This week we hear from, Gordon Lee and the Mel Brown Septet, singer Miranda Sage, Jay Thomas, Jovino Santos Neto and more.

Music from Hadley Caliman, Pete Christlieb, Mark Lewis and more. Plus music from Emerald City Nights: Live At The Penthouse from Ahmad Jamal.

Also on this week's show, The Cookers, Frank Kohl & John Stowell, Kelley Johnson, and Kelby MacNayr's Quintet from Victoria, B.C.

Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra Artistic Director Michael Brockman selected a program representing Mingus' range as a composer from blues-based ballads to fiery bop burners.

Also on this week's show, Alex Dugdale, Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra, the Dave Peck Trio and more.

Also on this week’s show, selections from Tall & Small and David Lee Joyner Trio, Jovino Santos Neto, and Brad Turner Quintet among others

Schneider's album "The Thompson Fields" will be showcased. Also on the show, selections by Milt Kleeb Dectet, Scenes, Primo Kim and more.

We crisscross the Pacific Northwest this week featuring local musicians and more music from Ahmad Jamal Trio at The Penthouse.

This week features music from Ernestine Anderson, a recent release by Tall & Small and an unreleased studio recording by the duo of Fred Radke and Primo Kim.

Stretching our focus on Pacific Northwest artists just a bit, we open this show with pianist Gene Argel, who began his career in Washington, but has been a resident of Hawaii since 1982. His album "Luminescent" features regional musicians Jay Thomas, Chuck Deardorf and Mark Ivester.

Also on this show, Jay Thomas Quartet at Seattle Art Museum, a harmonically rich composition by Ben Plummer, Portland singer Rebecca Kilgore and others.

New music from quartet Scenes, recorded live at the Earshot Jazz Festival. Other artists featured this week include The Ahmad Jamal Trio, Kelley Johnson, Jim Knapp Orchestra and more.

On our last Jazz Northwest before Christmas, we'll feature some unusual arrangements of seasonal songs and carols and new music from PJ Perry and Ahmad Jamal Trio.

This week on Jazz Northwest we feature new albums from Tall & Small and Ahmad Jamal Trio and showcase some holiday favorites by Northwest musicians.

Pianist and composer David Lee Joyner's latest album, featuring two original compositions alongside his trio, will premiere on this week's episode of Jazz Northwest. The trio has backed other musicians, but this time Joyner is "Up Front" with his compositions and trio.

On today's episode of Jazz Northwest, we'll preview some upcoming performances by Bill Anschell, The Roosevelt Jazz Band, Kelly Eisenhour, Brent Jensen and Ben Thomas. Also featured this week, a jazz classic by Warren Rand and Dave Frishberg and two songs by the late Joni Metcalf.

One of the major personalities on the Seattle jazz scene from the '50s through the '80s, Joni Metcalf was a pianist, singer, composer and teacher. Metcalf passed away earlier this month at age 91. We'll remember her singing, playing piano and performing some of her original music on this episode of Jazz Northwest.

Ernestine Anderson made her home in Seattle and the city gladly claimed the world renown singer as her own. Although she passed in 2016, she is fondly remembered around her November birthday by her many friends and fans. Accordingly, Jazz Northwest will feature a couple of her songs that illustrate her range on this week's show.

It's past being controversial by now, but the first "Jazz and Strings" albums were not always warmly received. Some regarded it as "selling out" to commercial interests, but in many cases, it was the artists themselves who fought for the opportunity to record with a string orchestra - think Nat King Cole, Charlie Parker, and Billie Holiday.

Portland based Owen Broder brings his group to the Earshot Jazz Festival next Thursday at The Royal Room. The Portland-based Broder teaches at Portland State University and Pacific University. His new album celebrating Ellington's great lead altoist Johnny Hodges will be featured in two selections on this episode of Jazz Northwest.

Diachun hails from Nelson, British Columbia and is often heard performing in Vancouver, B.C. and Victoria, B.C. The new album features twelve songs by Sting and was recorded this earlier this year in Vancouver. "Russians," dating from the Cold War years, is included for its sense of timeliness again.

Chuck Deardorf passed last Sunday at the age of 68 cue to complications from COVID-19. He was an active and versatile bassist as well as an educator and administrator. He had headed the jazz program at Cornish College and was on the faculty of Jazz Port Townsend workshops.

Jim Wilke debuts singer and songwriter Casey MacGill's new album "Love Letters." We also hear a selection of the Earshot Jazz Festival featuring artists Alex Dugdale, Johnaye Kendrick and Kurt Rosenwinkel.

Pianist Overton Berry was a popular figure on the Seattle music scene for over 50 years. Diane Schuur, Bruce Phares and other friends pay tribute to the late pianist in the opening concert of this year's Earshot Jazz Festival.

The concluding evening concert from this year's Jazz Port Townsend will air this week on Jazz Northwest. This concert brought together eight renown jazz musicians who were also on the faculty of the Jazz Workshop which preceded the festival the last week of July.