44th Annual Cathedral Park Jazz Festival
The Cathedral Park Jazz Festival is live for our 44th anniversary of this landmark jazz festival! The event will be...
Side-by-Side: Ben and Michelle Medler, Partners in JazzBy Lynn Darroch
It’s 7:00 pm on a Monday. Ben Medler, laptop open on a small table, is grabbing a...
At a special event benefiting the 43rd Annual Cathedral Park Jazz Festival, the Jazz Society of Oregon will put the spotlight on three dynamic vocalists, all...
One of the more exciting days on the calendar — International jazz Day — is on the horizon and Portland will have a chance to celebreate it in style this year...
Like so many of us, keyboardist Todd Marston spent the long hours during the pandemic lockdowns looking within. He re-committed himself to the work of...
The hype surrounding the 2023 edition of the Biamp Portland Jazz Festival has been somewhat muted this year. And that's in spite of the fact that the event has...
Saxophonist BrandonLee Cierley had a dual purpose in mind when he named his latest album Camaraderie. The title is a nod to the late trumpeter Roy Hargrove, a...
PJCE, the imprint run by the braintrust behind the Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble, is closing out 2022 with authority. The label has three releases on deck...
Originally from Reno, Nevada, drummer Matt Mayhall took a typically meandering path to land here in Portland. After graduating from high school, he slipped...
Trumpeter Cyrus Nabipoor would be forgiven for shedding a few tears. The last couple of years have been difficult for the 28-year-old musician, from the loss...
Thirty years ago, the Portland jazz community lost one of its most dynamic voices. Until his passing from lymphoma in 1992, saxophonist Jim Pepper had amassed...
When friends and frequent collaborators Thara Memory and Ken Berry dreamed up the Creative Jazz Orchestra in the late ’70s, their concept was simple: to keep...
The physical space where a piece of music is recorded can have as much of an impact on the sound as the choice of microphones or the instruments being used....
International Jazz Day is Saturday, April 30th!
The Jazz Society of Oregon presents four shows at The 1905 in celebration! All four shows will be live-...
One of the best ways to make a career out of being a jazz musician in a market as relatively small as Portland is to be as flexible as possible — able to play...
In Ken Burns' documentary Jazz, bassist Charlie Haden remembered the conversations he and Ornette Coleman would get into about the radical sound they were...
Something about writing music for his trio integer seems to mellow Todd Marston out. In his various guises, either solo or working with his long-running world...
The Jazz Journalists Association (JJA), the august body of jazz writers and photographers from around the world, recently announced their 2022 slate of Jazz...