Scenes at Seattle Jazz Fellowship

The collective Scenes, has lived a life as a trio and as a quartet, in this case as the latter, with iconic Seattle saxophonist Rick Mandyck adding his prowess as both a player and composer. The band has released seven albums on the highly regarded Origin Records label since 2001, including Variable Clouds: Live at the Earshot Jazz Festival, a testament to the quartet's durability and chemistry following the worldwide pandemic.

Guitarist John Stowell is a genius of harmonic invention, creating space for his bandmates to add individual contributions within a unique collective spirit...

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The collective Scenes, has lived a life as a trio and as a quartet, in this case as the latter, with iconic Seattle saxophonist Rick Mandyck adding his prowess as both a player and composer. The band has released seven albums on the highly regarded Origin Records label since 2001, including Variable Clouds: Live at the Earshot Jazz Festival, a testament to the quartet's durability and chemistry following the worldwide pandemic.

Guitarist John Stowell is a genius of harmonic invention, creating space for his bandmates to add individual contributions within a unique collective spirit. Mandyck acts as an emergent energy almost always on the brink of explosive, temporal assertions. His tonality and melodic presence, whether presented with intensity or tenderness, travels in perfect group mind within the territory staked out loosely by the collective. Bassist Jeff Johnson and drummer John Bishop are a known quantity in tandem, a "rhythm section" that simply plays music without the constraints of groove. This will be a fine performance from four great musicians that have engaged many, many times. https://seattlejazzfellowship.org/events

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