QUADS INTERVIEW, SOME VIDEOS, A LITTLE NEWS AND NOTHING NEW FROM OPB/KMHD

While listening to a very out very exciting Cooper-Moore play "All Up In It" and remembering how much fun I had talking with him for a story last fall and how much fun it IS to meet and get to talk with talented creative people and how I can't stop doing it even if it means I have to invent my own place in which to do it…..

Which has nothing to do with the news about KMHD. There's nothing new to report and I'm going to hold for another time what will be a lengthy and pretty shocking story about how that place has operated in the recent past.

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AS PROMISED, THE QUADRAPHONNES INTERVIEW FROM MY SHOW LAST SATURDAY NIGHT

Mary Sue Tobin and Chelsea Luker made the long trek to Gresham to be on KMHD with me. It sounded something like this. Actually, it sounded exactly like this.



And then I got this note on my Facebook "How bout giving Quartette Barbette some ink too! LOL" And there you have it.

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BURNSIDE RECORDS THROWS UP……A BUNCH OF COOL VIDEOS.

Interesting videos of Portland musicians including this one of the Acoustic Guitar Summit.



See the rest here.
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A NOTE TO THE PORTLAND BAND "METH TEETH"

I will never go see you with a name like that. I have easier ways to induce vomit.

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BRAZIL AND PIZZA IS NOT THE NAME AN ART FILM

You can get some of both, however at Mizz Pizz on Saturday night, March 28 when z'Bumba and Vou Vivendo play while you eat. Don’t let them see you eating. It's not good for the creative process.
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BONZO DOG BAND….NEED I SAY MORE?

Click if you must. I got this from a Bonzo fan. I know for a fact that Mississippi Studios' Jim Brunberg and Music Millennium's Terry Currier are huge Bonzo fans, as am I.

Here's the problem. I periodically coorespond with two women who are into the Bonzos. It's fairly unsual for women to like them. Don’t' ask me why. When I asked where they had discovered the Bonzos they both said they had been turned on to them by their dads when they were kids. Oh great.

Here's a version of Canyons of Your Mind I had never seen.



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I WILL BITE YOU, BUT ONLY IF YOU'RE IN COSTUME

This Friday, March (I'm really tired of March) 27 at the Bossanova Ballroom, Avant-Emperor Noah Mickens will throw The Vampire Masqurade Ball Official Meet and Greet Party starring The Deadly Ensemble, Soriah, plus aerialistFaegann Harlow, The Sick DJs Burn, Megadeth, and Jimme Jamma, experimental cellist Uxe Mede and Bogville featuring NagaSita and Eyerish Heather Collins.

As you may realize by now, I swear by all things Mickens but you may not get to read too much of his writing. For instance:

The 7th Annual Vampire Masquerade Ball is drawing the Transylvanian diaspora from across the Globe to celebrate their common heritage March 28th in Portland Oregon.

Those Night Owls who are able to make it to town one day in advance will be treated to a very special Meet-and-Greet party at The Bossanova Ballroom, where the spotlight moon will illuminate the Works of two of our most revered artistic practitioners: the cadaverous cabaret of The Deadfly Ensemble and throat-singing ritualist Soriah.

Framed by DJs and brief performative turns from the dark fairytale musical review Bogville, we offer an opportunity for the very oldest of friends and Family to quench their thirst in the company of their peers, and make themselves ready for the evening to come. Housed in the vintage 1930s grandeur of The Bossanova Ballroom, and organized by the creative minds behind The Wanderlust Circus and Societas Insomnia, our Meet-and-Greet party draws out the unique magick of The Vampire Masquerade Ball to fill an entire weekend. Or at least, the half of the weekend during which the sun is down.

The ball itself is Saturday night. All the details are here.

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R.I.P. EDDIE BO

New Orleans R&B, soul, funk and jazz pianist Eddie Bo died last week. In case you never got to see him, here's a tiny tiny taste.

At the Louisiana Music Factory on Decatur St. in New Orleans in 2007



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IF YOU'RE READING THIS WEDNESDAY EVENING YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO GO

Downtown Pala Lounge has been around for a few years. It opens on the weekends and is best known as the home of House. There's something for Portland Electronic Music Lovers tonight. It's the lastest Underground Rising @ Pala! featuring DJs DJF and Superfunkdiculous as well as resident Tronic on the decks. Music will feature house, funky house, techno and progressive.

Plus there will be live painting by Abztrakt Synergy. If I put my radio show on in my office, think Ab will paint it while I'm Djing?

If you absolutely must dance on a Wednesday night.

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JAZZ AT CINEMA 21, LIVE AND OTHERWISE

A monthly combination of live jazz and jazz on the screen begins at Cinema21 Friday, March 27 at 9pm with Paul Newman in Paris Blues,"the 1961 Martin Ritt-directed study of two jazz bohos (Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier) gigging in Paris and juggling love affairs. From the novel by Harold Flender, "Paris Blues" is an "American New Wave" artifact--rolling in romantic existentialism--featuring Louis Armstrong as Wild Man Moore, with a Duke Ellington score (Newman does a great horn-synch to "Mood Indigo"). Preceded by two concerts: live on German television in 1963--the Thelonious Monk Quartet, and a house party filmed in Finland in 1970 of the Bill Evans Trio."

Mike Horsfall and Craig Snazelle Duo, on vibes and bass will play in the lobby.

On Saturday, April 25 they'll be showing Hud along with 1974's Headhunters and Return to Forever with Herbie Hancock and Chick Correa, duh. O's Shawn Levy will introduce the movie and preview his new book on Newman.

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I AM NOT A MONGRELLLLLLLLL

Seattle's Mark Graham and Orville Johnson, aka Kings of Mongrel Folk will be at blues/roots singer/instrumentalist Laruen Sheehan's birthday party at the Muddy Rudder Public House, 8105 SE 7th Ave. on Saturday, March 28.

In case you need some filling in, These mighty personages are the Kings of this universally loved music that holds within it the realms of folk, blues, country, jazz, and the odd bits that they make up themselves.

Lauren plays the Rudder every week.

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