Dwight Adams, trumpet, kicked by Lawrence Williams.

This all-star evening pays tribute to the recently departed Detroit jazz legend Lawrence Williams, a nonpareil composer and drummer who lived in Portland for many years. A dear friend to vocalist Nancy King (another without-peer jazz sensation), and a mentor to many, Williams leaves a magisterial legacy that goes back to the good old days of Detroit, when GM was still cranking out flathead V8s and giants like the Jones boys (Elvin, Thad and Hank), Pepper Adams and Milt Jackson still roamed the earth. King joins an excellent cadre of jazz talent (led by saxophonist David Valdez) to salute Williams’ sophisticated, full-throttle, bop-tinged oeuvre. TIM DUROCHE. Jimmy Maks Friday Nov 17th. 8 pm. $8. 21+.

This local blog has more info on the project.

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Portland band The High Violets will be releasing a re-mix CD and some 12�?s at the beginning of 2007 with songs from their recent album “To Where You Are” re-mixed by Carmen Rizzo (LA), Ajax (Australia), Secret Cinema (Netherlands), Antahkarana Music (Mexico City) and DJ Conocybe (Berlin) among others. “To Where You Are�? was released earlier this year in N. America. The band’s follow-up to the highly acclaimed “44 Down” took three years, but it was “well worth the wait!” so say all of the press reports from CMJ, Magnet, Time Out New York, Under the Radar, Amplifier, Big Takeover, etc.. The band were also recently filmed for a PBS documentary that will air sometime this Winter. Stay tuned here for more info. The High Violets new album is now available in all good record stores, download sites and through the Reverb Webstore.

After 10 weeks on the TV show, Rockstar: Supernova, local chanteuse Storm Large returned to Portland’s Wonder Ballroom to play to her fans. The Oregonian has a review of the show here.

The Portland Mercury has a cool web site covering mostly alternative rock music. They have a feature on the Scissor Sisters who are performing tonight at the Roseland Theater. Click here to read more.

Portland’s biggest daily newspaper, The Oregonian, has recently added a more robust online entertainment section to complement the A&E (arts & entertainment) section of the print edition. Click here to check out their entertainment picks and news and click here to see multimedia such as video of local bands in performance.