PTXM & Dakota Transit Exhibit Opening Party

Join us in style on October 1st from 6 PM to 9 PM at the Origins and Legacies Gallery by Textile Hive, located at 516 NW 14th Avenue, for the opening celebration of this year’s Portland TextileX Month. This party also marks the opening reception for Dakota Transit: Sonic Couture by Andrea Aranow, a retrospective exhibit showcasing patchwork snakeskin and leather fashions created by the designer between 1968 and 1973 in New York City’s East Village. Dress to impress and enjoy live music and dancing as we kick off this year’s PTXM Origin Stories festival!

John JB Butler Jazz Trio, featuring Luciana Proaño on dance, Tony Pacini on Keyboard and Chris Lee on drums.

A special combination of jazz sensibilities, with musicians who feel comfortable in the traditional and are willing to wildly explore beyond the margins. Please join us for this creative exploration of music; the trio will be playing some classical Miles Davis tunes and original compositions by JB Butler, and Luciana Proaño will be creating an adventuresome environment with her surreal costumes and interpretive dancing.

About the musicians:

John JB Butler is a guitarist and composer with extensive experience performing who has taught guitar nationally and internationally. He has lived and worked as a professional musician in New York, Amsterdam, and Lima, Peru, and is now based out of Portland, Oregon. He received a Fulbright grant in Peru where he taught jazz throughout the country and studied Afro Peruvian music with Carlos Hayre.
JB has been the musical director for Peruvian dancer-performance artist Luciana Proaño since 1989.

He has performed at festivals and clubs throughout Europe, North America, and Peru, including: Lincoln Center in NY, New Music America Festivals in Miami and Montreal, International Guitar Festival in Lima, Peru, and Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, where he has appeared with Jack McDuff, Jim Pepper, Wilbur Little, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Mel Brown, Manuel Valera, Jeff Lorber, Myron Walden, Gerry Gibbs, Scott Colley, Lew Soloff, Ernesto Simpson, Geoffrey Keezer, Billy Kilson, Dafnis Prieto, Lionel Loueke, Ronnie Burrage, Gene Jackson, Essiet Essiet, Leroy Vinnegar, Julian Priester, Beaver Harris, Jeff Ballard, Mark Feldman, Glen Moore, David Friesen, Han Bennink, Yosvany Terry, and Dale Barlow.

JB appears on CD’s with: Lionel Loueke, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Essiet Essiet, Billy Kilson, Manuel Valera, Myron Walden, Gino Sitson, Ronnie Burrage, Dale Barlow, plus many others.

Press quotes:
“Deft Jazz Guitarist” – Downbeat Magazine
“Full of magic” – El Comercio, Lima, Peru
…[Butler’s composition Three Things] brilliantly demonstrates the magic of the group stretching out beyond musical boundaries…” – Russ Musto, All About Jazz NY

John’s CDs of original compositions are available at www.cdbaby.com/jjbbutler

Tony Pacini: keyboards
The jazz piano artistry of Tony Pacini has been enthusiastically enjoyed by nightclub and festival audiences throughout the West coast as well as in his hometown of Portland, Oregon.

Born in Tokyo, Japan (May 1970), while his father (a consummate musician) was on the road at the time, pianist Tony Pacini came to Portland, Oregon as an infant. Tony’s exposure to music began at an early age, having the added benefits of growing up in a musical family including three uncles, two aunts, and a father, all of whom were experienced professional musicians. A piano student since age 5, Tony led his first trio as a teenager, holding down weekends at a popular jazz spot.

The piano made higher education possible for Tony, including study at Boston’s prestigious Berklee College Of Music, courtesy of an all-tuition-paid scholarship from world renowned jazz author/critic, Leonard Feather.

Upon returning to Portland, Tony immersed himself in the jazz scene, most notably performing with: Leroy Vinnegar, Antonio Hart, Bill Henderson, Bud Shank, Benny Golson, Byron Stripling, Carl Sanders, Chuck Israels, Chuck Redd, Claudio Roditi, Curtis Fuller, Dan Faehnle, Hadley Calliman, Harry Allen, Marlena Shaw, Mary Stallings, Mel Brown, Ritchie Cole, Ron Steen, Nancy King and Rebecca Kilgore.
Tonypacini.com

Chris Lee: drummer
As a composer, vibraphonist, and drummer, Chris Lee brings a distinct perspective to his music. While still in his teens, he attended Ornette Coleman’s Creative Music Studios where he studied with Karl Berger and Jack DeJohnette on vibes and drums, respectively, and the Cornish Institute with Sam Rivers and Dave Holland. He has produced several albums as a drummer and composer; as a vibraphonist, he has led the chamber jazz trio Primal Mates and the Poetry Music Project with vocalist/cellist Colleen O’Brien. As a composer, he has had his compositions recorded/performed by Sheila Jordan, Steve Kuhn, Art Lande, Paul McCandless, and Kenny Wheeler. Chris has had the good fortune to work with such diverse artists as Joe Henderson, Lew Tabackin, Fred Hersch, Kenny Werner, Ron Miles, Sheila Jordan, Gary Peacock, Julian Priester, Mose Allison, John Handy, Ernie Watts, David “Fathead” Newman, George Cables, Leni Stern, Nguyen Lee, Sonny Simmons, Plas Johnson, New York Voices, and many others.
chrisleemusic.org

Luciana Proaño
Luciana Proaño is better defined as an artist than strictly a dancer. A native of Peru, she spent most of her 20s, 30s, and 40s bouncing between her home country and Europe, creating dark performance-art pieces set to live music. Today, her work is more joyful but still surreal. Nothing is precisely choreographed, though, so each performance is different.

She says, “I want to expose the audience to a moment of discovery, and if they’re going to be discovering something from me, I have to be discovering something myself. Art has a purpose of expanding your consciousness, even though not all art resonates with everyone. Maybe you’re told that you have to ‘get it.’ There’s nothing to get. You just take it with you. Art is not only what you produce, but also how you see the world around you.”

Luciana has been performing since she was 3 years old, and has made appearances in venues such as Queen Elizabeth Hall and The Place in London, Lincoln Center, Dance Theater Workshop in NY, and many other places in North and South America and Europe. She was the founder of Aceituna Albina in Peru, and Assistant Director and Assistant Choreographer at the National Choreographic Center in France. She is now the artistic director of the band INKAJAM and a roster artist with Arts for Learning North West. She is a music instructor at Backbeat Music Academy in Beaverton.

Musician collaborators in her shows include JB Butler, Jim Pepper, Glen Moore, Essiet Essiet, Eugene Skeef, Julian Priest, Chocolate Algendones, Eusebio Sirio Pititi, Martin Zarzar, Rio Butler, Manuel Miranda, Gerry Hemmingway, Arturo Ruiz del Pozo, Manongo Mujica, Shao Wey Wu, etc.

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