Page 4 * St. Johns Review * #14 - JULY 10, 2015
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Cathedral Park Jazz Festival
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6:00 - 7:00
Pa’lante
12:00 - 1:00
Portland Youth Jazz Orchestra
The Portland Youth Jazz
Orchestra has been training musicians from
the Portland Metro Area since 2001 with many go-
ing on to attend prestigious music schools across
the country on scholarship. And, many have con-
tinued in music or music education. The music stu-
dents are ages 11-26.
The fi ve PYJO bands rehearse, study, and perform
the American art form of Jazz. Clinics are available
to local schools and student leaders are given op-
portunities to lead sectionals and work with younger
students
Students come from the Portland area and sur-
rounding areas as far away as North Salem, Battle-
ground, WA, Forest Grove, & East of Gresham.
1:30 - 2:30
Chris Parker Quartet
Chris Parker
was
born in Chicago, and start-
ed playing drums at age
three performing his fi rst
professional gigs at eleven.
At nineteen, Parker began
recording and touring with
blues great, Paul Butterfi eld
and then broke into the New
York studio scene in 1970,
doing records, movie scores
and fi lling the drum chair at
Saturday Night Live.
Toph, as friends know him,
recorded platinum, gold and
Grammy winning albums
and CDs with many artists,
including the original Breck-
er Brothers, Bob Dylan,
Cher, Donald Fagen, Ashford and Simpson, Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, Freddie Hubbard, James Brown,
Salt n’ Pepa, Stuff, Miles Davis, Patti LaBelle, Michael Bolton, and Suzy Boggus. He has toured with many
artists, among them Boz Scaggs, Joe Cocker, Joe Cool, Bob Dylan, Bette Midler, Paul Simon, Akiko Yano
and Ralph MacDonald.
He recently performed with Stevie Wonder, Sheryl Crow, James Taylor, Jennifer Holiday, and Ledisi at the
dedication ceremonies for the Martin Luther King Memorial in Wash. DC.
The Blueprints Trio
3:00 - 4:00
Blueprints Trio
was formed in 2012 with the intention
of exploring original music by all three of its members: Dave Averre
(drums), Craig Snazelle (bass), and Matt Tabor (piano).
Steven Hanneman, owner of Arrivederci Wine & Jazz Bar said of the
trio, “A fi ne combination of energetic youth and sagacious experience,
brought together by the desire to play and produce the classic jazz form...
Blending creative, original compositions along with the jazz standards of
the great piano trio jazz era, Blueprints Trio is a fresh, swingin’ breeze
blowing into the PDX jazz scene!
“The Blueprints Trio is simply one of the best jazz groups that I have
heard in a long while,” said Mike Winkle, vocalist and owner of Celebra-
tion Music & Events. “The musicianship is fi rst rate and their time togeth-
er is apparent as the group is as tight as you might expect great musicians
who play together often can be.”
Pa’lantes fi rst gig was an exciting one. They opened for the great Mon-
go Santamaria, and it took off from there. Pa’lante has been one of Portland’s
favorite bands for two decades, playing latin jazz, salsa, cumbia, merengue and
timba for listening and dancing.
Pa’lante was started in 1985 by percussionist Nick Gefroh. It evolved from
Nick’s previous band “Manteca” which in turn evolved from Portland’s 1st salsa
band “Montuno.”
From 1985 to 2005
Pa’lante played in-
numerable parties,
clubs, weddings,
festivals, etc. Then
it was time for a
break to focus on
other projects. The
band is now back
with high energy
and playing tight-
er than ever and
you will hear the
excitement of being together again in their music. A typical Pa’lante set moves
from cookin’ Latin jazz to spicy hot salsa, to cumbia, merengue, bolero, and cha
cha cha, all designed especially for dancing, and even seated listeners can’t help
but respond to the compelling rhythms.
7:30 - 8:30
Toni Lincoln Quartet
When vocalist Toni Lincoln was 5 years old, she liked to dress up in her
grandmother’s vintage dresses and sing to her dolls, which she neatly arranged on
her bed as an audience for her im-
promptu concerts. Little did she
know that it would be more
than fi ve decades later that she
would do her fi rst real live sing-
ing appearance at a little subter-
ranean Portland jazz club. In the
audience that night at the
Blue Monk was drummer Ron
Steen who has been a catalyst
and mentor for many major mu-
sic careers for Northwest artists.
Ron signed Toni up for several
gigs in the Portland area and a singing career was born that night.
Infl uenced by such greats as Nancy Wilson, Dionne Warwick, and Sarah
Vaughan, Toni has wowed audiences with her command of the Great American
Songbook and her joyful sweet synthesis of the styles of those above-mentioned
masterful mentors. And what she adds to the mix is her very own matchless sense
of style and beauty.
9:00 - 10:15
Hailey Niswanger’s PDX Soul
Saxophonist, composer and Portland native Hailey Niswanger is a
rising star. After graduating from Berklee College of Music, Niswanger made
the big move to New York and went on to perform with Esperanza Spalding,
Terri Lyne Carrington, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Wynton Marsalis, and Christian
McBride among many other greats. Since she was a teenager, Niswanger, 25,
had been drawing attention in the jazz world, and not just because she’s a woman
in bands most often populated by men, but because of her sopra
no-sax mastery. She is truly captivating.
4:30 - 5:00
Kung Pao Chickens
Kung Pao Chickens is one of the longest running bands
in Portland, the Chickens play the hot jazz of Django Reinhardt. This
gypsy dance music will have the Cathedral Park crowd on its feet as
they do every Monday night at the Laurelthirst tavern.