Jo Bar & Rotisserie

05/26/2026

Newk has left the planet. RIP Mr Rollins.
"Sonny plays with intelligence, warmth, humor and an expressive technique that seems to know no bounds." --Fred Hersch

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupI Can't Get Started (Live At The Village Vanguard/1957) · Sonny RollinsA Night At The Village Vanguard℗ 2024 Capi...

04/29/2026

Remembering McCoy Tyner
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04/28/2026

The man behind Blue Note, Alfred Lion. Born April, 21, 1908 in Berlin. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HBMR18c55/

Alfred Lion was born on this day April 21, 1908 in Berlin. A jazz concert he attended as a teenager sparked a lifelong passion for the music that would eventually lead him to NYC where he founded Blue Note Records in 1939.

"Alfred & Frank were more like jazz musicians than record executives," Bobby Hutcherson once said. "They loved to hang out and have a great time. They loved the music and had a real feel for it."

Stream our playlist "Blue Note: The Finest In Jazz" https://bluenote.lnk.to/BlueNote-TheFinest

04/24/2026

Thanks to Ron Carter. Happy Birthday to Charles Mingus.
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Today would have been Charles Mingus's 103rd birthday. I saw him play “I Can’t Get Started” at the old Five Spot in New York in the 60s… He played it so differently from how I’d heard others do it. It really inspired me to do my own solo take on the song.

Listen to one of my renditions here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76S6uSJRkCk

Happy birthday, Mr. Mingus.

📸: Don Hunstein for Columbia Records

02/27/2026

Requiescat in Pace
https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2026-02-21/willie-colon-salsa-71-hector-lavoe-ruben-blades

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-jZ0qyNPbw

Escúcha el disco El Malo (1966) Listen to WILLIE COLÓN – FANIA ESSENTIALS playlist: https://found.ee/WillieFaniaEssentialsListen to the GREATEST FANIA SALSA ...

02/19/2026

Man with a horn...

Tracing the trumpeter's journey from prodigy to post-bop architect, and the music that carried his spirit forward.

01/28/2026

RIP
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American pianist Richard Alan Beirach (Richie Beirach), one of the prominent creative voices on keyboard in the post-60s jazz landscape whose unique compositional sensibilities are to the fore on several notable ECM sessions, has died aged 78 in a hospital in Worms, close to his adopted home city of Heßheim in Germany.

Today Beirach can still be heard and seen spreading wisdom on piano-theoretical concepts as well as sharing his experiences and thoughts about some of his most significant influences in videos online. In one of them, discussing Bill Evans, he comes to the conclusion that “very often the things that we consider to be new are not new. They’re just new combinations or reanimations and reimaginations of things that have already been done, put together in a different way.” Seldom were they put together as thoughtfully as by Richie.

Read the full text at ECM’s website: https://ecmrecords.com/richie-beirach-1947-2026/

01/25/2026

Sunday Jan 25th. Kerry Politzer's "Jimmy Giuffre Project" First set 7pm. No Cover. Rservations: https://resy.com/cities/portland-or/venues/papa-haydn-northwest?date=2026-01-25&seats=2&time=1800
Here's a clip of Giuffre's ground breaking set at the '58 Newport Jazz Festival: https://youtu.be/eRKkYO5qEis?si=jh4-2_3rUiDklSXc&t=111

01/11/2026

Becky and Nancy...They left a song in our hearts and with their passing an empty space in our lives.

Rebecca Kilgore and Nancy King are among Portland’s Jazz Royalty. They are set to make an exceedingly rare appearance together on October 3 at the Winningsta...

12/15/2025

A few sounds from Jimi for the Neighborhood

Mr. Rogers Invites Jimi Hendrix For A Guitar Session Entertainment purposes only.