BIMA's highly anticipated Within/Earshot Jazz Festival returns to the Frank Buxton Auditorium this October with an exciting lineup of live music, film, and presentations. Travel from New Orleans to Barcelona, Brazil to Newport, Seattle to… outer space!

Schedule of Events

Concerts

October 8, 2022

Mundos Quarteto in Concert

Passholders, celebrate the launch of the 2022 Within/Earshot Jazz Festival in style at this very special kick-off reception and concert—just for you! Doors open at 5:30 for after-hours gallery wandering, light appetizers and nibbles, and a cash wine and non-alcoholic bar, followed by a full set of Brazilian-inspired jazz from EntreMundos Quarteto at 7:00pm.

EntreMundos Quarteto is an electrifying Seattle-based band that brings to the stage an uplifting and kinetic mix of deep Brazilian roots flavored with world rhythms—a deft blending of funk, jazz, and soul melding with the classic sounds of samba and bossa nova. EntreMundos means “between worlds,” and the group's mélange of seductive sounds embodies their name, stirring a personal and uncommon blend into a sound with universal appeal.

Time:
Reception: 5:30pm
Concert: 7:00pm

Location: Frank Buxton Auditorium.

October 14, 2022

7:00pm: Duo Violão + One in Concert

Duo Violão + One is a choro and samba trio with acclaimed guitar master Rogerio Souza on 7-string guitar, guitarist Edinho Gerber, and percussionist Ami Molinelli, who are returning to the Northwest for a live tour in September-October of 2022. Their 2020 tour celebrating the release of the album “A Historia do Choro” was cut short because of the pandemic and the group is excited to return to live audiences. In the interim, they produced a video project titled, “Raizes de Choro e Samba,” a collaboration between musicians in the Bay Area and Rio de Janeiro. In January 2021, the trio was selected and featured at the Chamber Music America showcase, cementing its place on the national circuit.

Cost: $25

Location: Frank Buxton Auditorium.

October 15, 2022

7:00pm - Eugenie Jones in Concert

The award-winning vocalist/composer/lyricist Eugenie Jones continues to grow and evolve in the eleven years she's been on the jazz scene. From her humble beginnings in West Virginia to her move to Seattle, Eugenie's creativity, inspiration, and inexhaustible work ethic have transformed her into a jazz vocalist of impeccable taste, with a respect for the jazz tradition and the courage to try something new. Her first two recordings, Black Lace Blue Tears (2013) and Come Out Swingin' (2015), both feature these attributes. For their Bainbridge performance, Eugenie and her quintet offer a program of beautiful jazz standards, including work that pays tribute to some of the great American women jazz vocalists and works featured on her newest release, Players.

Cost: $25

Location: Frank Buxton Auditorium.

October 23, 2022

7:00pm - Marina Albero Trio w/ Jeff Johnson & Anil Prasad in Concert

BIMA proudly presents a special evening of music as Marina Albero premieres new original work at the Buxton Auditorium. Renowned for her versatility and virtuosity, Marina was named distinguished Resident Artist of Seattle's 2021 Earshot Jazz Festival.

Multi-awarded pianist, composer, and educator Marina Albero is a captivating performer born in Barcelona and based in Seattle since 2015. Albero's playing is an absolute celebration of life, her spirited performances are intelligent, uplifting, and delightfully engrossing. Albero deftly draws on a lifetime of music tradition, from her native Barcelona in classical and early music as well as flamenco, to Cuba and Son Cubano, to American jazz.

This trio concert features the great northwest bassist Jeff Johnson and the outstanding tablas player Anil Prasad with whom Albero explores the thread of improvisation from the cradle of music to contemporary repetoir from around the world as she seamlessly flows between the hammered dulcimer and the piano.

Cost: $25

Location: Frank Buxton Auditorium.

October 29, 2022

7:00pm - Folks Project in Concert

Folks Project is an exciting contemporary jazz trio featuring some of the hottest players on the scene — Darrius Willrich on piano and vocals, Evan Flory-Barnes on bass, and Within/Earshot Jazz Festival regular D'Vonne Lewis on drums. Folks Project found its origin as an evolution of their friendship and a shared love of music. The three musicians were inspired to form the band during a special event at Seattle Center for International Jazz Day in 2015. Since then, they've continued to gain attention and momentum, including reaching number two on International ReverbNation's Seattle Jazz charts this spring and receiving a strong critical response to their first album Live at the Triple Door. This evening promises to transport.

Cost: $25

Location: Frank Buxton Auditorium.

Presentations

October 6, 2022

7:00pm - Jazz with Jim: Fundamentals of Jazz

BIMA's beloved music historian Jim Cauter returns for his two-part series on contemporary jazz. Jim's insights into jazz and his palpable enthusiasm for the subject have made him a don't-miss speaker at our Within/Earshot Jazz Festival. In this first of two lectures, Jim takes us through the fundamentals of jazz, from its birth to early contemporary artists.

Cost: $10

Location: Frank Buxton Auditorium.

October 13, 2022

7:00pm - Jazz with Jim: Future of Jazz

BIMA's beloved music historian Jim Cauter returns for his two-part series on contemporary jazz. Jim's insights into jazz and his palpable enthusiasm for the subject have made him a don't-miss speaker at our Within/Earshot Jazz Festival. In this second of two lectures, Jim delves into the future of jazz, how it is changing, and how it is still evolving.

