EARSHOT JAZZ SOCIETY OF SEATTLE

For over 30 years, Earshot Jazz’s year-round programming, magazine, and annual festival celebrate Seattle’s place in the global jazz community while featuring local and emerging artists alongside internationally renowned jazz musicians. From its creation around the famous dining room table in 1984, Earshot Jazz found its own life, gathered momentum, and attracted a committed core group that included Gary Bannister, Paul de Barros, Allen Youngblood, Judy de Barros, Sandra Burlingame, Bob Mariano, Jeff Ferguson, Bruce Kochis, and many others. After successfully organizing as a 501(c)3 in 1986, Earshot Jazz began its first concert series and kicked off New Jazz, New City, an innovative residency program to take jazz out of the night club so young musicians and audiences could participate. Since that humble beginning, Earshot Jazz has been led by a vision that honors jazz as a vital Black American art form that is a gift to global culture. Just like jazz, the organization honors the past while envisioning the future.