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Famed Oregon Coast Jazz Party Swings Into Newports Nye Beach Oct 6 - 8 - This year a Cole Porter tribute and a stellar lineup

A taste of Brazil is coming to Sisters Country. On Friday, June 23, Vianna-Bergeron Brazilian Jazz will bring the grooves and joy of Brazilian music

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Rod Fleeman, a mainstay of the Kansas City jazz scene and a longtime sideman, is out with his first album under his own name: "Saturday Afternoon Live at Green Lady Lounge."

Listening back 2020: Oregon recordings from a fraught year Spotlighting a last batch of 2020 Oregon recordings I know the last thing many of us want to do is revisit 2020. But we can’t let it slip away without spotlighting one final batch of musical recommendations gleaned from the many recordings Oregon musicians released last year. Some explicitly respond to the crises that plagued what ArtsWatch’s Bob Hicks calls “The Year That Should Not Speak Its Name.” Others were made earlier and...

Bob Bowman, a native Kansan, learned to play the piano and clarinet before beginning to play bass at age 12. He won a scholarship to the Stan Kenton Jazz Clinic as a high school freshman, followed by study at North Texas State University. In 1976, he joined the famous Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, touring and recording several albums. Bob continued his performing and recording career by joining the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabakin Big Band in Los Angeles in 1979. Over the course of his career Bob...

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