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In an interview with KMHD, Marsalis talks working with Portland jazz artists, the orchestra’s new material and his band’s internal integrity. Marsalis brings the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to Portland on Saturday, Oct. 7, with their season opener “Beyond Black Codes.”
Darrell Grant has built an international reputation as a performer, composer and educator who harnesses the power of music to create change in Portland and across the country. His new quartet, MJ New, drops their debut album “Our Mr. Jackson,” on Oct. 6 and celebrates the release with a performance on Oct. 12 at The Hallowed Halls in Portland.
Herbie Hancock is more than the world’s greatest living jazz musician, he’s a platinum-album making, billboard-chart-topping, Oscar and Grammy award winning force of nature. Hancock spoke with KMHD via his studio in California to discuss the new quintet on his worldwide tour, why he will never become the jazz police and his meaning of jazz without boundaries.
“Cachaito” is more than just an Afro-Cuban album. It is both a love letter to the rich musical tapestry of Cuba and a tribute to the borderless scope of that numinous art form that we call jazz.