February 13, 2013
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Portland musicians
Esperanza Spalding and
her mentor Thara
Memory receive a
Grammy for Best
Instrumental Arrange
ment Accompanying
Vocalists for their song
"City o f Roses," at the
annual Grammy Awards
Sunday in Los Angeles.
(AP photo)
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Honored Musicians
Grammys for
Spalding and
mentor Memory
Portland jazz bassist and singer
Esperanza Spalding once again was
honored at the annual Grammy
Awards Sunday in Los Angeles, Album . The album also won
but this time she joined her mentor, Spalding the Grammy for Best Jazz
Portland trumpeter Thara Memory Vocal Album.
on stage as both won Grammys.
Memory, a long-time Portland jazz
Spalding and Memory won for musician and instructor, has been
Best Instrum ental Arrangem ent Spalding's music teacher since she
Accompanying Vocalists, for their was 8 years old.
song “City of Roses,” which is on
Spalding was the Grammy ’ s Best
Spalding’s “Radio Music Society” New Artist in 2011.
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Volunteers
reach out to
individuals and
families
C ari H achmann
T he P ortland O bserver
by
Kaysen Kerrick was sitting in a
third floor office at Lloyd Center last
week waiting to get her tax refund
filed.
Last year the North Portland resi
dent opted out of Jackson Hewitt’s
tax preparation services for free tax
services provided by CASH Oregon,
the AARP Tax-Aide program and
the IRS Volunteer Income Tax As
sistance program.
This year she and her boyfriend
waited more than two hours outside
of CASH Oregon s Lloyd Center tax
site for a meeting with one of the
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Northeast Portland's Alejandra Rodrigues, wife and mother o f
fouh waits for her name to be called at CASH Oregon’s free tax
preparation site at the Lloyd Center mall.