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About Thomas Marriott
Earshot Jazz identifies Marriott as a Seattle jazz trumpeter whose work spans local and touring performance, composition, recording, and concert production. Its career profile traces his path from Garfield High School and University of Washington jazz studies through work with Maynard Ferguson, a New York period, and a return to Seattle.[1]
A later Earshot feature places Marriott at the forefront of the Seattle scene for a quarter century, documents thirteen albums as a leader or co-leader by 2021, and describes his 2004 return from New York. It also records his launch of Seattle Jazz Fellowship as a nonprofit designed around performance, fair pay, mentorship, and intergenerational community.[2]
Screen Time, released in 2025, is Marriott’s fifteenth leader album. Its Bandcamp credits a quartet with Orrin Evans, Robert Hurst, and Mark Whitfield Jr., plus Shedrick Mitchell on one track, across a program drawn from music associated with film, television, and digital media.[3]
Seattle Jazz Fellowship
Marriott launched the nonprofit to support performance, mentorship, fair pay, and an intergenerational local jazz community.[2]
Seattle return
After gaining experience in New York, Marriott returned to Seattle in 2004 and continued a long-running local leader practice.[2][1]
Screen Time
The 2025 quartet album recasts music associated with screens and adds original material under Marriott’s leadership.[3]