{"id":11373,"date":"2019-09-07T21:16:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T04:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=11373"},"modified":"2019-09-07T21:24:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T04:24:53","slug":"singer-michael-mayo-meets-a-star-studded-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2019\/09\/singer-michael-mayo-meets-a-star-studded-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening Tip: Michael Mayo Meets A Star-Studded Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word &#8220;all-star&#8221; does not appear in Jim Wilke&#8217;s description of this weekend&#8217;s <em>Jazz Northwest<\/em> program, but the band supporting singer Michael Mayo fits the all-star category. Here is Jim&#8217;s preview paragraph:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Vocalist Michael Mayo won many new fans with his performance at the 2019 Jazz Port Townsend. His wide-ranging flexible voice was surprisingly supple and expresive in a program mostly given to the popular standards songbook with the exception of the opening original song in which he used loops and effects building to a choral effect in a solo performance.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Unknown.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Unknown-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Unknown-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Unknown-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Unknown-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Unknown-200x133.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Unknown.jpeg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;In the balance of the concert Mayo enjoyed all-star backing from Geoffrey Keezer, piano, Graham Dechter, guitar, Vicente Archer, bass and Obed Callvaire, drums. &#8221;\u00a0The concert was recorded for radio and will air Sunday, September 8 at 2 PM Pacific on 88.5 KNKX and&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/knkx.org\/\">knkx.org<\/a>.&#8221; &#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Jazz Northwest&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>airs every Sunday at 2 PM Pacific on 88.5 KNKX and streams at&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/knkx.org\/\">knkx.org<\/a>. &#8221;\u00a0After broadcast, shows are archived at&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jazznw.org\/\">jazznw.org<\/a>. &#8221;\u00a0The program is recorded and produced by Jim Wilke. &#8221;\u00a0Next week, a concert by the Centrum Big Band directed by John Clayton from Jazz Port Townsend.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word &#8220;all-star&#8221; does not appear in Jim Wilke&#8217;s description of this weekend&#8217;s Jazz Northwest program, but the band supporting singer Michael Mayo fits the all-star category. 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