PJCE Tonight!
Tonight at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Portland will be the final performance in our second year of concerts by the Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble, one of my favorite ongoing projects. As I was just making up the program here, I went back through our old programs and determined that we have already debuted 30 new [...]
Kora Band @ Jimmy Maks Audio!
As promised, I’ve posted the audio from our recent Jimmy Maks gig with the Kora Band. We really enjoyed this show and are happy to share it with you. It features many of the songs on our album in newer versions as well as our new arrangement of Mamadou Bitiki-Kaira, and Kane’s excellent solo kora [...]
Makin it Happen
Just a brief post to note that today an interview about my experiences in the music business is up at Jason Parker’s site One Working Musician. Thanks to Jason for interviewing me and for running a well-organized and positive site about the music business!
Makin’ It Happen – Andrew Oliver
Post-Colonial African Groove of the Week #8 – Maliyo
Today we return to Mali for a tune from the inimitable Rail Band, one of the finest and most notable of the government-sponsored Post-Colonial West African bands, featuring long-time band member Djelimady Tounkara on guitar. The Rail Band (the full name of which is the Super Rail Band of the Buffet Hotel at the Gare [...]
Project updates, the Portland Jazz Scene, and a Slovakian!
Apologies to everyone who was disappointed with the lack of a Post-Colonial African Groove last Friday, I was somewhat swamped and had some friends from the Bay Area in town, but will resume this week! Meanwhile, here’s a bunch of information packed into a short post:
The Kora Band played at Jimmy Mak’s two Fridays ago [...]
Jazz Pioneers #2 – James P. Johnson and Fats Waller
Here’s the second entry in the ongoing “Jazz Pioneers” series. This one is, I suppose, more directly related to the debate that seems to have started with Toronto pianist Chris Donnelly’s first and second posts on his experience being “chewed out” for being negligent of James P. Johnson and his tune “Carolina Shout.” As you [...]
keep looking »