Impressions and opinion on this year’s Portland Jazz Festival.
Listen to some of our best interviews from all genres…including all of the Jazz Conversations from the 2011 Portland Jazz Festival.
The face of the Portland Jazz Festival since 2003, will retire from that post on June 1, replaced by current Managing Director Don Lucoff.
In case you missed them as we put them up, here they all are on one easy page…including Esperanza Spalding (pictured in concert at the Newmark during the Festival), Randy Weston and Joshua Redman. / Photo by Kevin Tomanka
Listening Saturday night with Regina Carter, there were fervent rhythms laced with eerie meanderings; dissipating smokey flecks grounded by sumptuous swagger; braided waters carving through sandy earth. / Photo by Kevin Tomanka
“Jazz is not a special concept. It is just a different way of organizing. Jazz is a framework.” / Photo by Kevin Tomanka
The night of a thousand combos, local and national musicians playing together. Joe Sanders (pictured) from the SF JAZZ Collective and Alvester Garnett from Regina Carter’s band.
What characterized the quartet’s repertoire, songs by all four members, was the predominance of surprising intervals. Not all surprises are welcome but most of these unexpected steps “from here to there” really worked. / Photo by John Rudoff
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