Somethin' Else: Blue Note Records @ 70: Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Blue Note Records
Alaska Airlines & Horizon Air
Portland Jazz Festival Presents
Somethin' Else:
Blue Note Records @ 70
Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Blue Note Records
February 13-22
Festival Packages & Single Tickets on Sale November 10
PDX Jazz Member Advance Sale Starts Today
McCoy Tyner + Joe Lovano Quartet
Cassandra Wilson; Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Terence Blanchard's Requiem for Katrina
Dianne Reeves w/Oregon Symphony; John Scofield
Patricia Barber; Don Byron's Ivey-Divey; Jason Moran
Bobby Hutcherson; Pat Martino; Lou Donaldson; Jacky Terrasson;
Lionel Loueke; Jane Bunnett & The Spirits of Havana; Aaron Parks; Judi Silvano
Alaska Airlines & Horizon Air Portland Jazz Festival presented by The Oregonian A&E will present Somethin' Else: Blue Note Records @70, celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Blue Note Records, as the primary thread through the 2009 Portland Jazz Festival, February 13-22. All festival ticketed concerts feature current Blue Note headliners and Blue Note heritage artists who have passed through Blue Note at some point in their legendary careers. The thematic package of events will include performances, plus jazz conversations with Blue Note officials and artists, panel discussions with jazz writers, journalists & thinkers, and archival Blue Note film screenings. In addition, Portland Jazz Festival will also feature free showcase performances around town with regional jazz artists, midnight jam sessions, and approximately 50 jazz education & outreach events.
Current Blue Note artists, trumpeter Terence Blanchard, sax man Joe Lovano, vocalists Cassandra Wilson, Dianne Reeves, and Patricia Barber, and Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba will headline the 10-day event, which will also feature Blue Note Heritage artists McCoy Tyner, Bobby Hutcherson, Lou Donaldson, and Pat Martino.
The 6th annual series of jazz events begins with a rare performance of Grammy & Oscar Award-winning Terence Blanchard performing his A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina) with jazz quintet and full orchestra, written as a film score for Spike Lee's When The Levees Broke. The dozen selections emotionally recall the days after Hurricane Katrina in lower New Orleans. The beautiful melodies mourn the useless loss of life while a tension builds over and through the music, and will be played by an orchestra of prominent Portland musicians conducted by Paul Mazzio. Cuban piano master Gonzalo Rubalcaba and quintet will open this first night performance, Friday, February 13, 7:30 pm.
Double-bill concerts are the norm this year throughout the festival schedule with the new Joe Lovano Us5 plus French pianist Jacky Terrasson playing Saturday, February 14, 2:00 pm, Portland Art Museum. On Sunday, February 15 there is another double-bill of jazz master McCoy Tyner forming a quartet with Joe Lovano in tandem with clarinetist Don Byron's Ivey-Divey tribute to Lester Young opening. Later that day, South-African guitarist Lionel Loueke plus vocalist Judi Silvano close the first weekend's concerts (Sunday, February 15, 6:30 pm, Hilton Pavilion Ballroom). On the second weekend, several more double-bills feature vocalist Cassandra Wilson and the eclectic Jason Moran & The Bandwagon (Friday, February 20, 7:30 pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall). Blue Note heritage artists, bluesy saxophonist Lou Donaldson and vibes man Bobby Hutcherson perform Saturday, February 21, 2:00 pm, Crystal Ballroom. Later, on Saturday at 7:30 pianist/vocalist Patricia Barber performs with Blue Note's newest signing, Seattle pianist Aaron Parks, and on Sunday, February 22, jazz guitar wizard Pat Martino headlines with Jane Bunnett & The Spirits of Havana opening.
Interspersed are single concerts with 4-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist Dianne Reeves with the Oregon Symphony (Saturday, February 14, 7:30 pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall) and long time Blue Note guitarist John Scofield (Saturday, February 14, 9:30 pm, Portland Art Museum).
