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SUMMARY:Portland Piano Trio & 240 Strings
DESCRIPTION:Portland Piano Trio Concert Information
URL:https://pcm.org/event/portland-piano-trio-240-strings/
LOCATION:Portland Conservatory of Music\, 28 Neal St\, Portland\, ME\, 04102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Rental
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SUMMARY:Cesária Évora | WMPG Jazz at the Movies
DESCRIPTION:The film CESÁRIA ÉVORA follows the struggles and success of this legendary Grammy winning singer who was born into abject poverty in colonial Cape Verde. Join WMPG’s Jazz at the Movies for the Portland premiere of this film about Cesária Évora\, world famous morna singer and Queen of World Music in the 1990’s and early 2000’s who became a feminist hero and an African icon at the height of her fame. \nWMPG’s Jazz at The Movies and the Portland Conservatory of Music are proud to present the premiere showing of the film “Cesária Évora” on Saturday\, Sept. 21st at 7PM. The Grammy award winning and legendary performer Cesária Évora\, nicknamed “the Barefoot Diva”\, was raised in abject poverty in the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa\, and rose to become the Queen of World Music in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s without ever losing her connection to her humble beginnings. Join us on Saturday\, September 21st to celebrate the music and inspiring life of this African icon\, feminist hero and world famous morna singer\, Cesária Évora. Admission is FREE. And\, as a special bonus\, the movie will be introduced by her former bandmate Kalu Monteiro.
URL:https://pcm.org/event/cesaria-evora-wmpg-jazz-at-the-movies/
LOCATION:Portland Conservatory of Music\, 28 Neal St\, Portland\, ME\, 04102\, United States
CATEGORIES:JAM
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SUMMARY:Air Space and Jane Ira Bloom
DESCRIPTION:Grammy-winning saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom joins forces with keyboard-percussion duo Air Space (Mike Effenberger and Brian Shankar Adler).\n\n\n \nAir Space (Mike Effenberger and Brian Shankar Adler) teams up with award winning saxophonist\, composer and improviser\, Jane Ira Bloom to create an unforgettable performance embracing the conversational possibilities between each other\, the audience and the space-time continuum. \nInspired by the minimalist structures and analogue textures of artists like Brian Eno\, Jóhann Jóhannsson\, and Nils Frahm\, Air Space transcends boundaries\, creating an atmospheric soundtrack to the somnambulist’s night in the deep woods.  \nAt times sublime and at times combative\, the group explores site specific\, interactive\, new music. Their expansive sound comes from Effenberger’s clever use of analog keyboards\, tape delays and geological specimens pitted against Adler’s genre-defying use of percussion from South America\, South Asia and the sewers of Brooklyn. Blending Indian raga\, post-Cageian minimalism\, and lo-fi nostalgia with an occasional field recording of crickets\, tiny sparks fly while the music retains a deceptively serene appearance.  \nAir Space made its debut in 2022\, performing in a casemate at Fort Gorges (Casco Bay\, Maine). In 2024\, the group released Cricket Cipher (Adhyaropa Records) and toured the Northeast\, US. The group’s performances often invite audience members to interact with the music through the use of collective drones and polyrhythms. \n \n————————- \n \nSoaring\, poetic\, quick silver\, spontaneous and instantly identifiable are words used to describe the soprano sound of saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom. She has been developing her singular voice on the soprano saxophone for over 45 years. She is a pioneer in the use of live electronics and movement in jazz. Winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship for music composition\, the Downbeat International Critics Poll & Jazz Journalists Association Award for soprano saxophone\, the Mary Lou Williams Award for lifetime service to jazz and the Charlie Parker Fellowship for jazz innovation. She is the first musician ever commissioned by the NASA Art Program and has an asteroid named in her honor by the International Astronomical Union (asteroid: 6083janeirabloom). Her critically acclaimed Cd “Early Americans” received a Grammy Award for Best Surround Sound Album and made numerous year end best lists. Her duo release with bassist Mark Helias “Some Kind of Tomorrow” was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air and received 4 stars from Downbeat Magazine. Her recent critically acclaimed duo projects “Tues Days” with drummer Allison