Michael Raynor Quartet

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TICKETS $30 | ALL AGES Drummer/bandleader Michael Raynor moved to Portland from Chicago, where he spent twenty-two years playing with tenor sax icon and NEA Jazz Master, Von Freeman. That immersion, at age 22, in the hard swinging Chicago scene, with a musician who had played alongside Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday, was an incomparable education and led to gigs with Freddie Hubbard, Johnny Griffin, Sam Rivers, Eric Alexander, Steve Coleman, Jon Faddis, Arturo Sandoval, and Fareed Haque. Raynor also toured extensively with vocalist Kurt Elling and can be heard on two of his Grammy nominated recordings, including Live in Chicago with guest vocalist, Jon Hendricks. (They also recorded “Cool Yule” which you’ve heard if you’ve ever been to a Starbucks around Christmas time.) More recently Raynor has worked with Bobby Broom, Gary Bartz, Tia Fuller, Howard Levy, and a host of world class Portland stalwarts including Nancy King, Chuck Israels, George Colligan, Dan Balmer and Dan Faehnle. Bassist Lorin Cohen is also a Chicago native, now based in New York City. He has built a reputation as one of the most soulful, groove-driven bassists working in jazz today. For nearly a decade, Cohen