Summer Jazz Academy ’20
The Summer Jazz Academy from Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is going on now. It started July 20 and continues with classes for two weeks through Saturday Aug 1. I…
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The Cabaret Card: Discrimination Against Black Musicians
It all started with regulations on the nightclubs in New York City back in the 1920s. In 1926, the city council passed a law that imposed a 3am curfew and…
25th Essentially Ellington Festival begins June 8
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra offers the Essentially Ellington Jazz Festival every year in May. It is a festival of high school jazz bands playing from the library of Edward…
Rose City Swing plays at Jack London Revue
Rose City Swing is a 20-piece jazz band playing swing, Latin, bebop, funk, and rock grooves together since 1991. The jazz branch of Portland’s Rose City Pride Bands, RCS enjoys entertaining…
Swing Music at Local Senior Center
Rose City Swing is a 20-piece jazz band playing swing, Latin, bebop, funk, and rock grooves together since 1991. The jazz branch of Portland’s Rose City Pride Bands, RCS enjoys entertaining…
Love Songs & A Little Night Music
What a week! My students played TWO recitals; the same show at two venues. Two Venues On Sunday, 11-11-18, we played in the sanctuary at Laurelhurst Village. This was a…