Table & Chairs at the 2015 Ballard Jazz Festival

Table & Chairs again be a part of the annual The Ballard Jazz Festival! This is our fourth year presenting a showcase at the Jazz Walk, which takes place on Friday, May 8, 2015 at the Salmon Bay Eagles Lodge. In March, we had the great honor of receiving the Earshot Jazz Award for “2014 Concert of the Year” for our showcase last year, and we promise that this year we’ve upped the ante!

*We will be offering a very special ticket discount exclusively for those signed up on our T&C mailing list. Sign up at the link below and you will receive the promo code via email.

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Here’s the lineup:

8:00 – Jen Gilleran and GRID
9:00 – Wiener Kids (Oakland)
10:00 – Ivan Arteaga’s Neijing Ensemble
11:00 – Bad Luck

Opening the evening will be percussionist Jen Gilleran and GRID, performing a live-music soundtrack to vintage film. Jen has worked extensively with the North West Film Forum, producing live-soundtrack performances for landmark films such as Metropolis, and most recently a soundtrack to classic Buster Keaton films at our inaugural T&C Vermillion Gallery series. Joining her will be one of Seattle’s preeminent trombonists, Christian Pincock.

In addition, GRID will be facilitating an interactive movie intermission in between sets. A variety of instruments will be provided so that anyone can participate in the music making. Audience participation is highly recommended!

Following will be Oakland-based group Wiener Kids. Brainchild of drummer/composer Jordan Glenn, Wiener Kids is an unusual power trio made up of saxophones and drums. Since 2008 WK has been an active member of Oakland, CA fertile avant/experimental/underground music scene. As the years have gone by the pallet of the band has expanded to incorporate percussive sounds from near and far. Objects/instruments include gongs, tin cans, Tibetan bowls, bundt pans, chromatic cowbells, angklung (bamboo rattles), triangles, car springs, suitcase-vibraphone, glockenspiels and various whistles, drums and bells. The trio is made up of Glenn on drums along with reed masters Jacob Rex Zimmerman and Cory Wright.

Neijing Ensemble began as an opportunity for saxophonist Ivan Arteaga to create gestural and improvisational pieces for saxophone quartet. The inspiration came in large part from the idea of improvising with Neil Welch, Greg Sinibaldi and Levi Gillis in particular; he quickly started using the group to play and arrange other music that he enjoys and they have since accumulated a small body of varied music. Neijing Ensemble will be performing original arrangements of songs featuring the voice of Katie Jacobson as well as some original improvisational songs for the Quartet with the addition of Abbey Blackwell on bass. This music contains rich and dynamic soundscape development where haunting improvisations abound.

Finally, we’ll close the evening with T&C veterans Neil Welch and Christopher Icasiano, collectively know as Bad Luck. For the first time, the dynamic drum and saxophone duo will be collaborating with a dance artist Lorraine Lau to create a brand new multidisciplinary piece that will stretch your mind and defy your expectations.

We hope you’re able to make it and to share this great experience with all of us!