Chris Doss: Biamp Portland Jazz Festival honcho looks back at this year's
Regular listeners to Coffeeshop Conversations….and I mean over the years…know that one of the things we like to do is bring on some of the folks responsible for some of Oregon’s great music festivals.
For the past few years, a regular visitor to wherever we happen to be recording these has been Chris Doss, the Executive Director of the Biamp Portland Jazz Festival…usually long before the festival has begun.
This time he’s here as the festival is winding up. It ends this weekend and we’re recording on Thursday March 19.
I wanted to find out how he feels with the finish line in sight, and get some impressions of what he has heard and learned etcetera.
At the controls in his Studio Blue in Northeast Portland is Paul K Ward who seems to be at every keyboard in town these days. Playing music or recording it. I’m at my desk in Northwest Portland.
With Paul is Chris Doss himself.
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Terry Currier: What becomes of Muic Millennium when he leaves?
This was supposed to have run a couple of weeks ago but that awful flu intervened, both for me and Paul K Ward. We're both back at work. Sorry to keep you waiting.
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A couple of weeks ago we got the news that Music Millennium owner Terry Currier was, at 70 years of age, looking to the future of Music Millennium and handing off to another owner or owners the home of recorded music in Oregon…after forty-two years at that magnificent museum of music on East Burnside.
I’m at my desk in Northwest Portland, at the controls engineering, producing and editing is Paul K Ward in his Studio Blue in Northeast Portland.
And in his office at Music Millennium is our guest Terry Currier to tell us how all of this happened, how he sees his future and that of the record store.
He’s no stranger to Coffeeshop Conversations. He’s been a guest once a year for …well for EVER.
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