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Judging by body language and a lack of visible phone use, the fellowship\u2019s young fans seem to have a legitimate interest in this music. It’s hard not to when each Monday begins with a set from the blisteringly proficient house band, made up of Marriott on trumpet, D\u2019Vonne Lewis on drums, relative young gun Trevor Ford, 31, on bass and Cornish instructor Tim Kennedy on keys. These opening tunes are reason enough to attend, proof that the language of jazz is not just alive and well in the Emerald City but reaching regularly scheduled epiphanies. Marriott provides the quartet\u2019s brightest fireworks, but Lewis \u2014 and this can be said for an unfathomable number of Seattle groups \u2014 is the key, shifting feels at improbable speed, playing under and over the meter, holding it down in all respects.<\/p>\n
The house band provides inspiration aplenty for the follow-up jam session, in which Marriott calls on available musicians to form impromptu groups. This takes some level of jazz competence (knowing the complete chordal progressions to a standard, having the chops to solo over it) and more than a bit of courage. On a recent weekend, one player so inclined was Luca Morales, 18, a baritone saxophonist from Everett High School, now attending Bellevue College. Morales learned about the ellowship jam on Instagram but, after seeing the size of the crowd in online photos, got intimidated. Eventually, he made his way down \u2014 and fit right in. Seeing him harmonize the melody on \u201cThere Will Never Be Another You,\u201d his initial hesitance seems firmly in the rearview. \u201cI\u2019m not really super social,\u201d says Morales. \u201cBut I\u2019ve been coming here every week for a bit. I\u2019m actually playing in a big band this winter with some people I met here.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Morales, the main lure was the fellowship jam\u2019s all-ages nature. There aren\u2019t many after-dark events in Seattle open to young jazz musicians. This one\u2019s authenticity \u2014 and its lack of cover charge \u2014 has brought the youth out in force. Two of Morales\u2019 generational peers, sitting near the front of the room, were Moss Wallas, 16, and Ethan Elliott, 17, both students at Ballard High School. Like Morales, Wallas heard about the jam on Instagram. A singer in the vocal jazz ensemble at her school, she thought she\u2019d check it out, and invited Elliott along. There aren\u2019t many Seattle venues where teenagers can see this music on the cheap, much less surrounded by an audience of their own age. Asked about her jazz leanings, Wallas says, \u201cI listen to Chet (Baker) and Ella (Fitzgerald).\u201d She\u2019ll likely come back.<\/p>\n
Older attendees have been gazing at the newfound audience with a small sense of wonder. But jazz is a community-based art, and Seattle\u2019s old guard is all for it. \u201cAnybody who thinks this music is cool and wants to support it, that\u2019s great,\u201d says pianist Eric Verlinde, who led the Tuesday night Owl N\u2019 Thistle jam session for almost 20 years. \u201cPeople want culture. They want stuff you can\u2019t get from apps or from your phone. We have that here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another regular from the Owl sessions, drummer Beri Puhlovski, 69, was the jam\u2019s elder statesman on a recent Monday. \u201cI don\u2019t remember any jams this young,\u201d he says, \u201cbecause lots of bars and pubs have an age limit. The energy here is fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n
It all comes back to this. Energy. In a city where musicians have long struggled to make a living, in a genre of historical precarity, jazz jams can sometimes feel like an insider\u2019s obligatory rites, a dusty tradition older than time itself. The local scene is rich with talent, but Seattle\u2019s jazz corps has long operated without the expectation of an invested, nonmusician audience, particularly on weekdays. Improbably, one Monday at a time, this is changing. Puhlovski feels it all coming together. How could he not? He grins across the crowd and says, \u201cThis music is for everyone. The more the merrier.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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