The complete Portland Jazz Festival headline concert schedule:
· Friday, February 13, 7:30 pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, A Tale of God's Will (Requiem for Katrina) Terence Blanchard Quintet with full orchestra plus Gonzalo Rubalcaba Quintet
· Saturday, February 14, 2:00 pm, Portland Art Museum Ballroom, Joe Lovano's Us5 plus Jacky Terrasson
· Saturday, February 14, 7:30 pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Dianne Reeves w/Oregon Symphony
· Saturday, February 14, 9:30 pm, Portland Art Museum Ballroom, John Scofield
· Sunday, February 15, 2:00 pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, McCoy Tyner + Joe Lovano Quartet plus Don Byron Ivey-Divey Trio
· Sunday, February 15, 6:30 pm, Hilton Pavilion Ballroom, Lionel Loueke plus Judi Silvano
· Thursday, February 19, 7:30 pm, Old Church, Portland Jazz Orchestra
· Friday, February 20, 7:30 pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Cassandra Wilson plus Jason Moran & The Bandwagon
· Saturday, February 21, 2:00 pm, Crystal Ballroom, Bobby Hutcherson plus Lou Donaldson
· Saturday, February 21, 7:30 pm, Newmark Theater, Patricia Barber plus Aaron Parks
· Sunday, February 22, 2:00 pm, Crystal Ballroom, Pat Martino plus Jane Bunnett & The Spirits of Havana
Tickets on Sale November 10! Special festival ticket packages are now available only at the PDX Jazz office, 133 SW 2nd Avenue, Suite 420, or by calling 503-228-5299. Single tickets are also now on sale through TicketMaster outlets or at pdxjazz.com. PDX Jazz members are able to purchase tickets online in advance to public sale beginning November 6.
Cannonball Adderley's Somethin' Else, featuring Miles Davis and Art Blakey, remains one of the classic Blue Note recordings. The 1959 release is a primary example of the Blue Note sound blending hard bop jazz improvisation with soul and early elements of rhythm & blues. Presentations by Blue Note President Bruce Lundvall (Friday, February 13,1:30 pm, PCPA Brunish Hall) and 3-time Grammy Award winning music producer and archivist Michael Cuscuna (Saturday, February 14, 11:30 am, PCPA Brunish Hall) will each be followed by panel discussions featuring leading jazz journalists and writers, musicians, and other Blue Note representatives.
Over 100 other separate events-all free and open to the public--will be added to the final festival schedule. Free concerts will be staged all around downtown Portland showcasing regional jazz artists at the ongoing PDX Jazz @ RiverPlace series at the RiverPlace Hotel; Paramount Hotel, PCPA Art Bar, Rogue Ales Public House, and many other locations. More performances, free and ticketed, are offered by PDX Jazz Partners--Oregon Symphony, Roseland Theater, Jimmy Mak's, Wilf's at Union Station, Heathman Hotel, Benson Hotel, NW Children's Theater, Leroy Vinnegar Jazz Institute, Creative Music Guild, Jazz Society of Oregon, and other key community partners.
Additionally, Portland Jazz Festival will again present over 50 jazz education & outreach events highlighted by performances of The Incredible Journey of Jazz, a middle school assembly program celebrating Black History Month through Jazz staged in regional schools throughout the festival. Portland Jazz Orchestra, the resident ensemble of the Portland Jazz Festival, will present Blue Note Legends, a concert of Blue Note standards on Thursday, February 19, 7:30 pm. Portland Jazz Orchestra members also conduct student musician workshops and master classes at Brunish Hall from 3:00 to 6:00 pm on Saturday, February 14; Sunday, February 15; and Saturday February 21. Student musicians also have their own stage at the PDX Jazz Pavilion at Pioneer Courthouse Square, a festival hub formed within a large heated tent where student musicians perform Friday, Saturday & Sunday, February 13-15, from 11:00 am to 5:30 pm. There is also a free, noontime performance of The Incredible Journey of Jazz on Presidents Day, Monday, February 16, in the PDX Jazz Pavilion. Beside the Blue Note related presentations and panel discussions, many of the artists will participate in Jazz Conversations with various jazz journalists throughout the festival at the PCPA Art Bar. Archival Blue Note films, featuring legendary performances by Lena Horne, Michel Petrucciani, Bobby McFerrin, Cecil Taylor, Stanley Turrentine, and others will be also screened during the festival.
