9:30 Machado Mijiga / Noah Simpson
8:45 Shao Way Wu / Andrew Jones
8pm Aurora Jepherson / Dana Reason
Noah Simpson
Energetic, dynamic, and attentive describe Noah Simpson’s approach to trumpet playing. Simpson is a celebrated performer, educator, composer, and forward-thinking improviser who has worked with artists such as Bernard Purdie, George Benson, and Ron Artis II.
Machado Mijiga
Multi-instrumentalist and Portland native Machado Mijiga wears many hats, both literally and metaphorically. Classically-trained, jazz-weathered, and eclectically inclined, Mijiga left the proverbial creative “box” at a very early age, with access to many instruments and a diverse musical background brought about by an intercultural heritage. Mijiga is a musical polymath; composer, producer, bandleader, educator, gear fanatic, and audio engineer, to name a few. Authenticity and uniquity assume the locus of Mijiga’s artistic identity. Self-expression is the prime directive, and the medium of choice changes like the weather.”
https://machadomijiga.bandcamp.com/
Dana Reason
Dana Reason is a Canadian-born composer, performing and recording artist, music supervisor, educator, and musicologist. She was part of The Space Between trio with American electronic arts pioneer, Pauline Oliveros (Guggenheim recipient); and is documented on 17 commercially released recordings. Reason is part of the ReSoundings trio with Dr. Catherine Lee and Dr. John Savage. They performed the 2020 NEA Jazz Master, Roscoe Mitchell’s seminal work: Nonaah Trio at the Park Avenue Armory (curated by Jason Moran) in NYC, 2019. Their recording of Nonaah Trio (Widehive Records, 2020), has received high praise. Reason was one of the four artists commissioned by the Oregon Cultural Foundation for the award winning Exhibition at the High Desert Museum series: “Desert Reflections: Water Shapes the West (2019). As a film composer, and performer, Reason arranged Dr. Henry Louis Gates’ 4 part PBS series: “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War” (2019), (which received the duPont Award, Columbia, 2020), and served as both lead composer and music supervisor for the Alice Guy Blachet Vol.2 (Kino Lorber, 2020) film collection, which was nominated as one of the top 20 blu ray collections of 2020 by the British Film Institute (BFI). ”Additionally, Reason composed the feature-length film score for Nell Shipman’s: “Back to God’s Country” (released by Kino-Lorber), which premiered with a live performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in 2018. Reason is currently the Vice-President of the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM); and is a 2021-2022 OSU Humanities Research Fellow. She is an Assistant Professor of Contemporary Music at Oregon State University.
Aurora Josephson
Aurora Josephson is a musician and visual artist who currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Building on the foundation of operatic training and a BA and an MFA in Music Performance from Mills College, she has forged a bold vocal style that is uniquely her own. To unleash the limitless range of sonic possibilities in the voice, Josephson employs a variety of extended and unconventional techniques drawn from the worlds of contemporary composition, improvisation, and rock. She has performed and recorded with Alvin Curran, Gianni Gebbia, Henry Kaiser, Joelle Leandre and William Winant, and musical groups Big City Orchestrae, Flying Luttenbachers, The Molecules, ROVA Saxophone Quartet, T.D. Skatchitband and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Http://www.aurorajosephson.com
Shao Way Wu
Portland bassist.
Andrew Jones
Andrew Jones is an improviser, composer, and bassist in Portland. Since arriving in 2009, he’s been involved with the music community in a myriad of contexts: contributing compositions to jazz releases on the PJCE label, performing with rock, hip hop and folk groups and working with countless singer-songwriters. He’s also formed a long association with Portland’s experimental music community and Creative Music Guild, making multiple appearances at the Improvisation Summit of Portland and TBA performing with visiting musicians, collaborating with local dancers, accompanying theatre and presenting his own music. His main creative vehicle, The Crenshaw, is based on Andrew’s poetry, which he sets to electronic music. Those beat-pieces are then recreated with his warped synth samples, upright bass and a collaborator on drum set framing Jones’ voice. In 2019 he finished a fourteen-month international touring stint with acclaimed Los Angeles songwriter/composer Julia Holter. During the pandemic, Jones has turned to more session and audio production work; writing arrangements, contributing bass tracks, and mixing various new releases. In the coming year he plans to record The Crenshaw’s second full length album.
https://thecrenshaw.bandcamp.com/
