Abe Beeson

Composing music can be a difficult process, especially writing a catchy song with broad appeal. The four musicians in the Seattle instrumental group How Now Brown Cow (HNBC) are making it look easy.

Musician Roy McCurdy revisits his time in Cannonball Adderley's band and highlights a live recording of the saxophonist from Seattle’s historic jazz club, The Penthouse.

Seattle jazz-funk outfit Polyrhythmics have developed a strong connection with their audience over their last 15 years as a band.

This month's School of Jazz guest DJs Grant Segesser and Christian Klein arrived at the KNKX studios full of upbeat energy, just as their sophomore year at Juanita High School in Kirkland came to a close.

We've all seen jazz sings with piano accompaniment, but vocalist Kurt Elling and pianist Joey Calderazzo are something special.

Just a few weeks before graduation, four talented seniors with the jazz band at the Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences strode confidently into the KNKX Seattle studios to perform.

Jazz vocalist Kenny Washington has been called the "Superman" of the Bay Area jazz scene by the San Francisco Chronicle , but the soulful 61 year-old was largely unknown at the time of his visit to the KNKX Studios in 2018.

Amid this summer's World Cup celebrations in Seattle, Ibrahim Maalouf , the Beirut-born, Paris-based trumpeter and composer, will bring more international flavor.

In the eyes of trumpeter Marquis Hill , the jazz masters of the past are also connected to the jazz of the present and future.

Ways To Subscribe In this KNKX School of Jazz studio session, six talented students from the Seattle JazzED program showed how much there is to be gained from jazz education.