The Biamp Portland Jazz Festival turns 20 years old, and for performers and fans it’ll be quite exciting when more than 30 venues fill up with music Feb. 16-25.
This summer, Charlie Brown III will partner with the elders of (Portland’s music scene), local contemporaries, and the folks at the Albina Music Trust and the World Arts Foundation to resurrect a local tradition with Time Sound: Albina’s Jazz Reimagined.
Many Portlanders do not realize that there were vibrant Black cultural and artistic movements here not too long ago. Part of the shameful and barbaric historical legacy of settler-colonialism and white supremacy in Portland and Oregon at large has been this erasure. We are regaled in the contempo
Karla Harris and the Joe Alterman Trio Jazz vocalist Karla Harris has made a career within the art form she loves for more than three decades, captivating audiences at the Sarasota Jazz Festival and Portland Jazz Festival. The Joe Alterman trio is a young quartet on their way to great things.