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Machado Mijiga: Gradient

Read "Gradient" reviewed by Paul Rauch


Machado Mijiga is a Portland born and raised multi- instrumentalist, producer, audio engineer and educator, still based in his city of origin. His 2022 release, Gradient, turns his focus to his creative strengths as a drummer and composer, taking in tunes written over the course of the past decade. Mijiga has mild synesthesia, hearing sounds as colors, shapes or more specifically, colors seen through the spectrum, or color groups. This is similar to the recently passed pianist, Jessica Williams, who ...

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Idit Shner: Live at the Jazz Station

Read "Live at the Jazz Station" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Alto saxophonist Idit Shner is a professor of saxophone and jazz studies at the University of Oregon. On Live at the Jazz Station, she offers her students (and others) a master class in how to translate academic theory into performance art—and she does it live, without a net, at Portland's Jazz Station. The album's opening track, the Jerome Kern standard “Yesterdays," is more exploratory than illustrative, with Shner's alto guardedly encircling its strong melodic line while pianist ...

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Gradient

Self-Released
2022

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Heat Wave

OA2 Records
2022

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In a Heartbeat

PJCE Records
2022

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Live at the Jazz...

OA2 Records
2021

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Henceforth

From: Ngatibatanei / Let Us Unite!
By Garrett Baxter

Spring Day

From: In a Heartbeat
By Garrett Baxter

Obsidian Horses

From: Heat Wave
By Garrett Baxter

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