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<span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>n Thursday, October 2, I had the privilege of providing my jazz trio for a wedding celebration event at <a href="https://www.panpacific.com/en/hotels-resorts/united-states/seattle.html" target="_blank">Pan Pacific Seattle Hotel</a>. The wedding was for Kate and John Holmes who actually got married earlier this year, but were away from Seattle and not able to celebrate with family and friends until now. The bride's mother Kathi Jo Menzyk hired us to play for their happy celebration.<br />
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I have attended the Pan Pacific Seattle Hotel for certain events in previous years, and brought the same jazz trio to participate and play for a Seattle <a href="http://www.nace.net/" target="_blank">NACE</a> monthly meeting event back in March of this year, this was the first wedding event we have done at this prestigious property. I was very thrilled to receive the call from Kathi Jo and also to be recommended by Adreanne Lewis the Senior Catering Sales Manager at the Pan Pacific Seattle.<br />
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Because the wedding had occurred earlier, this was not a typical big wedding party blow out affair. Our live music role was reserved to simply play "beautiful music" in Kathi Jo's words. Set in the swanky Lakeside Room we provided a sonic backdrop of hip jazz and swinging standards. This was a warm beautiful early autumn day that extended into the evening as the sun set and the backdrop city nightscape came into view filling the ballroom's large glass panel windows. The Lakeside Room is a perfect room for special events that also has a patio for extended outdoor access. It was a wonderful event filled with the warmth of family, friends, great hotel staff, and good people.<br />
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I was able to capture some of our performance of the evening of my jazz trio. The gentlemen on hand with me are two of the best jazz musicians in town. John Hansen is a great hard bop jazz pianist in the style of Bud Powell, Mulgrew Miller, and Barry Harris. Alexey Nikolaev is a Moscow, Russia native who has settled in Seattle for the past 14 years. He is an international world class saxophonist who has toured the world many times over and has played big dates with big name artists. It is a treat to play with him and John. These gentlemen are not only highly esteemed colleagues, but also good friends whom I enjoy their company as much as their performance. Here are a couple songs that we did. I love the backdrop of performing in the Lakeside Room. It looks like we are in a penthouse suite with the city lights glimmering through the sheer curtains. This first video is called Days of Wine and Roses, which was a good tune to set the swinging jazz mood for the evening.<br />
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On behalf of the band and myself, I would like to extend a warm congratulations to the newly wed couple Kate and John Holmes. I would to thank Kathi Jo Menzyk for hiring us as the live music soundtrack for the evening. Also, I want to thank Adreanne Lewis for giving us the opportunity to play our first wedding event at the Pan Pacific Seattle! I was very impressed with the whole staff of the Pan Pacific Seattle Hotel. Everybody from the valet attendants to the banquet staff and managers were as professional and classy a group of people I have had the pleasure and privilege to work with. I would really like to thank Tara Zumpano, the Manager of Restaurants, Bar and Events at the hotel. She was terrific to work with and so gracious and helpful to the band. I can't wait to do another event at the fabulous Pan Pacific Seattle Hotel!<br />
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On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 I had the privilege to bring my jazz trio to a special event for graphics and signage company <a href="http://www.image360.com/tacomacentralwa/" target="_blank">Image360</a> in Tacoma, Washington. Image360 works with businesses in their logo design, colors, and brand identity as well as company signage and graphics ranging from small custom displays to large advertising signs and vehicle and transit graphics. They offer solutions for every type of printed display platform that helps their clients' visibility and profitability. Image360 was previously known as Signs For Tomorrow. The event was a re-grand opening to launch their new name and brand. <br />
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My jazz trio was called upon by owners Al and Rose Mednick to provide some live jazz music for the festivities. I had two outstanding jazz musicians and good friends play with me. Pianist John Hansen and tenor saxophonist Brian Kent were on hand. The event was held at the company's industrial shop where they create their signs and products. The tasty food was catered by <a href="http://www.adriaticgrill.com/" target="_blank">Adriatic Grill</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>O</b></span>n Sunday, August 10, The Seattle Yacht Club held a Jazz Night for their club members in the Marine Room. I was invited by Assistant General Manager and Catering Director Amy Shaftel to bring in my jazz duo to perform for the occasion. It was a very warm summer night with the temperature above the mid 80's. There was a possibility the event would be held outdoors, but the intense afternoon sun kept the heat high outside and the performance was relegated indoors at the club's restaurant. Amy and I are fellow NACE members. NACE is the largest and oldest catering association in the world. The acronym stands for National Association of Catering and Events. I have been a member of NACE since 2000 and have met many catering professionals such as Amy with whom I have established relationships as colleagues and friends over the many years. NACE has been a wonderful organization for my business in terms of networking and connecting with other professionals in the special events industry. These relationships have led to many gigs and work for my musical groups such as weddings, corporate functions, and private special occasions. Amy and I attended a monthly local NACE meeting a few months earlier and happened to be sitting at the same table that night. As often the case, it was serendipitous that she was looking to book a jazz act for this August Jazz Night at the Seattle Yacht Club, and I happened to be sitting next to her. I was hired by her pretty much on the spot. Did I say that NACE is wonderful?<br />
