All shows on Friday February 24, and Saturday February 25, 2023 are currently scheduled as planned. Please check pdxjazz.org for updates to Festival shows or email info@pdxjazz.com. If a show is postponed, all ticket holders will be notified.

Thank you,
The PDX Jazz Team

Portland Jazz Festival is proud to present for the first time ever this dynamic bass pairing, featuring the legend Dave Holland and the rising star Derrick Hodge, both performing with their own trios. 

DON'T MISS DAVE HOLLAND'S ‘JAZZ CONVERSATION’ @ ARTBAR BEFORE THE SHOW!

DAVE HOLLAND TRIO featuring:
Dave Holland bass | Kevin Eubanks guitar | Eric Harland drums

The legendary Dave Holland is a bassist, composer, bandleader whose passion for musical expression of all styles, and dedication to creating consistently innovative music ensembles have propelled a professional career of more than 50 years, and earned him top honors in his field including multiple Grammy awards and the title of NEA Jazz Master in 2017.

Over the course of an over five-decade career Dave Holland has never stopped evolving, reinventing his concept and approach with each new project while constantly honing his instantly identifiable voice. He stands as a guiding light on acoustic and electric bass, having grown up in an age when musical genres—jazz, rock, funk, avant-garde, folk, electronic music, and others—blended freely together to create new musical pathways. From the electric whirlwind of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew-era band to the elegant flamenco of his collaboration with Spanish guitar legend Pepe Habichuela; accompanying the great vocalist Betty Carter in her last years to forging a new sound with the pioneering avant-garde quartet Circle alongside Chick Corea, Anthony Braxton, and Barry Altschul; standing alongside legends like Stan Getz, Hank Jones, Roy Haynes, and Sam Rivers to providing early opportunities to now-leading players like Chris Potter, Kevin and Robin Eubanks, or Steve Coleman; Dave Holland has been at the forefront of jazz in many of its forms since his earliest day.

DERRICK HODGE TRIO
Two-time Grammy Award-winning bassist and Blue Note Recording Artist Derrick Hodge’s writing and arranging accomplishments straddle both the recording and live arenas – from composing original music for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, to arranging for Nas and the National Symphony Orchestra, Common and the Chicago Symphony, Maxwell and the National Symphony, as well as composing the original work “Infinite Reflections” for the Chicago Brass Ensemble, and being a Sundance Composer Fellow.  He has also directed and scored other projects from being co-Musical Director for the 2015 Triumph Awards and arranging strings for Mos Def’s 2008 premiere at Carnegie Hall, to writing for films such as Back to School Mom, the 180 Days Documentary Series, Land of Opportunity, The Black Candle, The Army Recruiter and Uneasy Listening. Early film work includes When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts in which he did additional writing and scoring, as well as Who the $%@ Is Jackson Pollock?,and Faubourg Treme: A Story of Black New Orleans.  Hodge’s most recent film projects include music consultant credit for the Feb 2020 Universal release “The Photograph”, as well as composer for the American library system documentary “Free For All Lives”, directed by Dawn Logsdon.

2023 Biamp PDX Jazz Festival events at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall and the Newmark & Winningstad Theatres.