Rachel Contorer and Guests

Bassist Rachael Contorer has played in a wide variety of jazz formats over the past twenty-five years, from a duo with a jazz guitarist to nearly every jazz orchestra in Seattle, including the Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra (with whom she had the singular experience of playing the Lima Jazz Festival in Peru), Hal Sherman’s Monday Night Jazz Orchestra and the Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra. She is bandleader for The Social Mix, a swing band that has performed at hundreds of events since 2007. Her passion project in recent years has been playing in Lulu Swing, an all-women vintage/French swing and dance band that was featured at the 2024 Django Reinhardt birthday celebration in Berkely, CA. A freelance musician, she responds to whomever calls, so you never know where she’ll turn up!