Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley, that sleek, 400-seat Seattle music palace kitty-corner from the Amazon Spheres, where everyone from the late Dizzy Gillespie to Harry Connick Jr. has held forth over the years, ...

Seattle has a rich jazz history -- and you can’t talk about it without mentioning legends like Ray Charles and Quincy Jones. Both artists knew each other, as they grew their music chops right here in ...

On Thursday June 15th Al Di Meola brought an acoustic trio to Dimitriou's Jazz Alley in Seattle to perform a set of flamenco influenced jazz. The musicians in his group included Di Meola playing ...

The paint’s still drying on saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin’s first career Grammy nominations: best instrumental composition, best jazz performance and best jazz instrumental album. For Benjamin, 41, the ...

Going on 10 years as the host of NPR’s “Jazz Night in America,” bassist Christian McBride has transcended his place on the bandstand to become America’s de facto jazz historian. And for a national ...

I suppose there are still those who attend Ravi Coltrane sets out of curiosity, or some attempt to somehow access the Coltrane legacy in real time. It's true that the son of John Coltrane and Alice ...

When the host at Jazz Alley introduced the Branford Marsalis Quartet last night, he informed the audience of a few of the evening’s rules: no recording, no photographs, and, please, during those ...

NEA Jazz Master Louis Sedell Hayes was born May 31, 1937 in Detroit Michigan. He was always surrounded by music, actually ...