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My pianist John Hansen joined me on this night. John is one of the stellar jazz pianists of Seattle. He is a hard bop player who plays with a very swinging rhythmic style and old school bebop vocabulary. I have known John since our days at the University of Washington as undergrad students in the music department. This is going back to the mid-80's or so. John and I have played together regularly for the last several years. He is a frequent guest artist for my <a href="http://www.smoothgroove.net/entertainers/JazzinTheGeorgian.htm" target="_blank">Jazz in The Georgian</a> gig at The Fairmont Olympic Hotel in downtown Seattle. It was a fun evening and we had a great time playing for the members of the Seattle Yacht Club.<br />
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We started out the evening playing a Cole Porter standard called What Is This Thing Called Love.<br />
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I would just like to extend a warm thanks and gratitude to Amy Shaftel for giving us the opportunity to play for the club members. Also, a thank you goes out to the manager of the Marine Room, Sam Looney who was very supportive and helpful towards us as well as all of the bar and wait staff in the room.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>n April 24, 2014 my jazz ensembles performed for the Freddie Awards Banquet at The Museum Of Flight in Seattle, Washington. I had not heard of the Freddie Awards until a few days before the event. I received word that the band that was booked originally several months prior for this event had canceled at the last moment due to an illness with a band member. The Museum Of Flight is a very familiar venue to us in that we have played for dozens of special events throughout the last 18 years or so. <br />
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The Freddie Awards started in 1988 as a voice for the frequent flyer traveler and the travel loyalty industry. Over three dozen awards were handed out to recipients in many categories such as Best Hotel Program of the Year and Best Airline Program of the Year. The Freddie Awards are held annually every last Thursday of April at a designated host city. This year it happened to be in Seattle at The Museum Of Flight, which was very fitting for the program at hand.<br />
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My jazz duo and jazz trio provided the live music ambiance for this occasion. Tenor saxophonist Alexey Nikolaev and I played for the cocktail mixer prior to dinner in the upper level of the Museum. For the dinner banquet jazz pianist John Hansen joined us on the main floor to form the jazz trio. During the awards ceremony we had to provide play-on music for the award winners. Kind of like Letterman or The Tonight Show. We have had experience doing these type of choreographed events before.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>n April 17, 2014 we had the pleasure of participating in the very excellent cause for food bank distributor Northwest Harvest in their second annual Taste of Sonoma Valley at The W Hotel in downtown Seattle. The event featured more than 20 wineries from Sonoma Valley. Winery owners and wine makers displayed their wares with over 70 wines to taste as well as a silent auction with proceeds benefiting Northwest Harvest. The W Hotel provided a wonderful spread of food to accompany the terrific wine. <br />
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While they were out getting the trumpet I managed to down a couple IPAs, which got me settled and relaxed. When Wynton returned with his horn after a while, he passed me by and extended his hand out to me where I grabbed it and shook it. I said "very nice to meet you, Mr. Marsalis." He sat back down at his stool in the bar and sipped on his drink. Shortly, he took his horn out and casually sauntered to the stage to let the band know his intention to sit in. I could not hear the words but I could see some of the body language and Symer nod and utter "no problem, of course." Symer took his electric bass off and proceeded to take out his upright bass that was still dressed in its gig bag in the corner behind the stage. Chris is one of Seattle's great bassists and fortunately prepared as he had his upright bass. Milo who had brought his guitar in joined the rest of the band as Wynton started to play Sweet Georgia Brown by himself. The rest of the band followed and Wynton Marsalis started his mini concert for the lucky several that were present that night. <br />
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After a few songs later John went up to Wynton to remind him that I was in the room and wanted to bring me up. I went to undress my bass from the gig bag and after tuning up (I just put on brand new strings that very day so it was really out) I came up the front side of the stage where Milo put a microphone close to my instrument and I joined in trading bass solos with Symer on a blues tune. After several choruses another bassist was in the room and approached me. I yielded to him to take over my bass. Turns out he was Ben Williams who is a part of the Pat Metheny Group that just did a concert at the Moore Theatre. He is a great bassist! He soloed on several blues choruses and just tore it up. Wow! Another monster musician just chilling after his concert and sitting in with Wynton Marsalis no less!<br />
