Oregon Music News

It’s Biamp Portland Jazz Festival time of year again, and as we always love to do, we asked PDX Jazz Executive Director Chris Doss to come here to the Café at Artichoke Music and tell us who’s playing this year, from beginning to end (that’s Thursday February 16 through Saturday, February25. It’s a big musically diverse concert series in several venues. Kind of like we say at KMHD…Jazz Without Boudaries. Chris Doss has as big hand in curating the festival which features everything from the newest Jazz on the planet, to straight-ahead Jazz, ECM -type Jazz, international Jazz, Soul, Funk and Hip-hop Jazz…just about anything you can think of and some that you’ve never heard of. That’s what I like, discovery. So let’s find out right now from Chris Doss.