Cost: $10

Location: Frank Buxton Auditorium.

October 20, 2022

7:00pm - America's Music: A Panel on Race and Jazz

An exploration of the impacts of race in the development, shaping, acceptance, and future of Jazz. How does race manifest in the history of Jazz? Was Jazz a factor in past and current struggles for civil rights and social justice? Our invited panelists bring their experience to bear on these and other questions as we delve into the social structures surrounding the music. Featuring musician, filmmaker, and composer Aham Oluo, Rainier Avenue Radio DJ and Jazz aficionado Kevin “Big Poppy” Callahan, and education director at Seattle JazzED, Kelly Clingan.

Cost: $10

Location: Frank Buxton Auditorium.

Smartfilms: Syncopated Cinema Series

October 3, 2022

7:00pm - smARTfilms Film Club pre-series webinar: Syncopated Cinema at Online

Webinar with guest speakers Sandy and Yasu Osawa, producers and director of numerous films including Pepper's Pow Wow (screening October 11 at BIMA) on the making of their films and honoring Native artists in Jazz.

Sandy Johnson Osawa (Makah) and Yasu Osawa met at UCLA's graduate film program for minority students in the 70's. Forty years later, they have produced a ten-part series on American Indian issues for NBC, five documentaries for PBS/TLC, and a one hour NBC special on treaty rights plus over 60 videos for museums, tribes and organizations. They formed their own production company in Seattle in 1980 and have exhibited their work both nationally and internationally. Their work is used in college classrooms from Harvard to Berkeley and is distributed by Upstream Productions.

Cost: Free

October 4, 2022

7:00pm - Thin Skin smARTfilms: Syncopated Cinema Series

(2020) 1H30M
Based in Seattle, Nigerian American jazz musician Aham is a divorced father of two who longs for a career as a musician but must pay the bills with his soul-sucking desk job. His only solace is found at night behind a trumpet in Seattle's jazz clubs. His father, a stranger from Nigeria, steps in with opinions on the matter which sends Aham into a tailspin. Featuring local actors and musicians and directed by The Stranger's Charles Mudede.

Evening screening only:
Join us for a post-screening Q & A with director Charles Mudede and writer/lead actor Ahamefule J. Oluo.

Showings
smARTfilm series offers two film showings each day!

Time:
Matinee: 2pm
Evening: 7pm

Cost: $10

Location: Frank Buxton Auditorium.

October 11, 2022

7:00pm - Pepper's Pow Wow smARTfilms: Syncopated Cinema Series

(1996) 56M

In honor of Indigenous People's Day, BIMA presents a captivating look at the life of Native American jazz saxophone pioneer Jim Pepper, the first widely recognized musician to fuse Native American music with jazz. The documentary soars with diverse musical highlights, including Pepper's grandfather's recording of the peyote chant “Witchi Tai To,” which Pepper developed into a crossover hit on both the jazz and Top 40 charts. Pepper's life and music harmonized two distinct cultures, and serve as a poetic example for all indigenous people, “walking in two worlds with one spirit.” Produced and directed by local filmmakers Sandy Johnson Osawa (M'Kaw) and Yasu Osawa.

Sandy and Yasu will be hosting our smARTfilms Club pre-series webinar on October 3rd

Showings
smARTfilm series offers two film showings each day!

Time:
Matinee: 2pm
Evening: 7pm

Cost: $10

Location: Frank Buxton Auditorium.

October 18, 2022

Space Is The Place smARTfilms: Syncopated Cinema Series

(1974) 1H22M
Avant-jazz mystic Sun Ra brought his pioneering Afrofuturist vision to the screen with this film version of his concept album. It's a wild, kaleidoscopic whirl of science fiction, sharp social commentary, goofy pseudo-blaxploitation stylistics, and thrilling concert performance, in which the pharaonic Ra and his Arkestra lead an intergalactic movement to resettle the Black race on their utopian space colony.

Showings
smARTfilm series offers two film showings each day!

Time:
Matinee: 2pm
Evening: 7pm

Cost: $10

Location: Frank Buxton Auditorium.

October 25, 2022

Jazz On A Summer's Day smARTfilms: Syncopated Cinema Series

(1959) 1H25M
This documentary concert film captures the sounds and performances of some of the major jazz artists at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. Unlike earlier jazz movies that had been filmed in smoky black and white, this is shot in vibrant color. While musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Anita O'Day and Mahalia Jackson perform, images of beaches, sailboats on water, dancing couples and the faces of joyful audience members are intercut into the proceedings.

Showings
smARTfilm series offers two film showings each day!

Time:
Matinee: 2pm
Evening: 7pm

Cost: $10

Location: Frank Buxton Auditorium.

October 26, 2022

7:00pm - smARTfilms Film Club post-series forum: Syncopated Cinema at Online

Join us for an on-line discussion on the films and themes from the Syncopated Cinema series with special guest Charles Mudede, director of Thin Skin and Senior Writer for The Stranger. Charles will be joining us to talk about Jazz as a narrative element in film making, bringing a production from stage to screen, and the challenges of premiering a film in the early days of Covid.

Cost: Free

Date: October 8-26, 2022

Location:
Bainbridge Performing Arts Center,
200 Madison Avenue North,
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110.

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