
A Workshop Big Band Resurrection of
Ronnie Pierce's "Dream Band" library from 1946 

Tula's Restaurant & Nightclub
2214 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA
reservations:  ph: 206-443-4221
http://www.tulas.com
$8 cover charge

This will be an investigative workshop/rehearsal/rehydration of a book and big band that lots of the jazzers from the period raved about. Kids like Red Kelly, Marvin Thomas, Fred Greenwell, etc... They all said it was a great book, and a very modern band for the time... With Arrangements by Bob Hill** and Glenn Thompson. We will give it a reading and see what's been hidden away since 1946. We'll do some rendering, and make some recordings in "workshop" fashion for documentation to apply for a grant - for a more formal performance. We'll even do some on-stage panel interviewing of Ronnie Pierce and the author of a new book about the "Sheriff," along with some photos and historical perspectives. I came across many references to this band when researching the "Conversations & Deconstructions" piece. Ronnie has had the music locked away for a very long time - let's see what all the fuss was about.

Come on down for the spectacle! 

Saxes: Travis Ranney, Alexey Nikolaev, Mike West, Bill Ramsay
Trombones: Gary Shutes, Dan Marcus, Dave Marriott, Greg Schroeder
Trumpets: Dennis Haldane, Mike Mines, Al Keith, Jake Bergevin, Chad McCullugh
Wandering French Horn High Notes: Mike Simpson
Rhythm Section: Greg Williamson, drums; Jon Hamar, bass; Dan Kramlich, piano; Jim Day, guitar

(** Bob Hill passed over the hill last Thursday. He will be missed. He was a fine pianist, arranger, and a real musical gentleman.)

Karen Shivers Quartet
Monday, March 2, 2009
7:30pm
Jazz Alley
2033 6th Avenue, Seattle WA 98121
ph: 206.441.9729
www.jazzalley.con

Larry Fuller appears with John Pizzarelli
watch online: NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien
February 11, 2009

Fuller's CD "Easy Walker" continues to a popular release

A GREAT DAY IN SEATTLE

Purchase your posters, and limited edition prints commemorating this event. Donations to MusiCares will also be made possible through this website.
www.agreatdayinseattle.com

Pony Boy Records and the JAZZ PICNIC was awarded an Earshot Jazz GOLDEN EAR AWARD for "signifigant and enduring contributions to Seattle's Jazz Scene"

3rd Annual JAZZ PICNIC was nominated 2006 CONCERT OF THE YEAR.

The 4th annual Jazz Picnic was held September 9, 2007, and featured over 40 jazz musicians in a free outdoor park concert, with close to 1,000 in attendance. Thanks and congratulations to all the musicians, sponsors, and fans.

New: Jazz Picnic 2006 Photo Gallery 2007 Gallery coming soon

Jazz & Sushi on TV:
City A Go Go: Jazz and Sushi/Sci Fi Museum
with Nancy Guppy

Online Video
Seattle Channel 21: schedule almost daily thru Jan 20
KCTS 9: check listings

"... Jazz and Sushi are the perfect combo and can be enjoyed every Friday night at Hiroshi's restaurant on Eastlake."

see the video!
Pony Boy All-Star Big Band Kent performance
on YouTube.com with 4 cameras split-screen!
check out all 4 parts (and the great trains screaming past)

Friday, September 22, 2006
Downtown Kent First Avenue Party
Presented by Kent Arts Commission in partnership with Kent’s First Avenue South Merchants, as part of 4Culture’s SITE-SPECIFIC/2006 King County Performance Network.

Featured CDs

Larry Fuller Trio

with Ray Brown
and Jeff Hamilton