DAVE HOLLAND & DERRICK HODGE ‘JAZZ CONVERSATION’ W/ ASHLEY KAHN

2023 Biamp Portland Jazz Festival 
DAVE HOLLAND & DERRICK HODGE
“JAZZ CONVERSATION”
w/ ASHLEY KAHN

PORTLAND’5 ARTBAR  | 5.30 PM – 6.30 PM
FREE Community Event

Dave Holland

NEA Jazz Master, Virtuoso @Dave Holland is a guiding light on acoustic & electric bass creating consistently innovative music ensembles over 50 years, with multiple GRAMMY’s. Heard on hundreds of recordings, with more than thirty as a leader – from Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew-era band to Anouar Brahem with Jack DeJohnette; Wayne Shorter, Zakir Hussain to Betty Carter to forging a new sound with the pioneering avant-garde quartet Circle alongside Chick Corea, Anthony Braxton, and Barry Altschul; to providing early opportunities to now-leading players like Chris Potter, Kevin and Robin Eubanks, and Steve Coleman

Derrick Hodge 

Multi GRAMMY winning bassist Derrick Hodge’s accomplishments range from composing original music for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, to arranging for H.E.R with the LA Phil, Nas and the National Symphony Orchestra, Common and the Chicago Symphony, Maxwell and the National Symphony, as well as composing the original work “Infinite Reflections” for the Chicago Brass Ensemble, and being a Sundance Composer Fellow. Hodge has performed, written and/or recorded with Herbie Hancock, Q-Tip, Robert Glasper’s Black Radio since inception, Sade, Donald Byrd, Jill Scott, Bilal, Andre 3000, Ledisi, Terence Blanchard, Donald Byrd, Kirk Franklin, and more. As a Blue Note Artist, Hodge has three solo projects, the latest Color Of Noize which unleashes his freest work yet.

Ashley Kahn is a GRAMMY® winning music historian, author and producer, a wearer of hats, is wary of autocrats, loves jazz but is allergic to cats. He co-wrote Carlos Santana’s autobiography The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story To Light, and has written titles on legendary recordings Kind of Blue by Miles Davis and A Love Supreme by John Coltrane, and a record label: The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records. His most recent book, George Harrison on George Harrison: Interviews and Encounters was published in August 2020. He teaches at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music.

Ashley has been our Portland Jazz Fest esteemed guest interviewer since 2020 in conversations with Gary Bartz, Makaya McCraven, Archie Shepp, Brian Jackson, Stanley Jordan, Harold López Nussa, Judith Hill, director John Scheinfeld and more.