Busy Week – Herbie Nichols Wednesday / PJCE Returns Saturday!
This week I have two shows of interest, I’m especially excited about the return of the full 14-piece Portland Jazz Composers’ Ensemble at the Community Music Center Saturday night. I’ll also be at Tony Starlight’s on Wednesday with some great music by Herbie Nichols, the obscure but fascinating pianist from the 50′s-60′s era. We have [...]
PJCE Fundraiser 9/24!
At long last the Portland Jazz Composers’ Ensemble returns with a fundraising concert on September 24. After a year of organizational restructuring including incorporating as a nonprofit and finally receiving 501 (c) 3 status from the IRS, the Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble is back with a season of concerts we’re kicking off with a fundraiser [...]
PJCE Audio
Yes, I’ve been swamped with much activity lately, as usual, and have been very slack about updating here. I will make yet another effort to get it together! I’ve been in the studio this week with the excellent Sam Howard Band, we’re finishing up recording a new full-length album for Diatic Records this afternoon. It’s [...]
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 [...]
PJCE Spring Concert Wrapup
(photo by Maureen Oliver, more photos from the concert here) Well it seems that the PJCE is taking up a lot of space on here recently, although I have some other posts in the works (as well as lots of projects, the list of which was rather frighteningly long when I read it out loud [...]
as "grassroots" as they come…
We rehearsed the PJCE the other night at a place called AudioCinema in Portland’s industrial district. It is a great space, large and good-sounding, where I hope to do some gigs/mini-festivals or something in the future. Nonetheless, an extremely loud rock band was rehearsing in another part of the building, which made playing the more [...]
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