TICKETS $30 | ALL AGES Join us for a festive night with the incredible Charlie Brown III as he brings his signature sound and holiday spirit to The 1905. This annual Christmas tradition is filled with joy, groove, and unforgettable music that will get you in the holiday mood. Make it part of your seasonal celebrations and don’t miss the chance to experience one of Portland’s favorite holiday shows. Grab your tickets early—this one always fills up fast! 

TICKETS $25 | ALL AGES Donna Jones is a Portland-based singer whose soulful sound is a testament to her deep love for music and its power to connect. Though she began her solo singing career later in life, at 55, Donna quickly became the lead vocalist of the band Donna Jones and the Delegation, an experience that felt both organic and perfectly timed. Drawing inspiration from a childhood surrounded by the timeless records of Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, and other jazz and blues legends, Donna infuses her performances with a unique blend of sultriness, authenticity, and joy. Her vocal journey began in gospel church choirs and later expanded into musical theater with notable roles in productions like The Wiz and Who I Am Celebrating Me. Though she is not formally trained, Donna's raw, soulful delivery resonates with audiences, particularly through her powerful renditions of jazz, blues, and soul classics. She considers her sound “jazz-adjacent,” capturing the essence of traditional jazz while bringing her own touch of warmth and humanity to every note. Now living her dream, Donna’s motto is simple: “I sing to fill my cup in hopes it spills over to you.” Follow her musical journey on Instagram @donnajonesmusicpdx or visit donnajonesmusic.com to learn more. 

TICKETS $25 | ALL AGES Jacob Wutzke // drums & compositions Jack Radsliff // guitar Andrew Jones // bass The 1905 is excited to welcome back Jacob Wutzke! Drummer and bandleader Jacob Wutzke leads a fiery jazz trio playing original music and fresh takes on classic jazz standards. Falling somewhere between hard-grooving and introspective, Wutzke’s music makes you think AND dance. Having just returned to Montreal after spending the year in NYC, Wutzke carries with him a hard-hitting New York sensibility that he brings to his music. The quartet will perform music from Wutzke’s recently recorded album “Pedalling Falsehoods” — his 3rd full-length in as many years. A staple of the jazz scene, he has performed with Caity Gyorgy (recorded on 3 JUNO winning albums), Nick Maclean Quartet (1x JUNO nominee), Ira Coleman, Jocelyn Gould, Benny Benack iii, Anthony D’Alessandro, Bryn Roberts and more. He also regularly tours with his own groups performing original material. A graduate of Humber College (Bachelor of Music - 2019) and McGill University (Masters in Jazz Performance - 2022), Jacob is well-respected in the music community and can be seen performing at prestigious clubs, halls, and jazz festivals around the globe. He is also a committed music educator and author, having self-published several drum method books that have become essential practice tools for drummers around the world. Jacob is an official artist for the following instrument makers: Funch Cymbals, Evans Drumheads, ProMark Sticks, & Dragonfly Percussion. 

TICKETS $25 - ALL AGES Jazz pianist/composer Kerry Politzer leads Bossa PDX, Portland's classic Brazilian jazz and bossa nova ensemble. The group, which performs music from a different Brazilian composer each month, has been featured at the Cathedral Park Jazz Festival, the Oregon Coast Jazz Party, and Jazz in the Valley, among other venues. Politzer has released nine albums as a leader, the most recent of which is "Alternate Route" (Whirlwind Recordings). An alumna of the New England Conservatory of Music, she currently teaches at Portland State University and Clackamas Community College. 

TICKETS $25 - ALL AGES Acclaimed pianist, educator, and bandleader Dan Davey and his trio celebrate the beloved holiday tradition of the classic Charlie Brown Christmas for its 60th anniversary with a live performance of songs from the Vince Guaraldi special. The Dan Davey Trio is joined on stage by vocalist Sherry Alves. Celebrate Guaraldi's timeless soundtrack along with the Dan Davey Trio’s dynamic take on Christmas favorites from their latest Christmas album during this special and unforgettable holiday show! 

