Podcast appearances and mentions of darrell grant

This content is for Members only. Come and join us by subscribing here In the meantime, here's some more details about the show: It's a warm welcome then to the man himself: Dr. Brad Stone - the JazzWeek Programmer of the Year 2017, who's here every Thursday to present The Creative Source - a two hour show, highlighting jazz-fusion and progressive jazz flavours from back then, the here and now, plus occasional forays into the future. Please feel free to get in touch with Brad with any comments or suggestions you might have; he'll be more than happy to hear from you: brad@soulandjazz.com or follow him via Facebook or Twitter. Enjoy! The Creative Source 28th December 2023 Artist - Track - Album - Year Francesco Crosara    Sarava    Circular Motion    2023 Russ Spiegel    Island Song    Caribbean Blue    2023 Dan Balmer    Round and Round    When the Night    2023 Rubim de Toledo    The Long Way Up    The Drip    2022 Marc Copland    Day and Night    Someday    2023 Clark Sommers    Old Ideal    Feast Ephemera    2023 Tony Addison Sextet    Cool Breeze    Relentless Pursuit    2023 Wally Schnalle    See What You Did?    Idiot Fish 4tet    2023 Trio Grande    Urban Myth    Urban Myth    2023 Paul Messina    Out of the Ashes    Althea    2023 Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet    Wait/Not Wait    Emergence    2023 Darrell Grant's MJ New    Wading Through    Our Mr. Jackson    2023 Ambrose Akinmusire    Henya    Owl Song    2023 Eunmi Lee    Azure    Introspection    2023 Astghik Martirosyan    Silence    Distance    2023 Joe Santa Maria    Pathways 1    Echo Deep    2023 Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet    Insertion Two    Hear the Light Singing    2023 Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet    Insertion Five    Hear the Light Singing    2023 Sunny Kim    The Totality of Silence    Liminal Silence    2023 The post The Creative Source (#CreativeSource) – 28th December 2023 appeared first on SoulandJazz.com | Stereo, not stereotypical ®.

It has been three years since composer/pianist/educator Darrell Grant visited the Café at Artichoke Music. He's so busy and prolific it seems like we could have him on once a month. Of course he is still a tenured professor of Jazz Studies and Associate Director of the School of Music at Portland State University, but I also like to think of him in the true New Orleans use of the word “professor,” when it comes to pianists, one of great respect. He released a new album this week called Our Mr. Jackson, honoring not only the Modern Jazz Quartet and Milt Jackson but beloved Portland drummer, the late Carlton Jackson who plays on the album along with Marcus Shelby and Mike Horsfall. The album release concert takes place at Hallowed Halls on Thursday October 12. It's a beautiful album. Let's find out all about it. Listen to Versailles from the album at the end of our conversation.

The best herring bar in Copenhagen! Trusting our musical instincts! Why lineman are suited to be bassists! Connecting to the ineffable qualities of the music, bassist Clark Sommers inspires us to observe a holistic view of our craft. In this episode, we discuss the mentors who helped us develop an aesthetic for the music, the galvanizing effect of stepping into a bandleader role, and those moments when gigs come to a full stop. FEATURED RELEASE: Clark Sommers Lens “By A Thread” (2017) Getting to Know: Clark! Bassist, Composer and Educator, Clark has toured and performed extensively throughout the world. He has had the privilege of performing with Cedar Walton, Darrell Grant, Brian Blade, Ernie Watts, Bennie Maupin, Von Freeman, Ira Sullivan, Frank Wess, Charles McPherson, Peter Bernstein, Lin Haliday, Dana Hall, Jodie Christian, Bobby Broom, Jeff Parker, Ron Perrillo, Geof Bradfield, Michael Weiss, George Fludas, Kevin Mahogany, Eden Atwood, Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls, The Mighty Blue Kings and The Chicago Jazz Orchestra among others. Clark completed his undergraduate degree in Jazz Studies and World Music at California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with bass masters Charlie Haden and Darek Oles. While living in Los Angeles, Clark performed with Leo Smith, Vinny Golia, The Charlie Haden Liberation Orchestra, Joe La Barbara and Larry Koonse. He continues to seek expansion of his craft by pursuing his musical studies with masters such as David Grossman of the New York Philharmonic, Mike Longo and Stefon Harris. He recently completed two residencies at the Brubeck Institute in Stockton California. Clark is proud to be at home in the bass chair with vocalist Kurt Elling, with whom he tours the globe bringing jazz to everyone from Istanbul to the Canary Islands. Thus far he has been privileged to play on two GRAMMY nominated recordings with the band, one of which won the GRAMMY for best vocal jazz album in 2009.  Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel here!

