Seattle Jazz Archive
Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. Explore oral histories of important members of Seattle’s rich jazz community. The collection includes interviews with Seattle musicians, singers and community members who performed and experienced the city’s jazz scene.
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Worker surveying construction at top of Space Needle, ca. November 13-15, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_70100010
Date: 1961-11-13
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Workers installing cross-tie between Space Needle legs, ca. September 12, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_69670022
Date: 1961-09-12
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Workers distribute concrete at 100' Space Needle observation deck, ca. November 27, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_73550019
Date: 1961-11-27
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Crane and workers placing section of Space Needle core, ca. June 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_68780007
Date: 1961-06
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Earshot Jazz, v.6, no.1, Feb. 1990
This issue begins with a spotlight on the lives and music of Alphonse Hill and Buck Campbell, page 1 by Paul de Barros, Ted Dzielak, and Carmen Jones. Unauthorized recording release of a recording of the Composers and Improvisors Orchestra is discussed by Joseph Murphy, page 1. This issue holds notes on Al Smith, Milton Walton, Centrum, Floyd Standifer, Jabbo Ward, Buddy Catlett, Scott Cossu, Beth Winter, Peggy Stern, Glen Moor, Jay Clayton, Jerry Granelli, Ralph Towner, Ernestine Anderson, Mizue Murakami, Michael Powers, Chuck Metcalf, Ro Gunderson, Thelma White, Bud Shank, Dave Peck, Dian Schuur, KNUA, Paul de Barros, Rinde Eckert, Thomasa Eckert, Marc Smason, Kenny Mandell's Modal Music, Amy Denio, Bochinche, Jim Knapp, Trumpeter's, Brad Schoeppach, Dave Coleman, Jr., Larry Fuller, Julian Priester, Chuck Deardorf, Clifford Jordan, and Ran Blake, page 2. Joseph Murphy reveals and discusses the recent activities of Barney McClure, primarily the revitalization of his record label BAM, page 3. The 50's group the Lighthouse All-Stars are featured in an article by Ken Wiley on page 4. The Mel Brown Sextet is featured on page 6 by by Sandra Burlingame. Earshot Jazz reviews the albums Trio by Jimmy Rowles, Red Mitchell, and Donald Bailey, So Why Not? by Buddy Montgomery, a Circular Cowboy cassette, Human Feel by Human Feel, The African Roots of Jazz by W.E.Wainwright, Jr., New Life by Allen Youngblood, Stiletto by Michael Shrieve, Camargue by Jim Pepper and the Claudine Francois Trio, Breaking Through by Phil Sheeran, Live at Town Hall, N.Y.C. by Gene Harris and the Philip Morris Superband, and Listen Here! by The Gene Harris Quartet, page 10. Cover art is a photograph of Pee Wee, Evelyn, Alphonse Hill, Thelma Baldwin, George Baldwin, Clarence Lee's granddaughter, Charlie Brown, and Clarence Lee at Porters & Waiters Club, 1948.
Identifier: spl_ej_571712_1990_06_01
Date: 1990-02
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Workers lowering Space Needle derrick boom, ca. December 15, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_74620018
Date: 1961-12-15
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Placing cross-tie between Space Needle core and first leg, ca. July 19, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_68820018
Date: 1961-07-19
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Crane lifting section of Space Needle core, ca. late September 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_69690021
Date: 1961-09
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