11th Annual Montavilla Jazz Festival presents Nicole Glover Trio featuring Tyrone Allen and Kayvon Gordon
Nicole Glover brings her trio to her hometown for the first time to perform selections from their latest release, Plays. Portland’s most adventurous jazz festival enters its second decade with a three-day village-style celebration of local, world-class artistry with more than 30 concerts and events across 12 venues. TicketsGeneral Admission — $35 online, $45 doorStudents — $10 (must present ID at door)Arts for All — $5 (must present S.N.A.P. or Oregon Trail card at door)Click HERE to purchase tickets Montavilla Jazz Festival is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Ticket sales from Montavilla Jazz Festival support community building programs and jazz education in Montavilla and beyond. Minors ok when accompanied by a parent or guardian. Review our Health & Safety Policies HERE
11th Annual Montavilla Jazz Festival presents Joe Kye’s the Well Sessions featuring Shin Yu Pai
Joe Kye takes listeners on a transcendent personal journey, recollecting lineage and love through generations and geography. Looping violin, vocals, and traditional Korean instruments, Joe’s improvisations swirl with spoken word and deep ancestral connection, unraveling our inner cocoons with awareness and self-compassion. Portland’s most adventurous jazz festival enters its second decade with a three-day village-style celebration of local, world-class artistry with more than 30 concerts and events across 12 venues. TicketsGeneral Admission — $35 online, $45 doorStudents — $10 (must present ID at door)Arts for All — $5 (must present S.N.A.P. or Oregon Trail card at door)Click HERE to purchase tickets Montavilla Jazz Festival is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Ticket sales from Montavilla Jazz Festival support community building programs and jazz education in Montavilla and beyond. Minors ok when accompanied by a parent or guardian. Review our Health & Safety Policies HERE
10th Annual Montavilla Jazz Festival – Sept. 1 – 3, 2023 – Darrell Grant’s Piano in the Dark with special guest Billy Childs
Chasing the magic of the unexpected, Darrell Grant curates ephemeral encounters at and beyond the keyboard melding tradition and innovation. Lineup: Darrell Grant, Billy Childs, Andre Raiah, Rebecca Sanborn, Jasnam Daya Singh, and Yawa pianos and keyboards. Tickets$35 Advance$45 At the Door Arts for All – $5 (Available only at the door – must present Oregon Trail Card at entry) Students – $10 (Available only at the door – must present valid ID at entry) Notes: Discounted tickets are not available for presale. Minors ok when accompanied by a parent or guardian. Since the release of his debut album Black Art, one of the New York Times’ top ten jazz CDs of 1994, Darrell Grant has built an international reputation as a pianist, composer, and educator who channels the power of music to make change. He has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe in venues ranging from Paris’s La Villa jazz club to the Havana Jazz Festival. Dedicated to themes of hope, community, and place, Grant’s compositions include Step by Step: The Ruby Bridges Suite honoring the civil rights icon, The Territory which explores Oregon’s landscape and history, and Sanctuaries, a jazz chamber opera exploring gentrification. Since moving to Portland, Oregon, he has been named Portland Jazz Hero by the Jazz Journalist Association, received a Northwest Regional Emmy, an Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship, a MAP Fund grant, and the Governor’s Arts Award. He is a Professor of Music at Portland State University where he directs the Artist as Citizen Initiative. Review our Health & Safety Policies HERE
Grant Jazz Celebration with guest artist Dr. Idit Shner
Grant High School Band presentsGRANT JAZZ CELEBRATIONwith guest artist DR. IDIT SHNEREnjoy a night of music featuring four student combos and the Grant Jazz Ensemble, as we celebrate another year of fantastic jazz at Grant.All proceeds will go to the Grant Jazz Program.
GoGo Penguin with special guest Reid Anderson presented by PDX Jazz
Emotive, cinematic break-beat trio GoGo Penguin are back, playing music from their exhilarating new album Everything Is Going to Be OK – April 2023 (Sony records XXIM), together with songs from their luminous back catalogue. Bursting with the optimism of new beginnings, with a new drummer, a new record label and a subtly updated and developed sound, the band are ushering in a more sonically liberated era. Everything Is Going to Be OK is born from a time of turbulence and loss. During a personally difficult period for the band, including deep personal loss and mourning, the studio offered the band a sanctuary from real life. The resulting project draws its strength from a shared understanding and empathy. Through our hardships, together, we will emerge stronger; everything is going to be ok. Reid Anderson opens the show. $35 Advance$40 Day of Show Minors ok when accompanied by a parent or guardian. Review our Health & Safety Policies HERE
Vanessa Collier with special guest Bre Gregg with Colin Hogan
“There’s a young lady came onstage with me, I forget where I was, but she’s playing an alto saxophone, and man, she was amazing.” Those are the words of Buddy Guy in a recent issue of American Blues Scene, describing an impromptu performance with Vanessa Collier on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise. If you haven’t been fortunate enough to meet Vanessa and witness one of her head-turning, fiery, and passionate performances, you should definitely make sure you do. As a master musician and multi-instrumentalist, Vanessa Collier, weaves funk, soul, rock, and blues into every powerful performance and she is downright impressive. With soulful vocals, searing saxophone, and witty songwriting, Vanessa is blazing a trail, racking up an impressive arsenal of honors, and has already singled herself out as an artist of distinction and one we would all do well to watch.Bre Gregg leads Red Bird a fabulous Portland-based blues/soul group who opens the show. Tickets: $25 Advance$30 At the Door Minors ok when accompanied by a parent or guardian. Review our Health & Safety Policies HERE
