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Nothin’ but the Blues
ond Gramm y for best vocal jazz
album and was No. 10 on the B ill­
The benefit concert is ju st one board 200 after its release in March
way that Spalding keeps her com ­ 2012.
m itm ent to share her growing in­
“I really personally feel quite
ternational fame with other Port- connected to a lot of people, m u­
land-based friends and m entors sicians, in the scene in Portland,”
since her first Gram m y winning Spalding told the Oregonian news­
album, “Chamber Music Society,” paper in a 2012 interview.
won her the 2011 G ram m y Award
The
A m e ric a n
M u sic
for Best New Artist.
Program ’s culturally diverse Pa­
Spalding’s latest record, “Ra­ cific Crest Jazz O rchestra is a na­
dio M usic Society,” won a sec­ tionally recognized leader in edu-
c o n t i n u e d f r o m page 3
Portland Community College’s Cascade Campus is creating
HOPE « OPPORTUNITY
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eating young people, grades 7-12,
in the A m erican art form o f jazz,
in clu d in g the m usic o f D uke
E llington, Count Basie and Louis
A rm strong.
The orchestra regularly places
in high school, jazz band com pe­
titions around the country and
has been featured several tim es at
downtown Jimmy M ak’s jazz club.
In April, the orchestra won sec­
ond prize in the Conglom erate Big
Band division at the Next G enera­
tion Jazz Festival in M onterey,
Calif. It also was one o f 15 finalists
chosen to participate in the 18th
A n n u al E sse n tia lly E llin g to n
C om petition and Festival in New
York City.
Tickets for “N othin’ but the
B lues” are $35, $50, and $75. For
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Portland
Journalist
Dead at 64
c o n t i n u e d f r o m page 3
The Portland Teachers Program is training and educating
the next generation of teachers of color for Portland’s
public school classrooms.
The Middle College Partnership with nearby Jefferson High
School is connecting underrepresented youth with higher
education and, ultimately, the workplace. By the time they
graduate, each JHS student will have earned between 12
and 45 college credits - and, thanks to Middle College
scholarships from four-year colleges and universities, they
can earn a bachelor’s degree for free.
stories included the first Jim Pep­
per Native Arts M usic Festival in
Parkrose and em ploym ent oppor­
tunities for the soon to be open­
ing W illiam s Avenue New Sea­
sons M arket.
He also wrote for the H olly­
wood Star, M id-County Memo,
Southeast Exam iner and South­
west Post, a Portland career that
started in the 1970s after Perlm an
m oved here after attending col­
lege in the East Coast and leaving
behind his hometown of New York
City.
The Portland O bserver, and
p u b lis h e r M ark W a sh in g to n ,
wishes to express their deepest
sym pathy to the friends and loved
ones Perlm an leaves behind.
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