Marc Seales is an American

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associated with

post-bop Post-bop is a genre of small-combo jazz that evolved in the early to mid 1960s in the United States. Pioneers of the genre, such as Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane and Jackie McLean, crafted syntheses ...

. He was a student at

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, serving his senior year from 1977 to 1978.

Background

As a Professor of Jazz Piano at the

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, Seales has worked with

Benny Carter Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. With Johnny Hodges, he was a pioneer on the alto saxophone. From the beginning of his career ...

Howard Roberts Howard Mancel Roberts (October 2, 1929 – June 28, 1992) was an American jazz guitarist, educator, and session musician. Early years Roberts was born in Phoenix, Arizona to Damon and Vesta Roberts, and began playing guitar at the age of 8 - a ...

Bobby Hutcherson Robert Hutcherson (January 27, 1941 – August 15, 2016) was an American jazz vibraphone and marimba player. "Little B's Poem", from the 1966 Blue Note album '' Components'', is one of his best-known compositions.Huey, Steve. "Components – Bob ...

and

Art Pepper Arthur Edward Pepper Jr. (September 1, 1925 – June 15, 1982) was an American alto saxophonist and very occasional tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. Active in West Coast jazz, Pepper came to prominence in Stan Kenton's big band. He was known ...

. His groups include New Stories and the Marc Seales Quartet. Seales won the

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Golden Ear Award for Best Instrumentalist in 1999. His biggest musical influences are the trumpeter Floyd Standifer, and saxophonist

Don Lanphere Donald Gale Lanphere (June 26, 1928 – October 9, 2003) was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist, known for his 1940s and 1950s work, and recordings with Fats Navarro (in 1948), Woody Herman (1949), Claude Thornhill, Sonny Dunham, Bil ...

, who were also from Seattle. An excerpt of his song 'Highway Blues', was included by default in

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, along with Beethoven's 9th Symphony and

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's " Like Humans Do". New Stories had a reunion tour in 2019. Seales has won numerous Earshot awards, such as Instrumentalist of the Year in 1999 and Acoustic Jazz Group in 2000 and 2001, and was inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame in 2009.

Discography

With New Stories

* ''Circled By Hounds'' (

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, 1995) * ''Get Happy'' (

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, 1996) - with

Pete Christlieb Pete Christlieb (born February 16, 1945) is an American jazz bebop, West Coast jazz and hard bop tenor saxophonist. Biography Christlieb was born in Los Angeles, California, United States, and is the son of bassoonist Don Christlieb. Christlieb ...

* ''Remember Why'' (Origin, 1997) * ''Speakin' Out'' (Origin, 1999) - special guest:

Ernie Watts Ernest James Watts (born October 23, 1945) is an American jazz and rhythm and blues saxophonist who plays soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone. He has worked with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and toured with the Rolling Stones. On Frank Zappa's ...

* ''Home At Last'' (Origin, 2001) - with Don Lanphere * ''Still Life'' (Origin, 2001) - with Lynn Bush * ''Where Do You Start'' (Origin, 2002) - with Don Lanphere * ''Art Of The Groove'' (Origin, 2003) - with Brent Jensen, Rob Walker * ''Hope Is In The Air: The Music Of Elmo Hope'' (Origin, 2004)

With Franklin, Seales, Clover

* ''Two Worlds'' (A Records/ Challenge, 1998) * ''Three Worlds'' (Beezwax, 2000) * ''Ears Wide Open'' (Beezwax, 2001) * ''Colemanology'' (Beezwax, 2004) * ''Summer Serenade'' (Beezwax, 2005)

Marc Seales / Marc Seales Band

* ''A Time, A Place, A Journey'' ive(Origin, 2004) * ''The Paris Suite'' (self-released, 2008) * ''American Songs, Volume 1'' (self-released, 2010) * ''American Songs, Volume 2: Blues...And Jazz'' (Origin, 2012 el. 2014 * ''American Songs, Volume 3: Place & Time'' (Origin, 2012

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References

External links

Article about Seales
at Origin Arts
Faculty Profile
at

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