TICKETS $30 | ALL AGES Austin Ford is back for a special Holiday show at The 1905! Austin is a world renowned Jazz trumpet player from Portland, Oregon currently based in New York City. In 2017, he moved to Denton, Texas where he got his undergrad from the University of North Texas. While there, he was a two-year member, arranger, and composer for the Grammy-nominated One O’Clock Lab Band. He has had the opportunity to perform with world-renowned artists such as Maria Schneider, Gary Smulyan, Regina Carter, Rufus Reid, and Tom Harrell. Austin then moved to NYC in 2022, attending the Manhattan School of Music for his masters degree. He has had the fortune of studying from, among others, Jon Faddis, Ingrid Jensen, Scott Wendholt, Philip Dizack, Caleb Hudson, and Charlie Porter. In the past few years, Austin has received several prestigious accolades. Most notably, he is the winner of the ITG 2025 Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet competition. He also placed second in the 2021 ITG Ryan Anthony Memorial Jazz Trumpet Competition, and won the 2021 U.S. Army Blues Jazz solo competition. Austin can be seen regularly performing around the city at various venues such as Jazz at Lincoln Center, Birdland, and the Django. He also plays frequently on the Broadway show “Just in Time”, where he plays lead and 2nd trumpet. His debut album, “Launchpad” is also available for listening on every streaming platform. 6 Years ago, Austin accepted the Lord and has been a dedicated Christian ever since. 

TICKETS $20 - 21+ PLEASE Celebrate the season with Portland jazz vocalist Calysta Cheyenne as she presents a cozy late-night performance of beloved holiday favorites, intimate jazz standards, and songs from her debut album. With Brandon Nelson (piano), Matt Sazima (bass), and David Hagen (drums) joining her onstage, you can expect an evening of warmth, musicianship, and festive cheer. 

TICKETS $30 - ALL AGES "If this band appeared in New York City, they'd be a sensation!" That was guitar great--and one-time Mel Brown bandmate--George Benson's reaction after hearing the Mel Brown B-3 Organ Group open for him back in September, 2003 at Oregon's prestigious Britt Festival. In fact, this true all-star band--each member is widely viewed as tops in the Northwest on his instrument--has been a sensation for a long while now. With a collective resume that reads like a "Who's Who" of jazz, blues, and soul (all four members are Oregon Music Hall of Fame inductees), this group has the talent and confidence to be completely spontaneous--from their blistering solos to their improvised arrangements and segues. No wonder they've thrilled audiences wherever they've played. 

The 1905 is taking a little break during the holiday season, 12/24 - 1/2. Enjoy time with your families and loved ones. We look forward welcoming you back on January 2nd! 

The 1905 is taking a little break during the holiday season, 12/24 - 1/2. Enjoy time with your families and loved ones. We look forward welcoming you back on January 2nd! 

The 1905 is taking a little break during the holiday season, 12/24 - 1/2. Enjoy time with your families and loved ones. We look forward welcoming you back on January 2nd! 

The 1905 is taking a little break during the holiday season, 12/24 - 1/2. Enjoy time with your families and loved ones. We look forward welcoming you back on January 2nd! 

The 1905 is taking a little break during the holiday season, 12/24 - 1/2. Enjoy time with your families and loved ones. We look forward welcoming you back on January 2nd! 

Welcome to Vixen -- a cheeky, cozy, jazz-kissed variety show where we bring together sultry vocals, comedic banter, bold dancers, live musicians, and true delight all into one night. The Vixen Variety Show features a star-studded cast including Sarah Clarke, Calysta Cheyenne, Reva Devito, Blossom, Keeks, Tyharra Cozier, Kiyo & Co, and more. Robert Rodriguez - bass Charlie Brown III - piano Cory Limuaco - drums Noah Simpson - trumpet Dinner menu brought to you by Anino. Produced by withthefinesse & Lucero Productions. *** Tipping Culture: *** At Vixen, our performers are working artists bringing their craft and charisma to the stage. In the tradition of cabaret, we invite you to tip generously and often. If one of our Vixens makes you laugh, blush, or cheer, show them some love. Tips during the show directly support the artists who bring this event to life. Cash tips are preferred, and digital tip jars will be available for each performer. We'll have $1 bills available for Cash App or Venmo exchange at check-in. Thank you for supporting the arts. 

The 1905 is taking a little break during the holiday season, 12/24 - 1/2. Enjoy time with your families and loved ones. We look forward welcoming you back on January 2nd! 

The 1905 is taking a little break during the holiday season, 12/24 - 1/2. Enjoy time with your families and loved ones. We look forward welcoming you back on January 2nd! 

