Thursday nights, the J invites you to enjoy free live music in the piano lounge from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM. The Firehall Cafe at the J offers their full menu of food and beverages until 9:00 PM. Curated by local musician Victor Pruner, the Live Music in the Piano Lounge series is designed to bring a variety of local musicians to engage the community. APRIL 12: SCOT RANNEY Scot Ranney is a jazz pianist from Bellingham, Washington who plays and composes music full time. He began studying the piano as early as he could reach the keys, taught by his mother until age seven when he began private lessons. Scot had his start in jazz piano when Don Lanphere, a great be-bop sax player from the bop era, introduced him to Marc Seales, one of the great jazz pianists of our time and who is currently the jazz piano professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. Early on in Scot’s professional career, he was given the opportunity to perform R&B in a nightclub in Seoul, Korea, which lead running bands throughout Asia for a number of years before returning to the states, where he began leading bands on the riverboat, the Queen of the West and performing as the house pianist at the prestigious Ritz-Carlton in Aspen, Colorado. When Scot is not living and performing in Asia, he plays jazz piano for concerts and events throughout the west coast, from Vancouver to San Diego.
