Founded in 2004, Jazz Underground is a Seattle-based contemporary jazz big band. Their repertoire includes a wide variety of music from Count Basie, Buddy Rich and Stan Kenton to Michael League, Lalo Schifrin, Pat Metheny, Donald Byrd, Ayn Inserto, Clifford Brown, Frank Zappa, John Harmon and Patty Darling. In addition, the group performs music by Pacific Northwest composers and arrangers, including original tunes by members of the band.
Jazz Underground performs regularly at Seattle's Royal Room and Crossroads Bellevue, and has presented performances at the Moore Theater in Seattle, Tula's Restaurant and Jazz Club, The Northwest Folklife Festival, Third Place Commons, the Columbia City Theater, Shoreline Community College, the historic Lincoln Theater in Mount Vernon, Seattle's University District Street Fair, Taste of Tacoma, the Jackson Jazz Walk at Ernestine Anderson Place, Port of Anacortes, Mill Creek Town Center, West Seattle Summer Fest, Westport Ole Fashioned 4th of July, Highway 99 Blues Club and on local radio. The band also makes numerous school and community appearances every year.
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Jazz Underground
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Website updated September 30, 2023 |
