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Head down to Cathedral Park today for the final day of the 2008 Cathedral Park Jazz Festival.  The lineup includes:

• Bryant Allard
• Karla Harris
• Portland Jazz Orchestra
• Bill Mays with Dave Captein and Gary Hobbs

John Nastos
Jimmy Mak’s

From this week’s press release from The Cave:

Wednesday July 9th: NANCY KING INVITATIONAL

This week because she is in Paris singing, Nancy invites:

CHERYL ALEX and RANDY PORTER!!!

As her website says, Cheryl IS one of the best kept secrets of the Northwest jazz scene! She’s been playing amazing jazz flute for more than a decade, appearing regularly and recording with luminaries such as Nancy King, Randy Porter, Leroy Vinegar and guitar wizard Jerry Hahn. At home with a wide range of styles, from straight-ahead bebop to tender ballads, Cheryl’s versatility shows a masterful command of her instruments. Come see her with the great Randy Porter, a Cave favorite, who The Oregonian describes as “… a musician’s musician, a knowledgeable, inventive, and sophisticated player with a remarkable sense of time and gorgeous keyboard facility. . .”  This is a fantastic pairing!  Come by and prepare to be impressed!

Thursday July 10th: ALAN JONES PRESENTS…

This week because he is touring in Germany, Austria and Croatia, Alan invites:

TIM GILSON AND FRIENDS!!!

David Goldblatt piano, Rob Davis tenor, Charlie Doggett drums

Bandleader Tim is an excellent bassist who’s played with jazz greats Mel Brown, Slide Hampton, Diane Schuur, Bud Shank, Charlie Rouse, Shelly Manne, Julian Priester, and Ernestine Anderson, to name a few.  He’s also the Music & Theory instructor, and director of the string ensemble at Mt Hood Community College, so he obviously knows what he’s doing, especially when he put this group together. 

In over two decades as a Los Angeles jazz pianist and studio musician, David Goldblatt has performed and recorded with a TON of famous people!  Here are some of them:  Scott Henderson and Gary Willis (as a member of Tribal Tech), Mark Isham, Vinnie Colaiuta, John Patitucci, Rick Margitza, Phil Upchurch, Diana Ross ( as music director on world tours), Gino Vannelli, Dizzy Gillespie, Wayne Shorter, Joe Sample, The Crusaders, Terry Plumeri, Flora Purim and Airto Moreira, Dave Weckl, Frank Gambale, Roberta Flack, Madeleine Peyroux.  David is pretty good!!

We’ve heard Rob Davis’ amazing sax playing at The Cave before, and that’s why he’s back - he’s fantastic!  We definitely agree with Peter Sieve from Oldenburgische Volkszeitung; Germany when he says, “Rob Davis, a saxophonist of the highest class, always perfect in tone quality from a whisper to a roar. His solos swing to dizzying heights, always treading further into uncharted territory, the sound is always light and free.”

And then there’s Charlie Doggett on drums, one of the most enigmatic drummers in the Portland and the greater Northwest music scene. He is a creative and versatile musician that makes himself heard. Charlie earned his BA in Music from the University of Oregon, where he studied with Charles Dowd and Gary Versace. He’s played with a litany of great performers, such as David Friesen, Darrell Grant, John Gross, Doc Holliday, David Frishberg, Gary Versace, Greg Coghen, John Stowell, Jerry Hahn, Randy Porter, Titos Sompa,Obo Addy, Rob Sheps,and the Eugene Symphony Orchestra. He’s performed at British ColumbiaÌs du Maurier International Jazz Festival, the Medicine Hat Jazz Festival, Alberta, Canada, and the Mt. Hood Festival of Jazz, which was featured on Branford Marsalis’s NPR Jazz Set Program.

Friday July 11th: FROM SAN FRANCISCO - HARVEY WAINAPEL

Randy Porter piano, Dave Speranza bass, Charlie Doggett drums

Originally from upstate New York, Wainapel studied at Berklee College of Music for two years, during which time he recorded (and performed at Carnegie Hall) with vibist Gary Burton. Following a two-month tour of Tunisia, Wainapel settled in Europe for five years, including one year with the German Radio Big Band in Frankfurt. Soon after returning to New York, Wainapel was hired by singer Ray Charles for a 10-month world tour, and then moved to San Francisco. Wainapel has been a key contributor to the Bay Area jazz scene for over 16 years, as well as maintaining an ongoing international impact.

Although his main activity is performing, Wainapel has been generous in sharing the experience gained in a career spanning nearly thirty years; he has also been on the Jazz Faculty at Sonoma State University and the Stanford Jazz Workshop, as well as giving workshops around the world.

