photos by Kathryn Elsesser
Recapping Montavilla Jazz Festival 2016
AUGUST 26, 2016
By PATRICK CALDWELL
There’s a lot you can say for the Montavilla Jazz Festival, but above all, say this: the festival does exactly, gloriously, what it says on the tin.
One of the risks in programming a music festival is just how easy it is to drift away from the ostensible reason for throwing one in the first place—the music. Left unchecked, a music festival can be, paradoxically, among the worst ways to experience live performance—choked with crowds, burdened with gimmicks, more engaged with selling alcohol than providing a space for art. Read more…
MJF 2016 Dates & Times
Portland Metro Arts
Saturday, August 20, 2016
Sunday, August 21, 2016
2:00 – 9:30 p.m., doors open at 1:00
AJAM Jam Session
East Glisan Pizza Lounge
Saturday, August 20, 2016
9:00 p.m.–12:00 a.m.
Attendees
MJF 2016 Artists
George Colligan NYC Trio w/ Boris Kozlov and Rudy Royston
Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble premiering George Colligan’s Fathers and Sons
Trio Uncontrollable featuring Dan Balmer
Jeff Baker Phrases featuring Darrell Grant
Batida Diferente
Scenes with John Stowell, Jeff Johnson and John Bishop
3 Trumpet Band
Gordon Lee Quintet featuring Warren Rand
The InBetweens
Todd Bishop
Thomas Barber’s Spiral Road
Jessica Smith Big Band