PORT TOWNSEND � The defining import of Jazz Port Townsend was possibly the one that was not planned.
On the last day of the jazz festival, a few hours before clouds and a sudden shivering set in, a cy Young woman in a flowered print dress and t. H. White sandals, her toenails painted bright putting green, stepped onto the big stage with her acoustic bass.
Behind her was the festival swelled band, before her an audience of more than 1,cc who had never ahead heard of Kate Davis.
Plucked from unitary of the week's many student workshops, Davis, 17, a senior-to-be at West Linn High School in Oregon, panax quinquefolius "Sometimes I'm Happy." The arrangement was spare just perfectly balanced and suited to her talents. The song all over and the audience roared.
The professionals on the by-line mostly agreed: She could be a star someday. Davis was added extemporarily by artistic director John Clayton after he heard her play the song in a class.
"I was floored and the wheels started turning," said Clayton, also a bassist. "I didn't want the audience to non know about some of the
