Podcasts about pdx jazz festival

The Portland Jazz Festival has long been a mainstay in the city's jazz scene and this year it's more accessible than ever before. All of the acts are live streamed, and you can still catch many of the acts before the festival wraps up on Saturday, Feb. 27. Isabel Zacharias is the producer and host of “Takin' Off” on KMHD Jazz Radio and she joins us to highlight some of her favorites from this year's festival.

Welcome back to the Artichoke Café at Artichoke Music 2007 SE Powell Boulevard for the two hundred and twenty-first episode of OMN’s Coffeeshop Conversations @ Artichoke Music. I know we’re a couple of months away from the 2020 Portland Jazz Festival, but there’s been a change at the top at PDX Jazz. As we reported in May, Don Lucoff has parted ways. Replacing him as Executive Director is Chris Doss who is with me today with the grueling task of telling us about all of the performers in the 2020 festival which runs from Wednesday, February 19 through Sunday, March 1. He’s here now because tickets are on sale and you probably need time to make plans and get them. It’s also a really good chance to meet Chris.

Well, the holidays are over, so are the Best of 2018’s and we’re back at it at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan for another whole year of OMN’s Coffeeshop Conversations. I’m Tom D’Antoni. The Portland Jazz Festival is right around the corner, beginning Wednesday, February 20 through Sunday March 3. Once again we’ve got the world’s foremost authority on the performers, Don Lucoff, festival Artistic Director, who curated all of the performers. He’s here to run down the whole schedule and tell us about who’s playing, why and fill us in on performers who might be new to us. We love to do this with artistic directors from the major festivals around here. Let’s unleash Don Lucoff and let him rip.

February 24, 2016 Joining me today at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan is the man who is pretty much responsible for several generations of Jazz musicians in Oregon. I’m not exaggerating. Most of our greatest players have come out of Portland State University’s Jazz program. Charlie Gray invented it and was in charge for twenty-seven years until he retired last spring. He was named a PDX Jazz Festival Jazz Master this year and he’s going to tell us all about how he did all that, and maybe about directing the Ice Capades orchestra before he came here.

Jam of the Week | www.jamoftheweek.com Facebook Group | www.facebook.com/groups/jamoftheweekgroup Credits: Jam of the Week is hosted and produced by Farnell Newton. Recorded and Edited with Logic Pro X Edited by Farnell Newton Special thanks to our sponsors: Denis Wick | deniswick.com Vandoren | www.vandoren.com Theme Music: "The Bluest Eyes Revisited" by Farnell Newton from Class Is Now In Session | www.farnellnewton.com Special Thanks to: PDX Jazz Festival | www.pdxjazz.com Emmet Cohen | www.emmetcohen.com

Credits: Jam of the Week is hosted and produced by Farnell Newton. Recorded and Edited with Logic Pro X Edited by Farnell Newton Special thanks to our sponsors: Denis Wick | deniswick.com Vandoren | www.vandoren.com Theme Music: "The Bluest Eyes Revisited" by Farnell Newton from Class Is Now In Session | www.farnellnewton.com Special Thanks to: PDX Jazz Festival - http://pdxjazz.com Ralph Peterson Jr. - http://www.ralphpetersonmusic.com - https://trrstore.bandcamp.com/album/triangular-lll The 1905: - www.the1905.org/

Harpist Brandee Younger joins JT's Lee Mergner in a conversation recorded on-site at the PDX Jazz Festival in Portland. They talk about how she  picked up that instrument and about the influence and legacy of both Alice Coltrane and Dorothy Ashby. This episode is sponsored by the 2016 Newport Jazz Festival.

Pianist Orrin Evans sits down for a free-wheeling conversation with Lee about performing in Portland at the PDX Jazz Festival, his series at the nightclub South and the challenges of keeping a band together. Orrin and Lee spin a cut from John Coltrane's Africa Brass and Orrin's own album, The Evolution of Oneself. This episode sponsored by Exit Zero Jazz Festival.

This week: it's Confessions of the Reluctant Jazz Guy.Our pal Matt Fleeger of KMHD Jazz Radio turns us on to some new artists and talks about how jazz as a meta-genre — a way to better understand many forms of music.11:10 - We’ll talk about jazz past, present and future with bassist Chuck Israels, drummer Chris Brown and drummer Tim DuRoche.24:40 - Matt shares some of the bands he's most excited about right now, including Coco Columbia and Grammies.30:30 - Record producer Tucker Martine talks about the sonic qualities of jazz recordings, and how he incorporates them into the seminal indie pop records he’s produced as well as Grammy-nominated records for Bill Frissell.39:25 - Plus Matt shares some picks for the upcoming PDX Jazz Festival.Matt is one of our favorite guys. In addition to his knowledge of jazz, he's an avid advocate for visual arts. Fun fact: he knows a ton about skateboard film. And he's got a broad view of how music works in industry and culture.