This year’s festival of “Black American Music” featured hot touring artists and returning Oregonians alongside up-and-coming new locals.
PJCE’s concert February 19 at Hallowed Halls will spotlight the efforts of musicians and other workers for fair pay and working conditions.
A longitudinal study of everything we loved (and a few things we didn’t) in Oregon music this year, and last year, world without end, amen.
Neither snow nor Covid could cool this year’s jazz festival.
The festival’s 20th anniversary edition mixes jazz legends with new generation beats drawn from electronic dance music, hip hop, and global rhythms.
Ten days and nights of live music with Diane Schuur, Domo Branch, Mel Brown B-3 Organ Group, Brandee Younger, and more.
The Cookers at PDX Jazz Fest; Old Time Relijun at Holocene; Dinosaur Jr. at Wonder Ballroom
When Jimmy Mak’s disappeared, NoPo’s 1905 arrived – and it’s still Portland’s only all-jazz spot.
A brief overview of jazz in Portland
Festivals galore hope to postpone postponement, offering live music and merch
ArtsWatch Weekly: Big crowds & small artists at the big boom, new art & dance, a fresh film fest.
Leanne Grabel and Breads & Roses, FisherPoets and the song of the sea. Plus dance, drama, sight, sound.
If America, or at least its government, seems a little crazy these days, and you can’t afford to skip the country, the week offers several opportunities for virtual world travel through music. • PDX Jazz Festival’s irresistible double feature The Soul of
It’s a little ironic that composer and pianist Darrell Grant is receiving the 2019 Portland Jazz Master at this year’s PDX Jazz Festival. For while the jazz he’s played since arriving in 1996 certainly merits the city’s highest jazz honor, Grant has devoted
Today’s jazz is often about tributes to yesterday’s jazz, especially the post-bop through fusion music of the late 1950s through the ‘70s. It’s easy to understand why — that music is a pinnacle of human artistic achievement that still delights millions of
by ANGELA ALLEN From elite jazzers to startling up-and-comers, the 2018 Biamp PDX Jazz Festival spread the music around Portland Feb.15-25 with a 100-plus gigs, twice as many musicians, and a wide spread of venues and event prices, many free. Following are
It’s a chilly week in Oregon, but there’s plenty of jazz, of both the hot and cool variety, to keep us warm. Read Angela Allen’s ArtsWatch’s preview of this year’s PDX Jazz Festival, check out the extensive calendar for the many fine
Jazz is all around Portland for the next couple weeks as PDX Jazz Festival’s 15th annual celebration commences Thursday. Angela Allen has ArtsWatch’s preview, and here’s a few recommendations among this week’s shows. But don’t stop there. With so many performances by
by ANGELA ALLEN The past year saw a number of members of jazz royalty ascend to jazz Valhalla: Jon Hendricks, Al Jarreau, Geri Allen, Thara Memory and Hugh Masekela, among others. But jazz lives on. This year’s Portland Jazz Festival provides an
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