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I did get a chance to play a tune or two with Mr. Marsalis. The picture above is evidence of that. It was an unexpected night and an unexpected treat and thrill to share the stage with one of the planet's best musicians and brilliant trumpet players.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>n Friday, March 7, 2014 we had the introduction of fabulous accordion player Hugh Sutton make his first appearance in The Georgian at The Fairmont Olympic Hotel in the heart of downtown Seattle. I met Hugh at a jam session party just after the New Year in early January. Hugh's dexterous accordion playing stood out in a room that had many fine musicians that evening. We exchanged numbers and a few weeks later connected. A discussion of many songs we knew in common revealed that we could work together. <br />
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We had a sparse crowd this night in The Georgian. But those who were present heartily voiced their approval as well as the restaurant wait staff who have heard all of the stellar jazz players that visit this extraordinary fine dining room on a regular basis. Hugh again stood out as well in The Georgian. <br />
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Hugh is a native Seattleite. He went to Summit K-12 school and attended Cornish College of the Arts 1986-1989 as a pianist. Hugh performs regularly several times a week in Seattle. <br />
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This is a fine Antonio Carlos Jobim song called How Insensitive:</div>
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It was a treat to have the the sound of the accordion in The Georgian especially expressed with the fine skill and musicianship that Hugh brings. We will be looking forward to more of Hugh Sutton as I am confident the dining guests of The Georgian will be finding out.<br />
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On December 31, 2013 we marked the end of the year with a grand send off in style at The Fairmont Olympic Hotel in The Georgian. This was the eleventh consecutive New Year's Eve that my bands have played at the Olympic Hotel since 2002. This goes back to before The Fairmont took over the property in 2003 when we played for the last New Year's Eve celebration as a Four Seasons Hotel. In 2004 there was a break as The Fairmont transitioned from the former ownership its first year. Since 2005 we have played for the Gala Dinner in The Georgian and have brought in the New Year ever since. <br />
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By popular demand the celebration has expanded to open up for two dinner seatings. There is an early first seating from 5pm-8pm, and the Gala Dinner from 9pm-1am. For the first seating we had my jazz trio entertain the dinner guests. I had two highly outstanding musicians with me. John Hansen who is a regular guest artist for <a href="http://www.smoothgroove.net/entertainers/JazzinTheGeorgian.htm" target="_blank">Jazz in The Georgian</a> played the Kurzweil piano. Woodwinds and tenor saxophonist Tony Rondolone played the flute for much of this set. <br />
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The first seating brought couples and families with children who could celebrate a nice early dinner and go home in time to ring in the New Year at midnight. The guests were attentive and appreciative of the music. It was a pleasure and delight to play for all the nice folks and a wonderful way to start the night.<br />
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The Gala Dinner Event closed out the year with an elegant supper that featured dancing throughout the evening. The jazz trio became a quintet. In addition to Tony, John, and myself, vocalist extraordinaire Kelly Eisenhour and superb drummer Brian Kirk joined us for the main event. We started off the dinner sets with classy well known standards from the Great American Songbook. Folks loved to dance to the romantic ballads. As the midnight hour approached we stepped up the intensity and launched into classic rock and pop from the 60's, 70's, and 80's. The champagne was poured for all the guests and the countdown to 2014 ensued. With the stroke of midnight the band struck up Auld Lang Syne and the balloons tied high in the ceiling came raining down along with the cacophony of party favors and horns from the happy revelers. The guests kept dancing right up to the very end of the set a full hour after midnight.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span>uper saxman Alexey Nikolaev was back at The Georgian, the Four-Diamond restaurant inside The Fairmont Olympic Hotel on Friday, August 23, 2013. As usual we had a terrific time playing many great tunes and songs from the Great American Songbook. Alexey was in prime form as always. Playing the saxophone in The Georgian is a challenging prospect. The nature of this gig is that it is quiet. This is a very fine dining establishment and it is incumbent upon us, the band, to perform at a level of ambient volume that does not overshadow the phenomenal culinary experience of this great restaurant. Alexey has extraordinary facility and chops who is known for his powerful tenor sax playing. It is remarkable to hear him play at a pianissimo level and still retain the intensity and speed of his playing. This is a very difficult thing to do. Alexey is no ordinary talent. He pulls it off effortlessly.<br />
