Governor’s Ball gets a little hipper

Forget the Oscars: A hotter ticket is the one for the upstairs after-party at the Kodak Theatre on Sunday. The Governor’s Ball is a swank, classic affair that usually features music provided by an orchestra playing tinkling and lush Oscar-winning tunes of the past. Not this year.

This year the Portland retro-chic orchestra Pink Martini will perform its cosmopolitan blend of Latin, lounge, bee-bop and torch songs, and Jason Bentley, well known to listeners of KCRW-FM (89.9), will be the first DJ spinning in the history of the party.

Bentley plans to pull on famous film scores and iconic tracks of the silver screen. If you’re curious about his sonic collage, you can hear it online at KCRW.com on Monday.

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-- Geoff Boucher