TICKETS $25 | ALL AGES George Colligan - piano Zyanna Melada - vocals Robert Rodriguez - bass Micah Hummel - drums Join us at The 1905 for a very special tradition — George Colligan’s Birthday Show & Jam! For the past nine years, George has celebrated his birthday on our stage, and this year we’re keeping the tradition alive with an unforgettable night of music, community, great food, and good vibes. Come be part of the magic as we honor one of our favorite artists and the music we all love. Two shows: 6:30 PM and 8:30 PM. Grab your tickets now before they disappear — this night always fills up fast! 

TICKETS $25 | ALL AGES Garrett Baxter is an important fixture in the Oregon jazz community. Garrett has performed in bands led by Alan Jones, George Colligan, Domo Branch, Noah Simpson, Randy Porter, Mike Gamble, Christopher Brown, Kerry Politzer, Charlie Porter, Michael Raynor, and more. He has performed with the WDR Big Band in Cologne, Germany, and has had the privilege of touring internationally, with Andy Middleton in 2023, and with the Oregon Jazz Ensemble in 2018. He has also performed with artists such as Gilad Hekselman, Allison Miller, Kevin Hays, Geoffrey Keezer, the New York Voices, Camille Thurman, Benny Benack, Dick Oatts, Greg Ward, Jonathan Pinson, Sasha Berliner, Martina DaSilva, Caroline Davis, Yoav Eshed, Jaleel Shaw, Bruce Williams, Clay Jenkins, Mike Lee, and Javon Jackson. 

++ PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS EVENT IS FOCUSED ON EDUCATION - PLEASE READ DESCRIPTION ++ In an effort to create meaningful culture building moments within a Jazz context for teenage musicians (as well as band instructors), drummer/bandleader Christopher Brown will host an ongoing series entitled “Behind the Scene” with his quartet. And what will separate this event from any other like it is that it’ll combine the Jam session, concert, and clinic experience into a collection of transformative moments for all involved. On the 1st Sunday of each month Christopher teams up with Montavilla Jazz to provide our city with an invaluable Jazz workshop that’s designed to adequately prepare young musicians for the most competitive musical environments in the world (namely NYC). So for the cost of a trip to Starbucks, this event provides: • 30 min concert by Christopher’s quartet. • One hour Q & A with the quartet. • 30 min food, beverage, and mingling break. • One hour of interactive music mentoring with members of Christopher’s quartet. • Access to the quartet’s extended network. **THERE IS NO FOOD OR DRINK SERVED AT THIS EVENT (outside food and drinks are permitted)** 

TICKETS $25 | ALL AGES Sarah Clarke - vocals Damian Erskine - bass Noah Mortola - drums Grant Richards - piano NYC-based pianist Grant Richards is an award-winning jazz performer, composer, and educator able to adapt to a wide range of settings, styles, and genres. A native of Portland, Oregon, Grant began playing piano at the age of eight. By the time he entered college, he had won four Student Music Awards from Downbeat Magazine and recorded his first album as a leader. In 2009, Grant enrolled at Berklee College of Music on a full-tuition Jimmy Lyons Scholarship. He has since shared the stage with Grammy® award-winning artists Esperanza Spalding, Eddie Gomez, and Terri Lyne Carrington, as well as luminaries Simon Phillips, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and Valerie Simpson. Grant currently resides in Brooklyn where he maintains an active performing and teaching schedule in the city. In addition to his sextet projects, in October 2024 Grant released Menagerie, a vast collaborative songwriting project straddling the line between jazz, pop, and neo-soul which features a host of talented vocalists and musicians living in the NYC area. 

TICKETS $25 | ALL AGES Upon Christopher Brown’s return to Portland in 2012—which was preceded by 13 years in the NYC area, as well as four years in the Marine Corps—the assemblage of his quartet quickly became one of note. And by 2017, his quartet had officially become the most visible Jazz group in all of Portland, with a steady weekly cadence of 3-4 performances, which was maintained until the start of the global pandemic. And even then, it took them no more than three months to return to a similar weekly performance schedule. Since 2017, the quartet has created a home for themselves at the famed 1905 Jazz club in Portland. And through their regular performances, they’ve not only helped to raise the profile of the venue to one of the world’s top 100 Jazz clubs according to Down Beat Magazine, but of Jazz itself in Portland. So in a market where it's difficult to maintain group's with the same personnel, it's arguable that the Christopher Brown Quartet succeeds as being one of (if not the best) Jazz "group" in all of Portland, which in turn gives them such a powerful, polished, and identifiable sound. 

