The Seattle Jazz Fellowship will present a 90-minute matinee at 2pm on December 7, 2024, of the Steve Griggs Ensemble performing Panama Hotel Jazz. The award-winning program of stories and music was commissioned by 4Culture and chronicles the experience of Seattle Japanese Americans during World
KIRO 7 reported on my role in John Coltrane: A Love Supreme, Live in Seattle. Watch here.
On May 9, 2022, I hosted a celebration at the Chapel of Jim Knapp (July 28, 1939 – November 10, 2021) with Scrape and the Jim Knapp Orchestra playing his original music.
We performed excerpts from Panama Hotel Jazz at the September 14, 2022 ribbon-cutting ceremony for the restoration of the Tsutakawa gates at the Seattle Arboretum.
On September 11, 2022, I accepted the award for Historical Record of the Year from the Jazz Journalists Association because of my role in finding the source tape for John Coltrane: A Love Supreme, Live in Seattle.
December 17 1:30-3:00pm at the Panama Hotel (605 S Main St) for Japantown Jingle, I will be performing with guitarist Milo Petersen and bassist Phil Sparks.
Author Priscilla Long has chosen me as one of the twelve authors for the Jack Straw 2023 Writers Program. I’m looking forward to sharing my work in readings and podcasts in the new year.
Steve Korn recorded videos of several folks telling stories of their experience during the pandemic. Darin Faul used these stories in a patchwork virtual music performance by his students. Here’s my story.
After trumpeter John Scott passed February 26, 2020, a tribute page was created that had a link to a recording made of us from the early 1980’s. You can hear it here.