Hearing the clueless Kurt Elling try to sing in Brazilian is embarrassing. He should take Brazilian lessons! Terrible!
And so on.
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Joy Tribe + Quadraphones
February 16 | 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
$10
Andrew Oliver Trio
February 16 | 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Remember when these musicians were first coming up? Remember their albums on Diatic Records? They're not kids anymore, and Andrew Oliver lives in Great Britain now. Joy Tribe is the band put together by the Quads' Chelsea Luker. Think she might get a couple of the Quads to slide over for a tune or two? Andrew will be joined by long-time collaborators Bill Athens and Tyson Stubelek.
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Thundercat
February 16 | 9:00 pm
Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner is a bassist/producer/composer who has been bending and combining genres for a decade. You've heard him on albums by Kendrick Lamar, Erykah Badu, Sa-Ra, Bootsy Collins, Snoop Dogg and others. Bruner’s most prolific and fruit-bearing musical relationship has been with DJ/producer/instrumentalist Flying Lotus, for whom he provided both bass and vocals for 2010’s Cosmogramma. Lotus then served as executive producer for Bruner’s 2011 debut,
And you've seen him at Pickathon:
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James “Blood” Ulmer
February 19 | 3:00 pm
Not to be missed! It was Ulmer who helped Ornette Coleman complete the Harmelodic concept. Ulmer burst thrugh as part of the mid-1970s Avant-Garde and has never looked back. He'll be playing SOLO, armed with hs unison-tuned guitar and unmistakable inscrutable voice. And he's still asking, "Are You Glad to Be in America?"
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Amina Claudine Myers
February 19 | 5:00 pm
For some reason, the AACM - Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a center of Avant-Garde Jazz in the 70's and 80's (and onward), based in Chicago has been ignored by the Jazz Establishment. We're very happy to see one of the pillars of that organization is making a PJF appearance. Read a story on her by OMN's Christa McIntyre later this week.
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Ralph Towner Solo w/ Anja Lechner & Francois Couturier
February 20 | 7:00 pm
There's beauty and then there's pure beauty. Here are examples of pure beauty. Towner and the Lechner/Coutourier duo are prime examples of why ECM continues to produce artists of uncompromising beauty. These days, we can use all the Ralph Towner we can get. Same with Anja and Francois.
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Mel Brown Big Band & Jon Faddis w/ Jimmy Mak All Stars
February 22 | 7:30 pm
They're calling this "Groovin' High: Celebrating Dizzy Gillespie @ 100." Listen to Mel talk about it. He was in the coffeeshop for one of OMN's Coffeeshop Conversations.
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February 23 | 7:30 pm
An inspired booking by PJF. He's a pianist/composer and has been called a visionary. You'll be able to see why. One of the ways PDX Jazz has enriched our town.
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John Scofield: Country for Old Men
February 24 | 7:30 pm
It's always a treat to see this guitarist. The Country music thing is schticky (no matter how many Grammy's it won) but the tunes merely serve as a platform for his playing...a long Jazz tradition.
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Descarga for Monk & Diz
February 25 | 7:30 pm / Second separate show at 10:pm
Each would have been 100 years-old this year. Both helped bring the Latin-flavored to Jazz. This show will be "with a flamenco and Latin jazz twist in an exclusive For Portland Only experience. Seven-time Grammy®-nominated percussionist and 2013-2014 SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director John Santos is one of the foremost exponents of Afro-Latin music in the world today."
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