The Trans-Pacific Jazz Alliance is an organization created in 2019 to encourage and promote musical collaborations between the jazz musicians of the City of Portland, Oregon & other Pacific Rim musicians.
The Hemispheres Collective was created in 2023 and is a collaboration group comprised of some of the finest jazz musicians in Portland, Oregon USA and Melbourne, Australia.
2021 Release
Contact Barry Deister at:
transpacjazz@gmail.com
Phone 971-235-1241
www.transpacjazz.org.
Live at Michelle's Pianos
May 21, 2024
The Hemispheres Collective
About the TPJA
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Videos
Music for Jazz Quintet & Strings
2019 Release
2020 Release
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"Barry Deister's music bristles with an appreciatioin for shape and substance, not only in his quite personal and memorable compositions, but also in his burly, communicative improvisations." Neil Tesser, The Chicago Tribune
"Crows, a new recording by The Barry Deister Quintet is admirable, the jazz component splendid and should be assigned a high place in any pecking order" Jack Bowers, All About Jazz
"Deister's own saxophone palying recalls mid-career Coltrane with a huskier Rollinesque tone, and his compositions employ the harmonic mystery and soulful melodicism of Wayne Shorter's best compositions." Tree Palmedo, The Jazz Society of Oregon