Music

Among highlights on this week's episode is a 1989 recording of the Bud Shank Quintet playing music by David Peck, who was pianist in Bud's Northwest group. This recording was made at Fort Worden Theatre in Port Townsend.

The unstoppable conguero and bandleader Poncho Sanchez is back touring with plans for a biographical book and film, plus an upcoming album.

Since 2012, the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition has raised the profile of amateur jazz vocalists. Co-producer Carl Griffin talks to KNKX Jazz Reporter Robin Lloyd about the history and the inner-workings of the annual search for the next great jazz singer.

The annual Pickathon festival, taking place outside of Portland August 4-7, includes three top modern jazz acts: Sons of Kemet, Nubya Garcia and Nate Smith + KINFOLK.

Margaret Slovak's comeback recording —after a long recovery from a car accident, her sister's death, and her husband's fight with cancer— contains her original music and her own artwork.

A perennial favorite, the Jeff Hamilton Trio plays at Centrum's Jazz Port Townsend and Boxley's in North Bend this week. This Sunday's edition of Jazz Northwest leads off with music from the trio's 2013 recording "Great American Songs."

Portland-based saxophonist and composer BrandonLee Cierley released two new modern jazz songs with his mentor Braxton Cook.

Flugelhorn player Dmitri Matheny celebrated the release of his new album "Cascadia" with a quintet performance in the KNKX studios.

Hannah Mowry is bringing fresh ideas to the Roosevelt High School band program in Seattle. The trumpeter, vocalist and educator succeeds longtime Roosevelt band director Scott Brown. Mowry spoke to KNKX about her history and her future in music education.

Saxophonist Joel Frahm, currently on a West Coast tour with a new album "The Bright Side" will be featured on today's episode of Jazz Northwest.

Together for the first time in 40 years, the two Cuban jazz giants are on their worldwide "Reunion Tour" through mid-September, and their album "I Missed You Too!" released on Friday, July 22.

Last week, author, musician and jazz historian Ted Gioia started a Change.org petition to correct a long criticized decision by the Pulitzer Prize Board in 1965.

KNKX Studio Sessions are recorded and produced live in our Seattle studios. Featuring top jazz and blues musicians, Studio Sessions are made possible with funding from KNKX's loyal community of listeners.

Music by the best resident musicians from Seattle, Portland and Vancouver are featured, and the program also includes news about the best places to go for live jazz in the region. In addition, Jim Wilke goes on location to concerts, clubs and jazz festivals to record performances by resident and visiting artists for playback on Jazz Northwest. These one-of-a-kind recordings are available nowhere else!