Dee Dee Bridgewater and Roy Haynes to Headline 2012 U.S. Bank Portland Jazz Festival Presented by Alaska Airlines at Newmark Theatre
Posted February 3, 2012
Dee Dee Bridgewater and Roy Haynes
to Headline 2012 U.S. Bank Portland Jazz Festival
Presented by Alaska Airlines at Newmark Theatre
Photo Credits: Courtesy of the artists
Bridgewater to Pay Tribute to Billie Holiday – Thursday, February 23 at 7pm
Haynes to Make Portland Debut as a Leader – Friday, February 24 at 7pmPrime Reserved Seating Still Available
Dee Dee Bridgewater and Roy Haynes are set to perform at the 2012 U.S. Bank Portland Jazz Festival Presented by Alaska Airlines. Bridgewater will perform repertoire from her recent GRAMMY® Award winning project, in a program titled “To Billie with Love: A Celebration of Lady Day,” paying homage to Billie Holiday on Thursday, February 23 at 7pm. Haynes will make his Portland debut as a leader with his Fountain of Youth band on Friday, February 24 at 7pm. Both performances will take place at the Newmark Theatre.Three-time GRAMMY® Award winner
Bridgewater has been a torchbearer for female vocalists in the tradition of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan for the past 40 years. Bridgewater and her rich, charismatic voice will evoke some “Holiday” spirit, performing the timeless songs of Billie Holiday from her 2010 GRAMMY® Award winning album
Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee. The former Tony® Award winner, awarded for her role in The Wiz on Broadway, will be joined by pianist and music director Edsel Gomez, saxophonist Craig Handy, bassist Kenny Davis, and drummer Lewis Nash. Bridgewater will perform at the
Newmark Theatre on
Thursday, February 23 at 7pm.Holiday’s influence as a jazz icon looms large, and in the case of
Haynes there is a direct historical link. Haynes joined Lester Young’s band in 1947, and that year Billie performed with them in New York. Because of his distinctive playing, Holiday nicknamed Young “Prez,” and he in turn nicknamed her “Lady Day.” In 1959, the indefatigable Haynes played on Holiday’s last show, at the famed Storyville Club in Boston. Six years later Haynes named his son Craig Holiday Haynes in her honor.
Few musicians have had the decorated, enduring career of drummer and NEA Jazz Master Haynes. Haynes, 86, earned the nickname of “Snap Crackle” in the 1950s for his uniquely punctuated rhythms and use of the snare drum. He has worked with generational jazz goliaths like Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Thelonious Monk, Sarah Vaughan, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and countless others. He has also played with popular rock acts such as The Rolling Stones, and The Allman Brothers Band. Haynes has led his band – Fountain of Youth – for the better half of the last decade, tackling bebop and hard swinging jazz. Haynes will make a much anticipated and long overdue debut as a leader in Portland at the Newmark Theatre on Friday, February 24 at 7pm.
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Thursday, February 23 at 7pm
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Roy Haynes
Friday, February 24 at 7pm
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Roy Haynes on the
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Newmark Theatre
1111 SW Broadway (at Main Street)
Portland, OR 97205
(503) 248-4335
Ticketing Info:
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Portland Icon Thara Memory To Be Honored As 2012 Portland Jazz Master At Festival – The Winningstad Theatre, Feb. 17, 7:30PM
Posted December 21, 2011
“Thara’s commitment to our music is a beacon of inspiration to musicians everywhere, and an example for all practitioners of the arts and all educators.” - Esperanza Spalding
Renowned Trumpeter Will Kick Off Festival with “Artfully Miles”
Paying Homage to Miles Davis & Gil Evans
PDX Jazz will honor trumpeter Thara Memory as the second annual Portland Jazz Master to kick off the 2012 US Bank Portland Jazz Festival Presented by Alaska Airlines on Friday, February 17th at 7:30pm at the Winningstad Theatre. An influential performer and educator within the Portland community for over 40 years, Memory will use the occasion to present an ambitious, special program in tribute to his inspiration Miles Davis, entitled “Artfully Miles.” The show will spotlight the landmark collaborations between Davis & Gil Evans, including compositions and arrangements from the albums Porgy and Bess and Sketches of Spain.
