Hubert Laws Quintet and Brian Jackson Quartet perform at the Newmark Theater
Biamp Portland Jazz Festival Presents An Evening of Jazz Legends together on the same stage in Portland for the first time! Presented by PDX Jazz
HUBERT LAWS QUINTET + BRIAN JACKSON QUARTET
6:30 pm Doors / 7:00 pm Show
* JAZZ CONVERSATION W/ HUBERT & BRIAN and JAZZ HISTORIAN ASHLEY KAHN @ P5 ART BAR BEFORE SHOW at 5.30 pm*
Hubert Laws
nternationally renowned flutist Hubert Laws is one of the few classical artists who has also mastered jazz, pop, and rhythm-and-blues genres; moving effortlessly from one repertory to another. He has appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, with the orchestras of Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Cleveland, Amsterdam, Japan, Detroit and with the Stanford String Quartet. He has given annual performances at Carnegie Hall, and has performed sold out performances in the Hollywood Bowl with fellow flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal and was a member of the New York Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera Orchestras. In addition, he has appeared at the Montreux, Playboy, and Kool Jazz festivals; he performed with the Modern Jazz Quartet at the Hollywood Bowl in 1982 and with the Detroit Symphony in 1994. His recordings have won three Grammy nominations.
Brian Jackson
Half of the power duo Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Brian wrote, arranged and produced over 10 albums over an eight-year period. Time and time again that music has found its way onto over 100 cuts like Common’s “The People” (from “We Almost Lost Detroit”) and Kendrick Lamar’s “Poe Mans Dreams” (from “Peace Go With You, Brother”).
Hubert Laws appears on the groundbreaking 1971 classic album “Pieces of a Man” by Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson as well as the follow up hit album “Free Will”.
Almost 40 years later, Brian is still building with artists as diverse as Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (Midnight Hour, A Tribe Called Quest) vocalist Gregory Porter, Christopher “Puma” Smith, (The Archives, Thievery Corporation), jazz violinist Scott Tixier and legendary bassist Charnett Moffett.
