CONTENTS

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HILTON RUIZ DEATH

HILTON RUIZ DEATH
Hilton Ruiz (New York Times)

CURTIS SALGADO BENEFIT CONCERT

CURTIS SALGADO BENEFIT CONCERT. ROSE GARDEN. PORTLAND OREGON
Curtis Salgado Benefit Concert (Willamette Week)
A benefit for the Curtis Salgado Fund, featuring the Curtis Salgado Band, Steve Miller, the Robert Cray Band, Taj Mahal, Everclear, The Phantom Blues Band and Little Charlie & the Nightcats will take place Tuesday, June 13, at the Rose Garden Theater of the Clouds. 7:30 pm. $35-$75 ($250 includes VIP after-party pass). All ages.

LES MCCANN AT THE BLUE MONK

LES MCCANN. THE BLUE MONK
THE BLUE MONK

27-May-06.
11PM show.

VENUE
The Blue Monk is located in Portland at 28th and Belmont. The bar is located just inside the door and it was filled tonight with dresses, cufflinks and even a hat. It's late, 10:30PM and the energy is rich- thick. The day's distractionns are yielding to the moment at hand. Like being on an airplane with a good book. You're isolated and resources are finite- what else is there to do. Here at the Blue Monk you are surrounded by similar definition- the elements that make a good show are all present and nothing more. The Blue Monk has a good reputation as a jazz club and it is a club downstairs in the tradition of a great New York Club like the Village Vanguard which is club at the bottom of 15 well-trodden steps below street level.

WILL CALL
These downward steps are inside, to the right, Through a doorway, which is where your ticket is required and will call is located, left, down some stairs. The walls are adorned with music posters and prints. Miles is here. Light flows like fog from below. The sounds of the bar upstairs fade, merge and then become the low powerful hum of the hungry audience ahead, like a diesel locomotive- some marker lights flickering, idling in the train yard waiting for it's next job. A final turn right and a few more steps and the room unfolds before you.

FOOT OF THE STAIRS
I stood near the back of the room near the coustimer entrance along the wall on a landing aat the doorway of the service stairs. Suddenly the door opened carefully and it was drummer Mel Brown, holding his suit jacket. I said "hello" and identified myself. I told him I was happy to be here and was looking forward to the show. Mel Brown said, "this fourth show's energy will be high like the other three shows". He continued, "Les is makin' us work hard". I thanked Mel for his time and watched as he began drifting toward his drums on stage stopping often to talk, smile, and shake hands. Mel Brown is and has been for many years, an important musician and educator in Portland, Oregon.

Ramsey Embick was in the house. He seemed preoccupied which was later understandable when I saw him move the the keybord- on stage. He is a very talented well read, if you will musician. He knows some past and writes music. He is a great choice for a visiting musician.

SHOWTIME
It's 11:20pm. Mel is putting his jacket on. The auduience rises for the house emcee's introduction.

They begin hot. At the first break, Les jokes around with the audience. He asks for, well, any availble women. He introduces the members in his band which were: Ramsey Embick on keyboard, Damian Erkine on bass, Adrian Baxter on tenor saxophone, and he gets to Mel Brown.

Les knows Mel and his connection with us and takes an intentionally painstaking amount of time, waving in someone from offstage left to come over and whisper in his ear who that might be. The audience is erupting in shouts and whoops and applause. When Les finally says, "Mel Brown" the room erupts with adulation.

The band moves into an Eddie Harris composition called "Ignominy" released by Eddie Harris on an album called "Vexatious Progressions" in 1995. It cooks.

The next break, Les reminds, "got to go to church". "We are at church" comes a vigorous response from a nearby gentleman. "Oh yeah, give praise".

We, the audience reflexively blurted out "compared to what" when it arrived in the song. When he finished "Compared To What", he said goodnight and introduced the band again. Damian Ersdkine at his web site at the Les McCann link has a great observation recognizing the gravity of performing with the man who wrote it.

Their encore was Marvin Gaye's, "What's Goin On".

Planets Poem

This is a poem I recieved through my son who learned this in Debbie and Kelly's class at Childswork Learning Center Inc. The music that follows the poem read by my son is Tom Grant's "Outer Planets" from his CD called "Solo Piano".

PLANETS POEM
The Sun's a hot star
and Mercury's hot too
Venus is the brightest planet
and earth's home to me an you
and Mars is the red one
and Jupiter quite wide
Saturn has those icy rings
Uranus spins on its side
Neptune is really windy
and Pluto's really small
Now we named the planets
Perhaps we named them all.

Well, that is a rendition of planets in a children's rhyme, my son's interpretation that considers our solar system. A somewhat more sophisticated comment is by Tom Grant.
From Solo Piano, here is a beautiful piece called "Outer Planets" performed on a nine foot Steinway D piano.

