Mel Brown’s B3 Quartet - a weekly event.  Featuring Renato Caranto, Dan Balmer, and Louis Pain.  www.jimmymaks.com for more info.

On Monday, March 17, New York-based trumpeter Ingrid Jensen will perform at Jimmy Mak’s with Alan Jones for a mere $5 cover charge. Randy Porter and Dave Speranza will round out the quartet.

Ingrid has played with some of the best musicians in the world and is an influential force on her instrument and in the jazz genre. Don’t miss this chance to see her play in Portland.

At Jimmy Mak’s with Dave Speranza and Randy Porter.  $5 cover

This Friday at Jimmy Mak’s, renowned fusion pianist Jeff Lorber will play two sets with Marlon McClain, Patrick Lamb, Damian Erskine, and Reinhardt Melz. The first set is already sold-out, but you can still call and make reservations for the second set ($20 at 10 PM).

This Saturday, Ben Darwish will bring his trio to Jimmy Mak’s following a set by Trio Subtonic.

Saturday, January 19th and Jimmy Mak’s:

From Gordon Lee’s Press Release:

On Friday, January 18th, Gordon Lee and the Rough Jazz Quartet featuring Alan Jones on drums, freshly repatriated from Europe, the inimitable John Gross on tenor sax, Dan Schulte on bass and pianist-composer Gordon Lee on piano will perform at Jimmy Mak’s in a special reunion concert. $8 cover. See and hear the band that preceded the Alan Jones Sextet and created what some musicians beleive is one of the best jazz cds of the 1990’s, Rough Jazz. They will perform such notorius GLeeful originals as Loss is Freedom and Tobacco Monkey plus some new tunes.

Oregonian writer and critic Lynn Darroch describes Jimmy Mak’s “New Artist” series in a new podcast. The series is a collaboration with Home Grown Live on KMHD. Artists are featured on the live radio program, and then play early sets on Tuesday nights at Jimmy Mak’s opening up for the Mel Brown Septet. Darroch interviews Jimmy Mak himself, Mary Bulingame from KMHD, and features music from Michael Winkle, the Midnight Serenaders, and Trio Subtonic.