{"id":8298,"date":"2017-03-31T14:18:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T21:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8298"},"modified":"2017-03-31T14:18:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T21:18:32","slug":"weekend-listening-tip-one-festival-two-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/03\/weekend-listening-tip-one-festival-two-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Listening Tip: One Festival, Two Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The award-winning broadcaster Jim Wilke is presenting two groups on his <em>Jazz Northwest <\/em>program Sunday afternoon. He recorded them at last summer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Centrum Port Townsend Jazz Festival on Washington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Olympic Peninsula. Here is Jim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s illustrated description of the proceedings.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8299\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hamilton-Trio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hamilton-Trio.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hamilton-Trio-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\nHighlights from concerts by The Jeff Hamilton Trio with organist Akiko Tsuruga and guitarist Graham Dechter, and the grand finale with an all star septet including Terell Stafford, Sean Jones, Grace Kelly, Wycliffe Gordon, Taylor Eigsti, John Clayton and Matt Wilson will be the final offerings from last July&#8217;s Jazz Port Townsend. The music includes blues, standards and bop played by a cross-section of the best players at the Festival who also serve as faculty for the weeklong Jazz Workshop that precedes it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PT-JF-All-stars-2016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PT-JF-All-stars-2016.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PT-JF-All-stars-2016-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\nThe concerts were recorded for <em>Jazz Northwest<\/em> in McCurdy Pavilion at Fort Worden, part of a 30 year tradition of broadcasts from the Festival. <em>Jazz Northwest<\/em> airs every Sunday at 2 PM PDT&#8221;\u00a0on 88.5 KNKX and on the web at <a href=\"http:\/\/knkx.org\">knkx.org<\/a>. The program is recorded and produced by host Jim Wilke exclusively for KNKX-FM. Following the broadcast, programs are archived and may be streamed at <a href=\"http:\/\/jazzing.org\">jazznw.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not familiar with Akiki Tsuraga at the organ, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s your chance, a video of her with Lou Donaldson&#8217;s quartet.&#8221;\u00a0&#8221;\u00a0This performance may make you eager to hear her on Sunday with Jeff Hamilton on Wilke\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s show.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iMmoO2wpvQY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Have a good weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The award-winning broadcaster Jim Wilke is presenting two groups on his Jazz Northwest program Sunday afternoon. He recorded them at last summer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Centrum Port Townsend Jazz Festival on Washington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Olympic Peninsula. Here is Jim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s illustrated description of the proceedings. Highlights from concerts by The Jeff Hamilton Trio with organist Akiko Tsuruga and guitarist Graham Dechter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}