Warm Up To The Seattle Washington Jazz Scene
Seattle Girl Makes Good Jazz Enthusiast Web
http://www.seattlegirlmakesgood.com/seattle-jazz/
As the weather becomes cooler and skies remain gray more of the time we tend to think of warm and fuzzy places to go relax and enjoy. Whether it is drinking warm crevassier next to the fireplace at a Jazz Club or sipping a hot cappuccino eating a mouth watering dessert, listening to Jazz In The Background (or the foreground for that matter) just plain makes us have fun and feel good!
Seattle and the surrounding areas has one of the greatest Jazz scene’s in the country, well, at least in the NorthWest!
There’s the Bellevue Jazz Festival, Seattle Center, Gig Harbor and now, coming up there’s the EarShot Jazz Festival with the likes of such greats as:
Wayne Horvitz
Jerry Gonzalez & Fort Apache Band
Charlie Haden w/ Carla Bley
Starting next month It runs from October 18th through November 9th and promises a very good time for Jazz fans. Go ahead and take a look by visiting the below URL. (don’t worry, this page will remain open)
http://www.earshot.org/
There are far too many to mention here but another great that comes to mind is The Seattle Reperatory Jazz Orchestra’s SRJO’s Fourteenth Anniversary Season 2008-2009 in the works and not to be missed. Find out more by going to
http://www.srjo.org/
If you play music or just want to get involved in the local Jazz Scene you might want to check up on the Puget Sound Traditional Jazz Society. This society began back in 1975 so they know what they are doing! Their meetings are said to have, “fifteen minutes of business with five hours of music”. Sounds like a good time, don’t you think? By the way, families are welcomed to partake in the meetings and in most instances children are permitted as well.
The purpose of this society and the meetings and even the magazine, JAZZ SOUNDINGS – a monthly magazine is sharing – if you play or listen to traditional jazz and just can’t keep your foot from twitching – consider yourself welcome.
Don’t forget to check out the Puget Sound Traditional Jazz Society’s website found at
Down the coast a ways there’s the Cool Jazz Society out of Olympia Washington. Why not take a visit? It’s only a mere 60 mile drive! Here’s the link to the Cool Jazz Society Blog, if you’re interested
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=208069250
Being a jazz fan SeattleGirlMakesGood put together a website just for Jazz Fans which, if you want to read 10 pages of Jazz Articles, is a good place to visit. Click on the picture above or the link below and take an adventure…into JAZZ.
http://www.seattlegirlmakesgood.com/seattle-jazz/
The mission here is to HAVE FUN and browse around the web Jazz Scene a while. Hope you like it!!
SeattleGirlMakesGood
If I’d Been At Burning Man …
Today, Labor Day marks the Day After the finale at the Burning Man festival where the gigantic MAN is torched and tens of thousands of participants return from where they came. This year the Burning Man theme is The American Dream. The different art exhibits, known as ‘theme camps’, which ideally are interactive will somehow associate with this changing annual theme. Also, the street names in this temporary city coincide by somehow following the theme of the year. The one week long festival was started in San Francisco in 1986 then moved to the stark, almost uninhabitable Black Rock Desert of Nevada in the year 1990. Burning Man celebrates art, creative expression, involvement with others, music, unity among human beings, and a long standing tradition of general fun.
It is said this festivity is not for the faint of heart, those who can not entertain themselves, have troubles getting along with others, or do not function in a crowd. From the Videos I have watched, and stories I have read about Burning Man it would be a good idea to do extensive research before throwing yourself into Burning Man so you can be prepared. If you are a litterbug do NOT go. You must be self-sufficient, environmentally contientious and bring what you need to survive for this week. In other words, be self sufficient.
This extravaganza is a more of a one of a kind experience to enrich yourself, leave your material world behind and take yourself to a new enlightenment. Have you ever really wanted to … let yourself go? But can not seem to do it all the way because the requirements of daily life are holding you back? Maybe Burning Man IS something you can do to find a new path.
Of course I have always wanted to attend this event, but over the years seem to have made more excuses … than Carter’s got pills. You know the usual, parenting, work calling, obligations … that sort of thing. So, this year once again as Labor Day Holiday returns and I study the 2008 Burning Man online.
This morning I sit in awe, watching video after video of folks there having fun. The couple who were married as they jumped out of a plane and para sailed down to their motor home at Burning Man just about made me cry. How awesome is that!
There was a Burning Man Video Post Card station which must have been set up in the main area. After watching several we came upon a fella whose video displayed him whining with grief. His depressing online vid clip went on as he cried about how sad he was that he was there and his other half was not and how he had been crying the entire time after he left. He grieved that he was missing his GF, or was it his Mom, (not sure). This was really a shame! Honest, how could this be possible? He was there, IN Burning Man and making himself miserable. *Sigh*
Well, from Bakersfield we imagine how the week would have gone … if we’d been at Burning Man 2008. Maybe next year we will make it to Burning Man 2009 where the theme is going to be Evolution.
More On Burning Man, an excerpt from JerSooz Ezine Blog:
Labels: Artform, Black Rock City, BRC.Labor Day, Burning Man, Creative Alternative, Labor Day Events, Radical Expression

