If you've seen the Roy Hargrove Quintet sometime in the last half-decade or so, you've probably heard the monstrous piano work of Sullivan Fortner, a virtuoso...
Jul 20, 2018
Editor, Ryan Meagher, here again. This week, just a few days before the 2018 Cathedral Park Jazz Festival, we sit down and talk with one of the most important...
Jul 17, 2018
Editor, Ryan Meagher, here. The Cathedral Park Jazz Festival is almost here. Hopefully you have read some of the interviews JazzScene conducted with the artist...
Jul 13, 2018
Electric bassist Zach Teran makes his debut as a leader with this quartet recording, featuring melodic, genre-bending original material that draws on his many...
Jun 22, 2018
This recording features itinerant improvising pianist Thollem in conversation with two stalwarts of the Portland jazz and improvised music world, drummer Tim...
Jun 21, 2018
Today's installment of Better Know a CPJF Artist, Catarina New of Catarina New and Brazilian Touch.
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Jun 20, 2018
Inspired by his participation as a co-plaintiff in the 2014 civil rights lawsuit Wolf v Walker that declared Wisconsin's ban on same-sex marriage...
Jun 19, 2018
This recording, the first by this particular constellation of longtime collaborators with ties to southern California, draws on the illustrious lineage of the...
Jun 18, 2018
Today's installment of Better Know a CPJF Artist, Norman Sylvester.
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Norman Sylvester: Guitar,...
Jun 17, 2018
Today's installment of Better Know a CPJF Artist, Mieke Bruggeman of The Quadraphonnes.
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Mieke...
Jun 16, 2018
Estonian-born pianist Kristjan Randalu's new offering takes the form of a trio with New York-based guitarist Ben Monder and Finnish drummer Markku Ounaskari....
Jun 15, 2018
Portland-based guitarist Chance Hayden's sophomore studio venture, this recording gathers some of the city's most adept jazz-funkateers to both reinterpret 70s...
Jun 14, 2018
Today's installment of Better Know a CPJF Artist, David Evans.
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David Evans: Woodwinds,...
Jun 14, 2018
The latest experiment from drummer and omnivorous experimentalist Dan Weiss, this recording documents the realization of his long-held aspiration to shred...
Jun 14, 2018
The latest album from the esteemed jazz pianist and musicologist David Ake, Humanities swings buoyantly through a dozen tracks, mostly original compositions....
Jun 13, 2018
Today's installment of Better Know a CPJF Artist, Sean Holmes of Remembering Ray.
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Sean Holmes...
Jun 12, 2018
Today's installment of Better Know a CPJF Artist, Jayson Tipp of Under the Lake.
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Jayson Tipp:...
Jun 08, 2018
Today's installment of Better Know a CPJF Artist, Michelle Medler of the Quadraphonnes.
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Jun 06, 2018
Today's installment of Better Know a CPJF Artist, Tahirah Memory.
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Tahirah Memory: In my band...
Jun 04, 2018
Today's installment of Better Know a CPJF Artist, Rebecca Kilgore from Becky Kilgore and the Cowhands.
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Jun 03, 2018
With the 38th Annual Cathedral Park Jazz Festival looming, we asked the artists to share some about themselves and their art form. Jessika Smith is the first...
Jan 05, 2018
"I invented jazz" is how Jelly Roll Morton often introduced himself. And the fact is he was probably right. That is, jazz as we've come to know it today. Jazz...
Jan 05, 2018
This special performance will feature the group Mel Brown led for 20 straight years at Portland's Jimmy Mak's, but with dynamic Soul Vaccination drummer Edwin...
Jan 05, 2018
Tomorrow, March 9, is International Women's Day and Rita Rega will be celebrating the great music women have contributed to jazz on her "Jazz in the Afternoon...
Jan 05, 2018
