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Seattle Jazz Icon Overton Berry Reflects On Long Career

By & Matthew Streib • Dec 5, 2014

Cover art for Overton Berry's "Eleven Is Forever" album.

Ross Reynolds interviews Seattle jazz pianist, composer and bandleader Overton Berry about his long long career stretching back 50 years.

Berry played at clubs around the 1962 World’s Fair and performed during Seattle's funk explosion of the 1970s. 

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