Darian Asplund Group at Seattle Jazz Fellowship

Multi- reedist Darian Asplund is known as much for his work with blues artists such as Lee Oskar as he is for playing jazz. A regular on tenor and alto at local sessions, he has always been a known quantity around the city, enough so that his work is definitively cross-genre. This band includes pianist Josh Rawlings and bassist Tony Lefaive, both familiar to the Seattle jazz scene, but guitarist Andrew Friedrich and drummer Jansen Leggett are relative unknowns. Friedrich pulls strongly from the jazz guitar tradition. Rawlings has been performing in the piano trio format quite a bit since his days with Industrial Revelation, including a fine trio outing at SJF. Lefaive glides easily from double bass to electric, a skillset that should serve him well with this playlist. ...

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Multi- reedist Darian Asplund is known as much for his work with blues artists such as Lee Oskar as he is for playing jazz. A regular on tenor and alto at local sessions, he has always been a known quantity around the city, enough so that his work is definitively cross-genre. This band includes pianist Josh Rawlings and bassist Tony Lefaive, both familiar to the Seattle jazz scene, but guitarist Andrew Friedrich and drummer Jansen Leggett are relative unknowns. Friedrich pulls strongly from the jazz guitar tradition. Rawlings has been performing in the piano trio format quite a bit since his days with Industrial Revelation, including a fine trio outing at SJF. Lefaive glides easily from double bass to electric, a skillset that should serve him well with this playlist. 

Asplund will play originals as well as jazz arrangements of rock tunes from “famous bands.”

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