{"id":8009,"date":"2016-11-30T17:06:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T01:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8009"},"modified":"2016-11-30T17:06:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T01:06:13","slug":"portland-jazz-bulwark-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/11\/portland-jazz-bulwark-to-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Jazz Bulwark To Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8010 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/images-1.jpeg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"279\" height=\"180\" \/>There is news from Portland, Oregon, that Jimmy Mak\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jazz club will permanently close at the end of 2016. A leading west coast club for 20 years, Mak\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s has been a primary outlet for the talents of musicians in Oregon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s active jazz community and for touring national artists. Owner Jimmy Makarounis told <em>The Oregonian<\/em> that a chronic health problem forced the decision:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As many of you know, I have been battling larynx cancer for these past four years, and I simply need to step away from the business to focus on healing and beating this disease, once and for all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Portland PDX Jazz Festival announced that Jimmy Mak\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bookings planned for the 2017 festival in February have been moved to other locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is news from Portland, Oregon, that Jimmy Mak\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jazz club will permanently close at the end of 2016. A leading west coast club for 20 years, Mak\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s has been a primary outlet for the talents of musicians in Oregon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s active jazz community and for touring national artists. Owner Jimmy Makarounis told The Oregonian that [&hellip;]<\/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-8009","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\/8009","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=8009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}