02/19/2023 | 0 comments
By DIANE RUSSELL //
02/14/2023 | 0 comments
By MICHAEL "SHOEHORN' CONLEY // This year's Biamp Portland Jazz Festival begins on Thursday, February 16 and runs through Saturday, February 25. Here are the highlights.
02/01/2023 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // John Averill, one of the founders of March Fourth talks about 20 years on the road, marching and living the life. Their 20th anniversary show is Saturday March Fourth (of course) at ...
01/13/2023 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // Keyboardist, singer, composer and bringer of light, Steve Swatkins (aka as just Swatkins) has a new album which brings inspirational light and funky heat to a world that needs a lot ...
01/12/2023 | 5 comments
Guitarist Doug Rowell passed on this week. Here is a remembrance by keyboardist/composer Pat McDougall.
01/02/2023 | 1 comments
By RAMSEY EMBBICK // Anita Pointer of the Pointer Sisters passed away on Saturday, December 31, 2022 Portland's Ramsey Embick had been their Music Director/Band Leader. He remembers those days in this ...
12/30/2022 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // It was impossible to pick one Best-of. So many were outstanding. Here is ONE of the best. Ramsey Embick is a keyboardist, composer, producer/engineer who is fluent in just about every ...
12/09/2022 | 0 comments
Sister Mercy will perform the entire album at Catfish Lou's on Friday, December 9.
12/08/2022 | 0 comments
Dave Fleschner, long time Portland keyboardist needs help. Find out what you can do.
11/15/2022 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // For decades, Clay Fuller and Peter Dammann ran the Waterfront Blues Festival. Clay died this week. Watch a video from July 12, 2012. A famous Blues Festival tale.
09/16/2022 | 0 comments
Portland-based multi-media artist, The Stains of Leisure, released the new short film for the song, “Indecision,” the first single from his forthcoming debut album, ReInvention.
09/01/2022 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // We caught drummer Tyrone Hendrix just before he went on the road. He's got a million things going all at once. Find out what.
08/19/2022 | 0 comments
By DIANE RUSSELL //
08/18/2022 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // Reggie Houston returns to Portland for a visit (and eventual live-in return). And we return in-person to the Cafe at Artichoke Music. It's classic Reggie Houston storytelling.
08/14/2022 | 0 comments
By CHRISTINA HALL //
08/12/2022 | 0 comments
By TOM D'ANTONI // The first of OMN's 'Coffeeshop Conversations.' Spend an hour with Mary-Sue Tobin, one of the busiest, most versatile saxophonists in Oregon. You know her from the Quaraphonnes, Soul ...
07/16/2022 | 0 comments
By ANTHONY PIDGEON //
07/15/2022 | 0 comments
The free Cathedral Park Jazz Festival [CPJF] featuring local jazz, blues, soul, and Latin artists will take place in Cathedral Park under the historic St Johns Bridge in North Portland ...
07/12/2022 | 0 comments
By DIANE RUSSELL //