Seattle Jazz Archive
Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. Explore oral histories of important members of Seattle’s rich jazz community. The collection includes interviews with Seattle musicians, singers and community members who performed and experienced the city’s jazz scene.
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Workers securing Space Needle ring girder, ca. November 11, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_70080024
Date: 1961-11-11
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Earshot Jazz, v.10, no.11, Nov. 1994
This issue acts as the November program for the World Jazz Festival 1994. It begins with an article on Geoff Stone and Mike Harper and their interview with Mike Marlin, page 1. This issue holds notes on Ron Hudson, Bill Anthony, Andrew Drury, Jim Noley, Wayne Horvitz, Paul deBarros, the Garfield Jazz Band, Greg Williamson, Hans Teuber, Doug Miller, Don Lanphere, Bud Young, Gaye Anderson, Jimmy Allen, Pacific Desserts, Laura May Abraham, Roadside Attraction, Sonny Booker, Salute a Citta, and Joan Smallwood, page 2. An announcement about continuing the Duke Ellington Sacred Concerts is on page 2. On page 3, Lynette Westendorf sends appreciation to all of the contributors and donors of the World Jazz Festival. On page 6, Joseph Murphy discusses the musicianship and experience of Ornette Coleman. On page 7, Sandra Burlingame features Jerry Granelli in an artist biography. Steve Robinson relates a story about the patron-performer relationship on a specific night in October at the Rainbow venue, page 8. On page 9, Keith Raether describes the new Perpetual Motion series at Tractor Tavern in Ballard. The Pacific Jazz Institute has an announcement of an increase in their activity on page 9. On page 11, Annabelle Wilson and Sandra Burlingame write performance previews for Jim Knapp, Stephanie Skura, and Bud Shank. Earshot announces upcoming artists and groups performing in their Living Spirit of Jazz series on page 13, including Dave Frishberg, Savoy Swing Band, Freeplay, Kendra Shank Quartet, and Babkas. On page 15, Chuck Metcalf, Mike Marlin, and Roberta Penn review live performances of Coltrane Time, the Andrew Drury Project, Lincoln Briney, and Combo Craig. Earshot Jazz reviews the albums Another Place by Jerry Granelli, Art and Aviation 1 by Jane Ira Bloom, Afterglow by Kendra Shank, Freeplay by Freeplay, The Real Howard Roberts by Howard Roberts, How 'Bout Now by Tall Jazz, On the Shoulders of Giants by Gordon Lee, Leroy Vinnegar, Dick Berk, Warren Rand, I Told You So by Bud Shank, Going Back Home by the Ginger Baker Trio, Summit Conference by Reggie Workman, The Talk of the Town by Bennie Wallace, and Elevations by Lisle Ellis, page 20. Cover art is a photograph of Ornette Coleman on saxophone.
Identifier: spl_ej_571712_1994_10_11
Date: 1994-11
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Workers at top of Space Needle and view SE, ca. November 11, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_70090023
Date: 1961-11-11
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Workers on outer ring of Space Needle, ca. December 5, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_74550006
Date: 1961-12-04
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Crane operator at Space Needle construction site, ca. July 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_68820028
Date: 1961-07
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Workers guide steel plate into place on Space Needle, ca. November 8, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_70070016
Date: 1961-11-08
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Space Needle workers, ca. December 28, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_76210015
Date: 1961-12-28
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View looking up completed Space Needle, ca. 1962
Identifier: spl_gg_76550001
Date: 1962
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Workers preparing to raise steel plates at Space Needle, ca. late September 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_69700010
Date: 1961-09
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Workers hammer drift pins into place on Space Needle leg, ca. July 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_68820032
Date: 1961-07
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