Miller and “See Our Way” with Helias  and trio project with Helias and Bobby Previte “2.3.23” all appear on Bandcamp. JIB finds inspiration in creating exploratory music with improvising musicians around the world and has participated in several international ‘remote’ events including a performance at the United Nations that linked improvising musicians in Korea\, China\, New York\, and San Diego. She has recorded and produced 20 albums of her music dating from 1977 to the present. Bloom is a professor at New School University’s College of the Performing Arts in NYC. Nat Hentoff called Bloom an artist “beyond category.” Bill Milkowski has described Bloom as “a true jazz original…a restlessly creative spirit\, and a modern day role model for any aspiring musician who dares to follow his or her own vision.” \n \n————————- \nDescribed as “a polyrhythmic force” (JazzTimes)\, multidisciplinary percussionist and composer Brian Shankar Adler transcends the terrain between genre and geographic region\, asking: how can we find connection through rhythm? He has performed internationally in caves\, forests and adjacent glacial ice fields as well as Carnegie Hall\, Lincoln Center\, Kennedy Center and The Stone. He has been recorded on over fifty albums including his recent works\, For a Gallery on the Moon (Chant Records\, 2020) and Fourth Dimension (Chant Records\, 2019). His music video\, “Mantra” won best music video at Transcinema International Film Festival in Peru and an official selection at Quiet City Film Festival in New York City. Adler has worked with Kinan Azmeh\, Ballet Hispanico\, Jay Clayton\, Guillermo Klein\, La Bomba De Tiempo\, Frank London\, Kate McGarry\, Palaver Strings\, Kamala Sankaram\, Elizabeth Swados\, among others and has been featured in Modern Drummer Magazine\, DownBeat\, and NPR. He is currently on faculties at Bates and Bowdoin College. \n \n————————- \nKeyboardist Mike Effenberger has curated an unmistakably individual voice drawing on gospel\, minimalism\, jazz\, and 20th century music. He leads Weird Turned Pro and plays with fiveighthirteen\, Jazzputin and the Jug Skunks\, the secular roots and gospel choir Rock My Soul\, OURBIGBAND\, Sad Bastards / Loose Standards\, Showmen’s Rest and Dan Blakeslee. When not in the northeast\, Effenberger performs internationally with Bing and Ruth\, and plays throughout the east coast with Soggy Po’ Boys. He appears on countless recordings from independent releases to larger labels\, including 4AD and RVNG Intl\, and is also active as a producer. His work has been reviewed in international publications including the Paris Review\, The Guardian\, and Pitchfork\, as well as appearing on nationally syndicated media including NPR’s All Things Considered and PRX’s Echoes.
URL:https://pcm.org/event/air-space-and-jane-ira-bloom/
LOCATION:SPACE\, 538 Congress St\, Portland\, ME 04101\, Portland\, ME\, 04101\, US
CATEGORIES:Dimensions in Jazz
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SUMMARY:ELLIS: The Life and Complicated Times of Ellis Marsalis\, Jr. | WMPG Jazz at the Movies
DESCRIPTION:WMPG’s Jazz At The Movies and the Portland Conservatory of Music are pleased to present the documentary \nELLIS: The Life and Complicated Times of Ellis Marsalis Jr. \nEllis Marsalis was the Patriarch of the First family of Jazz .To his talented kids\, Winton\, Branford\, Delfeayo\, Ellis & Jason\, he was Dad. To generations of New Orleans musicians\, he was a keyboard genius and composer\, a teacher and the keeper of the flame. \nELLIS: The Life and Complicated Times of Ellis Marsalis Jr. is the story of one of American music’s heroes: a jazz musician who grew up in New Orleans\, survived the racial injustices of Jim Crow segregation\, flirted with bebop\, and went back to his hometown roots to establish school and university programs to awaken in black students a sense of pride in their New Orleans’ heritage. \n“In other places\, culture comes down from on high”\, Ellis taught them. “ In New Orleans it bubbles up from the streets.” \nThis movie ELLIS: The Life and Complicated Times of Ellis Marsalis Jr. tells the story of the pianist in his own words and music\, ofter superimposed over early archival film footage of the Crescent City\, and the vast floods like Katrina that would change its history forever. \nPlease join us Saturday\, May 18th\, for the movie about this great man Ellis Marsalis\, the heart and soul of the New Orlean’s jazz community\, who kept the flame burning and single handedly changed the entire world of jazz. \nTickets are FREE and no reservations are required. Saturday\, May 18th\, 7 PM\, \, at The Portland Conservatory of Music\, 28 Neal St.\, Portland.