The Albina Arts center was once a significant cultural hub for Black communities in North and Northeast Portland. But the building had fallen into disrepair and various plans have been proposed to reinvent and revitalize it. Darrell Grant, a musician and professor of Jazz Studies at Portland State University, began holding cultural events at the space last year, and partnered with writer and artist Renee Mitchell to create the Soul Restoration Center this year. The Center is already providing a venue for Black artists, musicians and "a space to just come and hang out, to belong and to heal," according to Mitchell. We talk with Renee Mitchell and Darrell Grant about what the Soul Restoration Center is becoming and their hopes for its future.

Towards a New Opera! Ep 3 | Charlotte Brathwaite created by Alexander Gedeon design by Yuki Izumihara a co-production of Long Beach Opera & Social Convention --- for mature audiences --- This week Alexander connects with opera director Charlotte Brathwaite, currently producing some of the most innovative and exciting work in the field of new opera. Charlotte discusses her journey to finding her directorial voice and the myriad implications of creating freely as an operatist. Director Charlotte Brathwaite (Canada/Barbados/UK) is known for her unique approach to staging classical and unconventional texts, dance, visual art, multi-media, site-specific installation, video, film, performance art, plays and music events. Named as one of the “up-and-coming women in theatre to watch” by Playbill, her work has been seen in the Americas, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and Asia. With subject matter ranging from the historical past to the distant future, her work offers unique perspectives on form as it illuminates issues of race, sex, power and the complexities of the human condition. www.charlottebrathwaite.com --- RABBIT HOLES: Sanctuaries, my collaboration with Darrell Grant & Anis Mojgani https://www.thirdangle.org/sanctuaries "What a CITY is For" by Matt Hern https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/what-city Where are the Black designers? wherearetheblackdesigners.com artnet feature on Abigail Deville https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/abigail-deville-art21-madison-square-park-1919345 Ellen Stewart, Mama of La Mama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Stewart "We were never meant to survive" is from the Audre Lorde poem "A Litany for Survival" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147275/a-litany-for-survival From the Autobiography of Omar ibn Said http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/community/text3/religionomaribnsaid.pdf Rhiannon Giddens https://www.rhiannongiddens.com Courtney Bryan https://www.courtneybryan.com Cauleen Smith https://www.cauleensmith.com

Composer, professor, and activist Darrell Grant on the love of jazz, love of community, and the mythology of Portland, Oregon.

The August 2020 single "Take Flight" started with a request from Grant's son's 8th-grade teacher that he write a song that parents could sing to the children during their middle-school class promotion. As he wrote, he thought about the bittersweet nature of launching our children into the world, even as we struggle to let them go. Fast forward to the summer of 2020: coronavirus descended on the world, traditional rites of passage for youth were suspended indefinitely, nationwide protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. In this challenging and painful time of re-evaluation and reckoning, Grant was moved by their emotional resilience, by their courage in the face of the pandemic, and by their demands to end racism to offer up this song and the artistic collaborations it inspired.

The August 2020 single "Take Flight" started with a request from Grant’s son’s 8th-grade teacher that he write a song that parents could sing to the children during their middle-school class promotion. As he wrote, he thought about the bittersweet nature of launching our children into the world, even as we struggle to let them go. Fast forward to the summer of 2020: coronavirus descended on the world, traditional rites of passage for youth were suspended indefinitely, nationwide protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. In this challenging and painful time of re-evaluation and reckoning, Grant was moved by their emotional resilience, by their courage in the face of the pandemic, and by their demands to end racism to offer up this song and the artistic collaborations it inspired.

