And then there were two.

Riverhouse Jazz will not return for a third year next year, Executive Producer Marshall Glickman announced in a letter sent out Tuesday. The live jazz concert series, which launched in 2016 at Riverhouse on the Deschutes, will finish out its second season with the Taylor Eigsti Quartet on March 23 and 24 and the Dan Balmer Extravaganza on April 20 and 21.

Despite selling out most shows last season and this season, the series was discontinued by Riverhouse on the Deschutes because it was losing money, Glickman said.

“Unfortunately, in spite of strong ticket and sponsorship sales, we could not generate revenues sufficient to cover the cost of producing, marketing and staffing the series,” he said in the letter.

The free Thursday shows in Currents featuring local jazz artists will continue under the Riverhouse’s direction, said Rick Takach, owner of Vesta Hospitality in Vancouver, Washington, which manages the Riverhouse.

“Look, the Riverhouse Jazz was great. It was a big job that we were having a hard time keeping up with, that’s all,” Takach said. “So we plan on doing something. We plan on probably more consistent, more frequent, lower-key things that will be … just as enjoyable, without the big production.”

With Riverhouse bowing out, that leaves the long-running Jazz at Joe’s and Jazz at the Oxford series to carry the torch for jazz music in Bend (Glickman also founded Jazz at the Oxford, but left the series in 2015). Glickman, who now lives in Portland, said he would be interested in starting another series in the future, if the right venue and situation came up.

— Brian McElhiney, The Bulletin