Five Minutes with Mokhtar Samba
Had you not follow your mother to weddings in Morocco, would you still have started playing drums? Why or why not? I don’t think so. (laughs) That was such a big influence. I was so young. It was so nice to see all those women smiling, dancing and having fun. That was the reason why...
Five Minutes with Michael Simon
If you were not raised in a musical-talented family (father guitarist and singer, brothers are pianist and a drummer), do you think you would have still picked up a musical instrument? Oh yes. For sure. Music is inside me. It has been inside me since I was born. It’s believed that even babies make music....
Five Minutes with Rani Singam
Your first album was produced by Jeremy Monteiro, how did that came about? Jeremy first heard a recording of me while he was at a gig. It was during a break. It was my demo CD. Andrew Lim played with me on the recording and it was him that put the CD on. Jeremy was...
Five Minutes with Yuri Honing
You’ve collaborated with many musicians. Which of all these collaborations challenged you the most and why? Well they all challenged me in a different. I’ve had the honor to play with very good musicians with different specialties. Pat Matheny, Paul Bley, Paul Motian, Charlie Haden and also great musicians from the European classical scene like...
Adil Johan Quartet
Date: 12 & 13 August 2011 Time: 10.30pm Cover charge: RM30 In an effort to abolish mundane interpretations of the jazz genre, the Adil Johan Quintet (AJQ) strives to provide an enlightened, informed and entertaining approach to of jazz, funk, RnB and pop. The intention is to play music from the soul while blurring the...
John Thomas Jazz Trio
Date: 8 August 2011 Time: 9.30pm Cover charge: RM30 The young and talented drummer, John Ashley Thomas started playing drums since he was 3 years old. With credits that include working with Grammy award-winning flautist Nestor Torres and touring the Blue Note circuit in Japan with Motown legends The Three Degrees, and playing at numerous...
Book Launch: ‘Growing Up With Ghosts’ – Bernice Chauly
Date: 23 August 2011 Time: 9.30pm Cover charge: FREE entry ‘She is Chinese, he is Punjabi. It is 1966. Loh Siew Yoke and Surinder Singh fall in love and marry but face opposition from their families. Their first child brings peace, but tragedy soon strikes. Haunted by the untimely death of her father, Malaysian writer...
Classical Evening with Joanne Yeoh (violin)
Date: 9 August 2011 Time: 9.00 pm Cover charge: RM30 Violinist Joanne Yeoh has toured with the likes of Asian pop stars Jacky Cheung and David Tao and has been a regular performer at corporate events for the last couple of years. Selected as an honoree for The Outstanding Young Malaysian Award 2004, under the...
Alex Foster
A musical heavyweight, saxophonist Alex Foster has been a part of many of the world’s most influential sounds to date. Best known in recent years for his work as the alto saxophonist in the house band of Saturday Night Live, he has also shared the stage with numerous world-class performers in varying genres. Currently a...
Valtinho Anastacio
Born in Sao Paulo, Brasil, Valtinho’s journey as a musician started as a child, inspired by the very streets he grew up on. This young musician soon realised that his love was with the many percussion instruments that pervaded the music of one of the richest musical cultures on the planet. He learnt to master...
Yuki Maeda
Yuki Maeda studied in Germany and stayed there for a decade to give concerts in diversified styles of music. Back in Japan, after singing for numorous TV commercials, and performing at various Jazz Festivals, started releasing recordings of her own, through prestigious labels such as Columbia Records. Among those albums she’s released, the notable ones...
Akihiko Matsui
Unprecedented multi-instrumentalist proficient on 4 instruments(Keyboards, Guitar, Bass, Drums) who has been composing harmonically and rhythmically extremely complex tunes in his own world of CPJ(Contemporary Progressive Jazz)since he graduated from Berklee College of music with numerous awards.He’s released his own CPJ albums through various labels with his own CPJ bands like Junky Funk, Line Drive,...