$25 TICKETS | ALL AGES Gordon will be playing an eclectic mix of his own original music, some jazz standards and maybe a Jim Pepper song! “Lee unravels a series of original melodies that are insinuating or soulful or both” — Jazz Times “Pianist Gordon Lee’s solos are often vast feats of architecture, their immense proportions looming up with great suddenness…symphonic precision as well as spontaneous improvisation” Jazz Society of Oregon Gordon Lee is a composer, jazz pianist, arranger, conductor and music educator. Although he is best known for his jazz performances and compositions, Lee is active in many styles of music. He has had commissions to compose chamber music and music for large ensembles from Oregon Symphony members, the Amadei String Quartet, big bands, and vocalists including a collaboration with Ghanaian singer Obo Addy on an orchestral suite in 2004. He taught improvisation, theory and jazz history at Western Oregon University from 1999 to 2019 and was Executive Director of the award winning W.O.U./Mel Brown Summer Jazz Camp. He conducted the jazz ensembles at Reed College from 2009 to 2017. 

TICKETS $25 - ALL AGES The Ben Fowler Quintet infuses modern jazz with a heavy dose of soul, blues, and gospel roots. Get ready for an incredible night of music at The 1905! The band has new music, special guests, and surprises a plenty for this evening. Besides the standard repertoire from The Pilgrimage album era, Fowler will be sizzling up some new and modern tunes as well, from some of Ben's biggest influences, including Kenny Garrett, Mike Stern, Donald Harrison, Vincent Herring, The Crusaders, and more. 

$25 TICKETS | ALL AGES The Galen Clark Organ Trio brings a genre bending approach to the classic organ trio instrumentation, exploring entropic soundscapes, psychedelic funk and groove heavy electronic tinged jazz. Galen Clark is a keyboardist, songwriter, producer, and educator based in Portland, OR. He leads the soul funk collective Outer Orbit and the genre bending group Trio Subtonic and he is 1/3 of the NW collaboration Patterns Fly with D'Vonne Lewis and Andy Coe. He has toured and collaborated with artists such as Anna Tivel, Sarah Clarke, Sleater-Kinney, A Love Electric, Jessica Lurrie and more. 

TICKETS $25 | ALL AGES Ed Bennett has long been considered one of the West Coast's premiere string bass players. Living in Portland, Oregon since 1990, Ed's work has taken him virtually everywhere in the world. He has worked with, toured internationally, or recorded with many legendary jazz figures, including: Dizzy Gillespie, Curtis Fuller, Terell Stafford, Claudio Roditi, Jeremy Pelt, Joe Henderson, Sonny Stitt, Benny Golson, Frank Morgan, Richie Cole, Pete Christlieb, Bud Shank, Charles McPherson, Hadley Caliman, Bobby Watson, Harry Allen, Pete Jolly, Don Abney, Joe Albany, Dave Frishberg, James Williams, Mike Wofford, Pete Malinverni, Bill Mays, Dick Berk, Lawrence Marable, Frank Butler, Gene Stone, Joey Baron, Chuck Redd, Carmen McRae, Jimmy Witherspoon, Anita O'Day, Nancy King, Ernistine Anderson, Marlena Shaw, Karrin Allyson, Mary Stallings, Dee Daniels, Bill Henderson, The Modernaires, Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabakin Big Band and the Gerald Wilson Orchestra. A dedicated, working professional, Ed also majored in music, first attending Los Angeles Valley College. The following year, Ed was accepted to the Berklee School of Music in Boston in 1971. Ed made what he considers to be his first professional jazz engagement doing a week stint at the Jazz Workshop with Brazilian greats Victor Brasil and Claudio Rotiti, while a Berklee student. On his return home to Los Angeles he attended CSUN (Cal State University Northridge) in 1973. In 1974, Ed toured with Jimmy Witherspoon. Between 1976 and 1979 he backed Carmen McRae, making his recording debut on "Carmen McRae at the Great American Music Hall" in San Francisco which was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1977. In 1981, he worked with the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band, recording the double Grammy nominated "Tanuki's Night Out" (released in Japan as "From Toshiko With Love") Ed Bennett recorded his first album as leader in 1987. A trio date with Kent Glenn (piano) and Jack Ranelli (drums). In 1993 Ed started Saphu Records, an independent jazz record label featuring select West coast jazz musicians. There are currently 23 releases in the Saphu catalog. In Portland, Ed has been a member of the Mel Brown Quartet for over 20 years. He has been the bassist for the Tony Pacini Trio since 1999. Ed performs with his Quintet focusing on his original compositions, and a bass duo with Shao Way Wu called Two Bass Hit.