Complete festival schedule will be available in December.
Last June, Portland Jazz Festival was nominated as one of the Top 5 Jazz Events by the Jazz Journalists Association after a highly successful February 2008 festival united by a theme of The Shape of Jazz to Come with Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, and The Bad Plus. In early September, PDX Jazz was forced to suspend operations when there was an unexpected loss of sponsorship and funding. Miraculously, Alaska Airlines stepped forward 3 weeks later to offer a multi-year title sponsorship. Along with a newly formed group of community leaders, including City Commissioner Nick Fish and businessman Sho Dozono, additional financial pledges have been secured from a variety of community sources, forming enough stability along with projected ticket sales to move forward with a February Blue Note celebration.
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Current Blue Note artists, trumpeter Terence Blanchard, sax man Joe Lovano, vocalists Cassandra Wilson, Dianne Reeves, and Patricia Barber, and Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba will headline the 10-day event, which will also feature Blue Note Heritage artists McCoy Tyner, Bobby Hutcherson, Lou Donaldson, and Pat Martino.
The 6th annual series of jazz events begins with a rare performance of Grammy & Oscar Award-winning Terence Blanchard performing his A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina) with jazz quintet and full orchestra, written as a film score for Spike Lee's When The Levees Broke. The dozen selections emotionally recall the days after Hurricane Katrina in lower New Orleans. The beautiful melodies mourn the useless loss of life while a tension builds over and through the music, and will be played by an orchestra of prominent Portland musicians conducted by Paul Mazzio. Cuban piano master Gonzalo Rubalcaba and quintet will open this first night performance, Friday, February 13, 7:30 pm.
Double-bill concerts are the norm this year throughout the festival schedule with the new Joe Lovano Us5 plus French pianist Jacky Terrasson playing Saturday, February 14, 2:00 pm, Portland Art Museum. On Sunday, February 15 there is another double-bill of jazz master McCoy Tyner forming a quartet with Joe Lovano in tandem with clarinetist Don Byron's Ivey-Divey tribute to Lester Young opening. Later that day, South-African guitarist Lionel Loueke plus vocalist Judi Silvano close the first weekend's concerts (Sunday, February 15, 6:30 pm, Hilton Pavilion Ballroom). On the second weekend, several more double-bills feature vocalist Cassandra Wilson and the eclectic Jason Moran & The Bandwagon (Friday, February 20, 7:30 pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall). Blue Note heritage artists, bluesy saxophonist Lou Donaldson and vibes man Bobby Hutcherson perform Saturday, February 21, 2:00 pm, Crystal Ballroom. Later, on Saturday at 7:30 pianist/vocalist Patricia Barber performs with Blue Note's newest signing, Seattle pianist Aaron Parks, and on Sunday, February 22, jazz guitar wizard Pat Martino headlines with Jane Bunnett & The Spirits of Havana opening.
Interspersed are single concerts with 4-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist Dianne Reeves with the Oregon Symphony (Saturday, February 14, 7:30 pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall) and long time Blue Note guitarist John Scofield (Saturday, February 14, 9:30 pm, Portland Art Museum).
The complete Portland Jazz Festival headline concert schedule:
· Friday, February 13, 7:30 pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, A Tale of God's Will (Requiem for Katrina) Terence Blanchard Quintet with full orchestra plus Gonzalo Rubalcaba Quintet
· Saturday, February 14, 2:00 pm, Portland Art Museum Ballroom, Joe Lovano's Us5 plus Jacky Terrasson
· Saturday, February 14, 7:30 pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Dianne Reeves w/Oregon Symphony
· Saturday, February 14, 9:30 pm, Portland Art Museum Ballroom, John Scofield
· Sunday, February 15, 2:00 pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, McCoy Tyner + Joe Lovano Quartet plus Don Byron Ivey-Divey Trio
· Sunday, February 15, 6:30 pm, Hilton Pavilion Ballroom, Lionel Loueke plus Judi Silvano
· Thursday, February 19, 7:30 pm, Old Church, Portland Jazz Orchestra
· Friday, February 20, 7:30 pm, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Cassandra Wilson plus Jason Moran & The Bandwagon
· Saturday, February 21, 2:00 pm, Crystal Ballroom, Bobby Hutcherson plus Lou Donaldson
· Saturday, February 21, 7:30 pm, Newmark Theater, Patricia Barber plus Aaron Parks
· Sunday, February 22, 2:00 pm, Crystal Ballroom, Pat Martino plus Jane Bunnett & The Spirits of Havana
Tickets on Sale November 10! Special festival ticket packages are now available only at the PDX Jazz office, 133 SW 2nd Avenue, Suite 420, or by calling 503-228-5299. Single tickets are also now on sale through TicketMaster outlets or at pdxjazz.com. PDX Jazz members are able to purchase tickets online in advance to public sale beginning November 6.
