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This is a free community event as part of the 2025 Biamp Portland Jazz Festival.Biamp Portland Jazz Festival: Miles Davis / Kind of Blue ‘Jazz Education Series’ Presentation w/ Ashley Kahn
Recital Hall – Mago Hunt Building
2025 marks a double anniversary: 125 years since the birth of Edward Kennedy Ellington, and 50 years since his departure. Yet his importance -- in fact anyone we call "legend" -- should not simply be accepted at face-value. Music historian/author Ashley Kahn visits MHCC to mark Ellington’s enduring legacy but also to ask and answer why, after all these years, his influence remains pervasive, why his music still sounds fresh and ceaselessly modern, and how his career continues to serve as a guiding light for artistic freedoms and racial pride and self-determination. This exciting multimedia presentation will include audio and video, and much discussion!
Ashley Kahn is a Grammy-winning music historian, author, a prolific writer of album liner notes, a producer of recordings and documentaries, and has authored books on legendary albums (John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue), on a record label (The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records) and co-wrote Carlos Santana’s autobiography The Universal Tone. He has received numerous honors including a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2023. He teaches at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music and speaks at a variety of music festivals, conservatories, and music programs around the world.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University of Portland, 5000 N Willamette Blvd,Portland, Oregon, United States