LISTEN (about 5 minutes)

Great Day in Portland. Musicians Named!

Here is the Great Day in Portland Photograph with features that allow you to click on a face and identify the musician. Double click and it will link you to their biography. This is a beautiful tool for those who own the photo and for those who would like to know more about the jazz community in which we live and listen!

MAY 2006. (Second Saturday Highlights)

JAZZ INTERFACE.

PIANO JAZZ
Marian McPartland's guest today on Piano Jazz was Curtis Steigers with Rufus Reid on bass.

MICHAEL WINKLE
This Dance

CINCO DE MAYO
4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City on the morning of May 5, 1862 under the command of Texas-born General Zaragosa. Napoleon detested the United States, which was involved in a civil war, and invaded Mexico 5 months earlier with the intentin to stay.

ED BENNETT
Saphu Records

YOUNG JAZZ
West Coast Bank Jazz Band Classic
Hazeldale parade of bands.
JAXS 7pm-10pm, Jam Session. There is no cover and all ages are welcome. HANK HIRSH QUINTET hosts this every Wednesday, SAM HIRSH is the quintets's piano player and he is... 17 years young. Next month the jam sessions will move to the 2nd floor which is the roof!
LEROY VINEGAR JAZZ WEEK III
Leroy Vinnegar Jazz Institute

If you have a suggestion about a venue or an event, please send it to me and I'll be happy to pass it along.

CONTACT ME
Send me an email, or an mp3 or post it above in the slide show. If you'd like an address, send it to me care of: KMHD. 26000 SE Stark. Gresham, Oregon 97030. The Studio's phone number is 503.661.8900.

"911" Leroy Vinnegar Week I. 2003. Dave Holland Interview segment.

This is an exerpt from a 47 minute interview done in conjunction with the first Leroy Vinnegar Jazz Week. Mr. Holland was the headliner. Here he talks about 911. This was part of the first Leroy Vinnegar Week in May of 2003. Mr Holland talks about what he was doing at the time. He begins with a response to a question that includes reference the the bombing in Madreid that had occurred earlier in this same year (11M).

LISTEN (00:01:04)

2004 WCB Jazz Band Classic promo.

Here is the promo I created for the West Coast Bank Jazz Band Classic in 2004. I emceed this event as well.

LISTEN (00:00:54)

Parking Lot at Mt. Hood Community College to the KMHD Studio.

This is the walk I have been making since the summer of 1984. A stroll from the parking lot at Mt. Hood Community College to the front door of the KMHD Studio.


WATCH (00:03:00)

Entering the MCR at the KMHD Studios. 2006

Standing in the Foyer just outside the master control room. Press play and continue to the console.

Spring is welcome.

"Exhalting Clouds" by Gary Albertson. Sisters Gallery and Frame Shop, Sisters, Oregon.
(Used with permission).

Eleven miles of the McKenzie pass were opened yesterday, heartening evidence of the changing season.

Spring Fundraiser 2006. 4.29.06.

Thanks
On behalf of Judy, Geoff, Rita and me, thanks for stopping by. While you're here, upload your own photo and location on the map, and don't hesitate to leave your feedback.

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KMHD'S future site.

Format
KMHD features music 55 minutes each and every hour.
Our CD library contains 6000 titles and is being added to all of the time.
We have been on the air since 1984 broadcasting jazz that ranges across the spectrum to include traditional or dixieland to fusions of all sorts. Fountain to Metheny, our volunteers bring their passion for the music to you 24 hours a day.

Desktop Photo
Drag this picture to your computer, make it your desktop photo and turn it into your own private radio studio. (If you like a 1.5MB copy, email me and I'll be happy to send it to you).

Early Days
My name is Shawn Kirkeby, and in the summer of 1984, I heard a call on the airwaves of a fledgling radio station on the campus of Mount Hood Community College for volunteers. I had some time and took them up on it. After meeting the station manager Kirk Wille, he handed me a manual for operation of round dial pots or volume controls and the mixing board generally, pointed to the studio and said, "practice".

Growth
We have progressed technologically and the music genre continues to grow. There are only a handfull of jazz radio stations broadcasting. KMHD is unique in its connection to a vibrant jazz community that entertains, innovates. and teaches.

Listener Supported
Consider lending your financial support to this rare aggregation of talents at any level you feel comfortable. While visiting or calling KMHD, look into the premiums that come with your membership.

Thanks.

George Fendel

Please keep George and his family in your thoughts and prayers.

Baseball Medely

"Baseball"
Torres, Guaraldi, Frishberg, Farber, Peplowski,, Krall (00:28:30)