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This song exemplifies exactly what I said about Alexey's marvelous facility and ability to perform quietly yet retain his fluidity, speed, and intensity over his instrument. This song is a good old standard called Just One Of Those Things. Alexey just burns on this tune yet is quiet enough that you can hear the clicking of the sax keys from his fingers. This is great stuff.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he incomparable jazz harmonicist Jay Mabin was back again at The Georgian Restaurant inside The Fairmont Olympic Hotel in the heart of downtown Seattle. For over three years Jay has been a regular guest artist with whom I have had the privilege to play. He is a rare harmonica player who can not only play traditional blues music that the harmonica is so associated with, but can play difficult complex melodies as well as improvise over challenging jazz harmony. Playing over jazz chord changes is really where Jay separates himself with other harmonica players. According to the great Seattle jazz vocalist Greta Matassa, she told me recently that Jay is really a unique harp player. Some years ago she was recording an album and she wanted Jay to be on it. He was unavailable at the time for the session. She did a search for qualified jazz harmonica players around the country, but she was not able to locate someone who could substitute for Jay. True jazz harp players are not abundant. We're fortunate that we have Jay to represent the Pacific Northwest region as our truly outstanding jazz harmonicist.<br />
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On Friday, August 9, 2013 the remarkable and highly accomplished guitarist Frank Seeberger was back again at The Fairmont Olympic Hotel for <a href="http://www.smoothgroove.net/entertainers/JazzinTheGeorgian.htm" target="_blank">Jazz in The Georgian</a>. Frank had just purchased a brand new guitar and got a chance to break it in for some very fun playing of jazz tunes and standards. I have been playing my Ibanez fretless electric bass with Frank for the past several times. His sound and versatility allows my fretless to blend in with him in a variety of styles that range from straight ahead jazz, fusion, and funk. </div>
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We managed to get one decent recording and video from this evening. The Georgian Restaurant was running a rare two-for-one special during this weekend. Normally, specials such as this one and also the Seattle Restaurant Week specials, always occur only on the weekdays. This special promotion made The Georgian exceptionally busy on this Friday night as it was a very full house. With such a high capacity of guests comes the loud din of simultaneous conversations. As the evening went on, I could barely hear myself play. For this gig specifically, I play my bass acoustically with no amplification. We did manage to get one recording that wasn't too saturated with noise. The song featured is Irvin Berlin's How Deep Is The Ocean.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span>uper tenor saxophonist Alexey Nikolaev was back in The Georgian Restaurant inside The Fairmont Olympic Hotel for more tenor sax and bass duo combo at <a href="http://www.smoothgroove.net/entertainers/JazzinTheGeorgian.htm" target="_blank">Jazz in The Georgian</a>. It's a real privilege and treat to be able to play with one of the very best sax players in the region as well as international level. Alexey, a native of Moscow, Russia, is a gentleman who is always warm and gracious with whom to work. We have a couple video highlights from our gig this evening and also a video from last month's gig.<br />
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This first song is a wonderful ballad called Autumn in New York.<br />
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Sir Paul McCartney was performing a concert at Safeco Field at the very moment Alexey and I were playing. It would have been great to see the former legendary Beatle, but, hey, we were working. In his honor we played one of his famous tunes that he co-wrote with that other legendary Beatle John Lennon called Yesterday.</div>
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This last video was actually from our gig together on June 21 last month. This is an excellent rendition of a great Cole Porter tune called You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To.</div>
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We hope that you enjoy these songs from our gig. But there is nothing like being there to witness live performance. We invite you to come out to The Georgian and see Alexey and I play live. Alexey Nikolaev will be back for <a href="http://www.smoothgroove.net/entertainers/JazzinTheGeorgian.htm" target="_blank">Jazz in The Georgian</a> on Friday, August 23.</div>
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I've been videotaping these gigs in The Georgian for over a year now and posting select videos on my <a href="http://www.youtube.com/smoothgroovewa" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a>. The Sansung W300 pocket camcorder has been the video capturing device along with my Boss BR600 digital 8-track recorder for audio capture. In the editing process I sync the video minus the camcorder sound with the better recording of the digital recorder, which has good results. Normally per gig, I'll get one or two good takes of songs that are worthy of making into a video and posting up on YouTube. My goal is to get just one decent video out of the more than two hours of video footage from the gig. This evening was one of those nights that felt great and high musicality was abundant. Out of the eighteen tunes we played on this four-hour gig, almost everything we played was really on. I made five videos but I'm just posting four for now. And, there were more songs that could have made the cut to become a video. It was a total blast to play with John. Nights like these remind and ground me to as what this musical career of playing gigs is all about. Of course it's also essential to get paid for what we do as professionals. Certain nights come together musically more so than others and this was one of those nights. I hope you enjoy these selections.<br />
