Marc Seales Explained

Marc Seales is an American jazz pianist associated with post-bop.^[1] He was a student at Western Washington University, serving his senior year from 1977 to 1978.^[2]

Birth Date:	^[3]
Origin:	Seattle, Washington
Genre:	Jazz blues; post-bop
Years Active:	1988–present
Label:	Origin Challenge
Current Member Of:	New Stories

Background

As a Professor of Jazz Piano at the University of Washington in Seattle, Seales has worked with Benny Carter, Howard Roberts, Bobby Hutcherson and Art Pepper. His groups include New Stories and the Marc Seales Quartet. Seales won the Earshot Jazz Golden Ear Award for Best Instrumentalist in 1999. His biggest musical influences are the trumpeter Floyd Standifer, and saxophonist Don Lanphere, who were also from Seattle.^[4]

An excerpt of his song 'Highway Blues' was included by default in Windows XP,^[5] along with Beethoven's 9th Symphony and David Byrne's "Like Humans Do". New Stories had a reunion tour in 2019.^[6]

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.^[7]

Discography

With New Stories

• Circled By Hounds (self-released, 1995)
• Get Happy (Origin, 1996) - with Don Lanphere, Pete Christlieb
• Remember Why (Origin, 1997)
• Speakin' Out (Origin, 1999) - special guest: Ernie Watts
• 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 [live] (Origin, 2004)
• The Paris Suite (self-released, 2008)
• American Songs, Volume 1 (self-released, 2010)
• American Songs, Volume 2: Blues...And Jazz (Origin, 2012 [rel. 2014])
• American Songs, Volume 3: Place & Time (Origin, 2012 [rel. 2015])

External links

• Article about Seales at Origin Arts
• Faculty Profile at University of Washington

Notes and References

1. Web site: Marc Seales: Biography . Adam . Greenberg . AllMusic . December 24, 2023.
2. News: Landau . Steve . The Town is Finally Jazzin' Up . December 18, 2023 . The Bellingham Herald . February 24, 1978 . 25.
3. Web site: Marc Seales . Radaris . April 14, 2024.
4. Web site: Jazz . All About . 2020-08-18 . 20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know: Marc Seales article @ All About Jazz . 2023-12-18 . All About Jazz . en.
5. Web site: Marc Seales - American Songs, Volume 2: Blues...and Jazz - Origin 82658 . Origin Records . 29 December 2015.
6. Web site: Records . Origin . Origin Classical Catalog - music and art from Seattle, WA . 2023-12-18 . originarts.com . en.
7. Web site: Marc Seales School of Music University of Washington . 2023-12-18 . music.washington.edu.