Seattle Times:
Trumpet player Thomas Marriott won his sixth Golden Ear award Monday night at the Triple Door. Marriott’s country-western, electric jazz group, the Willie Nelson Project, was the winner of the “Outside Jazz Group” award. The Golden Ear award, voted on by fans, educators and jazz experts and presented by Earshot Jazz, has recognized the best Northwest jazz artists for the past 19 years. Marriott won last year for recording of the year. Another big winner was veteran saxophonist Hadley Caliman, whose quartet and quintet won the Acoustic Jazz Ensemble award, and whose performance at the Ballard Jazz Festival and his CD release party at Tula’s (for his album “Gratitude”) won the group the Concert of the Year award.