Thomas Marriott

Greg Abate, Steve Allee, Dave Potter & Thomas Marriott

by Joe Dimino
March 16, 2025

From the powerhouse trumpeter out of Seattle, we launch into the 897th episode of Neon Jazz with a perfect fusion of grace and power. Leading the charge is veteran trumpeter Thomas Marriott, setting the tone with a track from his 2025 album, Screen Time--proving once again why he's one of the most compelling voices on the horn today. From there, we take a moment of reverence for the late, great Leon Brady, the Kansas City, Kansas legend whose lifelong mission ...

Thomas Marriott Quartet at Jazz Alley

by Paul Rauch
March 11, 2025

Thomas Marriott Quartet Jazz Alley Seattle, WA March 4, 2025 Dimitriou's Jazz Alley has been the mainstage for jazz touring acts coming through jny:Seattle for more than four decades now. From humble beginnings in a small bistro on “the av" in the city's University district, to its now forty-year tenure in the current luxurious and large room in Belltown, Seattle jazz fans have had the opportunity to see the very best the genre has to ...

Seattle Jazz Fellowship: A New Age In A New Space

by Paul Rauch
February 19, 2025

The Seattle Jazz Fellowship, a 501(c)(3) non-profit supporting jazz and jazz culture primarily at the local level, came to life in a backroom bar in the city's arts district on Capitol Hill in October 2021. The city, the nation, the world, was just beginning to fully climb out of the social slumber imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Artists and audiences alike were eager, yet cautious, in their actions to return to some form of normalcy. Vermillion, a community-oriented art space ...

Kiki Valera: Vacilón Santiaguero

by Richard J Salvucci
February 15, 2025

In Cuban Spanish (and, for sure, there is no generic Spanish in Latin America), vacilón means, well, one hell of a good time. And that is what you can expect from this punchy collection, a great time a la Santiago de Cuba, the capital of one of Cuba's southeastern provinces. It is the land of Bacardí rum and the origins of the 1959 Revolution. A Cuban patriot will tell you about the naval battle of Santiago de Cuba, which more ...

Thomas Marriott: Screen Time

by Paul Rauch
January 17, 2025

Seattle-based trumpeter Thomas Marriott has been producing notable jazz recordings for more than a quarter century now with remarkable consistency in terms of both musicianship and composition of original works. After a decade in New York as a young musician, following his winning of the prestigious Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Competition, Marriott settled back in Seattle and produced a litany of albums featuring top Northwest musicians. At one time or another he engaged with all of his upper-left colleagues, ...

Building Music Communities: Thinking Global & Acting Local

by Lawrence Peryer
October 5, 2024

Today, the Spotlight is going to shine a little differently. Instead of a single guest, we will have three segments dealing with the importance of local music scenes. Our first guest is Shain Shapiro. Shain is a thought leader working at the intersection of music, culture, and urban policy. His book, This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better (Repeater Books) sold out its first printing in 2023. Shain has defined a new way ...

Kiki Valera: Vacilón Santiaguero

by Paul Rauch
June 30, 2024

Son Cubano, the music and dance from the hill country of eastern Cuba, may be a mystery to some readers of these pages. Though the form is rooted in both Spanish and Bantu traditions, its modern day practitioners, embodied and popularized by the music of Buena Vista Social Club, have broadened the music's view. In the United States, particularly in this case, the Pacific Northwest, there are pockets of enthusiasm for Latin music of all sorts. Yet upon attending a ...

Origin Records "Human Spirit" 2012 Upcoming Tour Dates.

