Sunday, August 17, 2008
Quick check in at Mt Hood Jazz Festival 8.17.08
Twenty years ago the Mt Hood Festival of Jazz was staged in their stadium and featured legendary performers like Dave Brubeck, Oscar Peterson, and Sonny Rollins. There were a few years where it was produced at city parks a large field set for the construction of a performing arts center. This year it returned to campus with two evening admission shows in their theater and two days of free sets by regional performers in a concrete plaza.
The Quadraphonnes are kind of Portland's version of Seattlite Amy Denio's unit The Tiptons, an all female saxaphone group. Be sure to check out their myspace page where they list their influences as "This wonderful world we live in, Rascher Saxophone Quartet, The Tipton Sax Quartet, Erick Dolphy, Art Pepper, Cannonball Adderley, Frank Zappa, Sigurd Rascher, Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Joshua Redman, Karl Denson, Miles Davis, Brad Mehldau, Phil Woods, John Coltrane and Mark Turner, Prince, Bjork, Fareed Haque, Ani DiFranco, Eddie Palmieri, Tito Puente, and Tom Waits, Rickie Lee Jones, Joni Mitchell, Scott Franklin." These women both great musical taste and sound great too.
Cana Son is the other band I checked out in the Plaza. They play traditional Cuban music. Here vocalist Milko Vigil-Escalera is shown with Qudraphonnes' baritone sax player Mieke Bruggeman, who sat in for a number.
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