A range of 20 professional jazz and classical artists and student musicians will join Memory in performing timeless pieces including: tubist Ja’Ttik Clark (principal with the Oregon Symphony) and violinist Peter Piazza (Portland Opera), as well as lead trumpeter Ben McDonald, bassist Ben Jones, drummer Israel Annoh, pianist Janice Scroggins, trombonist Stan Boch, trombonist Dan Brewster, french hornist Bill Stalnaker, and tenor saxophonist Renato Caranto, among others. They will perform music from these respective records, which are an upwards of six decades old, including: “The Buzzard Song,” “Gone,” “Summertime,” “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” “Will o’ the Wisp,” “Concierto de Aranjuez” and a solo from “Seven Steps to Heaven.”
Both Porgy and Bess and Sketches of Spain are the two most revered collaborations between Davis and Evans. Their adaption of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess helped revolutionize the “modal jazz” discipline. Together, Davis and Evans built on the modal experimentations of Porgy and Besswith Sketches of Spain, which added a Spanish music flavoring to their on-going work – the result was an eclectic sub style of early Latin jazz.
“I met Miles once but he never taught me straight on. Yet his teaching was so prevalent, for four or five decades he constantly changed the music,” remarks Memory. “I hope by doing this program, I can pick up where Miles left off and I can continue going with that torch and making sure it stays lit.”
“Thara is truly a national jazz treasure and we are lucky to have him here in Portland,” states PDX Jazz Managing Director Don Lucoff. “We are honored to recognize Thara for his numerous accomplishments throughout a celebrated career that continues to inspire in the classroom and concert hall,” Lucoff concludes.
Memory has been an instrumental performer and teacher within the Portland community for over forty years. He is the renowned teacher of recent GRAMMY® Award winner and Portland-native,Esperanza Spalding. Memory founded the American Music Program in 2005, which is an award-winning youth jazz orchestra with national accolades. In 2006, he earned the Jazz Society of Oregon’s “Musician of the Year” award and, one year later, was inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame. He has also played with seminal musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, James Brown, Stanley Turrentine, Eddie Henderson, Natalie Cole, The Four Tops, Arturo Sandoval, Eddie Harris, and The Commodores.
After growing up in Tampa, Florida, Memory moved to Portland in 1970 on a tour with famed blues musician, Joe Tex Band and has been a resident ever since. He has released two acclaimed albums in “Juke Music” from 1991 and “Chronicle” from 2006. Memory has twice conducted for the Portland Festival Symphony while maintaining a strong following on the jazz club scene in Portland. He has taught courses at Portland State University, Portland Community College, and Marylhurst University as well as award-winning bands at Portland’s Wilson High School and Beaverton’s Arts and Communications Magnet Academy.
In reflecting on the award, Memory concludes, “This is a very high honor and I have never had anything of this magnitude happen to me.”
Ticketing Info:
Portland Jazz Festival Box Office Hours of Operation: 2 – 5:30pm, Monday-Friday
Order by Phone: (503) 228-5299
In Person: 133 SW 2nd Avenue, Ste 420 Portland, OR 97204
Email: [email protected]
For online tickets, visit: https://www.boxofficetickets.com/pdxjazz
PCPA Main Box Office
1111 SW Broadway
Open 10am – 5pm, Monday through Saturday-Walk up sales only (503) 248-4335
Tickets range from $22-$42
Ticket Package:
Tickets to all 3 shows in the Winningstad Theatre
(Thara Memory, Enrico Rava, and The Jazz Passengers), seated in price level 2, $79
Package is available exclusively through the Portland Jazz Festival box office
www.pdxjazz.com
For more info about the Winningstad Theatre, visit:
www.pcpa.com/events/winny.php
