PCJE Records Presents: Thomas Barber, trumpet; Machado Mijiga, tenor saxophone; Jack Radsliff, guitar; Arcellus Sykes, bass; Barra Brown, drums.

ABOUT BARRA BROWN

A truly eclectic musician, Barra Brown studied classical flute performance at Lewis & Clark College while studying drums on the side through the Alan Jones Academy of Music. Brown has toured the United States with Shook Twins, Ages and Ages, Alameda, and Morning Ritual and has performed at The Fillmore West and Red Rocks Amphitheater. A leader of many bands, he has two releases of original compositions with the Barra Brown Quintet (BBQ) on PJCE Records whose parent organization Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble, in Fall of 2017, commissioned him to write a piece for their twelve-person ensemble. "Down at Buckskin Lake" was premiered at the PJCE Ten Year Anniversary Celebration.  Brown has worked with Cavity Search Records since 2014 when he released an EP with The Wishermen, a collective of young jazz heavyweights dedicated to exploring genre boundaries and creating a new amalgam of many styles and influences. He is currently writing, recording, and performing with his new project Korgy & Bass, a creative beat-making exploration with several releases out on Cavity Search Records including 26000=4:2500Side-A  and 2500=4:26000 Side-B and their new album Remote: a sonic journey from industrialization to the modern-day tech industry. Remote was collaboratively written with NOLA trumpeter Cyrus Nabipoor and released in 2019. Brown has shared the stage with Makaya McCraven, Masego, Robert Glasper, Kneebody, Gregory Alan Isakov, Lake Street Dive, and Ani DiFranco. He has worked with Michael Curry, OMSI, PNCA, Alan Jones, Radiation City, Ages and Ages, Shook Twins, Morning Ritual, Old Wave, and the Portland Jazz Composer’s Ensemble.

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 every 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.