Piano Starts Here: “Miles Smiles” Ahmad Jamal and Joe Zawinul
Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 8pm
Tickets $10 advance/ $12 at the door/ $8 students (door only with student ID)
Miles Davis didn’t have a lot of nice things to say about most people, but he greatly admired both of these composers and musicians. Miles spoke highly of Jamal’s “concept of space….his understatement”. Of Zawinul, Miles took it a little more out and stated in his liner notes for “Zawinul”: “In order to write this kind of music you have to be free inside yourself and be Josef Zawinul with two beige kids, a black wife, two pianos, from Vienna, a Cancer, and ‘Cliché-free.’”
Featuring Alex Guilbert, Gus Carns, Nelda Swigett and Eric Verlinde.
The Piano Starts Here series concludes the 2015 year with these two favored artists.
Piano Starts Here highlights the work of some of the most prolific and talented jazz composers and pianists to ever tackle the instrument, hosted and curated by pianists Tim Kennedy and Wayne Horvitz. Each performance brings together Seattle’s finest contemporary pianists to perform compositions that showcase the featured performer’s work – the Royal Room brings together a who’s who of local piano talent to play the ongoing series, featuring pianists like Ryan Burns, Marc Seales, Dawn Clement, Sumi Tonooka, Gus Carnes, Aaron Othein, and Dave Peck, to name just a few.
Please note: Tickets do not guarantee seating during shows at the Royal Room. For sold out shows standing room may be the only available space. Please come early to ensure you get a table. Reservations can be made for those who are coming for dinner as well as the show. The Royal Room is all ages until 10pm