After a visit to Falcon Recording Studio last time, we’re back at the Café at Artichoke Music for episode two-hundred and fifty-six in the endless podcast series Coffeeshop Conversations. With me is Darrell Grant composer, pianist, teacher and central to Jazz music in Oregon for decades. He’s the Associate Director of the School of Music at Portland State University which has fueled the development of our homegrown Jazz musicians. But he’s here today to talk about a new piece of music called Take Flight which is also now a music video. If you can see it on the page here, it has been debuted. If you can’t it will debut here on Thursday, August 6 at 6pm. Let’s here all about it from Darrell Grant.

Called “…one of the best male vocalists in the jazz world today,” by WCLK in Atlanta, Jeff Baker has quickly become one of the most significant talents in the next generation of jazz vocalists. His diverse musical recordings, exciting live performances, and infectious energy and personality have gained him accolades from critics and listeners alike. Baker has headlined numerous festivals and clubs, and has shared the billing and played with some of jazz music’s top artists including: Ray Brown, Gene Harris, Brian Blade, John Patitucci, Steve Wilson, Bobby Hutcherson, Carla Cook, Marquis Hill, the Yellow Jackets, Mose Allison, Kenny Werner, Joey DeFrancesco, Joe LaBarbera, Bruce Barth, Darrell Grant, Karrin Allyson, Nancy King, Henry Butler, Dave Frishberg, Gene Harris, Orrin Evans, Clark Sommers, George Colligan, Randy Porter and many more! Jeff has performed throughout the U.S., and has enjoyed performance engagements in central Europe and South Africa. His four critically acclaimed CD releases on the Origin/OA2 Records imprint have charted on the ‘Jazzweek’ International Radio Top 50, have been played on over 200 stations internationally, were Top 5 on NPR’s nationally syndicated “Jazz Works” radio program, and were #1 on stations in Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Portland, Buffalo, St. Louis, Cape Town, SA and New Zealand. A graduate of Willamette University, Baker has also been sought after as a jazz educator, adjudicating numerous festivals, and working in clinics with some of the nations very best high school and college jazz programs. As one of the ‘founding fathers’ of the ArtsWest School for Performing and Visual Arts, Baker helped create one of the top High-School Jazz programs in the country. His students have won over 100 Top Awards at festivals and competitions throughout the U.S., including being named finalists to the Monterey Jazz Festival ‘Next Generation Competition’ in 2010, 11’, and 12’ and winning 10 Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards, including the 2010, 2012 and 2013 High School Vocal Solo Winners, and the 2012 Winner for Large Vocal Jazz Ensemble. Additionally, Baker’s groups have been invited to perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Portland Jazz Festival, Carnegie Hall, and the National Cathedral. Jeff is an ACDA (American Choral Directors Association) Certified Clinician/Adjudicator, a past member of the International Association of Jazz Education (IAJE), and a current member of the Jazz Education Network (JEN), the National Association for Music Education (NAFME), and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS or the GRAMMY Foundation). Jeff Baker resides in Portland, OR, is the Former Director of Jazz + Contemporary Voice at Portland State University, and the Co-Founder of The Reality Book, Next Records, and the Jazz Forward Competition. http://jeffbakerjazz.com/phrases/

Warren Black interviews Portland composer and pianist Darrell Grant, about his chamber opera in progress, Sanctuaries. It tells the story of a community experiencing gentrification in Portland’s Albina district. Gentrification in Portland and the city’s redlining past go under the microscope in Darrell Grant’s jazz opera, Sanctuaries, a new work commissioned and produced by Third Angle New Music. This world premiere, site-specific opera is composed by critically acclaimed jazz pianist Darrell Grant (who ‘Gramophone’ has called “a composer of substance”), with libretto by two-time National Poetry Slam Individual Champion Anis Mojgani and stage direction by LA-based opera director Alexander Gedeon. Blending elements of jazz, spoken word, and devised theater, Sanctuaries speaks to the experience of displaced residents of color in Portland's historically black Albina district.