URL:https://pcm.org/event/ellis-the-life-and-complicated-times-of-ellis-marsalis-jr-wmpg-jazz-at-the-movies/
LOCATION:Portland Conservatory of Music\, 28 Neal St\, Portland\, ME\, 04102\, United States
CATEGORIES:JAM
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SUMMARY:Spring Benefit
DESCRIPTION:Come together to raise money for PCM’s Tuition Assistance Program\, making music education more affordable! \nWhat you’ll experience: \n\nDelicious Hors D’oeuvres\nRefreshing Beverages\nDelightful Concert\, presented by PCM’s teaching faculty\nWorld Premiere Quintet by PCM’s own Robert Gans\nFund-a-Need Auction for PCM’s Tuition Assistance Program\nAll this in PCM’s newly renovated Performance Hall!\n\nAs cost of living continues to rise\, family budgets continue to tighten. Music education is crucial to the developing minds of youth and the delicate minds of the aging population. In light of that\, PCM is growing it’s Tuition Assistance Program to help more students afford music lessons. Join us for this event and concert as we\, together\, increase our impact in the community. \nInterested in joining the Host Committee? Email Melissa Lund Ziegler\, PCM’s Director of Marketing & Development.
URL:https://pcm.org/event/spring-benefit/
LOCATION:Portland Conservatory of Music\, 28 Neal St\, Portland\, ME\, 04102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty Benefit Concert
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SUMMARY:Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues | WMPG Jazz at the Movies
DESCRIPTION:WMPG’s Jazz At The Movies and the Portland Conservatory of Music are pleased to present the documentary “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues\,” an eye opening look at one of the 20th century’s most beloved celebrities\, the world famous trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong\, as drawn from his decades of personal scrapbooks\, tapes and private  journals. You know his voice and you know his music\, but do you really know the man himself?\n\nCome join us Saturday\, April 27th at 6:45 pm for a short introductory talk and Sacha Jenkins Jammie’s illuminating film about the celebrated jazz trumpeter Satchmo. “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” is a revealing\, behind the scenes portrait of an artist whose public persona as a cultural ambassador often conflicted with his painful struggle as a black man in the racially segregated United States. “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues” tells us the true story of this great jazz man in his very own words.\n\nTickets are FREE and no reservations are necessary. Saturday\, April 27th\, 6:45 pm\, at The Portland Conservatory of Music\, 28 Neal St.\, Portland.
