Human Spirit is currently listening to the tapes from our live recording at the Earshot Jazz Festival and will be on tour throughout 2012 … hopefully coming to a city near you.

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Seats are limited for our performance this weekend at the Earshot Jazz Festival.

The first sets for both nights are nearly sold-out. Call now to make your reservations for the remaining seats, or for a spot during the second set.

Call (206) 443-4221.

October 14-15, 2011

Tula’s Jazz Club
2214 2nd Ave
Seattle, WA

Sets at 8:00 and 9:30pm.

We are excited to announce that our two-night showcase this October at the  Earshot Jazz Festival will be recorded for a 2012 release on Origin Records.

We will be debuting some new material as well as some classic originals penned by Mark, Matt & Thomas.

Joining Human Spirit for the weekend will be two of their favorite collaborators, pianist Orrin Evans and bassist Essiet Essiet.

Orrin Evans is one of the busiest piano players on the New York Scene. Having worked extensively with Bobby Watson, Ralph Peterson, The Mingus Big Band and scores of others, Orrin has recorded albums for Criss Cross Records, Palmetto Records and Posi-Tone Records. Last year he was awarded a prestigious Pew Fellowship For The Arts. After playing with him at the Jazz at the River Festival in 2009, Matt & Thomas knew their musical paths would intersect again, as they did for the 2010 East-Coast tour of Jorgensen’s “Tattooed By Passion,” which featured Orrin with great success.

Essiet Essiet is a familiar face to anyone who listens to live jazz. His bass playing has accompanied every major jazz artist of the last three decades. Essiet first rose to prominence as a member of Abdullah Ibrahim’s bands of the 1980′s and then with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. He has performed with Art Farmer, Joe Henderson, Kenny Garret, Benny Golson, Freddie Hubbard, James Moody, Kurt Elling and Jackie McLean to name just a few. Matt and Essiet have worked together in bands led by pianist Travis Shook and Human Spirit is delighted to be sharing the bandstand with him for their two-night, live recording at the Earshot Jazz Festival.

This will be an amazing weekend of music and we invite you to join us as a member of the audience.

FRIDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14-15
TULA’S JAZZ CLUB
2214 2nd Ave
Seattle, WA

Sets at 8:00 & 9:30pm
Tickets: $15.00
Reservations: 206-443-4221

Thomas Marriott – trumpet
Mark Taylor – saxophone
Orrin Evans – piano
Essiet Essiet – bass
Matt Jorgensen – drums

Thank you to everyone who came indoors to see our set at Bumbershoot. It was a great weekend of music and sunshine!

Great two nights of music in Vancouver … now on to Seattle!

Human Spirit is off to Vancouver for shows Friday and Saturday.

Listen to Thomas, Mark and Matt interviewed on CFRO Radio at 3:00pm (PDT) with Nou Dadoun talking about the shows at The Cellar and the up-coming recording.
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Friday – Saturday, September 2-3: The Cellar, Vancouver, BC
3611 West Broadway Street, Vancouver, BC
(604) 738-1959. Sets at 8:00 & 9:30pm
8:00pm. Admission: $12.00.
with Brad Turner (piano) and Adam Thomas (bass)
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On Sunday, join us in Seattle for our performance at Bumbershoot from 3:00 – 4:00pm.

See you at the shows!

Set 2 from our show at The Cellar in 2009.

See you there this weekend!

Thomas Marriott – trumpet
Mark Taylor – saxophone
Brad Turner – piano / rhodes
Adam Thomas – bass
Matt Jorgensen – drums

In advance of our show in Vancouver at Cory Weeds’ Cellar Jazz Club, here is mp3 download from a show at The Cellar after Thomas’ Flexicon CD was released. The band is the same as our up-coming show at The Cellar the weekend of September 2-3

Thomas Marriott – trumpet
Mark Taylor – saxophone
Brad Turner – piano / rhodes
Adam Thomas – bass
Matt Jorgensen – drums

We are thrilled to be participating at the Bumbershoot Festival of the Arts this year.  We will be the final act during the three-act Seattle Jazz Showcase which also features vocalist Gail Pettis and Wayne Horvitz’ Cafe Paloma Band.

We will be at the Science Fiction Museum Level 3 stage (if you saw Brian Blade Fellowship last year at Earshot — that is the stage).  The music starts at Noon … we play from 3:00 – 4:00!

Tickets are available online through Stranger Tickets/Bumbershoot.