Jazz Underground
April 23 @ 7:30 pm
Doors 6:30 | Show 7:30
Founded in 2004, Jazz Underground is a Seattle-based contemporary jazz big band. Their repertoire includes a wide variety of music from Count Basie, Buddy Rich and Stan Kenton to Jaco Pastorius, Michael League, Maria Schneider, Michele Fernandez, Radiohead, Tom Molter and Nelda Swiggett. In addition, the group performs music by Pacific Northwest composers and arrangers, including original tunes by members of the band.
Jazz Underground recently celebrated their twentieth anniversary with a concert at the Rainier Arts Center and they play regularly at Seattle’s Royal Room and on the Market Stage at Crossroads Bellevue. They have presented performances at the Moore Theater in Seattle, Tula’s Restaurant and Jazz Club, The Northwest Folklife Festival, Skagit Valley College, Third Place Commons, the Columbia City Theater, Shoreline Community College, the historic Lincoln Theater in Mount Vernon, Seattle’s University District Street Fair, Taste of Tacoma, the Jackson Street Jazz Walk at Ernestine Anderson Place, Port of Anacortes, Mill Creek Town Center, West Seattle Summer Fest, Westport Ole Fashioned 4th of July, Highway 99 Blues Club and on local radio. The band also makes numerous school and community appearances every year.