How do you score a jazz documentary? Bring together five talented musicians and let them play. Oregon Experience’s “Jazz Town” documents the music and musicians of a bygone chapter of Portland history ...

A colorful and significant chapter in the city’s cultural narrative, this short-lived period is largely unknown to many Oregonians. Produced/Written by Eric Cain and edited by Bruce Barrow. Jazz came ...

There are few things better than being called a Jazz Town.As we sit here following the first night of Jazz Aspen Snowmass and a pair of performances featuring Jazz legend Herbie Hancock and the very ...

For all the jazz-related hype and buzz Denton gets, the off-campus opportunities to listen to up-and-coming jazz musicians are as irregular, fluctuating and intermittent as the music itself—with one ...

Thinking back over the dusty archives and general time-warping, black-hole conditions of the COVID hunker down can be an illuminating, bewildering, and bothering endeavor. I do remember planning to go ...

It was a big surprise. Last (pandemic) year B'Town Jazz gave us an online festival, Homegrown Hip, a new, mostly monthly selection of the region's most lauded jazz musicians. "We hope to continue ...

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