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That is the case for the 2021 Biamp PDX Jazz Festival, which will feature 20 virtual events (three documentaries, 17 livestreams) and run from February 18–27. The programmers are also taking real advantage of the digital format, though: in addition to performance streams from the Jack London Revue downtown, the itinerary includes live events in Seattle, Brooklyn, London, Johannesburg, and Havana. This morning, Here are our can't-miss top picks. 8 p.m. Fri, February 19, $8–10 Some Americans might know López-Nussa from his 2018 Tiny Desk Concert, where he pou...

February 15 2021 International concerts, music films, local shows mark the 18th event, which had to change like everything else. Before the COVID-19 pandemic began and normal life went away, the Biamp PDX Jazz Festival took place as usual in 2020 with in-person concerts. "We wrapped our last day of the 2020 festival 10 days before the COVID shutdown happened," said Nicholas Salas-Harris, the festival's artistic director. "We were literally one of the only jazz festivals to go to in 2020." Well, if anything, they had a lot of time to plan for the 2021 festival, although Salas-Harris, Ex...

On the cusp of 80, the Brazilian icon reflects on decades of rhythm, melody and joyful living.  Credit: Katsunari Kawai/Concord Music Group. When it comes to 20th-century Brazilian music, Sergio Mendes belongs to a rarefied group of musicians who participated in its creation. “I remember Antônio Carlos Jobim showing me the song ‘Águas de Março [Waters of March]’ in the early 1970s,” Mendes says, casually confirming his status as an OG. “He said, ‘Check this out, I just wrote it.’ And I said, ‘Wow! Yeah, it’s magical!’ But then, eve...

Perry Botkin Jr., Composer Behind The Young and the Restless Theme, Dead at 87 People 1/25/2021 Grammy-winning TV and film composer Perry Botkin Jr. has died. He was 87. The music maker died on Monday, his longtime friend John Scheinfeld (writer of The Happy Days of Garry Marshall) confirmed on Facebook. "Today I share the news that the man who discovered Harry [Nilsson] and signed him to his first publishing contract, a gentleman and gentle-man named Perry Botkin, passed away," he wrote. "Perry was a magnificently talented composer, arranger, producer and storyteller, perhaps best known...

Botkin Jr. was also behind popular theme songs for '70s sitcom Mork & Mindy and The ABC Sunday Night Movie weekly program. Throughout his decades-long career, Botkin Jr. composed several recognizable commercial tunes for brands including American Airlines, Baskin-Robbins, Busch Light Beer, Chevron and Mattel. Though he was born in New York on April 16, 1933, the hitmaker was raised in Los Angeles after his family moved to The City of Angels soon after his birth. Botkin Jr. began developing his musical abilities in high school, where he played the trombone as part of a student jazz quartet (...