MUSIC
BY BRETT CAMPBELL
CINDY SCOTT
HOT ‘N’
JAZZY
The Jazz Station
turns 10 while
July hits jazzy
and world music
notes ’round
town
O
ne of the city’s most valuable music institutions, The Jazz Station, is entering
its second decade of giving Eugene a real center for jazz and other improvised
sounds. The three-day 10-year anniversary celebration begins Thursday, July
23, with New Orleans singer Cindy Scott and guitarist Brian Seeger joining
Portland piano star Randy Porter in a highly recommended vocal jazz show.
On Friday, July 24, the Station hosts local sax master Joe Manis, drummer Jason
Palmer and B-3 organ virtuoso George Colligan, who’s been tearing up the Portland
jazz scene on piano, organ, drums and more since he arrived from New York a couple
years ago to join the Portland State University faculty. If you’re missing last week’s heat
wave, catch this incendiary trio.
But if it’s the cool sounds of Brazilian jazz you favor, Saturday, July 25, brings
Brazilian pianist and composer Marvio Ciribelli to town from Rio to jam with another
great Oregon saxophonist Tom Bergeron, who’s been embracing Brazilian sounds for
more than a decade. Ciribelli’s music is influenced by that country’s great traditions like
choro, samba and others. See thejazzstation.org for details.
The Jazz Station isn’t the only place to catch sizzling jazz this month. Halie Loren,
the young jazzer whose new Butterfly Blue album might push her to as much acclaim
around America as she’s earned in Asia (especially Japan, where her concerts sell out and
her albums top the jazz charts), is playing at Springfield’s Wildish Theater this Friday,
July 17 (see “Winged Victory” this issue).
Two more young jazzers, New York trumpeter Josh Deutsch (a UO alum) and Italian-
born guitarist Nico Soffiato, are also touring the West Coast with a new CD release,
Reverse Angle, which they’ll celebrate here at 7:30 pm Saturday, July 18, at one of the
intimate Broadway House (911 W. Broadway) concerts. The duo’s music draws on a
wider-than-usual palette of influences, including classical (one of Erik Satie’s
“Gymnopédie”) and pop of different eras (“Someone to Watch Over Me,” for example).
Bring a dessert or beverage for the potluck intermission. Call 686-9270 for details.
Also Saturday, July 18, the WOW Hall hosts an 8 pm benefit for the victims of the
Nepal earthquake featuring sitarist-flutist-guitarist-harmonica-singer Matura and
flamenco guitarist Deva Priyo (from Lost at Last and Gypsy Moon), jazz saxophonist
Benjamin Crandall, percussionist Ken Sokolov, raga singer Gurunam Atwal and
flutist Brooks Blanchard. The life-affirming reggae rocker I-chele and reggae Afro-
funker Fantuzzi open this wide-ranging world music show.
July 18 is also the night of the Eugene Symphony’s concert in the park at the Cuthbert,
but the free tickets are all snapped up. However, you might be able to score a returned one
(perhaps from a patron still recuperating from this month’s heat wave) at the Hult Center
or at the Cuthbert’s ticket gate at 6 pm. Or head down to Roseburg’s Stewart Park Sunday
or over to Cottage Grove’s Bohemia Park on Monday night for the same show.
Celtic music fans might instead head over to 755 River Road at 7 pm Sunday, July 19,
for an intimate garden concert featuring the veteran Celtic ensemble Golden Bough.
Contact mmeyer@efn.org for details. ■
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