Oregon Music News<\/em><\/a>. The publication is archiving all of the festival\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Art Bar conversations.<\/p>\n*The initial post of this review mistakenly attributed the authorship of “Sunny” to Stevie Wonder. Thanks to knowledgeable readers Art Manchester and Bob Blumenthal for catching the error.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pat Martino and Kenny Barron, two of the many Philadelphians appearing at the 2016 Portland Jazz Festival, led their groups in a concert at the Winningstad Theatre. First up, guitarist Martino\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trio with organist Pat Bianchi and drummer Carmen Intorre played a set infused with the soul feeling that Martino absorbed and refined with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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the soul feeling that Martino absorbed and refined with the saxophonists Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt and with organists Richard Groove Holmes, Jack McDuff, Jimmy Smith and Don Patterson. Martino is admired equally for his technical agility and a mathematical approach to improvisation that he is able to combine with his blues sensibility. In Portland, that resulted in an exhilarating series of solos. Bianchi at least matched his leader\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s verve and inventiveness and in a couple of cases outstripped Martino in swing and interesting ideas. Intorre\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s drumming propels without intruding. His ability to place a rhythm accent at precisely the right millisecond was a major factor in the band\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s swing.<\/p>\n![\"Barron](\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Barron-by-Sheldon-16.jpg\")
Another established firm took over when pianist Kenny Barron (pictured at rehearsal) brought bassist Kyoshi Kitagawa and drummer Jonathan Blake to the stage. As if he had inherited a portion of Bud Powell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s manic energy, Barron tore into \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bud Like,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d his composition named with Powell in mind. He unquestionably makes use of Powell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s way with harmony, although Barron\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s softer keyboard touch is a major part of the individuality he brings to whatever he plays. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lullaby,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d another original, was a waltz in which Blake\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brushes provided a backdrop for Barron\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s application of that touch and for the pianist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ingenuity in deepening a tune’s harmonic interest. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nightfall\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was Barron\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tribute to the ballad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s composer, the late bassist Charlie Haden, with whom he recorded a memorable