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11th Annual Montavilla Jazz Festival Artists

Presented by Accelerator Design Studios, Portland’s most adventurous jazz festival enters its second decade with a three-day village-style celebration of local, world-class artistry with more than 30 concerts and events across 12 venues. Check out the festival schedule here!

Nicole Glover

Nicole Glover Trio featuring Tyrone Allen and Kayvon Gordon

Sunday, September 1st, 8PM Alberta Rose Theatre |Tickets $5-45 Nicole Glover brings her trio to her hometown for the first time to perform selections from their latest release Plays. Read More

Joe Kye

Joe Kye’s The Well Sessions featuring Shin Yu Pai

Saturday, August 31st, 8PM Alberta Rose Theatre |Tickets $5-45 Joe Kye takes listeners on a transcendent personal journey, recollecting lineage and love through looping violins, vocals, and traditional Korean instruments interwoven with the poetry of Shin Yu Pai. Read More

Dan Balmer

Dan Balmer Trio featuring Gary Versace and Mark Ferber

Saturday, August 31st, 7:00PM Strum |Tickets $5-35 SOLD OUT Dan Balmer performs music from his latest album When The Night which The New York Times called one of the best albums of 2023. Read More

Chris Brown

Unearthing the Extraordinary: PJCE featuring Christopher Brown

Friday, August 30th, 7:30PM Mt. Tabor Park Caldera Amphitheater | FREE! (RSVP for reminders) Christopher Brown’s new compositions illuminate the extraordinary acts of leadership that have helped shape Portland as a city and a community and offer a guiding light for the challenges to come. Read More

Julana Torres

Julana Torres’ La Colorá featuring Carmelo Torres

Friday, August 30th, 6PM Mt. Tabor Park Caldera Amphitheater | FREE! (RSVP for reminders) La Colorá is a fiery Latin Jazz ensemble presented by Julana and Carmelo Torres highlighting the rhythmic legacy of the Torres family. Read More

Jasnam Daya Singh

Jasnam Daya Singh Trio with String Quartet

Saturday, August 31st, 5PM Portland Metro Arts |Tickets $5-40 | LIVESTREAM Latin Grammy-nominated Jasnam Daya Singh braids the traditions of jazz, classical, and traditional Brazilian music into a universal jazz language. Read More

Bryn Roberts

Bryn Roberts Trio meets Justin Copeland

Saturday, August 31st, 6PM & 8PM The 1905 | Tickets $5-35 | 6PM Tickets SOLD OUT | 8PM Tickets SOLD OUT | LIVESTREAM Bryn Roberts’s internationally traveled trio makes its Portland debut to celebrate its forthcoming album with special guest trumpeter Justin Copeland. Read More

Randy Porter

Randy Porter Trio

Friday, August 30th, 6PM & 8PM The 1905 | Tickets $5-35 | 6PM Tickets SOLD OUT | 8PM Tickets | LIVESTREAM The Randy Porter Trio grooves with inventive harmony, sophistication, and a refined improvisational approach creating a wealth of sonic textures. Read More

Kerry Politzer

Kerry Politzer Quartet

Sunday, September 1st, 6PM & 8PM The 1905 | Tickets $5-35 | 6PM Tickets | 8PM Tickets | LIVESTREAM Pianist Kerry Politzer and her quartet perform music from her new release Ruminations. Read More

DaMiNo

DaMiNo with filmmaker Devin Febbroriello

Sunday, September 1st, 2PM Portland Metro Arts | Tickets $5-40 | LIVESTREAM Playing with conventions of sight, sound, and narrative structure, DaMiNo will be improvising to a film by Devin Febbroriello with an audio-reactive A/V element. Read More

Integer

Integer Quintet

Sunday, September 1st, 5PM Portland Metro Arts | Tickets $5-40 | LIVESTREAM Integer Quintet is a brass-centric modern jazz ensemble focusing on melody, groove, and the fire of the creative spirit. Read More

PROWUS Students

DoubleDash

Sunday, September 1st, 4PM SoundsTruckNW @ the Montavilla Plaza | FREE! (RSVP for reminders) DoubleDash fuses elements of electronic music and jazz, seamlessly blending together medleys of original compositions and improvisations. Read More

Chris Shuttleworth

Chris Shuttleworth Chicago Quartet

Sunday, September 1st, 10PM Dingo’s (formerly Beer Brats & Beats) | Tickets $5-35 | PJCE Records Release! With a sound born in Chicago’s jazz scene and grounded in an unabashed search for beauty and melody, this quartet bridges the Windy City and the Pacific Northwest, creating something unified that is both entirely fresh and completely approachable. Read More

Adriana Wagner

Adriana Wagner Quartet

Saturday, August 31st, 4PM SoundsTruckNW @ the Montavilla Plaza | FREE! (RSVP for reminders) Adriana Wagner presents her original compositions, playing with vulnerability and a dedication to the music that has no limits. Read More

Chris Lee

Chris Lee Sextet

Friday, August 30th, 10:30PM Dingo’s (formerly Beer Brats & Beats) | Tickets $5-35| PJCE Records Release! The Chris Lee Sextet will be performing music from their latest PJCE Records release Green In Grey. Read More

Pablo Rivarola

Pablo Rivarola Quartet

Saturday, August 31st, 10PM Dingo’s (formerly Beer Brats & Beats) | Tickets $5-35 Pablo Rivarola’s newest works eschew many of jazz’s conventional idioms in a personal dialog on loss, grief, and healing. Read More

Ross Garlow

Ross Garlow's Big Water

Saturday, August 31st, 12PM SoundsTruckNW @ the Montavilla Plaza | FREE! (RSVP for reminders) A musical dedication to Oregon’s great rivers, the importance of abundant fish migration, and protecting nature by giving land back. Read More

Sound Creation

Sound Creation Trio

Friday, August 30th, 7:00PM Strum | Tickets $5-35 Sound Creation Trio plays daring original music that stretches from free jazz and post-rock to Americana and art pop and back again. Read More

Tim DuRoche

Battle Hymns & Gardens + James Powers & Dan Duval

Sunday, September 1st, 7:00PM Strum | Tickets $5-35 Battle Hymns & Gardens + James Powers & Dan Duval bridge a vibrant free-jazz sensibility with a landscape of moody, evocative compositions. Read More

Blue Butler Big Band

The Blue Butler Big Band

Saturday, August 31st, 2PM Portland Metro Arts | Tickets $5-40 | LIVESTREAM The Blue Butler Big Band’s 13-piece composer’s collective was formed by Paris Blue Butler and Quinn Walker to express a range of sounds varying from the deep end of obscurity to more traditional jazz forms. Read More

Rivkah

Rivkah Ross Quartet

Sunday, September 1st, 12PM SoundsTruckNW @ the Montavilla Plaza | FREE! (RSVP for reminders) | PJCE Records release! The Rivkah Ross Quartet plays original jazz inspired by jazz giants like Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, Kenny Barron, and Steve Swallow. Read More

Olivia Fields

Olivia Fields Quartet

Friday, August 30th, 4:00PM Driveway Jazz | FREE! (RSVP for location & reminders) | LIVESTREAM The Olivia Fields Quartet is a group of some of Portland’s finest young musicians playing a curated set of original compositions. Read More