Live Jazz and Past Reviews

A full scale jazz club & restaurant, a beautiful setting right under the mountains in historic North Bend. Live music featured five nights a week, with more local nights, education programs and fun coming soon. Lights, Steinway Grand Piano, stage, a great menu, even a patio to watch the trains. Just a short drive up I-90 from Seattle. No cover charge.
Music sets start at 7:00 and 9:00.
101 West North Bend Way, North Bend, WA - ph: 425.292.9307
www.boxleysplace.com

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Mondays & Tuesdays: Special Education Programs, Local Bands, Blues Nights.

Thursday November 18, 2010
Members of the Pony Boy All-Star Big Band will once again be backing up Don Rickles at the Snoqualmie Casino. info & tickets

Thursday May 13, 2010
Members of the Pony Boy All-Star Big Band with Bob Newhart at the Snoqualmie Casino.
info & tickets
Legendary comedian Bob, began his comedy career as a stand up comedian in the 1950s. His 1960 comedy album, 'The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart', went straight to number one on the charts, beating Elvis Presley and the soundtrack to 'The Sound of Music'. 'Button Down Mind' received the 1960 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. He became known for his deadpan delivery and his slight stutter...

Thur-Sunday, June 24-27, 2010
Bobby Caldwell and the Pony Boy Orchestra
Jazz Alley
info & tickets
Caldwell’s musical career spans over 30 years with several solo releases earning awards nationally and internationally. Timeless classics such as, “What You Won’t do For Love” has been recorded and sampled by more than 100 artist including; Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, and Michael Bolton. Bobby has been featured on several television shows including the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, BET Jazz Central...

A-Y-P Expo Jazz Music to air on radio "Jazz Northwest"
FM 88.5 KPLU and kplu.org
Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 1 PM Pacific Time

A-Y-P Large Ensemble
Jazz Music for Seattle's 1909 AYPE, Seattl'e First World's Fair
more info, air date and podcast download

Greg Wiliamson's A-Y-P Large Ensemble
Jazz Music for Seattle's 1909 AYP Expo
2009 Earshot Jazz Festival

4Culture's Model-T Site
Video & Pics

• October 29, "Seattle Presents" @ City Hall, noon - 1:00
700 5th Ave (@ Cherry St), Seattle, WA
Free

• November 4, The Triple Door, 7:00 - 8:00
216 Union Street, Seattle
$18/$16 tickets
BUY TICKETS ONLINE

A mash-up and jazz improvisation of music written for, and performed at Seattle's "First World's Fair" - the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Including the newly uncovered "Gloria Washington March" theme song written by AYP Bandmaster Fr. Innes in 1909; and marches, vocal songs like "Meet Me In Seattle." Collaged, contrasted and culminating with modern big band classics by Basie, Ellington and Seattle's own Quincy Jones. All of this in front of compelling slides and films of the 1909 Expo. Featuring an All-Star cast of musicians with a fun sense of artistic expression.

"This is sick, it's like changing the radio dial from 1909 to 2009. You're a twisted puppy. Thanks." - Dan Marcus, trombone

Conversations & Deconstructions by this ensemble was nominated "Earshot Golden Ear Award Concert of the Year"

more info and "Gloria Washington" Preview

Pony Boy All-Star Big Band
A-Y-P Expo / Model T Rally

Pony Boy All-Star Big Band CSI 
(Crime Scene Investigation)

Monday, March 30, 2009 - 7:30pm
Pony Boy Records Presents: 
A Workshop Big Band Resurrection of
Ronnie Pierce's "Dream Band" library from 1946 

Tula's Restaurant & Nightclub
2214 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA
reservations:  ph: 206-443-4221
http://www.tulas.com
$8 cover charge

This will be an investigative workshop/rehearsal/rehydration of a book and big band that lots of the jazzers from the period raved about. Kids like Red Kelly, Marvin Thomas, Fred Greenwell, etc... They all said it was a great book, and a very modern band for the time... With Arrangements by Bob Hill** and Glenn Thompson. We will give it a reading and see what's been hidden away since 1946. We'll do some rendering, and make some recordings in "workshop" fashion for documentation to apply for a grant - for a more formal performance. We'll even do some on-stage panel interviewing of Ronnie Pierce and the author of a new book about the "Sheriff," along with some photos and historical perspectives. I came across many references to this band when researching the "Conversations & Deconstructions" piece. Ronnie has had the music locked away for a very long time - let's see what all the fuss was about.

Come on down for the spectacle! 

Saxes: Travis Ranney, Alexey Nikolaev, Mike West, Bill Ramsay
Trombones: Gary Shutes, Dan Marcus, Dave Marriott, Greg Schroeder
Trumpets: Dennis Haldane, Mike Mines, Al Keith, Jake Bergevin, Chad McCullugh
Wandering French Horn High Notes: Mike Simpson
Rhythm Section: Greg Williamson, drums; Jon Hamar, bass; Dan Kramlich, piano; Jim Day, guitar

(** Bob Hill passed over the hill last Thursday. He will be missed. He was a fine pianist, arranger, and a real musical gentleman.)

Larry Fuller appeared with John Pizzarelli
watch online: NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien
February 11, 2009

Fuller's CD "Easy Walker" continues to a popular release

A GREAT DAY IN SEATTLE
Even though this fundraising program has officially ended, we have an archive of prints for purchase. E-mail inquiries: jazz@ponyboyrecords.com

Pony Boy Records and the JAZZ PICNIC was awarded an Earshot Jazz GOLDEN EAR AWARD for "signifigant and enduring contributions to Seattle's Jazz Scene"

3rd Annual JAZZ PICNIC was nominated 2006 CONCERT OF THE YEAR.

The 4th annual Jazz Picnic was held September 9, 2007, and featured over 40 jazz musicians in a free outdoor park concert, with close to 1,000 in attendance. Thanks and congratulations to all the musicians, sponsors, and fans.

New: Jazz Picnic 2006 Photo Gallery 2007 Gallery coming soon

Jazz & Sushi on TV:
City A Go Go: Jazz and Sushi/Sci Fi Museum
with Nancy Guppy

Online Video
Seattle Channel 21: schedule almost daily thru Jan 20
KCTS 9: check listings

"... Jazz and Sushi are the perfect combo and can be enjoyed every Friday night at Hiroshi's restaurant on Eastlake."

see the video!
Pony Boy All-Star Big Band Kent performance
on YouTube.com with 4 cameras split-screen!
check out all 4 parts (and the great trains screaming past)

Friday, September 22, 2006
Downtown Kent First Avenue Party
Presented by Kent Arts Commission in partnership with Kent’s First Avenue South Merchants, as part of 4Culture’s SITE-SPECIFIC/2006 King County Performance Network.

Featured CDs

Larry Fuller Trio

with Ray Brown
and Jeff Hamilton