PDX Jazz Supports Jazz Films

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PDX Jazz, the presenting organization of the Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air Portland Jazz Festival presented by U.S. Bank, is proud to announce the screening of four jazz documentaries in the coming weeks:

· The Anatomy Of Vince Guaraldi via the 28th REEL MUSIC FESTIVAL (presented by the Northwest Film Center)

· Two Sides of John Zorn’s Masada presented by the Oregon Jewish Museum, featuring two films: Electric Masada and Masada String Trio

· Icons Among Us: jazz in the present tense via the 2011 Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air Portland Jazz Festival presented by US Bank

See below for more information on all films, screening dates/details, etc.

CONCORD MUSIC GROUP ASSEMBLES PIANIST VINCE GUARALDI’S VIVID MUSICAL PORTRAITS OF CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARACTERS

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Peanuts Portraits marks the 60th anniversary of cartoonist Charles Schulz’s enduring characters

Vince Guaraldi - Peanuts Portraits

By the 1960s, cartoonist Charles Schulz’s Peanuts – featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy and Linus Van Pelt, Schroeder and other alternately heartwarming and heartbreaking characters – had become a popular fixture in newspaper comics for more than a decade. But when pianist Vince Guaraldi began composing and recording music for various Peanuts television specials in the mid-1960s, the characters suddenly gained an entirely new dimension of humanity and emotional resonance that endures to this day.

The TV specials kept coming, and with them came more music from Guaraldi, each piece capturing the infectious personality of a specific character within the strip. By the ’70s, Guaraldi’s compositions for Peanuts – originally released on Fantasy – had become the universally recognized musical backdrop to the sometimes comic, sometimes tragic characters who made up Schulz’s universe.