Saturday July 12th: PDXV JAZZ QUINTET OF PORTLAND

Dick Titterington trumpet, Rob Davis Tenor, Greg Goebel piano, Dave Captien bass, Todd Strait drums

Here’s how this group of five outstanding musicians describes themselves.  Come hear for yourself how much “more than the sum of its parts” they really are!

The band came together originally to be a part of a series of concerts at Portland State University in the fall of 2005. Although we played only one rehearsal and one 50 minute set, we all realized there was something special about the sound of this group. It really is, as they say, “more than the sum of its parts”. The material we have been playing is representational of jazz standards written by jazz musicians (as opposed to the writing of the Tin Pan Alley composers). Seems like there’s been somewhat of a shift in recent history more toward the great vocal standards, which are indeed well worth playing, but not exactly the reason most of us took up playing jazz on our respective [non vocal] instruments. What about those sides of Joe Henderson, Kenny Dorham, LeeMorgan, and the myriad of other great small jazz ensemble recordings of the mid to late 20th century that many of us jazz instrumentalists listened to until the stylus wore through the vinyl? That’s the material that brought us together, so we are rooted in it as we move forward and expand our repertoire with more modern material as well as original music.

The band name came simply from needing to name a file on my computer. Since PDX is the Portland airport initials and the Roman numeral V means five, it just seemed like the way to go. By the way, it is pronounced PDXVee (as in V8)… just so you know.

 

The Cave is located at 636 SW Jackson, under the Green Onion restaurant.  Music starts at 8 PM for a $5 cover.

From this week’s press release from The Cave:

Wednesday June 25th: NANCY KING INVITATIONAL

This week Nancy invites the great and venerable Tom Wakeling on bass and Jed Wilson on piano. Jed is a young man who has been living in Boston and New York for the last few years and has recently moved back to Portland. He’s very, very good at playing the piano. He’s very, very good at accompanying singers. These are two quite different things and Jed is brilliant at both.  Tom Wakeling of course is a rock…who makes great lines and hears everything.

Note: Next week Nancy goes to Paris to sing some concerts but “subbing” for her will be Rebecca Kilgore and Dave Frishberg!

Thursday June 26th: ALAN JONES PRESENTS…

Andrew Oliver on piano, Sam Howard on bass and Alan Jones on drums.  This trio is designed to explore some new places a “piano trio” might go in the hands of two young guys with vision and energy and one medium guy who’s eager to see the outcome.

Friday June 27th: ART RESNICK TRIO

Art Resnick is a master piano player and prolific composer who after a long hiatus from the Portland jazz scene will make a triumphant return by performing at The Cave with a new trio featuring Dan Schulte on bass, Jonas Oglesby on drums.

Art has been the sought-after pianist of choice for some of the greatest jazz musicians of our times. He has toured and recorded with James Moody, Freddie Hubbard, Nat Adderly, Benny Golson, Bobby Shew, Gary Bartz and Charles McPherson…and that’s only naming a few!

Saturday June 28th: GREG GOEBEL QUARTET

Greg has been recognized in Down Beat magazine with an award for Outstanding Original Composition.  He has consistently been given top honors at music festivals including Best Overall College Performer and three time Best Overall College Pianist at the Reno International Jazz Festival. Greg has recorded and toured with renowned bassist David Friesen, and is a current member of the David Friesen Trio. Greg also performes with Portland quintet, PDXV, which just released their second CD.  He has played with and continues to work with notable musicians such as Alan Jones, Bob Magnusson, Dick Oatts, John Handy, Gary Hobbs, Peter Epstein, Jay Thomas, John Stowell, Rebecca Kilgore, John Gross, Ron Steen and Terrell Stafford.  Joining Greg will be Tim Wilcox tenor, Dave Captein bass and Charlie Doggett drums.

The Cave is located at 636 SW Jackson underneath the Green Onion restaurant

Vocalist Retta Christie is releasing her newest CD this Sunday at the Old Church.  The CD features an all-star trio with saxophonist/clarinetist David Evans and piano-legend Dave Frishberg.  Tim DuRoche at Willamette Week has the following to say about Retta:

Retta Christie has a singular knack for that curious, vastly entertaining form of Americana that swings in the recesses between jazz and country. Think Jimmie Rodgers, dustbowl prophets like Cowboy Bob Wills or Floyd Tillman, or the flatland plains poetry of Hoagy Carmichael, and you’re in the neighborhood. Fans of Irving Berlin saloon songs will be swinging till the cows come home.

The show starts at 6:30 PM - tickets are $10 in advance through brownpapertickets.com or $15 at the door.