Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble’s (PJCE) Executive Director Douglas Detrick leads his own band in two sets of music on the PJCE Records Presents concert series at The 1905 on Sunday, October 6 at 7:00 and 8:30 pm. More Devotedly is both the name of the band and of the podcast hosted by Detrick that shares the stories of artists whose work addresses the most urgent issues in our democracy. Like a party with Pete Seeger, Duke Ellington, Ornette Coleman, and Studs Terkel all in attendance, More Devotedly is a cultural and political discussion set to music, featuring songs, snippets of interviews from the podcast, and a hybrid of old-time folk music, jazz, and electronic music played by Detrick on banjo, trumpet and voice; Joe Kye on violin, electronics and voice; Mike Gamble on guitar, and Chris Johnedis on drums.

Cover charge is $5 at the door of The 1905 at 830 N Shaver Street for 7:00 & 8:30 pm sets.

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ABOUT THE MORE DEVOTEDLY PROJECT More Devotedly is a gathering point for a community of people who recognize the power of the arts to create change, and who understand how to use that power. Through live events, the podcast, and new music by Detrick and collaborators, the project aims to inspire action and engagement. The title of the project is inspired by conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein’s reaction to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1968 when he said, “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”

The artists who will share their ideas and experience with the project are following that advice, but in many cases, they’re doing much more. Going beyond the traditional confines of artistic practice, they’re using new tools and tactics to realize a future that is more inclusive, more just, and more peaceful. More Devotedly seeks to help its community to recognize its power as messengers, warriors, and healers, and use that power in the cultural and political realms.

ABOUT DOUGLAS DETRICK

Douglas Detrick is a composer, songwriter, trumpeter, banjoist, podcast producer and arts leader whose work in these diverse areas is distinguished by its quiet thoughtfulness and its embrace of good ideas from unconventional sources.

He was awarded a 2017 Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, and leads the chamber-folk quartet Little One, chamber-jazz quintet AnyWhen Ensemble, and is the Executive and Artistic Director of the Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble. He has performed throughout the United States at venues including the Stone, the Phillips Collection and many universities.

ABOUT PJCE

Portland Jazz Composers’ Ensemble is a 12-piece jazz ensemble that commissions and performs original works by its members and other jazz composers in Portland and beyond. It is PJCE’s mission to act as a forum for the development and presentation of works for large ensemble by established and emerging jazz composers and to engage and enrich community awareness and appreciation of contemporary music. PJCE also runs the Grasshoppers Young Composers mentorship program, PJCE Records, and the PJCE Records Presents concerts ever first Sunday at The 1905.

PJCE Records releases the most creative jazz from Portland, Oregon. With a deep affection for adventurous expression, we record and distribute jazz by Portland-based composers to audiences in our hometown and across the world with captivating graphic design and an artist-friendly business model.