KNKX Studio Sessions

Blending classic swing tunes from jazz, country and early rock 'n' roll; bassist and singer Birch Pereira & The Gin Joints have found their own kind of cool. Live in our studios, the band performed four tunes from their varied songbook, including the music of Hoagy Carmichael, Fats Waller, Elvis Presley and Hank Williams. A man of many talents, Birch has also found success around the Northwest in his modern soul/funk "livetronica" band Theoretics, but he says that group has little to no

Oregon jazz singer, Halie Loren, is one of our favorite guests—and one of our most frequent. Recently, on her way to the Vancouver and Victoria, B.C. jazz festival, she and her husband, guitarist Daniel Gallo, stopped in. It was Halie’s third live Studio Session and perhaps her best so far; due in large part to the intimacy of the performance. It was just Haile and her husband, putting their heads together to play some songs they love.