WWW.OREGONMUSICNEWS.COM OREGON MUSIC THE NEWS JAZZ the magazine ISSUEFEATURING Ron Carter Freda Payne Vijay Iyer Julian Lage Billy Childs Becca Stevens Bobby Bill Frisell and the full schedule to Torres40+ Years of THE PORTLAND Drumming JAZZ FESTIVAL PLUS: TALKING ‘bouT A REVOLUTION (HALL) | REVIEWS | GET OUT GUIDE VOLUME 1 ISSUE 3 | FEBRUARY 2015 CONTENTS THE FRONT ROW 4 Oregon is Jazz Heaven THE JAZZ ISSUE 6 Bobby Torres Ron Carter 8 9 Freda Payne Vijay Iyer 10 HEADLINERS: OMN’s guide to the Portland Jazz Festival 12 Julian Lage Billy Childs 15 16 Becca Stevens Bill Frisell 17 THE SCENE 19 Talking ‘bout a Revolution (Hall) 19 REVIEWS Album Reviews: Pyschomagic, Sleater-Kinney, 21 and The Lowest Pair GET OUT! 22 Staff picks for shows to catch around Oregon 21 Cover photo by Anthony Pidgeon / www.AnthonyPidgeon.com 21st Annual SPRING BEER& WINE FLYERS. FEST PROGRAMS. 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(OMN) is to grow Writers Heaven? and sustain Oregon’s James Bash Well, if not heaven, than a place where music community by Ruben Mosqueda Jazz flourishes and grows even among providing an all-genre music platform for Matthew Bernstein the young. We Oregonians love our Holly Johnson passive aggressive contrariness. So when comprehensive online and print music journalism. Cervante Pope I tell you that there is evidence that Inessa Jazz is an increasingly popular genre in OMN develops writers, Alaya Wyndham general and specifically among (even) photographers and digital Christa McIntyre Millennials, I can hear you both scoff and media producers of all Aaron Martin cheer. experience levels – driven Estevan MuÑoz Yes, there are those who have no idea of the vibrancy and forward by a passion for music H. Lime and a commitment to motion of today’s Jazz, who still have an outmoded idea that it is made by Stephen Murray journalistic integrity. old folks who sit still and listen in boring Jazz clubs. Straw man, I know, Stephen Blackman but we’ve all heard these stereotypes. Since its inception in 2009, Thea Prieto We know better. OMN has strived to: Stephanie Salvey From sold-out shows at every Portland Jazz Festival, to the growing Teri Briggs number of international performers brought to town by PDXJazz, • Provide training and Dennise Kowalczyk the astounding growth in the younger demographics at Jazz radio mentorship for new KMHD, the Creative Music Guild who bring international avant-garde writers and Photographers performers here, and the maturing group of performers making what we photojournalists John Rudoff used to call Indie-Jazz when they were in their 20s and now coalesced Jon T. Cruz around the Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble…we’ve got the music. • Provide a vehicle for Jason E Kaplan Portland is full of great musicians and teachers. Thara Memory is the established writers/ Anthony Pidgeon best known example, of course, having hatched Esperanza Spalding and photographers to have Karen Fox many more. Others like Allan Jones and his school, and programs like their work published/ Henry Ammann syndicated PSU’s Music Department, packed with brilliant teachers like Darrell William Riddle Grant and George Colligan, keep producing fine musicians. • Introduce and promote The finest schools country-wide: Juilliard, Berklee, etc., are full of Design/Layout local artists through Oregonians. coverage in OMN Ossie Bladine We have a large population of mature musicians who play world-wide but choose to live here because they love Oregon: Glen Moore, John • Inform community about Production Stowell and David Friesen are only a few. music events Dan Spence So when you attend Portland Jazz Festival events this month, you will be in happy, Jazz-friendly territory. • Impact local youth Advertising Smile, even though it’s February. music programs through Tammy Cook awareness and giving Adriana Ness Reach us at [email protected] or PO Box 5494, Portland, Oregon 97228 To advertise, email [email protected] Facebook: www.facebook.com/oregonmusicnews Twitter: @oregonmusicnews primary logos lenames for les provided for use on general items – main webpahge, · OMN_BW_simple_headphones letterhead, business card OMN 4 | FebruaryO M2015N OMN · OMN_BW_capsule_headphones oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com · OMN_color_headphones · OMN_BW_simple_microphone · OMN_BW_capsule_microphone OMN OMN OMN · OMN_color_microphone oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com · OMN_BW_simple_volume · OMN_BW_capsule_volume · OMN_color_volume OMN OMN OMN oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com secondary logos for use in specic contexts · OMN_alternate_color_keyboard OMN OMN OMN · OMN_alternate_color_guitar oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com · OMN_alternate_color_camera · OMN_alternate_color_mic · OMN_alternate_color_ticket · OMN_alternate_color_news OMN OMN OMN oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com From the OMN Photo Archives: Cécile McLorin Salvant at the 2014 Portland Jazz Festival, Newmark Theater, February 22, 2014 // Jason E Kaplan primary logos lenames for les provided for use on general items – main webpahge, · OMN_BW_simple_headphones letterhead, business card 5 | February 2015 OMN OMN OMN · OMN_BW_capsule_headphones oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com · OMN_color_headphones · OMN_BW_simple_microphone · OMN_BW_capsule_microphone OMN OMN OMN · OMN_color_microphone oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com · OMN_BW_simple_volume · OMN_BW_capsule_volume · OMN_color_volume OMN OMN OMN oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com secondary logos for use in specic contexts · OMN_alternate_color_keyboard OMN OMN OMN · OMN_alternate_color_guitar oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com · OMN_alternate_color_camera · OMN_alternate_color_mic · OMN_alternate_color_ticket · OMN_alternate_color_news OMN OMN OMN oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com oregonmusicnews.com HEADLINER Bobby Torres // Jason Kaplan photo t just the right time, when the glow Afrom the holidays has worn off and we know we’ve got at least four more months of the chilly damp, here comes the Portland Jazz Festival. All kinds of Jazz: Bebop, Soul, Latin, Avant- garde, solo concerts, combos, big ensembles, and players from 15- to 87-years-old from all Bobby Torres over the world and our own back yard. OMN is very happy to once again be a media sponsor for PJF. And for the fifth year, we will be presenting and podcasting BY Tom D’ANTONI all of the Jazz Conversations (page 14). and Luis Conte You can count on us for the most com- Has it really been 22 years since percus- Forty Years of sionist Bobby Torres started his band? Sure prehensive coverage of PJF. Click on the “Festivals” tab on the OMN web site to has. Twenty-two years with no signs of slowing down. He is Portland’s best known primary logos check out previous years’ coverage. lenames for les provided and most beloved percussionist. 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At stock, or that he was a very busy session player in 17 she was singing with me at Key Largo. L.A., playing on lots of hits with many hit makers — PORTLAND JAZZ FESTIVAL from Jackson Browne to Tom Jones to The Captain & Is it easier or harder to work