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An Acoustic Evening With
Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt
(details...)
(on stage together)
Friday, October 16, 2009
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Timeless Rhythms: PDX Jazz Festival starts tonight!
By une femme artiste
PDX Jazz Festival starts tonight! The opening performances for this year's winter Portland Jazz Festival are, Gonzalo Rubalcaba performing Cuban Jazz piano:. AND Terence Blanchard, performing his Requiem for Katrina! Here is an excerpt: ...
Timeless Rhythms - http://kerriebwrye.blogspot.com/

Imagine - Gonzalo Rubalcaba Imagine by Gonzalo Rubalcaba


Portland Oregon RADIO JAZZ HIGHLIGHTS

KMHD 89.1fm - all jazz 24/7 (blues on Friday nights): listen on the web at www.kmhd.fm

Sundays
KMHD 89.1fm-"High Standards" with host George Fendel, 2-6pm

Mondays
KPSU 98.1FM-“NW Jazz & More!”-host Noah Peterson, 2-4pm
KBOO 90.7fm
-"Blue Monday," host Bill Rhoades, 1:30-3:30pm
KMHD 89.1fm-"Jazz Profiles," host Nancy Wilson, 8pm

Tuesdays
KMHD 89.1fm-"Jazz Set," host Dee Dee Bridgewater, 8pm

Wednesdays
KMHD 89.1fm- "The Coffee Break", host JavaMan/Tim Taylor, 10am-2pm
KBOO 90.7fm-“Jazz Lives,” host Nick Gefroh, 1-3 pm; “A Jazz World,” host David Lifton  alternates with “Jazz in the Afternoon,” host Bob Riddle, 3-5pm

Fridays
KMHD 89.1fm-blues shows, 4pm-2am

Saturdays
KMHD 89.1fm
"Piano Jazz," host Marian McPartland, 11am (repeats Thursday at 8pm)
"Home Grown Live," host Mary Burlingame, 2-3pm 
KBOO 90.7 fm
-blues shows, rotating hosts-Joan Semprebon, Tom Wendt, Errol Shervey, 2 pm-4 pm; “Jazz Rap II,” host Yugen Rashad, 4 pm-7 pm
 


Clubs

Jimmy Mak's (Portland, OR)

Rafati's Encore 310 (Portland, OR)

Tony Starlight's (Portland, OR)

Wilf's Restaurant & Bar (Portland, OR)

CLUB  LIST

Jazz Resources

Down Beat Magazine

New Land Jazz

Red Hot Jazz - History

Ken Burns Jazz - History

Festivals

Cathedral Park Jazz Festival

Mt. Hood Jazz Festival

Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival

Jazz at Newport

Monterey Jazz Festival

International Jazz Festivals Organization

Jazz Festivals Canada

Other

The Shedd Institute- Jazz events in Eugene, OR

KMHD 89.1 fm - Jazz. Blues & NPR News

JazzPDX.org - Portland Jazz news

MP3.com - free jazz streams and downloads

Musician and Concert Photographs by Yann Renoult

Innerviews.org - Interviews with Musicians

Oregon Jazz Orchestra

Music » Listen 

John Coltrane - Locomotion mp3
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things mp3

DANCE  Working Three Shifts, and Outrage Overtime   By DAVID YAFFE
Quick, before the world falls apart, Joni Mitchell is making jazz-folk-fusion songs (again), art, and now ballet.

Portland Jazz Festival      2007 February 16-25     www.pdxjazz.com
Incredible Journey of Jazz:  Monday, February 19, 2pm at Reed... 
www.pdxjazz.com/education

Links   www.TravelPortland.com  Jazz Films:  www.nwfilm.org
Jazz for Peace Portal

Creative Music Guild: The Creative Music Guild is an Oregon non-profit organization whose mission is to promote new music that advances the arts of improvisation and composition.

Jazz Society of Oregon: For over 25 years, the Jazz Society of Oregon has had a simple mission: to promote "America's Original Art Form" by promoting jazz musicians, jazz students and jazz audiences.

JazzTimes Magazine: JazzTimes is for serious jazz fans and musicians, offering jazz news, jazz concert reviews, in-depth features, photography, artist profiles, reviews, interviews and more.

KMHD 89.1 FM – Jazz Radio Portland: KMHD is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to providing quality jazz, blues, and traditional American music 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

KPLU 88.5 FM – Jazz Radio Seattle: Your place for NPR News and All that Jazz.

Leroy Vinnegar Jazz Institute

Portland Jazz: Soundtrack to the city.

Portland Jazz Jams: Serving the community by creating community spirit in the local jazz scene.

Portland Oregon Visitors Association: The Portland Oregon Visitors Association (POVA), works to maintain the vibrancy of the region by promoting the Portland metropolitan area as a preferred destination for meetings, conventions and leisure travel. A private non-profit destination marketing organization with a membership of more than 1,000 businesses, POVA operates a busy visitor information center, supports a climate of year-round hospitality, and helps our city, state and region reap the rewards of a thriving visitor industry.

Kansas City: Paris of the Plains           Blues Link!


   A Jazz Anthology: 4384 tunes 

Blues and jazz, rock and reggae, folk and funk, swing and salsa. Check out Portland's music and dance venues.
More music and dance resources:
Cascade Blues Association   Creative Music Guild
Jazz Society of Oregon   Dancing in Portland   Bossanova Ballroom
jazz
JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns


A Passion for Jazz! Music History and Education History of Jazz music origins, styles and musicians featuring webcasts, timeline, festivals, photos, guitar & piano chords, scales, glossary & online ...
www.apassion4jazz.net/

Jazz Roots

 

Jazz
Stylistic origins: Blues and other African American folk music, Ragtime, West African music, European marching bands, 1910s New Orleans.
Typical instruments: Saxophone Trumpet Trombone Clarinet Piano Guitar Double bass Drums Vocals
Subgenres
Avant-garde jazz Bebop Cool jazz Dixieland Free jazz Gypsy jazz Hard bop Jazz fusionKansas City Jazz Latin jazz Modal jazz M-Base Smooth jazz Soul jazz Swing Trad jazz Third Stream
Fusion genres
Acid jazz Asian American jazz Calypso jazz Jazz blues Jazz fusion Jazz rap Nu jazz Smooth jazz Bossa Nova
Jazz around the world
Australia Brazil Spain Netherlands France India Italy Malawi United Kingdom
Jazz musicians
Bands Bassists Clarinetists Drummers Guitarists Organists Pianists Saxophonists Trombonists Trumpeters
Other topics
Jazz standard Jazz royalty

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