It was a freezing night, and I had just gorged myself on Ethiopian food. I was standing in the tail end of a line wrapping around over half the Portland Art Museum waiting to go to the PDX Jazz Festival/Soul’d Out evening concert on leap day, featuring Thundercat, Georgia Anne Muldrow, and Brown Calculus. I had to pee so bad my kidneys hurt. I had accidentally left my earplugs at the hotel room in my backpack so I had run to the Safeway across the street and buy an 80-pack of cheap foam plugs, which were bulging out of my … Continue reading Funky Nights: My Evening at the Portland Jazz Festival Featuring Thundercat