Oregon Art Beat
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Episode 732: Thursday June 15, 2006
- Last Thursday
- Everyone knows about first Thursday in the Pearl, but have you hear about last Thursday on Alberta? Come over to the east side to meet the spunky, funky kid sister of first Thursday, as NE Alberta street comes alive with street painters, fire dancers, parades and poets. Oh, and there's also art on the walls in the galleries!
- Art on Alberta
- Musician Tom Grant
- Tom Grant, master instrumentalist, talented singer and natural entertainer walks the line between jazz tradition and modern pop. This soft-spoken Oregon native's inspired songwriting produces propulsive R&B grooves, infectious melodic hooks, and stylish ballads with equal ease. He plays jazz piano with the harmonic sophistication and deep sense of swing that comes from more than three decades on the bandstand. At the same time, his recordings have consistently landed at the top of the Smooth Jazz charts, a genre of music Tom helped pioneer in the mid-80s.
- Watch this story now
- TomGrant.com
- Kelley Baker
- Kelley Baker has worked on big budget productions with director Gus Van Sant, but what he really likes is making his own small-budget films. Find out how a truly independent film gets made and why he says it makes him so angry.
- AngryFilmmaker.com
