PDX Jazz @ Tony Starlight’s Presents Blue Cranes
March 19 Performance Kicks off U.S. Train Tour
PDX Jazz @ Tony Starlight’s Spring Lineup:
3/19 – Blue Cranes
4/30 – Tom Grant & Shelly Rudolph
5/21 – Colin Vallon Trio
6/18 – Sachal Vasandani Continue reading
PDX Jazz on Flickr! Check out 2011 Festival Photos from Festival Photographer Fran Kaufman. Soundchecks, rehearsals, and performances! Continue reading
Posted in Highlighted, Press | Leave a commentThe three 30-something Israeli-born Cohen siblings, all on horns, will charm Portland audiences 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, at the Crystal Ballroom. The Afro-Semitic Experience, an eclectic sextet whose sound captures the music of the African and Jewish diaspora, will prime the stage.
As part of the Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air Portland Jazz Festival 2011, themed “Bridges and Boundaries: Jewish and African Americans Playing Jazz,” the 3 Cohens fit right in. They are part of an ultra-musical family whose chemistry works tunefully on and off stage.
For more go to http://oregonmusicnews.com/blog/2011/02/25/portland-jazz-festival-2011-the-forward-sounding-3-cohens-will-braid-horns-and-reeds-with-familial-intensity/
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If you are lucky enough to hear and see the SF JAZZ Collective 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, at Portland’s Newmark Theatre, you will experience some of the hottest instrumentalists and elegant composers in the jazz biz.
As part of Portland Jazz Festival’s “Bridges and Boundaries: Jewish and African-Americans Playing Jazz” theme, these eight guys – yes, all guys at them moment – will be blowing you away with their takes of Stevie Wonder compositions. Each year, the group focuses on a significant jazz composer, though genre-bending Wonder’s work will be featured in both 2011 and 2012
For more go to http://oregonmusicnews.com/blog/2011/02/24/portland-jazz-festival-sf-jazz-collective-interpreting-stevie-wonder-a-constellation-of-soloists/ Continue reading
Posted in Highlighted, Press | Leave a commentThe Portland Jazz Festival is giving you a chance to see the SOLD OUT Esperanza Spalding, 2011 Grammy Winner, on Friday 2/25 at the Newmark Theater. This show has been sold out since January, this is a special opportunity to make a tax-deductible donation and win two concert tickets to see Portland’s own 2011 Grammy winner! Click read more for bidding information. Continue reading
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