Podcasts about portland jazz festival

The Biamp Portland Jazz Festival is rapidly approaching. It runs from February 16 to March 2. As we like to do when our major festivals come around, we ask the folks who are responsible for bringing them to us to fill us in. And as he has been for the past few years, actually since he got the gig, Executive Director Chris Doss is in the Artichoke Café with me to tell us all about every headliner in the festival. It's an interesting festival this year, with some new faces. So let's let the boss let us in on the details.

It's Biamp Portland Jazz Festival time of year again, and as we always love to do, we asked PDX Jazz Executive Director Chris Doss to come here to the Café at Artichoke Music and tell us who's playing this year, from beginning to end (that's Thursday February 16 through Saturday, February25. It's a big musically diverse concert series in several venues. Kind of like we say at KMHD…Jazz Without Boudaries. Chris Doss has as big hand in curating the festival which features everything from the newest Jazz on the planet, to straight-ahead Jazz, ECM -type Jazz, international Jazz, Soul, Funk and Hip-hop Jazz…just about anything you can think of and some that you've never heard of. That's what I like, discovery. So let's find out right now from Chris Doss.

This time with me here is pianist/composer Greg Goebel, known for his virtuosity as well as his versatility. We'll get into that and at the end of our conversation we'll here one of his compositions. He'll also talk to us about that and his work with Chris Brown and how some Jazz takes on some popular tunes fits into what he does. That synthesis is part of the history of Jazz, and it hasn't stopped. Nor has Mr. Geobel. Nor have we. Upcoming Coffeeshop Conversations will feature John Averill, founder of March Fourth. Also coming up is Chris Doss the Executive Director of PDX Jazz to fill us in on this year's Portland Jazz Festival. Right now, meet Greg Goebel.

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.

Forty-five years ago, President Ford declared February “Black History Month” in a commemorative speech where he urged Americans to “seize the opportunity to honor the too often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.” At their meeting on Tuesday, January 26th, the Hillsboro School Board read a proclamation recognizing Black History Month. Here is an excerpt: The Hillsboro School District honors and acknowledges the central role of Black Americans in U.S. history. The Hillsboro School District is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion and rejects the long history of institutional racism towards Black Americans. The Hillsboro School District pledges to stand against bigotry, intolerance, and hate, and follow the lead set by generations of Black Americans who have courageously led us to the pursuit of equality. The Hillsboro School District has been enriched by the diversity of perspective and experience of our Black community members, who have made valuable and long lasting contributions to our district. Please join us in recognizing and celebrating Black Americans for their many contributions and achievements throughout February and beyond. Learn about Black History Month activities in the Portland area at travelportland.com. Highlights are the Cascade Festival of African Films, offered online free of charge February 5th through March 10th; and the Portland Jazz Festival, with limited in-person concerts as well as live-streamed performances, February 18th through 27th. February is also National Career and Technical Education Month. The Association for Career and Technical Education sponsors the CTE Month awareness campaign each February to celebrate the value of CTE and the achievements and accomplishments of CTE programs and educators across the country. We have much to be proud of in our Hillsboro community, as we continue to expand and grow CTE opportunities for our students.

Given the givens looking forward to 2021 is a happy activity. One thing we can count on in 2021 is that there will be a Portland Jazz Festival in February. And as we always do, the executive director is here to tell us about all the performers, how they will perform and how PDX Jazz has been plowing through the muck of the past year. Chris Doss came on for 2020’s festival in his first year on the job, and he’s in Café Artichoke with me to run down everything you’ll hear and see in 2021 from top to bottom. Believe me, it’s a pleasure to actually talk about music and musicians and festivals again.

Hi there. Next week Chris Doss, Executive Director of PDX Jazz and the Portland Jazz Festival will be here to give us our annual rundown of the performers, virtual as they may be this time around. The last week of December and the first week of January we’ll have my two favorite Coffeeshop Conversations episodes of the year. That’s going to be fun. But today, this is one of those times when I get to meet and talk for the first time with someone I should have met years ago. Dunno why we never did but today in the Artichoke Music Café I’ll be talking with Catón Lyles, percussionist, multi-instrumentalist in a wide variety of genres…and he’s an actor too. He’s involved with an ongoing series of performances called Walk A Mile In Our Shoes….and we’ll get to that first. Meet Catón Lyles

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/

I always look forward to this and it’s become almost a yearly pleasure to sit across from Liv Warfield and visit. She’s with me in Café Artichoke at Artichoke Music 2007 SE Powell. She was in town for an appearance at the 2020 Portland Jazz Festival. Apparently it’s been a busy year for her, a year of moving forward. And in talking to her before we started recording she mentioned something about a CIRCUS. This coming from a woman who once played professional football. That’s football, not soccer. She was radiant, of course.