January’s guest on the podcast is Holly Pyle, a singer who uses different musical styles and technology to create her own unique vocal sound and compositions. Holly was an opera major at Northern Arizona University when she stumbled upon a jazz choir audition. She fell in love with the genre, eventually completing her studies in jazz and psychology. Since diving into a music career in 2014, she has released two albums and given over 900 performances in a diverse mix of genres — from hip hop to country to jazz. Holly frequently performs as a solo acapella act, using electronic looping to sample and recombine her voice into an ever-changing choir of Hollys. I met Holly when she was visiting Portland to give a concert and music workshop with my friend, pianist Darrell Grant. Their conversation about collaboration, improvisation, and the creative process had me wishing I had a way to take notes. I loved how she talked about her inner life and her relationship to creativity and knew she would be a wonderful guest on the podcast.For full show notes, transcriptions of this episode, and more offerings for singers, you can visit my website HERE.You can find Holly on: Facebook or Instagram.The songs from today’s episode are called: Veil, Zoloft, Human Together, and Outside of You. (All tracks used with permission.) To listen or download, go HERE.Theme music for the Podcast was composed by John Smith. He edits all the podcast episodes too. (Thanks honey!)

Brilliant citizen artist Darrell Grant, a recipient of an Oregon Creative Heights grant, is known for his multifaceted and deep artistic projects. Listen here for a preview of his performance of The Territory coming up at the Oregon Bach Festival on July 12th. Grant also shares for the first time a snippet of work he created for his son’s graduation from middle school.

2018 album previews; Swiss, Finnish, and French approaches to quintessentially United Statesian music genres like Hip-Hop, Jazz and Americana, which traveled to Europe and got local; tributes to Martin Luther King and a preview of the Ned Rothenberg, Erik Friedlander, Ami Yamasaki trio. PLAYLISTS INCLUDES Raoul Bjorkenheim, Adam Nussbaum, Danny Fox, Yellow Bird, Sylvie Courvoisier, Weird Beard, Nicole Jo, Porta Palace Collective & Rob Mazurek, Joshua Gerowitz, Ned Rothenberg with Ernst Reijseger & Ami Yamasaki, Claudio Fasoli, Dave Douglas & Frank Woeste, MC Solaar, Thiefs, Darrell Grant, Herbie Hancock

