Mary Flower was nominated in two categories, Acoustic Artist and Acoustic Album. Drummer Jimi Bott also recieved a nomination.

Touring with her husband and flutist Bart Platteau in a sextet off of their new album, “Twelve.” Thursday, May 17.

OMN’s Night of Indie Jazz at Jimmy Mak’s with the debut of the new Oliver/Duval Sextet and the Ocular Concern. Friday May 11, 8pm. L to R Pancerev, Duval, Oliver…bird watching.

Watch President Sean Og and Vice-President Mary-Sue Tobin talk about it. Fund-raiser set for May 30 at Secret Society. Here’s the lineup.

Hornbuckle, Reggie Houston and Janice Scroggins, Guitar Summit with Balmer, Stowell and Pardew, the Quadraphonnes…and the statue of Bobbie the Wonder Dog of Oregon.

See the full list (as far as they’ve booked it today). M Ward will be there. / Photo by Autumn De Wilde

Ten days of music.Three days of Indie plus, Rock,Pop, Country, Blues and Soul and a whole day of cover bands…and fireworks.

In addition to Suicide and MF Doom, The Cherry Thing, features the music of The Stooges, MF Doom, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry,and Martina Topley-Bird, plus original pieces by Neneh and The Thing’s Mats Gustafsson.

New works by Andrew Oliver, Galen Clark, Portland-born Miami-educated composer and guitarist Joseph Berman as well as existing repertoire by Kyle Williams, Eric Allen, Charley Gray, Bill Athens, and Gus Slayton. Friday, May 4 at Secret Society Ballroom.

Hhe has had a long and productive and extremely diverse career of making art of many varieties. See him at Ivories on Saturday, May 5 in this trio.

He is without question the most distinguished jazz writer, nationally and internationally, with a Rose City association. His books are essential documents in the literature of jazz. And his coverage of this year’s Portland Jazz Festival was text book, if such a thing existed for writing about jazz.

The Ocular Concern (pictured) and the debut of the new Oliver/Duval Sextet featuring Joe Cunningham, Lee Elderton, John Shaw and Tom “Euge” Goicoechea. May 11.

Too much to call it a supergroup? The band might chuckle but it’s not inaccurate. At the Goodfoot, Thursday, April 26. We talked with Wayne Horvitz.

Muddyvishnu, the new Terry Robb album, is finally out. After a long search for the proper distrubution (no fool Robb), he has finally released it. No releaase gigs booked yet

They don’t push you hard into their funky world like James Brown but instead sneak up on ya like an infectious riff that latches onto your hips and won’t let you go.

A seven piece group hailing from Dallas, Texas and one of the new answers to a re-vamped R&B jam and jazz funk scene. The band is just starting to get wider attention after seven years of well earned road dues. We caught up with band leader and main composer Michael League after they completed their first European tour.