URL:https://pcm.org/event/louis-armstrong-jam/
LOCATION:Portland Conservatory of Music\, 28 Neal St\, Portland\, ME\, 04102\, United States
CATEGORIES:JAM
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SUMMARY:Caroline Davis and Wendy Eisenberg with Rhubarb @ SPACE Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Esteemed composers and improvisors Wendy Eisenberg and Caroline Davis celebrate the April release of their inside-outside songs record.\n\n\nImprovisers\, composers\, songwriters\, and friends\, Wendy Eisenberg and Caroline Davis celebrate the April release of their inside-outside songs and improv duo album Accept When at SPACE. \nWendy Eisenberg and Caroline Davis wrote Accept When between 2022 and 2023\, after a long\, beautiful period improvising together intimately in the safety of a friend’s practice space. Our friendship\, the quality of attention that colored the light of that and all our other practice spaces\, became the basis for our activity and growth as songwriters and our relationship as improvisers. Friendship\, how we relate to each other\, is their nucleus: the central and essential part of their movement; the positively charged central core of their atom. \nA nucleus is supposed to be an especially essential form in eukaryotic cells. Their nuclei are surrounded by a membrane\, which in that world permits them to be said to have “true nuclei.” Even their smallest parts\, their organelles (incidentally also the name of Caroline’s keyboard heard throughout the record)\, are held by that membrane. The deepening of their musical friendship\, the affordance of space they give to the possibility of synchronicity\, the reminders they write of the preciousness of our existence — all of this they put into these songs for you\, to help us all accept these miracles and metaphors\, in our lifeboats. \nAlive with nurturing visions of simple sonic offerings to morph our present situation\, Caroline Davis’ main reason for playing music is to connect with others\, beckoning new vistas among curious listeners. Her musical journey began in Singapore\, in a humid climate\, hearing sounds underwater that she would recreate by singing to her German shepherd dogs\, who treated her as their own. Her family moved to the United States\, Atlanta\, Georgia\, around age 6\, where she encountered R&B and gospel music rife with horns that called her to choose the saxophone 6 years later. Today\, Caroline’s music covers a wide range of styles\, owed to this shifting environment. As a leader\, she has released seven albums\, and her active projects include Portals\, My Tree\, and Alula. Her work has garnered much praise from NPR\, The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Wire\, and a host of international publications. \nDavis has shared the stage with Lee Konitz\, Rajna Swaminathan\, Michelle Boulé\, Angelica Sanchez\, John Zorn\, Bari Kim\, The Femme Jam\, Matt Mitchell\, Terry Riley\, Miles Okazaki\, and Billy Kaye. Outside of these performance relationships\, she has been involved with the following mentorship communities: IAJE’s Sisters in Jazz\, the Kennedy Center’s Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program\, and Mutual Mentorship for Musicians. Grants and residencies supporting a grateful Caroline include: Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, Chamber Music America\, New York Foundation for the Arts\, Jerome Hill\, Civitella\, BringAbout Residency\, The Jazz Gallery\, and MacDowell. Some of her compositional practice integrates music with cognitive science\, influenced by her Ph.D in Music Cognition. \nCaroline is an advocate for social justice in the realms of gender (Jazz & Gender at The New School and This Is a Movement) and in the movement for carceral justice (Justice for Keith Lamar). \nOver the last five years or so Wendy Eisenberg has been keeping listeners guessing. Nominally an improvising guitarist\, they don’t recognize any musical limitations\, perpetually finding ways to apply a deeply exploratory practice to a wide variety of contexts. Eisenberg plays solo guitar as well as banjo in both acoustic and electric settings\, warped post-punk songs in the trio Editrix\, delicately dangerous guitar music in the critically acclaimed Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet\, country-free jazz in the band Darlin’\, with Lester St. Louis and Ryan Sawyer\, febrile post-Prime Time free jazz in Strictly Missionary\, and punk-prog in a trio with Trevor Dunn and Ches Smith. As Eisenberg told fellow guitarist Nick Millevoi in an interview for Premier Guitar in 2021\, “I need to be in a punk band at the same time as I need to be playing free improv at the same time as I need to be playing songs. All at the same time—otherwise none of the practices will work for me.” Their musical range isn’t a glib manifestation of eclecticism\, but a genuine artistic essence. \nEisenberg has collaborated with a disparate array of musicians from all points along the creative music spectrum\, including Bill Orcutt\, Allison Miller\, Shane Parish\, Francisco Mela\, Carla Kihlstedt\, John Zorn\, and Caroline Davis. They have released music on Tzadik\, VDSQ\, Ba Da Bing! Records\, Garden Portal\, Feeding Tube\, Out of Your Head\, and Dear Life Records\, and performed everywhere from intimate basements to international festivals including Moers\, Le Guess Who? and Big Ears. They also write words about music and other things\, and have published work in John Zorn’s Arcana series\, The Contemporary Music Review\, Talkhouse\, and Sound American.
URL:https://pcm.org/event/caroline-davis-and-wendy-eisenberg-with-rhubarb/
LOCATION:SPACE\, 538 Congress St\, Portland\, ME 04101\, Portland\, ME\, 04101\, US
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