Paul Ward With Ken Anoe at Perlot

Paul is a jazz pianist whose style is to shape various jazz vocabularies to build tension and surprise. He's played at top venues in Washington DC, Boca Raton FL, Cincinnati OH, and from Shanghai to Turkey, Paris to Spain. After years being a business advisor to Global 1000 companies, he's in Portland, Oregon, collaborating on new ways to build the jazz scene.

Ken is a bass player with decades of experience, from his time in Washington DC with the top protocol bands for the US military (playing all kinds of music) and in the jazz scene there, to his two decades of regular gigging in Portland...

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Paul is a jazz pianist whose style is to shape various jazz vocabularies to build tension and surprise. He's played at top venues in Washington DC, Boca Raton FL, Cincinnati OH, and from Shanghai to Turkey, Paris to Spain. After years being a business advisor to Global 1000 companies, he's in Portland, Oregon, collaborating on new ways to build the jazz scene.

Ken is a bass player with decades of experience, from his time in Washington DC with the top protocol bands for the US military (playing all kinds of music) and in the jazz scene there, to his two decades of regular gigging in Portland. With a big sound and impeccable time, his upright playing is known for taste and flexibility. He also plays electric bass and tuba, making him one of the most versatile players on the scene.

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