The Lucas Pino No Net Nonet played an exciting concert of original music at the 2015 Ballard Jazz Festival, and the concert was recorded for broadcast on KPLU's Jazz Northwest.
Lucas Pino is a New York-based tenor saxophonist who has been leading a similar band in monthly concerts at Smoke in New York City for the past three years. The New York band has a new CD on the Seattle label, Origin Records, and Lucas Pino recently married Roxy Coss, another saxophonist who is a former Seattle resident who attended Garfield High.
So it seemed appropriate for Lucas and Roxy to be featured at this year's Ballard Jazz Festival - Roxy led a quintet of her own and played in the No Net Nonet led by Lucas. The rest of the band came from Seattle's pool of excellent players: Jay Thomas, David Marriott, Jr., Richard Cole, Dawn Clement, Gregg Belisle-Chi, Michael Glynn and John Bishop.
Lucas Pino was clearly impressed with the Seattle musicians. "We had maybe an hour of rehearsal... and I'm astounded at the level of musicianship of these cats..." Generous with his band, all players had solo turns during the concert which consisted of frequently complex original compositions by Lucas Pino.
The Ballard Jazz Festival is an annual event celebrating its 13th year this year. The festival combines club dates, workshops, a jazz walk and concerts. John Bishop and Matt Jorgensen are co-Artistic and Managing Directors of the Festival.
Jazz Northwest is recorded and produced by Jim Wilke exclusively for 88.5 KPLU. The program airs on Sundays at 2 PM Pacific and streams at kplu.org. A podcast of each program is available after the broadcast at jazznw.org.
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