Upcoming Events

Biamp Portland Jazz Festival  ADRIANA WAGNER +2 Ft. Garrett Baxter bass and Domo Branch drums presented by PDX Jazz  Trombonist and composer Adriana Wagner draws inspiration from a wide array of influences, combining traditional and modern jazz sounds with fragments of salsa, R&B, and indie. Her original compositions weave styles together under a decidedly jazz banner, submerging the listener in visionary storytelling. As a performer, Wagner uses lyrical elements to create melodies combined with a soft, rich tone that can resonate…

Biamp Portland Jazz Festival  CATARINA NEW TRIO  presented by PDX Jazz  AC Hotel | 5.00 - 6.30 PM FREE Community Event Saxophonist Catarina New started her music career in her native country Sweden. After a degree in music education and a few years of teaching and performing in Sweden and Scandinavia, she landed in New York for 2 years of Jazz studies at New School of Jazz. In the late nineties she made LA and Palm Springs, California her home,…

Biamp Portland Jazz Festival MIA NICHOLSON QUARTET feat. Vince Frates piano, Ed Bennett bass, Brent Follis drums presented by PDX Jazz  The Benson Hotel | 6:00 - 7.30 PM FREE Community Event “You can hear the smile in her voice.” - a satisfied listener. Mia Nicholson’s sound is at once dynamic and understated; sultry and refreshing — and always vulnerable. Based in Portland, Oregon, Mia has earned a loyal following for her expressive storytelling, tasteful repertoire and flashes of wit.…

Biamp Portland Jazz Festival JET BLACK PEARL TRIO featuring BILL ATHENS double bass JAMES POWERS trombone presented by PDX Jazz  Artichoke Music | 7.00 - 9.00 PM FREE Community Event The untamed and inimitable Jet Black Pearl from the port of Amsterdam spent many years in the south of France before settling in Portland in 2014. She has performed on more than a thousand stages all over the world. Jet is a creator of alternative worlds filled with surreal humor and wry…

Biamp Portland Jazz Festival JOHN JB BUTLER presented by PDX Jazz  The Nines | 12.00 - 1.30 PM FREE Community Event "Deft Jazz Guitarist" Downbeat Magazine John JB Butler is a guitarist and composer with extensive experience performing and teaching guitar nationally and internationally. He has lived and worked as a professional musician in New York, Amsterdam and Lima Peru, and is now based out of Portland, Oregon. He received a Fulbright grant in Peru where he taught jazz throughout…

Biamp Portland Jazz Festival GORDON LEE QUARTET feat. Renato Caranto, Gary Hobbs and Dennis Caiazza presented by PDX Jazz  The Benson Hotel | 6:00 - 7.30 PM FREE Community Event Gordon Lee is a composer, jazz pianist, arranger, conductor and music educator who is well known throughout the Pacific northwest and has worked with Don Cherry, Obo Addy, Joe Lovano, Bobby Hutcherson and Benny Golson among many others. Lee played with one of the originators of jazz-rock fusion, Jim Pepper,…