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Banjo and song with Michelle Alany @ Vino Veritas

Vino Veritas 7835 SE Stark St, Portland, OR, United States

Singer songwriter, banjoist and trumpeter Douglas Detrick teams up with singer songwriter and violinist Michelle Alany for an intimate and dynamic set at Vino Veritas Music Fridays. These multi-talented artists will perform their own songs as a duo, as well as traditional songs from the American roots and sephardic traditions, using their backgrounds in jazz and classical music as a foundation from which to depart. Douglas Detrick is a composer, songwriter, trumpet player, podcast producer and arts leader whose work in these diverse areas is distinguished by its quiet thoughtfulness and its embrace of good ideas from unconventional sources. He was awarded a 2017 Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, and has performed throughout the United States with his chamber-jazz quintet Douglas Detrick’s AnyWhen Ensemble, including the Stone, the Phillips Collection and many other venues and universities. He currently leads the chamber-folk quartet Little One, and is the the Executive and Artistic Director of the Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble. https://douglasdetrick.com/ A passionate violinist and vocalist, Michelle Alany has delighted and wowed audiences worldwide. Specializing in a global acoustic sound that features lush strings, soulful vocals and rhythmic groove, Michelle delivers soulful interpretations of traditional and original Sephardic (Judeo-Spanish), Balkan and Israeli songs infused with her tasty Austin-blues stylings. She is at home delivering haunting Mediterranean melodies, trading shredder blues licks or gently crafting a sensuous country solo on the fly, bringing her joyous abandon and enthusiasm to any world of music. http://www.michellealany.com/

Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble @ Roaring Rapids

Roaring Rapids Springfield, Oregon

In a new suite, renowned composer James Miley honors Oregon’s diverse waterways, from the mighty Columbia to the serenity of Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge. James Miley, recipient of the IAJE/Gil Evans Fellowship in Jazz Composition, is currently Assistant Professor of Music at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he directs the Willamette Jazz Collective and teaches improvisation, composition, jazz history, music technology, and music theory. A versatile composer and pianist comfortable in both the jazz and classical idioms, he has written music for a variety of chamber and choral ensembles in addition to his work for jazz orchestra.

Free

Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble @ Montavilla Jazz Festival

Portland Metro Arts 9003 SE Stark St, Portland, OR, United States

In a new suite, renowned composer James Miley honors Oregon’s diverse waterways, from the mighty Columbia to the serenity of Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge. James Miley, recipient of the IAJE/Gil Evans Fellowship in Jazz Composition, is currently Assistant Professor of Music at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he directs the Willamette Jazz Collective and teaches improvisation, composition, jazz history, music technology, and music theory. A versatile composer and pianist comfortable in both the jazz and classical idioms, he has written music for a variety of chamber and choral ensembles in addition to his work for jazz orchestra. General Admission availabile ONLY at Door: $15 Presale Drop-Down Options: Limited Reserved Seating: $25 VIP Stageside Seating: $50

$15 – $50

Tale in the Telling @ No Fun Bar

No Fun Bar 1709 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

Playing banjo and trumpet, and singing with Mike Gamble on guitar and Christopher Johnedis on drums.

Night of the Living Dead with PJCE

Holocene 1001 SE Morrison St, Portland

Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble (PJCE), in partnership with Holocene’s Fin Cu Cinema series, presents the iconic 1968 film “Night of the Living Dead” with a new live score composed by Amenta Abioto, Sage Fisher (aka Dolphin Midwives), and Maxx Katz for the city’s most adventurous jazz ensemble. On Thursday, October 25th at 8:30 pm the band will be on stage while the film is projected—with the original audio muted and English subtitles—on multiple screens around the Holocene’s two-levels, with each composer scoring one-third of the film. Doors open at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $25 reserved seated, $15 GA Day of show, $10 Advanced or Students and available at pjce.org/zombies and at the door. This event is 21+ only, and costumes are strongly encouraged. This program is partially funded by the Regional Arts and Culture Council’s Project Grant program and is co-presented by the Creative Music Guild. Thursday October 25th, 2018 – Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR 97214 7:30 pm doors open, 8:30 pm music begins $25 reserved seated, $15 GA Day of show, $10 Advanced or Students. 21+ only. Tickets available at pjce.org/zombies and at the door. Costumes encouraged.

$10 – $25

Little One with Noah Kite @ Strum

Strum 1415 SE Stark St #C, Portland, OR, United States

Double with Noah Kite and band at Strum! Strum Guitars -one of the few if not only places in Portland where tasty brews and beautiful guitars may treat yours senses as your fucking face loses its once gelatinous consistency like some raiders of the lost ark-esque claymation malfunction to sweltering, soulful, and moving live bands- will be hosting Noah Kite and Little One from 6:30 to 9. It's free. It's all ages. It's orchestral indie folk and its better arranged than any marriage. Little One combines Americana, jazz, and chamber music with original songs that aren’t afraid to share closely-held truths. The recording features songs dedicated to members of bandleader Douglas Detrick’s family with Detrick on clawhammer banjo, voice, and trumpet, William Seiji Marsh (Edna Vazquez, Cherry Poppin' Daddies) on guitar, Amanda Lawrence (Arco PDX) on viola, and Andy Rayborn (Kulululu) on bass clarinet—the group can access a unique palette of sounds. Noah Kite shapes pop, jazz, and classical influences to accent folk's lyrical poignancy. This chambered folk-rock uses its roots in a childhood of Ravel, Sade, Van Morrison, Enya, and Steely Dan to make melodic and poetic sense of experiences teaching, traveling, and touring abroad. While these dynamically orchestrated dramas find an expansively symphonic home on the eponymous record, in live settings arrangements are distilled to their essential workings; Kite’s guitar and voice are laced by the haunting oboe of Laura Gershman, the eclectic percussion of Alan Cook, and the impassioned alto sax of Jessica Paul to deliver each tune its own life.

FREE

Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble @ OSU

Memorial Union Ballroom 2501 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR, United States

PJCE performs "From Maxville to Vanport" in the Memorial Union Ballroom at Oregon State University. Reserve your free ticket here. PORTLAND JAZZ COMPOSERS ENSEMBLE IN RESIDENCE AT OSU The OSU Jazz Ensemble, directed by Ryan Biesack, performs at 7:30 pm, PJCE follows at 8:30, concluding around 9:30 pm. The performance concludes a day of workshops with OSU students led by vocalist Marilyn Keller, composer Ezra Weiss, and PJCE Executive Director and trumpeter Douglas Detrick. The 12-piece Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble performs original songs and short films inspired by two towns that reveal distinctive viewpoints of the state’s under-represented Black history. Looking honestly at the prejudice these people faced, the joyful program celebrates their resilience, courage, and important contributions to Oregon through jazz, R&B, and blues. The music, composed by Weiss with lyrics by poet S. Renee Mitchell, is performed by the PJCE with vocalist Marilyn Keller. The project also includes two film shorts by filmmaker Kalimah Abioto scored by Weiss that will be projected with the ensemble performing the score. http://pjce.org/maxville-to-vanport/ From Maxville to Vanport was funded by the Oregon Community Foundation’s Creative Heights program and was sponsored by Vanport Mosaic and Oregon Historical Society.

FREE