Jazz Beat: ARC Label Week, the Blue Room

Artists Recording Collective, or ARC, is a Leavenworth-based jazz record label with an uncommon business model, one in which musicians retain control of their work. This week, the Blue Room celebrates ARC with two acts and a pair of 90-minute sets each night. Thursday, it’s trumpeter Stan Kessler’s Sons of Brazil and pianist Roger Wilder’s quintet. Friday features organist Chris Hazelton’s trio and saxophonist Brandon Mezzelo’s Triptet. Saturday highlights the Marcus Hampton Sextet and the ARC Founders Quintet, which includes saxophonists Chris Burnett and Erica Lindsay and pianist Sumi Tonooka. (Fun fact: Trumpeter Hampton is a cousin of Lionel Hampton’s and a nephew of Slide Hampton’s, two jazz legends.) If you haven’t been out to see some live jazz in a while, you can’t go wrong this weekend at the Blue Room.