Portland Jazz Festival

{{Infobox music festival

| music_festival_name = Portland Jazz Festival

| image = File:Logo_for_the_Portland_Jazz_Festival.jpg

| caption = The 2011 Jazz Festival Logo

| location = Portland, Oregon

| years_active= Since 2003

| dates = Late February, Annually

| genre = Jazz

| website = [http://www.pdxjazz.com/ Portland Jazz Festival]

}}

The Portland Jazz Festival, now known as the Biamp PDX Jazz Festival, is an annual multi-venue series of over 100 jazz events held during the month of February.{{cite book|title=Jazz for Dummies|url=https://archive.org/details/jazzfordummies00sutr_697|url-access=limited|page=[https://archive.org/details/jazzfordummies00sutr_697/page/n262 245]|author=Dirk Sutro|isbn=0471768448|year=2006}}{{cite web|url=http://portlandjazzfestival.org/about/|title=About the Portland Jazz Festival|accessdate=2014-05-14}} Events are presented throughout Portland, Oregon in such venues as P5 Center for the Performing Arts, Jimmy Mak's (now closed), The Old Church, Classic Pianos, McMenamin's Al's Den, Aladdin Theater, Alberta Rose Theater, Alberta Abbey Theater, Revolution Hall, Mississippi Studios and other various ballrooms, clubs, hotels and cafés.{{cite web|url=http://jazztimes.com/articles/25859-portland-jazz-festival|title=Portland Jazz Festival - A great Northwestern fest nods to the Land of the Midnight Sun|author=Forrest Dylan Bryant|date=2010-03-15|accessdate=2014-05-17|work=Jazz Times}} The event is organized around a new theme each year{{cite book|title=Insiders' Guide to Portland, Oregon, 8th Edition|author=Rachel Dresbeck|page=157|year=2014|isbn=0762791896}} including Coltrane at 90, Sinatra at 100, Tribute to Blue Note, The Jazz Message: Celebrating Art Blakey. The festival is produced by PDX Jazz, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.{{cite web|url=http://www.pdxjazz.com/pdx-jazz|title=PDX Jazz|accessdate=2014-05-14}} The festival has featured such artists as Charles McPherson, Pharoah Sanders, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Randy Weston, David Frishberg, Esperanza Spalding, Ravi Coltrane, Jim Hall, Nicholas Payton, Tom Grant, Wayne Shorter, Regina Carter, Morten Qvenild, Dianne Reeves, and McCoy Tyner.{{cite book|title=Moon Portland|page=[https://archive.org/details/moonhandbookspor0000mcco/page/31 31]|author=Hollyanna McCollom|year=2010|isbn=1598801945|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/moonhandbookspor0000mcco/page/31}}

This festival went virtual in 2021.