Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra Plays Benefit Concert

On May 9, The Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra featuring Gail Pettis and the Ten O'Clock Quartet will perform a benefit concert at Jazz Alley. KPLU's Midday Jazz Host Robin Lloyd will emcee the event.

The Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra showcases many of the finest female jazz artists in the region and proudly performs the contemporary jazz music of women composers and arrangers.

Named "2010 Northwest Vocalist of the Year" by Earshot Jazz Society, (also 2007), Gail Pettis's rich, warm vocals and understated phrasing have been described as "deliciously soulful" by Cadence Magazine. She's been Artist In Residence at the Amersfoort Jazz Festival in the Netherlands, performed in Kobe, Japan, done tours in Russia and continues to perform at jazz festivals around the country.

Pettis's latest CD, "Here in the Moment," was released in January 2010 and became the most-played new female vocal CD on American jazz radio that year. Whether traveling, performing closer to home or spending time in the recording studio, what Gail continues to value is the freedom of personal expression she finds in music.

The Ten O'Clock Quartet is an all-girls high school combo from JazzEd that was recently featured in a KPLU School of Jazz live studio session. The quartet is made up of female high-school students from all over the region. They met though their work with Seattle JazzED, a nonprofit that empowers students of all skill levels and backgrounds to realize their full potential through exceptional music education.

Shake the Monday blues and join us for a fun night out at Jazz Alley on May 9! All proceeds will be donated to Save KPLU.

KPLU has been the source for award-winning jazz and blues in the Northwest for 32 years and is proud of its strong connection to the local jazz scene. KPLU is the nation's preeminent jazz station, and its jazz programming also has a large online global audience which includes its all-jazz service, Jazz24.

It's hard to imagine life without KPLU's unique brand of curated jazz at 88.5 FM and online -- but if the station's impending sale by Pacific Lutheran University to the University of Washington goes through, that's exactly what will happen. Join the party and help KPLU meet its goal of raising $7 million so 88.5 FM can become an independent, community-licensed station.

Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation with a mission to nurture the musical, educational and artistic growth of individual musicians,�to encourage women to become involved in jazz performance or composition as a career or avocation,�and to foster community interest in and appreciation of jazz as an art form.

The show will be held at 7 p.m. on May 9 at the Jazz Alley, 2033 6th Avenue, Seattle, WA. Parking is free, doors open at 6 p.m.

For information or tickets, call 206-441-9729 or visit https://www.jazzalley.com/www-home/artist.jsp?shownum=1695