music
BY BRETT CAMPBELL
BENNY GOLSON
thurs mar 1
He Said...She Said,
Folk Tour featuring
The Shook Twins
John Craigie
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sat mar 3
Carnival Brasil: Samba Ja, Macaco
Velho, Edson-Sunbossa Quintet
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sun mar 4
Mood Area 52 & Underscore Orchestra
Old and New Jazz
Venerated and newly anointed jazz greats
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thurs mar 8
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T
he number of veterans from jazz’s
Golden Age is steadily dwindling,
but a few artists continue making
vital music. Venerable drummer Roy Haynes
just played the Portland Jazz Festival, and
saxophonist Benny Golson performs
Thursday, March 1, at the Jazz Station. The
plucky little volunteer-run downtown venue
that’s given so many opportunities to local
improvisers scored a real coup by bringing
one of jazz’s finest composers to Eugene,
where he will perform early and late sets.
Golson’s played with or written for most
of jazz’s immortals, including everyone
from Basie to Ella to Miles to Benny
Goodman; scored classic TV series like
M*A*S*H and Mission Impossible; and his
early ’60s Jazztet with Art Farmer is justly
regarded as one of the most sophisticated
and accomplished of all jazz bands. At 83,
Golson’s still going strong, playing Jazz at
Lincoln Center in New York and performing
new commissioned work next month in
Pittsburgh. But we get him first, in an
ideally intimate setting.
You can hear more classic jazz at the
latest installment of UO jazz prof and KLCC
announcer Carl Woideck ’s heritage project
at The Shedd, also on March 1. This time,
the saxophonist’s band, abetted by singer
Sonja Rasmussen , will play music by
those great American songwriters whose
music laid the foundation for so much jazz,
George and Ira Gershwin.
The Shedd brings another repeat offend-
er March 2, when the inimitable Nellie
McKay returns with her latest project: I
Want to Live, based on the movie of that
title, which gave a film-noir treatment to the
dark life of murderer Barbara Graham.
McKay brings a potent ukulele, sly humor,
a crack band and considerable musical
charm to an unlikely cabaret show of period
standards and originals that’s drawn raves
in New York City.
For a taste of the younger generation of
rising jazz stars, check out saxophonist Joe
Manis ’ 30th birthday bash at Sam Bond’s on
March 3, featuring guitarist Justin Morell .
Another great Portland guitarist, Dan
Balmer , joins the Oregon Jazz Ensemble
March 2 at Beall Concert Hall. And UO jazz
saxophonist/composer Idit Shner plays her
original compositions March 8 at UO’s
Aasen-Hull Hall with Korean jazz pianist
Jangeun Bae .
The UO’s ChamberMusic@Beall series
on March 4 brings France’s terrific Ebene
Quartet to the superb concert hall. If
there’s such a thing as a buzz band in clas-
sical chamber music, this young French
foursome is it. Over the past few years,
they’ve blitzed the classical establishment
(winning some of the genre’s most august
prizes, including Gramophone’s coveted
Record of the Year award) and reached
beyond traditional confines with appear-
ances on public radio and covers of pop and
jazz tunes. Here, they’ll play quartets by
Mozart, Schubert and Tchaikovsky.
March 5, UO’s chancy Loaded Dice
ensemble plays aleatoric and indeterminate
music by American modernists Morton Feld-
man, Earle Browne and other composers.
Bua , a quartet of young, Celtic music-besot-
ted Americans, will unleash their Irish tradi-
tional tunes March 9 at Beall, courtesy of the
school’s valuable World Music Series.
March 12, visiting saxophonist Ann Brad-
field will play contemporary non-jazz music
for sax at Beall, while on March 13, still
another saxphonista, Christopher Crevis-
ton , arrives from New York with pianist
Hannah Gruber to perform new music writ-
ten for the pair by contemporary composers.
Over in Springfield, Chamber Music
Amici will reprise its innovative children’s
program, The Emperor’s New Clothes, in a
version by composer Peter Schickele, aka
PDQ Bach, in six free performances for
1,800 third through fifth graders from the
surrounding area on March 6-8. Eugene
actor Bill Hulings will narrate the original
story, and a quintet of dancers will perform
the original choreography of Eugene Ballet’s
Ben Goodman . The general public can see
the show 2 pm Saturday, March 10, in
Wildish Theater.
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