Today on the show: creativity and geography. Salem Chamber Orchestra Files For BankruptcyLast month, the Salem Chamber Orchestra board announced the season would be cancelled because of financial difficulties. Now it has informed its musicians it will also file for bankruptcy.Frank Almond’s Famous StradivariusViolinist and concertmaster Frank Almond, the man behind the best-selling CD “A Violin’s Life,” will perform on Tuesday in Corvallis at Oregon State University and on Friday in Bend as part of the High Desert Chamber Music’s Spotlight Series.The real star of the show, though, is Almond’s famous, 300-year-old Lipinski Stradivarius. That Almond is playing it at all is a small miracle: a couple of winters ago, thieves tased him and ran off with the instrument, which is valued at $5 million to $6 million.Paige Powell’s Magnificent Ride Through New York CityWhen Portland native Paige Powell worked at “Interview” magazine in New York City in the 80s, she traveled in rarified circles. There were lunches with Bianca Jagger, dinners with David Bowie, late nights with Madonna, and an endless parade of parties with Andy Warhol. And she documented it all with her camera.When Powell moved back to Oregon, she put all the photos and videos in boxes and didn’t look at them for years. Now she’s showing them for the first time in a multimedia installation at the Portland Art Museum called “The Ride.” She gave producer Aaron Scott a tour.Marc Acito’s Broadway Breakthrough, Starring George TakeiThe life of the “Star Trek” actor-turned-civil rights activist is inspiring a new musical on Broadway. “Allegiance” tells the story of George Takei and his family, who were sent to internment camps by the U.S. government during World War II. The New York “Observer” called “Allegiance” “fresh,” “original,” and “passionate.” And the play’s co-writer happens to be someone who worked in Portland for 20 years before returning to New York and Broadway: Marc Acito. We caught up with Acito between the play’s rehearsals.Liminal Wants To Offend You
Liminal Performance Group has a reputation for brassy, experimental, tech-rich theater productions, so we were intrigued when they announced that they were going to re-vamp a seminal anti-theatre work called “Offending the Audience” for “a modern age of pan-surveillance and fractured media self-reflections.”What happens when you slap a pandemonium of surveillance and interactive technology, plus nude interpretive dances, onto the 50 year-old play by Peter Handke? For our ongoing series “What Are You Looking At,” we invited James Engberg and Eric Kilgore to see the show. You might know them from a theater podcast and XRAY-FM show they hosted called “5 Useless Degrees & A Bottle of Scotch.”“Offending the Audience" runs through Nov. 22 at Action/Adventure Theater.Amazon Goes Old School With Brick And MortarLast week, while we were whooping it up at Wordstock, book lovers in Seattle were treated to the latest high-tech, new-fangled idea in e-commerce, cooked up by Amazon: the opening of a store. With books.From Seattle’s KUOW, Kate Walters reports on the retail giant's first permanent brick and mortar retail shop in Seattle. Then we call up Knute Berger, a writer for the blog “Crosscut” and “Seattle Magazine,” who wrote about the opening.Jazz Composer Darrell Grant's Oregon Sojourn
In 2012, pianist, composer and Portland State University professor Darrell Grant started work on a song cycle called “The Territory,” about his relationship with Oregon, its history, and its geography. “The Territory” premiered last January in New York, and it’s now being released on PJCE Records. Grant stopped by KMHD Jazz Radio this week to talk with Matt Fleeger about the genesis of the project in advance of a record release concert on Nov. 14 at the First Unitarian Church.

CD release show scheduled for Grant's love letter to Oregon. KMHD's Matt Fleeger talked to Darrell about the latest incarnation.

Pianist and composer Darrell Grant talks about his PJCE Records release "The Territory." How do you make it to the end of a big project? How will you recognize the end when you get there? This accomplished and creative composer shares what he's learned about making music in the Oregon territory.

Darrell Grant, a skilled and accomplished composer, is premiering a new band at the Montavilla Jazz Festival that's playing his arrangements of pop tunes from the likes of Adele, Pharrell Williams, and Lorde. Why? "The idea is to create a vibration, wherein there is the opportunity for people to realize themselves."

Tonight at the Mission Theater in Portland, Portland pianist Darrell Grant and friends will pay tribute to the Modern Jazz Quartet. The group had a catalytic effect on many musicians' thinking and style during the 50's and 60's, bringing both style and substance. Grant and vibraphonist Mike Horsfall sat down to talk about the tribute show with April.

Next Step #198: EXCLUSIVE: Reflections on the Passing of HH Pope Shenouda III, connecting with the Middle East and Armenians by Harry Hagopian. On the positive side of Lent - the power of Prayer, as expressed in physics and singularity. Black Hole Events to Killing Cancer. A first look at Holy Week with more to come...Ani's Bubbles: Animal CrackersSong: Cross of Gold by Darrell Grant on "Truth & Reconciliation" Links:Pope Shenouda's passing: http://youtu.be/b5CyiwnvW9APope Shenouda Tribute: http://youtu.be/-apFmn18SugHarry Hagopian on the Pope: http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/16410Armenian Miuron/Coptic church: http://armodoxy.blogspot.com/2011/07/coptic-churcharmenian-miuron.htmlMore from Harry Hagopian http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/HarryHagopianMore from the Armenian Orthodoxy Blog: http://armodoxy.blogspot.com/Holy Week Podcasts: http://epostle.net/easter/Produced by Suzie Shatarevyan for epostle.netLook for The Next Step on blubrry.com