Clarence Acox & The Legacy Quartet

Location Info

Map

New Orleans Creole Restaurant

114 First Ave. S.
Seattle, WA 98104

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Pioneer Square

Photos

0 user reviews	Write A Review
Save to foursquare	0

Related Content

• The Short List: This Week's Recommended Shows
  November 23, 2011
• Soul Senate
  April 18, 2012
• River Giant
  May 9, 2012
• Kasey Anderson & The Honkies
  May 2, 2012
• Laura Veirs
  May 9, 2012

More About

• Clarence Acox
• Duke Ellington
• Ellington High School
• Arts, Entertainment, and Media
• North-American Food and Cooking

Like this Story?

Sign up for the Events Newsletter: What's happening in town? From underground club nights to the biggest outdoor festivals, our top picks for the week's best events will always keep you in on the action.

Privacy Policy Cancel Continue

Clarence Acox is one of the city's biggest stewards of jazz, having imbued generations of Seattle families with, if not an abiding love for the genre, a sense of hometown pride for leading the Garfield High Jazz Ensemble to four first-place wins at New York's Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition. When school’s done for the day and band practice is over, for 25 years every Wednesday Acox has manned the drum kit with some formation of the Legacy Quartet (named for original band member and local jazz cat Floyd Standifer) at the New Orleans Creole Restaurant, performing Cole Porter, George Gershwin, and Duke Ellington classics with a “straight-ahead” style. If you’ve never seen the movie Chops, a documentary on a handful of high school bands vying for first place at Essentially Ellington, you should watch it for a glimpse of the commanding Acox, a rare artist and teacher in the Seattle jazz scene who, through a top-tier jazz program, created a legacy of his own. GWENDOLYN ELLIOTT
Wed., Nov. 23, 8 p.m., 2011