Beyond Category

Beyond Category

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Beyond Category episodes

  • Ian Christensen's "Finding"

    “Finding” is the title of saxophonist and composer Ian Christensen’s debut album, and it’s the twenty seventh release on PJCE Records. When Ian talks about getting lost in the music, he’s talking about what some people call a “flow state.” It’s the state of fulfillment you experience when you are completely absorbed in a task that you care about. For Ian, the moments when he achieves it make all his hard work seem easy.

    12 min
  • Catherine Feeny

    Portland singer/songwriters Catherine Feeny, Annalisa Tornfelt, Tahirah Memory, Johanna Warren, and Haley Heynderickx join our 12-piece jazz ensemble on original arrangements of their songs, October 29th at The Old Church at 7:30 pm. Curator Catherine Feeny talks about our guest artists.

    8 min
  • Ryan Meagher's "Mist Moss Home"

    Guitarist and composer Ryan Meagher’s fifth album is called Mist, Moss, Home. It’s a musical celebration of all things Oregon, the state he now calls home. Get the album at pjce.org.

    7 min
  • George Colligan

    George Colligan has composed a suite of new music for the PJCE. It's called "Fathers and Sons" and it's about family—George's answer to the question "how does one person go into another person?" Hear the new piece at the Montavilla Jazz Festival, Aug 20th in Portland, OR.

    7 min
  • Holland Andrews

    Holland Andrews, aka Like a Villain, joins the PJCE to perform her newest composition, "Deviate." Inspired by her work in the mental health field, the piece for her voice, electronics and clarinet explores the depths of human experience through the lens of trauma. Hear the new piece at the Portland Improv Summit, the summer festival of the Creative Music Guild.

    8 min
  • Beyond Category — Episode 14 — Streetcar Named Desire
    "Sound is all around us," says Portland Center Stage sound designer Casi Pacilio. She tells us some of the secrets of designing sound for the PCS production of Streetcar Named Desire happening May 14 to June 19, 2016 in Portland, Oregon. Use the discount code "PJCE" for $10 off your tickets!
    7 min
  • Episode Thirteen — Grasshoppers — Beyond Category
    The PJCE's first-ever student mentorship concert is February 20th, 2016! Meet our "grasshoppers," Devina Boughton and Andres Moreno, both high school students, and their professional mentors Kerry Politzer and Ezra Weiss, and hear them talk about the ups and downs of the mentorship process.
    7 min
  • Beyond Category — Episode Twelve — Montavilla Jazz Festival Recap
    What kind of crazy does it take to launch a new jazz festival? Beyond Category host and producer Douglas Detrick interviewed the Montavilla Jazz Festival's Programming Director Ryan Meagher before the festival, and then interviewed musicians, staff, volunteers, and sponsors during the festival to produce this recap of this unique festival.
    15 min
  • Beyond Category — Episode Eleven — Jessika Smith
    Jessika Smith's hard-swinging big band music comes out on PJCE Records December 18th, 2015. With all the difficulty that went into composing and producing this album, the hardest part for Jessika was finding the confidence to write the first note. She found it and then some.
    5 min

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Beyond Category tells the stories behind the music of the Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble, its record label PJCE Records, and members from all corners of the Portland Jazz Scene.