Thomas Marriott, Ingrid Jensen, Sean Jones & Ray Vega

One of the city’s finest jazz instrumentalists, the trumpeter, composer, and producer Thomas Marriott, is this year’s Earshot Festival Resident Artist. Marriott’s horn has been in-demand with bands such as the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Captain Black Big Band, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstafunk, hip-hop pioneer Deltron 3030, and vocalists Kurt Elling, Ernestine Anderson, among others. His own albums, 14 in all, have reached number one on the jazz radio airplay charts and earned 4 1/2 stars in Downbeat. Marriott has been featured in the New York Times and NPR, has won 9 Golden Ear Awards, and is the youngest inductee into the Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame. He has spent more than 20 seasons as a soloist with the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra and is founder of Seattle Jazz Fellowship. In 2024, he was named a “Jazz Hero” by the Jazz Journalists Association of America.

Sean Jones, Ingrid Jensen, Thomas Marriott, and Ray Vega photo courtesy of Thomas Marriott