PDX Jazz has announced its third Fall Season of shows at Jimmy Mak’s (aka PDXJazz @ Jimmy Mak’s) highlighted by the Portland return of The Bad Plus, the Portland debut of The Cookers featuring Billy Harper, Gary Bartz, Billy Hart, Eddie Henderson, Cecil McBee and David Weiss, a rare club performance by the Joshua Redman Trio, the continued Blue Note Records @ 75 celebration with performances by the Jacky Terrasson Trio and the Greg Osby Quartet, as well as the return of the Miguel Zenón Quartet. The season concludes on December 10 honoring Blue Note Records icon Dexter Gordon on a program curated by David Evans featuring George Colligan, Tom Wakeling, Alan Jones and Charlie Porter.
Here’s the lineup
The Bad Plus
The Bad Plus: Inevitable Western, Jimmy Mak’s, Wednesday, September 24, 7 & 9:30pm , $20 general admission, $25 reserved
Ethan Iverson / piano
Reid Anderson / bass
Dave King / drums
The Bad Plus came together at the end of the 20th century and has avoided easy categorization ever since, winning over a legion of fans worldwide with their creativity, unique sound and flair for live performance. Based in New York City, the intensely collaborative trio has constantly searched for rules to break and boundaries to cross, bridging genres and techniques while exploring the infinite possibilities of three exceptional musicians working in perfect sync. They will feature new material from the band’s upcoming 10th studio recording, Inevitable Western, due to be released this September.
The Cookers, Jimmy Mak’s, Wednesday, October 1, 7pm $20 general admission, $25 reserved & 9:30pm $18 general admission, $22 reserved. If you have purchased tickets for the 7:00PM show, you may purchase advanced 9:30pm tickets for $15 GA $18 reserved. The system will automatically recognize your 7:00pm purchase. No food or drink minimum for 2nd show
Billy Harper / saxophone
Eddie Henderson / trumpet
David Weiss / trumpet
Gary Bartz / saxophone
George Cables / piano
Cecil McBee / bass
Billy Hart / drums
The Cookers draws it’s inspiration from the seminal Blue Note Records release, The Night of the Cookers, by combining some of the greatest musicians from that era with some of this generations more fiery players. While giants in their own right, the members of this ensemble have performed and/or recorded with essentially every jazz great of the past half century including Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Jackie McLean, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson, Lee Morgan, Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie, and Roy Haynes, to name just a few. Welcome The Cookers with open arms for their first ever performance in Portland.
Photo by John Rudoff
Joshua Redman Trio, Jimmy Mak’s, Wednesday, October 8, 7 & 9:30pm, $25 general admission, $35 reserved
Joshua Redman / saxophone
Reuben Rogers / bass
Gregory Hutchinson / drums
The celebrated saxophonist Joshua Redman is one of the most imposing and charismatic jazz musicians to have emerged in the 1990s. The son of legendary saxophonist Dewey Redman, he won the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition in 1991 and has since recorded and performed with musicians such as Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Joe Lovano, Brian Blade, Pat Metheny, Roy Hargrove, Geoff Keezer, Dave Brubeck, Bill Frisell, Quincy Jones, The Dave Matthews Band, John Scofield, The Rolling Stones and Stevie Wonder among others. Redman, who’s longstanding band recalls the Sonny Rollins Trio, returns to the Rose City after last performing at the 2011 Portland Jazz Festival in support of his latest release, Trios Live.
