The Creative Music Guild of Portland, Oregon

A non-profit organization promoting new music that advances the arts of jazz improvisation and composition.

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Music Links

BBC Online - Radio 3 - Jazz on 3
Blues and Jazz Discography Links Page
Cadence/NorthCountry Audio Home Page
Coastal Jazz & Blues Society
Earshot Jazz
European Free Improvisation
Improvised Music from Japan
Jazz In Flight
Jazz Society of Oregon
one final note
Point of Departure: an online music journal
Restructures - creative music forum
Saturn Web: Discographies Listing
Seattle Improvised Music Festival
Stichting dOeK
Western Front Society

Some Key Labels

Atavistic | AUM Fidelity | BVHAAST | Drimala | Emanem | Eremite | hat | FMP | Intakt | Leo | Louie | Nine Winds | Nuscope | PI Recordings | Okkadisk | Screwgun | Silkheart | Songlines | Spool | Thirsty Ear | Tzadik

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Upcoming Events

Thursday, June 12: DOUBLE BILL! Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilsen-Love Duo AND Torsten Mueller, Dylan Van Der Schyff, John Butcher Trio

Friday, May 30, 2008 Featured Artists: Ab Baars and Ig Henneman Opening Act: Tim DuRoche (drums) and Reed Wallsmith (alto saxophone) Suggested donation: $9-$12. Gallery Homeland (the Ford Building) on the southwest corner of SE 11th and Division 2505 SE 11th Ave Portland, Or 97202 Dutch musician-composer and bandleader Ab Baars performs on tenor saxophone, clarinet and shakuhachi. He focuses mainly on the Ab Baars Trio, Duo Baars-Henneman and the ICP Orchestra. Ab Baars has been internationally acclaimed for both his solo and ensemble music performed in hundreds of concerts throughout Europe, North America, Japan and Australia in the past 25 years. Dutch musician-composer and bandleader Ig Henneman performs on viola, and writes compositions for orchestras, ensembles, soloists, including pieces for film and theater. As an improviser, she mainly focuses on the Henneman String Quartet, Duo Baars-Henneman and the Queen Mab Trio. Since 1985, Ig Henneman has lead her own groups, showcasing improvisers as well as her own compositions, in hundreds of concerts throughout Europe, North America and Japan.