{"id":4463,"date":"2013-02-18T01:28:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T09:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4463"},"modified":"2013-02-17T23:44:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T07:44:57","slug":"portland-beckons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2013\/02\/portland-beckons\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Beckons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PDX-JAZZ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PDX-JAZZ.jpg\" alt=\"PDX-JAZZ\" width=\"140\" height=\"73\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4465\" \/><\/a>The Portland Jazz Festival, a ten-day extravaganza that fills the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s theaters, clubs and restaurants with music, has been underway since last Friday. Tomorrow, the <em>Rifftides<\/em> staff will wend our way down US 97, turn right on I-84 and head west to Portland through the Columbia River Gorge&#151;spectacular<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Columbia-Gorge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Columbia-Gorge.jpg\" alt=\"Columbia Gorge\" width=\"143\" height=\"96\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4464\" \/><\/a> at any time of year&#151;to catch the last half of the festival. <a href=\"http:\/\/pdxjazz.com\/portland-jazz-festival\/events\"target=\"_blank\">Go here <\/a>for a complete list of the musicians we have missed in the first days and others we will try to fit into a packed listening schedule. The first performance I plan to tell you about will be by tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton at Jimmy Mak\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, one of Portland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s principal jazz clubs. Hamilton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s co-conspirators will be local citizens with national reputations; pianist Dave Frishberg, bassist Dave Captein and drummer GaryHobbs. <\/p>\n<p>Later in the week: Matt Wilson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Arts and Crafts, Kenny Garrett, Steve Kuhn, George Cables, Patricia Barber, Jack DeJohnette, Greta Matassa, Steven Bernstein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Sex Mob, Nancy King, Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding and Geri Allen. Those are some of the major events, most of them in downtown Portland<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/portland-at-night.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/portland-at-night.jpg\" alt=\"portland-at-night\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4467\" \/><\/a> theaters. The challenge will be to also at least sample appearances by a few dozen of the Pacific Northwest\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fine resident artists; David Friesen, for instance, Randy Porter, Mel Brown, George Colligan and&#151;&#151;well, hit the &#8220;Go Here&#8221; link in the above paragraph and see what the festival\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s artistic director, Don Lucoff, and Portland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s club owners have put together. <\/p>\n<p>Sleep may not be an option.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Jazz Festival, a ten-day extravaganza that fills the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s theaters, clubs and restaurants with music, has been underway since last Friday. 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