Seattle Office of Film + Music

Is That Jazz?
The Seattle Composers’ Salon will kick off the second annual Is That Jazz?, Seattle’s avant-jazz music festival, this weekend. The festival runs January 22-23 and 29-30 with all events at Chapel Performance Space. The festival is dedicated to daring and exploratory artists who are redrawing the boundaries of jazz and infusing the genre with new forms, new sounds, and a renewed sense of immediacy. Seattle trumpeter and bandleader Cuong Vu will headline the festival. Other performers include Sunship, Sun Ra Tribute Band, Bill Smith Trio, Evan Flory-Barnes’ Threat of Beauty, Bad Luck, Jesse Canterbury’s Vertigo and Tom Baker Quartet. Click the above link for more information on the festival.