Hong Kong Jazz Association

New York based Hong Kong musician is bringing his special Trio to Hong Kong!
This will be their last stop of their Jazz/Funk Experiment Tour in Japan and
China. Don't miss it!

Simon Yu's Jazz/Funk Experiment Trio live in
Hong Kong!!
Guitar: Simon
Organ: Takeshi Ohbayashi
Drums: Ryo
Shibata

Music Style: Jazz and Funk! Original Jazz/Funk compositions and
also new arrangement of Jazz Standards and Pop
tunes(Beyonce,Radiohead...etc)

Featuring great musicians who has
performed with: Joe Lovano, Dave Doglus, Terri Lyne Carrington, David
Fiuczynski(Hiromi)...etc

Date: 24 May 2008 (Sat)
Time: 8:00
pm
Venue: Lecture Hall, Sheung Wan Civic Centre
Organized by: Chun Fung
Simon Yu
Concert Title: Simon Yu's Jazz/Funk Experiment
Price:
HK$80.00

Tickets are now available at all URBTIX outlets
Enquiries:
2380 6082
Ticketing Enquiries & Reservation: 2734 9009
Credit Card
Phone Booking: 2111 5999
Internet Ticketing: www.urbtix.hk

Organizer
reserves the right to change programme and
artistes.

www.simonyu.net
www.myspace.com/simonyu
www.myspace.com/ohbayashitakeshi
www.ryoshibata.net

2008 台北國際爵士樂教育推廣季 年度活動起跑！

- TISJA 台北國際爵士音樂營
- TIJEPA 大眾爵士樂欣賞講堂
- 仲夏爵士新銳音樂會
- 台北國際爵士音樂節

The 5th Taipei International Summer Jazz Academy, this is a large scale annual international jazz educational program which takes place in Taiwan since 2004. This is the unique learning experience that students will get along with 11 international jazz masters for one week, and participate in the real jazz environment for an extensive study.

You can also obtain more practical information on our Official website: http://www.taipeijazz.com both in Mandarin and English.

We have kindly obtained from the organizer some free tickets for the concert on 23 April 2008 for our Members. If you wish to get some free tickets, pls. register to our webmaster hkjawm@hkja.org on or before 21 April 2008 : your name, mobile number, email address. We will give out two tickets to each requesting Member on a first-come-first-serve basis."

Braid (left) and Brubeck (right) (by cdcampbell):


Cellist/composer Matt Brubeck and pianist/composer David Braid will kick off
their three-week Twotet/Deuxtet Spring tour on April 22 with stops in Hong
Kong, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Qingdao and Beijing in China; and Brockville,
Quebec City, Ottawa and Kingston in Canada.

Hong Kong:
April 22 (Tuesday), 12:30-1:30 p.m., HKUST Centre for the Arts, Sai Kung
April 23 (Wednesday), 8:00 p.m., Recital Hall, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Wan Chai. Free admission: Tickets are released half an hour before the start of the performance at the Academy Box Office on a first-come-first-served basis.

Program enquiries: 2584-8517
Box Office enquiries: 2584-8514

CD Cover:

Hong Kong Arts Festival
Feb 14 - March 16
http://www.hk.artsfestival.org/en/prog/music

Feb 21- March 1 Dubai International Jazz Festival - Dubai
http://www.dubaijazzfest.com/
Feb 29 –March 16 Philippines Jazz and Arts festival – Manila Philippines
http://www.pijazzfest.com/

March 7-9 Java International Jazz Festival – Indonesia
http://www.javajazzfestival.com/2008/
March 7-16 Mosaic Music Festival - Singapore
http://www.mosaicmusicfestival.com/

May 9-10 Miri International Jazz Festival – Miri Malaysia
http://mirijazzfestival.com
May early Shanghai Jazz week, Shanghai China
May 23-30 Nine Gates Jazz/Music Festival, Beijing China
http://www.ninegate.com.cn/main.html

July 2-17 Istanbul International Jazz Festival, Istanbul Turkey
http://www.iksv.org/caz/english/caz.asp?cid=74

Aug 29-31 -TBC Tokyo Jazz Festival, Tokyo Japan
http://www.tokyo-jazz.com/index_en.html
Aug 25-28 Red Sea Jazz Festival, Israel
http://www.redseajazzeilat.com/

Sept 19-21-TBC JZ Jazz Festival, Shanghai China
http://www.jzclub.cn/index.asp
Sept 30-5 Oct ZJJ Zhu Jia Jiao Water-village World Music Festival, Shanghai China
http://www.zjjwwmf.com

Oct early Beijing Jazz Festival, Beijing China
http://www.beijingjazz.cn/
Oct early Giant Steppes Jazz Festival - Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia China
http://jazzmongolia.com/page.php?page_id=160
Oct 2-5 Jarasum International Jazz Festival - Korea
http://www.jarasumjazz.com/

Jazzmandu jazz festival - Nepal
http://www.kathmandujazzfestival.com/
Oct 18,19,25,26 –TBC Tai Chung International Jazz Festival, Taiwan
http://www.jazzfestival.com.tw/2007jazz/

Nov 20-22 Hong Kong Int. Jazz festival, Hong Kong China
Nov 28-30 Jakarta International Jazz Festival – Indonesia
http://www.jakjazz.com/
Nov 297-30 TBC Euro-Vietnam Jazz festival Vietnam
http://patrick.guenin2.free.fr/cantho/vnnews05/jazz.htm

Dec 5-6 Bali International Jazz Festival - Indonesia
http://www.balijazzfestival.com/
Dec 4-7 Penang International Jazz Festival – Penang Malaysia
http://www.penangjazz.com/
Dec 13, 14 –TBC Bangkok International Jazz Festival - Thailand
http://www.bangkokjazzfestival.com/program.php