Jacky Terrasson Trio, Jimmy Mak’s, Tuesday, October 21, 7 & 9:30pm, $20 general admission, $25 reserved & 9:30pm $18 general admission, $22 reserved. If you have purchased tickets for the 7:00PM show, you may purchase advanced 9:30pm tickets for $15 GA $18 reserved. The system will automatically recognize your 7:00pm purchase. No food or drink minimum for 2nd show
Jacky Terrasson / piano
Burniss Earl Travis / bass
Justin Faulkner / drums
French-American pianist Jacky Terrasson’s relationship to the piano has been compared to “Lebron James’ relationship to a 10 foot high basket…they could dunk in their sleep (JazzTimes).” After winning the prestigious 1993 Thelonious Monk Competition, he went through the venerable jazz university of Betty Carter and collaborated with vocalists such as Jimmy Scott, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dianne Reeves and Cassandra Wilson. He is equally at home in the trio setting, where he continues Betty Carter’s tradition of discerning and employing only the finest young talent on the scene. Terrasson’s music draws on the vast influences of himself and his band members, ranging from the swing music of the early ’30s to the hard driving funk of the ’70s. The European bandleader makes a rare West Coast appearance; he last played here at the 2009 jazz festival.
Greg Osby Quartet, Jimmy Mak’s, Wednesday, October 22, 7 & 9:30pm, $20 general admission, $25 reserved & 9:30pm $18 general admission, $22 reserved. If you have purchased tickets for the 7:00PM show, you may purchase advanced 9:30pm tickets for $15 GA $18 reserved. The system will automatically recognize your 7:00pm purchase. No food or drink minimum for 2nd show.
Greg Osby / saxophone
Simona Premazzi / piano
Desmond White / bass
Adam Arruda / drums
Saxophonist, composer, producer and educator Greg Osby has made an indelible mark on contemporary jazz as a leader of his own ensembles and as a guest artist with other acclaimed jazz groups for the past 20 years. Highly regarded for his insightful and innovative approach to composition and performance, Osby established himself as a notable and in demand sideman for artists as varied as Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Jack DeJohnette, Andrew Hill, Jim Hall and Jaki Byard. Osby, who has an uncanny eye and ear for artists, assembled a groundbreaking quartet, giving early exposure to Jason Moran, Tarus Mateen, and Nasheet Waits, who ultimately became known as Bandwagon. He hails from St. Louis, the gateway city that serves as home base for soulful altoist’s Oliver Lake and David Sanborn.
Miguel Zenón Quartet, opening performance by Jesse Marquez, Jimmy Mak’s, Friday, November 14 @ 7:30pm, $20 general admission, $25 reserved.
Miguel Zenón / saxophone
Luis Perdomo / piano
Hans Glawischnig / bass
Henry Cole / drums
Grammy® Award-nominee Miguel Zenón, also a Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow, represents a select group of musicians who have masterfully balanced and blended the often-contradictory poles of innovation and tradition. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Zenón has recorded and toured with a wide variety of musicians including Charlie Haden, Fred Hersch, Kenny Werner, Bobby Hutcherson and Steve Coleman and is a founding member of the groundbreaking SFJAZZ Collective. His latest release, Oye!!! Live in Puerto Rico features the debut recording of The Rhythm Collective, an ensemble first put together in 2003 for a month long tour of West Africa. Zenón was last featured in Portland as part of PDX Jazz At The Mission in November 2012.
Swingin’ Affair: Dex @ 90, Jimmy Mak’s Wednesday, December 10, 7:30pm, $15 general admission, $20 reserved
David Evans / saxophone
Charlie Porter / trumpet
George Colligan / piano
Tom Wakeling / bass
Alan Jones / drums
Under the musical direction of David Evans, Charlie Porter, George Colligan, Tom Wakeling, and Alan Jones celebrate the music of Dexter Gordon. A “sophisticated giant” of a tenor man at six-foot-six inches, Gordon was an early pioneer of the Bebop era. He got his start with Lionel Hampton and Never Looked Back. Playing with the best bands of the war era, Fletcher Henderson, Louis Armstrong, Billy Eckstine, and Illinois Jacquet. Having influences by Lester Young, Gordon played and recorded with Charlie Parker and was an influence on John Coltrane. He spent considerable time in Europe and documented upwards of 50 solo albums. His Blue Note sessions are considered his best and define the golden age of mainstream jazz. His 1986 performance on Round Midnight earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Leading Role and he won a Grammy® for Best Soundtrack.
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