Source: Two for the Show Media
September 7, 2012

“...(Human Spirit) pushes forth the definition of the new West Coast jazz..." —C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz October 5 - 6: ANDY'S JAZZ CLUB, CHICAGO, IL 11 E. Hubbard St., Chicago, IL 60611, (312) 642-6805, 9:30pm Thomas Marriott (trumpet), Mark Taylor (saxophone), Chip Stephens (piano), Matt Ulery (bass) and John Bishop (drums) West Coast Tour Thomas Marriott (trumpet), Mark Taylor (saxophone), Orrin Evans (piano), Essiet Essiet (bass), Matt Jorgensen (drums) October 16 - 17: TULA'S JAZZ CLUB, SEATTLE, WA ...
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Ray Vega and Thomas Marriott at the New Orleans Friday Night

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
October 1, 2010

New York trumpeter Ray Vega will be in Seattle this weekend so the East-West Trumpet Summit will take the stage at The New Orleans this Friday.

Earlier this year Vega and Thomas Marriott's CD reached #1 on the JazzWeek National Airplay Chart and continues to have a strong presence across the country, currently holding the #14 spot for all of 2010.

Marriott's regular Friday quartet will back up the dueling trumpets, Rick Mandyck on piano, Phil Sparks on bass and ...
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Ray Vega and Thomas Marriott Talk About New CD

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
July 23, 2010

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Thomas Marriott and Ray Vega Reaches #1 on JazzWeek

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
June 16, 2010

Thomas Marriott and Ray Vegas new CD, East-West Trumpet Summit, just reached the #1 spot on JazzWeek's National Airplay Chart. This is the first Origin title to reach the top spot. Earlier this year Hadley Calimans Straight Ahead (which also features Thomas Marriott) spent two weeks at #2.

You can hear samples and buy East-West Trumpet Summit at Origin Records website.

JAZZWEEK TOP 10:

1 RAY VEGA & THOMAS MARRIOTT East-West Trumpet Summit (Origin) 2 TROMBONE SHORTY Backatown ...
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Jazz Trumpeter Thomas Marriott Charts a Successful Path in Seattle

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
March 2, 2010

Thomas Marriotts Quartet will perform this Friday, March 5, at New Orleans Creole Restaurant, 114 First Ave. S., Seattle. For reservations, call 206-622-2563.

from The Seattle Times:

Here, in a narrow passage between a decorated brick wall and the stage at the New Orleans restaurant in Pioneer Square, is where the early education of trumpeter Thomas Marriott took place 20 years ago.

Barely a teenager, he showed up every week, often with his brother David (an accomplished trombonist), planting himself ...
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Jazz Trumpeter Thomas Marriott Looks Forward to the Past with Tribute to Horace Silver

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
September 5, 2009

In the compressed, sometimes circular history of jazz, the freshest ideas often come from the past. Many young musicians, looking to push their music forward, are now mining the music of the late 1950s and '60s, the birth of what we think of as modern jazz. A quintet led by trumpeter Thomas Marriott, 33, will attempt to re-create and reinterpret that sound Sunday in a show at the New Orleans Creole Restaurant billed as a tribute to hard-bop pianist and ...
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The Music of Horace Silver at the New Orleans

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
August 28, 2009

PREVIEW: SUNDAY, SEPT 6 THE MUSIC OF HORACE SILVER THE NEW ORLEANS RESTAURANT 114 1st Avenue South 8:00pm Reservations: 206-622-2563 Trumpeter Thomas Marriott leads an all-star lineup of musicians in a musical tribute to pianist and composer Horace Silver on Sunday, September 6th, 2009 at the New Orleans Creole Restaurant, one of Seattle’s longest-running jazz venues. The band will perform some of the best-loved songs by the jazz icon in ...
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Thomas Marriott CD Release Party - May 12 at the Triple Door

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
May 8, 2009

Trumpeter Thomas Marriott hits the road this weekend performing for two nights at The Cellar in Vancouver, BC, before returning home for his CD Release Party next Tuesday, May 12, at The Triple Door. TUESDAY, MAY 12 - THE TRIPLE DOOR 216 Union Street Seattle, WA 98101 Tickets: 206-838-4333 featuring: Thomas Marriott - trumpet Mark Taylor - saxophone Bill Anschell - piano Jeff Johnson - bass ...
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East/West Trumpet Summit: Ray Vega Meets Thomas Marriott

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
February 21, 2009

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