Archie Shepp in a Jazz Conversation with Jazz journalist Ashley Kahn on February 22, 2020 in the Art Bar at the Portland Jazz Festival 2020.

Jazz Conversation between guitarists Stanley Jordan and Ashley Kahn, February 21, 2020 at the Art Bar during the 2020 Portland Jazz 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.

OMN’s Coffeeshop Conversations is back for our second week of what we hope to be a long run at our new home Catfish Lou’s at 2460 NW 24th Ave. It’s a real music club which won Muddy Awards for Best Venue from the Cascade Blues Association for the past two years. With me today is painter and photographer Diane Russell. You’ve seen her paintings and drawings of musicians all over town, including in here. And you’ve seen her photography on OMN for many years and we’re happy to be able to have her work on our pages. So we’ll be talking about a show she has up at the Art Bar as part of the 2019 Portland Jazz Festival and how she works and also about fighting it out in photographer scrums at concerts. Let’s meet Diane Russell.

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.

This delightful bit of cleverness took place at the Art Bar on Saturday, February 22, 2014 as part of the Portland Jazz Festival 2014's Jazz Conversations

Welcome back to the Cupping room at World Cup Coffee and Tea, NW 18th & Glisan, for another in the endless series of OMN Coffeeshop Conversations. Last year we started what has become a sensational tradition of having the folks who book major festivals come in and tell us about the people they booked. Did it with Don Lucoff and the Portland Jazz Festival, We did one last time with Nicolas Harris of the Soul’d Out Festival and today for the second year in a row, Peter Dammann, Artistic Director of the Waterfront Blues Festival is in the coffeeshop to tell us all about the 2018 festival starting on the Fourth of July. There are some big internal changes this year, and of course, lots of great music. OMN will be in our booth in the Louisiana Pavilion, of course. Let’s get started and welcome back ace-Blues guitarist Peter Dammann.

In World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th & Glisan, it’s another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. Last year, I stumbled across the best way to preview a music festival. I had Waterfront Blues Festival Artistic Director Peter Dammann here and he just went day by day and talked about every performer. Who would know better? Did the same thing with Portland Jazz Festival’s Don Lucoff a few months ago and we’re doing it again to with Soul’d Out Festival’s Nicholas Harris. He’s been here before, around the time the club he books, Jack London Review opened about a year ago. This is the Soul’d Out Festival’s ninth year and it just keeps getting better. Let’s find out who’s playing from the guy who booked the players.

Welcome to World Cup Coffee & Tea at NW 18th and Glisan, and to the last new OMN Coffeeshop Conversation of 2017. We’ll be running a couple of our best podcasts of the year for the next two weeks. A great year of Coffeeshop Conversations winds up with Don Lucoff, Executive Artistic Director of the Portland Jazz Festival which will be happening all over Portland from Thursday, February 15 through Sunday, February 25. Appearing will be a whole lot of literally the greatest Jazz musicians in the world. Don is going to tell us about each one. OMN will be a media sponsor and once again podcasting all of the Jazz Conversations. Ready to hear about EVERY PERFORMER? Meet Don Lucoff.

February 8, 2017 Today at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in Portland we’ve got probably the best known Jazz musician in Oregon. Mel Brown is here for a Coffeeshop Conversation. Mel is here to talk about a special performance which includes John Faddis at the upcoming Portland Jazz Festival commemorating the 100th year of Dizzy Gillespie on Wednesday, February 22. We’ll find out all about it. And how is he doing now that Jimmy Mak’s his three-gig-a-week home is closed and Jimmy is gone. What about the plans for a new club? And what’s he doing in the meantime? He’s got a great Dizzy Gillespie story. Every Dizzy Gillespie story is a great one. Many thanks to musician, luthier and audio production wiz Mike Doolin for fixing the audio. Mel Brown is the dean of Oregon Jazz. Let’s talk to him:

February 19, 2015 With me in the coffeeshop today is guitarist, composer and educator Dan Balmer who has had a long and interesting career playing all kinds of Jazz and some Jazz the Jazz Police didn’t want you to think was Jazz. This week’s Coffeeshop Conversation, coming to you, as usual, from World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in Portland. It went up on Thursday, February 19, 2015, the first day of the Portland Jazz Festival. He's always engaging and opinionated and fun to talk with.

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.

Live performance of Matt Jorgensen +451 performing at the Portland Jazz Festival featuring Mark Taylor, Thomas Marriott, Ryan Burns, Phil Sparks and Matt Jorgensen. Look for the new CD, Another Morning, in March 2008.

Live performance of Matt Jorgensen +451 performing at the Portland Jazz Festival featuring Mark Taylor, Thomas Marriott, Ryan Burns, Phil Sparks and Matt Jorgensen. Look for the new CD, Another Morning, in March 2008.