That
is the case for the 2021 Biamp PDX Jazz Festival, which will feature 20 virtual events (three documentaries, 17 livestreams) and run from February 18â27. The programmers are also taking real advantage of the digital format, though: in addition to performance streams from the Jack London Revue downtown, the itinerary includes live events in Seattle, Brooklyn, London, Johannesburg, and Havana.
This morning,
Here are our can t-miss top picks.
8 p.m. Fri, February 19, $8â10
Some Americans might know López-Nussa from his 2018 Tiny Desk Concert, where he pounded the keys beside his brother Ruy and bassist Gastón Joyaâhe marries jazz technique to bright Cuban pop melodies, and his music feels ready-made for dancing in the streets. He ll perform cuts from his latest albumÂ
February 15 2021
International concerts, music films, local shows mark the 18th event, which had to change like everything else.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic began and normal life went away, the Biamp PDX Jazz Festival took place as usual in 2020 with in-person concerts. We wrapped our last day of the 2020 festival 10 days before the COVID shutdown happened, said Nicholas Salas-Harris, the festival s artistic director. We were literally one of the only jazz festivals to go to in 2020.
Well, if anything, they had a lot of time to plan for the 2021 festival, although Salas-Harris, Executive Director Chris Doss and the whole crew entered the summer of 2020 still believing the PDX Jazz Festival would happen live again. Once it appeared live wouldn t be possible and it would have to be virtual, organizers set about trying to make the best festival possible. (Upon last week s announcement that the Portland tri-county area s pandemic status had been upgraded and that some ind
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