Is there a Seattle jazz sound? I think there isa certain kind of empathetic playing thats never too showy and that has some of the musics more desperate edges burnished away. Instead of coke, you hear mountains. And though these five Seattle-bred playersincluding trumpeter Tatum Greenblatt and saxophonist Ben Rosethhave been on the East Coast for several years and now are making the scene in New York, you can still catch the sensibility of their hometown in their graceful and cool swing. Their band name may be groaningly bador so groaningly bad, its brilliant. Either way, the imperative it contains is well-earned. MARK D. FEFER
Tue., Dec. 28, 7:30 p.m., 2010
