Newsletter Feb 2011 - Wish You All A Happy Year of the Rabbit
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Hong Kong Jazz Association (HKJA) will be taking up another challenge in the Year of Rabbit – hosting the Hong Kong International Jazz Festival 2011 with support from the Mega Events Fund in late Sept / October 2011. You may find more in reading the February issue of HKJA’s Newsletter
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| Who's on your wish list for Hong Kong International Jazz Festival 2011? | |
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We are pleased to inform you that the Mega Events Fund (which was set up by the Financial Secretary in 2009 to assist local non-profit-making organisations to host more attractive arts, cultural and sports events over the next three years to further promote Hong Kong as the events capital of Asia) has given support to HKJA’s application for organizing “Hong Kong International Jazz Festival 2011”. Here is the extract of the Government press release on 24.12.2010 -
We are trying our best to work out the details with the Tourism Commission. In the meantime, if you have any recommendations on the Festival line-up, tell us about them. | |
| Green Jazz – GIVE OUT CDs | |
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To promote green jazz among the local jazz community, we will give out 8 used jazz CDs each month through our monthly Newsletter in 2011. If you know the answer to the following question, pls. forward it to us ("HKJA Webmaster" <hkjawm@hkja.org>) together with your name and email address – Which keyboardist collaborated with David Sanborn in “Double Vision”?
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| A Jazzy State Dinner in White House for Chinese President Hu Jintao on 19.1.2011 | |
The dinner's all-star jazz lineup included jazz icon Herbie Hancock pianist Peter Martin trumpeter Chris Botti vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater vocalist Dianne Reeves | |
| iPad App Seeks To Tell the History of Jazz | |
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An Interactive Timeline. It features a series of timelines, songs, videos and other interactive content. You could simply learn about Jazz by simply browsing through the genres in chronological order and listen to hours of beautiful music and connect with the artists that made Jazz what it is today. |
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| Blue Note tees are now available at Uniqlo | |
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Check them out - Cannonball Adderley’s “Somethin’ Else”, Kenny Burrell’s “Midnight Blue”, Joe Henderson’s “In N Out”… | |
| Jazz quotesJazz quotes | |
| Herbie Hancock talks about the characteristics of jazz in the January 2011 issue of “DownBeat” – “Being non-judgemental, being courageous enough, to be expressive enough, to be naked or vulnerable, sharing, being in the moment. And also, having the courage to explore what you don’t know.” Fred Ho (a composer, social activist, writer, bandleader and saxophonist) describes jazz in “Revivalist” as - “It’s the music of liberation. It is a music that demands constant change and a ruthless critique and challenge to everything, to its own tradition. That’s why it’s a perpetual avant-garde art form that can re-ified or ossified. That’s the main quality about the music, its ethos or spirit or character.” http://revivalist.okayplayer.com/2011/01/21/fred-ho-music-as-a-revolutionary-force/ | |
| Social Networking in Jazz | |
| Pianist Vijay Iyer talked about the significance of social networking (which emerges out of the increasing number of jazz education programs in US) in assisting jazz over combating against the undesirable impact brought about by dire economic climate. http://jazztimes.com/articles/26972-parallel-universes | |
| Wynton Marsalis (America’s Musical Ambassador) was on CSB’ 60 Minutes | |
| http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/29/60minutes/main7195058.shtml | |
| RIP Mick Karn (1974 – 1982) | |
Mick Karn, best known as the bassist for influential New Romantic group Japan (1974 – 1982) died on January 4 at the age of 52. He mastered the fretless bass, prompting comparisons with Jaco Pastorius, the leading American jazz-funk bassist. In the 1990’s he recorded the experiemental project “Polytown” and “Tooth Mother” with the fusion guitarist David Torn. |
Newsletter Feb 2011 - Wish You All A Happy Year of the Rabbit