Paul Richardson Trio With Steve Kim & Steven Banks at Seattle Jazz Fellowship

Unless you’re a regular at El Gaucho in Seattle, you may have never heard pianist Paul Richardson, even though he logs more hours than most behind the keyboard. It’s true that if you are out on the Seattle jazz scene as a listener, his gigs in different venues may escape your view. That would make it even more important for you as a jazz fan to hit this date at 109 S. Main. The Seattle Jazz Fellowship is music first, and Richardson will perform with a formidable trio of Seattle music veterans. The difference here is that people will listen without the distraction restaurant and club gigs tend to have. ...

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Unless you’re a regular at El Gaucho in Seattle, you may have never heard pianist Paul Richardson, even though he logs more hours than most behind the keyboard. It’s true that if you are out on the Seattle jazz scene as a listener, his gigs in different venues may escape your view. That would make it even more important for you as a jazz fan to hit this date at 109 S. Main. The Seattle Jazz Fellowship is music first, and Richardson will perform with a formidable trio of Seattle music veterans. The difference here is that people will listen without the distraction restaurant and club gigs tend to have. 

Richardson is a player with wonderful technique, a great sense of feel for the lyrical value of a tune, and a veteran onstage persona. He is joined by bassist Steve Kim and drummer Steven Banks, two players with some serious Seattle history. One can recall Kim on gigs with Larry Coryell, Carter Jefferson and Jay Thomas to note but a few. His versatility on electric bass has brought him to play with such diverse musical characters as Garth Hudson of The Band. Ditto for Banks, who has gigged with jazz artists Julian Priester, Eddie Harris and Herbie Hancock, and soul legends Donny Hathaway, Peter Tosh and Earth, Wind and Fire. 

Richardson over the past decade or so, has not played much at places like Tula’s, The Royal Room, Jazz Alley or for that matter, the three year history of the Seattle Jazz Fellowship. He has largely slipped by that particular mooring. SJF is all about giving Seattle jazz artists a stage, and removing barriers of access to see them. This is a great example of just that. https://seattlejazzfellowship.org/events

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