Jazz Quintet Seeking

NW 130th Street near Greenwood Ave NW, Seattle WA

Description

To help me avoid spammers and contact info harvesters, your response should include a LOCAL PHONE NUMBER and should identify the INSTRUMENT YOU PLAY. Generic "saw your ad please contact me" responses are usually from scammers and will be ignored. The Out Of The Blue jazz quintet is looking for the elusive 5th member. We are experienced, intermediate musicians with day gigs and no professional aspirations. Paying gigs are preferred but we usually play for free. Which is one reason our sax player just left—music is his livelihood and he can’t justify being in this band regardless of how fun it is. So we’re back to trumpet, keys, bass and drums. This leaves the trumpet player constantly blowing, and we need someone who can play not just the themes but give him a break by taking up some of the solos as well. Sax is the preferred instrument, but we’ll consider other traditional quintet formats as well, e.g., trombone, vibes, guitar, violin, flute. We’ve been together about a year-and-a-half. We’re in the process of lining up gigs as things open up. We practice about once a week, mainly in Seattle’s Broadview neighborhood and mainly on weekends. We’ve all been vaccinated, so Covid restrictions no longer are hampering our schedule. To be in this band, you should be familiar with standard jazz and blues progressions. However, our song list is more varied than that, spanning about 95 years of music from I’ll See You In My Dreams (1924) to Night In Tunisia (1942) to Cantaloupe Island (1964) to modern neo-soul tunes like Kamasi Washington’s Street Fighter Mas (2019). A few of our songs include vocals. We recently started experimenting with a simple rap—Crabbuckit by K-os. Looking for a reliable player who respects the fact that the other 4 band members are expending significant time and energy based on his/her commitment to the band.