Rise In Love

When
Monday, Feb. 24, 2025
7:30 p.m.
Free
Where
Room 75
in the basement., 1620 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97201

The following description was submitted by the event organizer.

Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble presents new jazz commissions in celebration of Black Artists, Athletes, and Civil Rights Leaders in Rise in Love. 

The original works draw on the poetry of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, the legacies of tennis greats Arthur Ashe and Althea Gibson, the revolutionary term of president of Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara, and Reverend James Lawson’s conception of nonviolent resistance. The concert features works by Oregon Governors Arts Awardee Darrell Grant, Oregon Music Teachers Association Composer of the Year Todd Marston and Emmy Award-winner Steven Golliday, “Irresistible” (San Francisco Chronicle) electronics-meets-contemporary classical composer Kirsten Volness, rising star composer/trombonist James Powers, and three-time ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awardee Ezra Weiss.