BIAMP Portland Jazz Festival: SHABAZZ PALACES w/ MOOR MOTHER presented by PDX Jazz
Cruise the city in a night ship, dressed to kill in the Seville. Float down waterfalls and fountains, reclined on some pimp shit. The time zone ghost returns to paint a picture that echoes through infinity. The sun is put to rest, the soliloquy is killer bee. A diamond purpose lying beneath the surface. Nothing is ever what it seems, but forever is the theme. It’s time. Shabazz Palaces are back with yet another classic of divine mathematics design. More dazzling Afrofuturist sutras to illuminate distant constellations with sacred abstractions. Enter The Don of Diamond Dreams, raw and uncut, but glowing with 10,000 karat shine. If you adhere to the corporeal limitations of space and chronology, it’s been roughly a decade since Shabazz Palaces first shook the ramparts with their debut stylistic revolution, Black Up – which Pitchfork named as one of the Best of the 2010s, hailing it as an “album of impossible vision.” But the project masterminded by vocalist and producer Ishmael Butler has never conformed to gravitational consideration or terrestrial measurement. They are heirs to the astral imagination of Sun Ra and George Clinton, Octavia Butler and Alice Coltrane. If they technically claim residence in Seattle, their sound emanates much closer to Alpha Centauri than Alki Beach. $35 Advance$40 Day of Show Minors ok when accompanied by a parent or guardian. Review our Health & Safety Policies HERE
Kat Edmonson • Dominic Castillo
Kat Edmonson is an award-winning songwriter and singer “with an equal foothold in jazz, cabaret and vintage cosmopolitanism pop” (The New York Times). She has been featured on Austin City Limits, Tiny Desk Concerts, A Prairie Home Companion, and The Late Show. The New York Times describes her music as “fresh as a spring bouquet” while NPR says, “Hearing Edmonson makes it virtually impossible to do anything but stop and listen.” Raised on the music and film of the early-to-mid-twentieth century, Kat is a rare artist who embodies the spirit of the past while remaining resolutely au courant. She performs original songs and familiar classics in her live show, interweaving humorous anecdotes, philosophical musings, and her love of film with disarming candor and vulnerability. Her longtime band members’ keen and sensitive accompaniment allows Kat to freely veer off-script as she’s often inclined to do In the winter of 2022, Kat made her theatrical debut in “The Hang”: a new jazz opera by Taylor Mac and Matt Ray. Upon its opening, the off-off Broadway show received “Critic’s Pick” in The New York Times highlighting Kat’s “extraordinary artistry.” About her performance, Vulture praises the burgeoning actress for her “weightless, soaring scat arias,” The Wrap says, “Kat Edmonson emerges as the Teresa Stratus of off-off Broadway.” “The Hang” imagines the final hours of the life of Socrates as he asks his friends to use every moment left to think on virtue.Portland singer/songwriter Dominic Castillo opens with a solo set. Tickets: $25 Advance$29 At the DoorMinors ok when accompanied by a parent or guardian. Review our Health & Safety Policies HERE
Montavilla Jazz Festival 22 presents: PJCE’s The Heroine’s Journey feat. Marilyn Keller, Darrell Grant and Rebecca Sanborn
In this double-bill concert, Sanborn and Keller step forward as lyricists and songwriters, each contributing a set of new songs about how recognizing and honoring dreams, both literal and figurative, can change lives. Commissioned and performed by Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble. Lineup: Marilyn Keller, vocalist, lyricist; Darrell Grant, pianist, composer; Rebecca Sanborn, vocalist, lyricist, composer; Douglas Detrick, arranger (songs by Sanborn), artistic director; Bryn Roberts, Dylan Hayes, Ezra Weiss, arrangers (songs by Keller/Grant); Lee Elderton, soprano sax; John Savage, alto sax; Tim Willcox, tenor sax; Mieke Bruggeman, bari sax; Pablo Rivarola, trumpet; Quinn Walker, trumpet; James Powers, trombone; Chris Shuttleworth, trombone; Ryan Meagher, guitar; Jasnam Daya Singh, piano; Eric Gruber, bass; Ji Tanzer, drums; Machado Mijiga, drums.Tickets $29 GA Advance$34 GA Day of Show$10 Students with ID$5 Arts for All (with Oregon Trail Card – available at the door only) Minors ok with parent/guardian About Montavilla Jazz Festival: The mission of Montavilla Jazz Festival is not only to bolster Portland’s dynamic jazz culture, but also to enrich the local community. Like the neighborhood that serves as its home, MJF is a progressive, diverse, locally minded event that offers Montavilla residents an opportunity to come together, form connections and plug into Portland jazz. Ticket sales from Montavilla Jazz Festival supports community building programming and jazz education in Montavilla and beyond. Montavilla Jazz Festival is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.Review our Health & Safety Policies HERE
PDX Jazz presents Christian McBride
Christian McBride is a six-time GRAMMY Award winning bassist/composer and the host of NPR’s Jazz Night in America. Since the early 1990’s Christian McBride has recorded on over 300 dates as a sideman. However, he’s been a leader from his debut recording in 1995. Aside from various stints with Sting, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes, Freddie Hubbard and George Duke, McBride has been artist-in-residence and artistic director with organizations such as Jazz House Kids, Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Jazz Museum in Harlem, Jazz Asoen and NJPAC.McBride was recently named the artistic director of the historic Newport Jazz Festival, taking over the reins from the festival’s longtime artistic director and founder, George Wein. Doors at 7pmShow at 8pm $39.75 General Admission$44.75 Preferred Seating (general seating in the first 9 rows of the center section – available in advance only) 21 & over only
