In honor of our first-ever tour, I have decided to run a special on all 3 Jason Parker Quartet CD’s: Through the end of the tour (May 21st) all CD’s are available as a “pay what you want” download through our store. I am going to offer the same deal at the shows, so I […]
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I am thrilled to report that I have been awarded a 2010 Artist Assistance Program Grant from Jack Straw Productions! Jack Straw is a non-profit multidisciplinary audio arts center that provides a production facility that is unlike any other in the region for local artists who work creatively with sound. They host annual residencies for […]
All Jason Parker Quartet albums, including our newly released “No More, No Less”, have been on sale all week. Everyone who is on my mailing list got notice of the sale on Monday and have been taking advantage of it all week. Thanks to all who have grabbed copies so far. Today is the last […]
The year-end lists are flooding in, and the jazz blogosphere is replete with best-of’s. I thought I would put my own spin on it and put the spotlight on the amazing jazz talent we have right here in the Emerald City. So I spent the better part of my birthday researching and compiling this list. […]
The good folks at Mosaic Records have long been producing some of the absolute finest collections of jazz music around. Their comprehensive boxed sets and Mosaic Select series often feature long out-of-print music and recordings that have sat in the vaults for too many years. If you haven’t checked them out do yourself a favor […]
I just found out that my CD, “No More, No Less” by the Jason Parker Quartet, has been added to the playlist at AccuJazz Radio! AccuJazz is an internet radio station that contains over two-dozen jazz channels based on categories of style, instrument, composer, region and decade. A new subchannel is added every week! It […]
My friend Spekulation has made a name for himself as a dope MC. He is also really good a remixing music to use as beds for his flows. Check out his killer album The Bite, which features some of Seattle’s best young jazz, soul and R&B musicians. He’s working on a new album now with […]
Today I started an experiement called the 100 CD’s Project. I wish I could take credit for the idea, but I borrowed it from an artist and writer named Christine Mason Miller, who did her own version called the 100 Books Project. I thought it was such a beautiful idea that I wanted to recreate […]
If you follow the Jazz Blogosphere at all you are probably aware of Jazz Now, Patrick Jarenwattananon’s initiative to introduce young non-jazz fans to jazz at NPR’s A Blog Supreme. Patrick asked seven young jazz bloggers to submit their picks for the 5 albums they’d use to accomplish this seemingly herculean feat. In addition to […]
The great 19th-century American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said “Music is the universal language of mankind.” Never was this more apparent to me than when I had the chance to play at a jam session in Paris recently. On my second-to-last day in town I found myself at a 12th-century dungeon that has been turned […]
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