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Every year Seattle Magazine conducts a vote among local doctors with the question: To whom would you send a loved one for medical care? This special event was held at AXIS Pioneer Square, which is a brand new special events venue, and was the former home to Elliott Bay Book Company. The party was a celebration for the winners of the best local doctors in their fields. </div>
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I had my jazz trio with a couple of the best musicians on their respective instruments with me that night; jazz pianist John Hansen and tenor saxophonist Alexey Nikolaev. We were situated on an elevated loft that provided a vantage point overseeing the whole venue space, and allowed our live jazz music performance to provide that classy ambient touch to this festive celebration. </div>
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We played a blues tune called Billie's Bounce by the legendary alto saxophonist genius and pioneer of bebop Charlie Parker. The way we played the rendition of this tune is what is called a <i>second line</i> feel. Second line is a distinctly funky syncopated New Orleans style rhythm that emanates from the French Quarter district of this historic city where jazz was birthed. Check out John getting down on this funky southern style jam. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>n Saturday, June 15, we had guitarist Paul Sawyer in the house for <a href="http://www.smoothgroove.net/entertainers/JazzinTheGeorgian.htm" target="_blank">Jazz in The Georgian</a> inside The Fairmont Olympic Hotel in Seattle, Washington. Paul and I have known each other for over twenty years. We would be on gigs together since the early 1990's playing all over Seattle whether at a club in Pioneer Square or at a private event. Paul is one of the established musicians in Seattle who is rock solid and versatile playing many styles of music. As an accomplished jazz guitarist, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston for a year. Paul currently teaches at North Seattle Community College and has a stable of private guitar students. He can be seen the first weekend of every month with drummer Andre Thomas' group Quiet Fire at Grazie Ristorante in Bothell, which includes saxman/flutist Bernie Jacobs and electric bassist Dean Schmidt. Paul is a fine musician who has decades of professional experience, and a good friend with whom I always enjoy working.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>n Thursday, June 6, 2013 we had the pleasure of performing for the Chopard shop opening inside Neiman Marcus Bellevue. My jazz trio provided live music for this grand opening celebration of this longtime jeweler and watchmaker. Inside Neiman Marcus Bellevue is the newly constructed Chopard shop that features high end jewelry and Swiss luxury watches for women and men. </div>
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Seattle Magazine and Neiman Marcus Bellevue produced this festive grand opening event with signature crafted cocktails by Grey Goose. In my jazz trio I had a couple of some of the best musicians in the Northwest on their respective instruments. Tenor saxophonist Alexey Nikolaev and guitarist Frank Seeberger were on hand with me for this event. We played a lot of great jazz music to accentuate the atmosphere and ambiance of the scene. Here are some videos of our performance from that evening. These videos demonstrate various examples of songs we did that helped liven and elevate the upbeat mood for this sterling occasion. </div>
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I would like to thank the folks at Seattle Magazine who brought us into this event. Much thanks to Alexandria Akhavan of Neiman Marcus and Lauren Madeja of Seattle Magazine for their onsite help and support. We really enjoyed playing for all the nice people who attended this fun grand opening event! </div>
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Playing jazz is a never ending process of learning new songs and retaining those that you learned and making sure to keep playing so as to always remain sharp technically and artistically. The art of improvisation, which is the center of what the art of jazz is about, requires a constant vigilance of maintaining one's chops on a technical level, as well as finding ways to constantly expand one's repertoire of music and jazz vocabulary. Like going to the gym to work out one's muscles, playing jazz is no different in the sense of working out the "musical" muscles that are our brain, fingers, mouth, or voice.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>O</b></span>n Monday, June 3, we had the pleasure of performing for the NW Trend Show at the Pacific Market Center south of downtown Seattle in the Georgetown industrial district. This event is presented by the Pacific Northwest Apparel Association, which has been operating for 70 years. It is the longest running West Coast women's wear show representing over 1000 lines from women's apparel, accessories and jewelry, to children's, men's, shoes and gift items. Over 100-150 reps are on hand to present their lines and advise on the latest trends and seasonal colors. </div>
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Tenor saxophonist Alexey Nikolaev and I provided live jazz music in the late afternoon for the listening pleasure and relaxation of the attendees as the second day of this three day event wound down. Here is a video take of a blues tune called Sonny Moon For Two.</div>
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Emmanuel del Casal and Alexey Nikolaev</div>
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We had a lot of fun playing music for all of the nice folks and attendees of this popular apparel trade show. Much thanks to Amanda Swope for bringing us into this event, and the very nice staff at Pacific Market Place for all their support and help.</div>
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