For your +1. We enjoy music, but we rarely list it here. Others are better sources. That being said, we are attracted to a concert of Portland Jazz Legends here tonight. It is in honor of vocalist Shirley Nanette. The black church is a never-ending font of talent and joy in music. Portland's Cotton Club https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Club_(Portland,_Oregon) was another in its time. Many now-elder Portland jazz musicians jammed there at middle school age. It fell to urban renewal if you know what I'm saying.
Shirley Nanette gifted Portland many gospel jazz Christmas concerts. I remember one with a duet between Nanette and her teen daughter in call and response. You could see the mutual admiration and rivalry. You could also see the question if the daughter would proceed into the maw of the star-making machinery behind the popular song that claimed Whitney Houston who started in gospel. I don't know the rest of the story.
Nanette will be accompanied by Ron Steen, Vince Frates, and Phil Baker, with guests
Ural Thomas , Norman Sylvester, Brad Bleidt, Steve Christopherson, and Mel Brown, in a show of jazz, soul, blues, R&B, and funk.
PDX Legends, a Tribute to Shirley Nanette https://www.albertaabbey.org/eventcalendar/c5xjf7phsgpepxpscvhdeg5o7wjmz3, at Alberta Abbey 126 NE Alberta Doors 7PM, show 8 PM $ 20 or $45 with a creole dinner and reserved seating
Of related interest, the Albina Music Trust is a label and an archive. https://www.albinamusictrust.com/. They have a thing today too. Pointing forward in your calendar, they drop Our Soul Assembly at Bodecker on the 22nd. Lou Rawls said it https://youtu.be/K26vTCqOprE?si=yoZ8UZyJBWOP1bCL, thankfully we have the Trust.
For your +2. A Secret Room Press is a Risograph studio with zines, art shows and movies. They are open rarely. Violet Reed brings Flower Tower, risograph prints, miniature models, and toys illustrating her dream worlds.
Flower Tower at A Secret Room Press 3225 SE Division 6PM-8 Free
Man on the Land is a show by Tyler Stoll. It "reimagines iconic land artist Robert Smithson’s Mirror Displacements, swapping the mirrors with homemade cardboard cutouts of John Travolta as Danny Zuko from the 1978 musical film Grease." Personally I'm not a fan of pop culture sampling. For one it is easy, for two it has a narrow swath of viewers who might ne interested. Up to you though. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Michael Espinoza has curated a group show Brief Encounters: Queer Instant Photography. There is a curator statement on the gallery website. Artists are Ryan Rudewicz, Wayne Bund, Ian Lewandowski, Soft Butch, Catalina Bulgach, Nate Francis, Tom Kay, Jamieson Edson, Chris Moody, José Tinoco, Shadows Gather, Kareem Michael Worrell, C Meier, Christian Rogers, Michael Espinoza, Jackson Fader, Stuart Sandford, and Carlos Enfedaque.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. Noon - 5 or 8 Free
Outer Voice hosts Open Hours. "Share your video, audio, or performance work under 5 minutes. WIP, excerpts, old work, new work, anything! This is not a critique, it’s a less formal showcase of time-based works (dance, performance-art, video, audio, music, reading aloud) by us and our community, plus time to hang out with fellow artists."
At Outer Voice www.outervoicepdx.com/ in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate Map . 5PM-8 Free
Oregon Contemporary continues. That includes installation Sea of Vapors by Emily Counts, Maia Chao and Fred Schmidt-Arenales with Waste Scenes, and museum-quality loans of paintings by Manoucher Yektai and Josef Albers.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Noon-8 Free
