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We feature more music from Brazilian guitarist Bola Sete recorded live in 1966 for broadcast from The Penthouse club in Seattle on this week's Jazz Northwest.

This week's show includes music by Julian Priester, trombonist and educator who taught at Cornish College from 1979 until he retired in 2011. His professional career included touring and recording with many major jazz artists from Lionel Hampton and Duke Ellington, to John Coltrane and Sam Rivers, to Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland and many others.

Jim Knapp, Ralph Towner, Milt Kleeb, Tom Keenlyside ... these are some of the great composers and performers who've contributed to the regional jazz scene. We'll feature these and others, past and present on this today's episode.

Composer-arranger-pianist Bob Hammer had a long and successful career in New York and Los Angeles before coming to the Pacific Northwest. He passed on December 26 at the age of 92 and we'll hear some of his arrangements played by The Full Circle Jazz Ensemble on today's episode.

Nearly three years after being awarded an expansion franchise in the National Hockey League, the Seattle Kraken has its home opener Saturday night against the Vancouver Canucks in the new Climate Pledge Arena.

This week's edition of Jazz Northwest opens with a pair of selections from the 70s by the Great Excelsior Jazz Band featuring Ken Wiley on trombone.