[JAZZ FUSION] Portland quintet Blue Cranes is a jazz band. But what makes the Cranes such a great jazz band isn't the idea that jazz permeates most modern music—it's the idea that most forms of modern music have the ability to penetrate jazz. At once experimental and innovative, the Cranes burst out with a sound laced with tweaked time signatures and an impulse to go from lucid and abstract to straight-up rocking with razor precision. The band is the embodiment of the breathless, reckless foundations of jazz, a collection of master musicians that hasn’t forgotten to let its freak flag fly.

Where: Tony Starlight's
Phone: 517-8584
Address: 3728 NE Sandy Blvd.