Starting today, the Portland Jazz Festival extends through February 27 with an intriguing theme, "Bridges and Boundaries: Jewish and African Americans Playing Jazz". Esperanza Spalding, local girl made good at this year's Grammys, will be a headliner and is designated the festival's "community ambassador". Her friend, Tel Aviv-born woodwind player, Anat Cohen, is also to perform. A group I look forward to hearing, and which is said to exemplify the spirit of the event, is the Afro-Semitic Experience, described as "three Jews and three African Americans playing Klezmer soul".
Read more about the festival in tonight's piece from The Oregonian.
In the meantime, let's hear Linda Hornbuckle, a Portland jazz/soul/gospel singer who came to our attention a few years ago via OPB (Oregon Public Broadcasting) and its ArtBeat program:
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