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All That Jazz

I think Brett Campbell seriously embarrasses himself as a local music critic when he describes the Mount Hood Jazz Festival as "the area's biggest jazz convocation." It's pretty clear that the Portland Jazz Festival is the biggest and most important jazz festival in the state—this year's lineup alone included Terence Blanchard, Joe Lovano, Dianne Reeves, McCoy Tyner, Cassandra Wilson, and Kurt Elling, and past headliners included the likes of Ornette Coleman, Wayne Shorter, and Sonny Rollins. Within six short years (!), the Portland Jazz Festival has become one of the most amazing showcases for jazz anywhere, and Mr. Campbell is wrong to suggest otherwise.

Brian Horay
Southeast Harold Street

Editor's note: Brett's listing inadvertently omitted the word "summer" between "biggest" and "jazz" when he wrote "the area's biggest jazz convocation." He regrets the error.

Correction:

On May 6 of this year,

wrote a column about Bakke Properties, LLC, and an issue it had with a tenant, Edith LeVar, in its property on Southwest Morrison Street. This column needs some clarification. Specifically: The column implied that Bakke began an eviction process because bedbugs were discovered in LeVar's apartment. In fact, there were three reasons given in the eviction notice: the bedbugs, the assertion that LeVar's son and granddaughter were living in the unit but were not named tenants, and the clutter that LeVar had left in front of her apartment. LeVar was not evicted, because she remedied those issues, including cooperation with Bakke's pest control treatment. Bakke had the unit fumigated and eradicated the bedbugs on May 1.

regrets the original publication of the column without this clarification.

WWeek 2015