Cannonball Adderley's Somethin' Else, featuring Miles Davis and Art Blakey, remains one of the classic Blue Note recordings. The 1959 release is a primary example of the Blue Note sound blending hard bop jazz improvisation with soul and early elements of rhythm & blues. Presentations by Blue Note President Bruce Lundvall (Friday, February 13,1:30 pm, PCPA Brunish Hall) and 3-time Grammy Award winning music producer and archivist Michael Cuscuna (Saturday, February 14, 11:30 am, PCPA Brunish Hall) will each be followed by panel discussions featuring leading jazz journalists and writers, musicians, and other Blue Note representatives.
Over 100 other separate events-all free and open to the public--will be added to the final festival schedule. Free concerts will be staged all around downtown Portland showcasing regional jazz artists at the ongoing PDX Jazz @ RiverPlace series at the RiverPlace Hotel; Paramount Hotel, PCPA Art Bar, Rogue Ales Public House, and many other locations. More performances, free and ticketed, are offered by PDX Jazz Partners--Oregon Symphony, Roseland Theater, Jimmy Mak's, Wilf's at Union Station, Heathman Hotel, Benson Hotel, NW Children's Theater, Leroy Vinnegar Jazz Institute, Creative Music Guild, Jazz Society of Oregon, and other key community partners.
Additionally, Portland Jazz Festival will again present over 50 jazz education & outreach events highlighted by performances of The Incredible Journey of Jazz, a middle school assembly program celebrating Black History Month through Jazz staged in regional schools throughout the festival. Portland Jazz Orchestra, the resident ensemble of the Portland Jazz Festival, will present Blue Note Legends, a concert of Blue Note standards on Thursday, February 19, 7:30 pm. Portland Jazz Orchestra members also conduct student musician workshops and master classes at Brunish Hall from 3:00 to 6:00 pm on Saturday, February 14; Sunday, February 15; and Saturday February 21. Student musicians also have their own stage at the PDX Jazz Pavilion at Pioneer Courthouse Square, a festival hub formed within a large heated tent where student musicians perform Friday, Saturday & Sunday, February 13-15, from 11:00 am to 5:30 pm. There is also a free, noontime performance of The Incredible Journey of Jazz on Presidents Day, Monday, February 16, in the PDX Jazz Pavilion. Beside the Blue Note related presentations and panel discussions, many of the artists will participate in Jazz Conversations with various jazz journalists throughout the festival at the PCPA Art Bar. Archival Blue Note films, featuring legendary performances by Lena Horne, Michel Petrucciani, Bobby McFerrin, Cecil Taylor, Stanley Turrentine, and others will be also screened during the festival.
Complete festival schedule will be available in December.
Last June, Portland Jazz Festival was nominated as one of the Top 5 Jazz Events by the Jazz Journalists Association after a highly successful February 2008 festival united by a theme of The Shape of Jazz to Come with Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, and The Bad Plus. In early September, PDX Jazz was forced to suspend operations when there was an unexpected loss of sponsorship and funding. Miraculously, Alaska Airlines stepped forward 3 weeks later to offer a multi-year title sponsorship. Along with a newly formed group of community leaders, including City Commissioner Nick Fish and businessman Sho Dozono, additional financial pledges have been secured from a variety of community sources, forming enough stability along with projected ticket sales to move forward with a February Blue Note celebration.
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