yoodi's posts with tag: jazz
 | Jazz | Jan 5, '07 9:02 PM
for everyone |
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 | Category: | Music | | Genre: | Jazz | | Artist: | Compilation |
It's always an adventure to go on a search for some new kind of music for the thrill of finding some undiscovered music that you have never come across before. Thank's to this small group of great bars in London and New York and its newest bar in the group called Trailer Happiness in Notting Hill area and the one with a music policy most closely fitting the music (funky rare grooves from the 60s & 70s).
Together with the good people at whatmusic.com in London, they release a compilation of wild jazz belonging to a different era. It's not your usual Jazz Mood thing but a wild and diverse combination of Jazz and Brazillian genre from a pre Coltrane era. This particular album Velvet Voodo gives you a sound compilation filled with Brazillian soul with a rich mix of samba jazz, fusion soul, funk and afro bossa.
Searching for great sounds is an adventure but so time consuming sometimes with our busy hectic everyday life. To come across this kind of compilation can sure make our life so much more easier.
For availability of this release and other rare music in Jakarta contact:
demajors
Jl. Gandaria I No 57 A Jakarta 12130, Indonesia. Phone +62 21 7208860 or email david@demajors.com
 | Category: | Music | | Genre: | Jazz | | Artist: | Amp Fiddler |
Getting caught up in the day to day routine we often got trapped in the negative vibes that sometimes surrounds us from our interaction with family, work and society in general. These vibes could at times lead us to "misplace" ourselves in the midst of a chaotic world around us. As a music lover we sometimes turned to sounds and songs as an escape to our private calm oasis and we live for that moment when we discover a new sounds that gives us that sudden rush that blows our mind wide open and somehow lead the "misplace" part of ourselves back to us.
This is how I felt when I caught the live performance of the Detroit base Amp Fiddler at the Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival 2005 last week. Their electronic jazz funk sound really speak to the soul and takes me to the place where I don't want to leave. Not having known anything about these guys before their performance at the festival defenetely was the nicest suprise I got from attending the 2 days out of a 3 days festival.
Their carefree attitude on stage and the smooth buttery voice of the vocalist Joseph Anthony "Amp" Fiddler really is a portrait about urban grace. Having heard the live performance I now look forward to hear Amp Fiddler’s debut album “Waltz Of A Ghetto Fly”.
The most talked about event around town is finally over after 3 full days performance of the big names in jazz genre. It did gives a chill to see the godfather of soul himself and his full entourage performed on stage still like a sex machine or watching George Duke doing a long solo on the grand piano.
Attending 2 out of the 3 days jazz festival did satisfy the thirst for good performance both by international as well as local artist. Over 300 artist performed in the festival ranging from old school jazz to some new electronic funk /soul such as those by the Detroit base Amp Fiddler.
If there is a critic to be said is the lack of detailed directory on the time and venue of each artists performing. Arriving at the festival hall most people are completely blind as to who's playing at the moment and at which venue. Not to mention some of the schedules distributed during pre-event were no longer valid due to change in time and venues.
It gets to be tiring after a while to walked around the big hall with 11 stages/ venues trying to find out who's playing. It was a relieved to finally see some directory brochure were distributed for free, at last !. However, after studying the schedule of the day then come the waiting period as almost every major performance are delayed to an average of 30 minutes to 1 hour. With so much idle time the Food n Beverage sections set up in several corners of the hall is doing well people are somewhat reluctant to leave their tables and continued ordering something to eat or drink and to also doing "people watching" while they wait. It could be a nice cozy "hang out" moments if you can ignore the bills afterward as the F&B cost can be considered expensive for a festival event. Yes, the convention hall is attached to a 5 stars hotel but a Rp 60,000,- for a glass of wine in a music festival is quite a steep price to pay.
All and all though, I did feel that I discovered a nice surprise in the festival. I really enjoyed the performance by Amp Fiddler especially never knowing anything about those guys before.
 | Category: | Books | | Genre: | Literature & Fiction | | Author: | Haruki Murakami |
A fiction about lost love of the past and the middle age crisis of a Tokyo business man. Murakami's literate poetic language tells the story surrounded with old jazz ambiance taking us into the quirky mind of a jazz owner club in Tokyo full with longing of undying childhood romance found again with renewed sensualities and dark complexities...
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