Blog: LocalCut

In an era where music blogging often amounts to the use of ALL CAPS, quibbling about numerical ratings (does the new Grizzly Bear song deserve an 8.2 or an 8.7?), and naming your favorite chillwave band, it can be hard to get excited about a jazz festival. That is until you see that the lineup includes Pharoah Sanders. It's probably not Portland's sexiest week of music, but this year's Portland Jazz Festival—um, I mean Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air Portland Jazz Festival presented by US Bank—boasts a really stellar and fantastic lineup: the Dave Holland Quintet, the Mingus Big Band, [...]