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Date: 21 June 2008 Time: 6.00pm - 11.00pm Venue: Gourmet Lane, 1Borneo |
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Kota Kinabalu Jazz Festival
| EVENTS | PERFORMERS | CONTACT |
Performers
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British
born saxophonist Greg Lyons performed with a number of quartets and
quintets in the early 1980s before leaving for the Canary Islands where
he began a longstanding relationship with Latin music and performed
with many leading Latin Jazz musicians. In 1993, he moved to Malaysia and was one of the founding members of the Jazz Fusion outfit Face First. His years in South-East Asia has seen him writing, arranging and leading bands from trios to 19-piece big bands and performing with international jazz artistes such as Toninho Horta, Billy Cobham, Eric Marienthal, Terumasa Hino, Phil Manzanera and others. His debut album Island to Island features a complete set of originals composed by Lyons. He has been instrumental in the setting up of several jazz writing and performance courses and has lectured at various institutions such as University Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore University and The International Saxophone Conference for Mahidol University in Bangkok. He continues to be as involved as possible in education and welcomes the chance to run master classes and workshops during his travels. www.greglyons.net |
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Widely
recognised as one of the top Guitarists cum Vocalist in the Asia
Pacific region, Paul Ponnudorai has been involved in almost every
aspect of the music industry. At the tender age of four, Paul picked up the ukulele and later taught himself to play the guitar. He started performing professionally at the age of seventeen and has since performed in many countries such as China, Italy, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, and shared the stage with a number of international jazz notables which include Billy Cobham, Toots Thielemans, Tommy Emmanuel, Tuck & Patti and Wynton Marsalis Paul has to date released an album entitled “Right on Time” and was recently featured in Time Magazine. |
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The Aseana Percussion
Unit is one of Malaysia’s foremost Contemporary Jazz / World
Fusion Groups that combines Malaysian Cultural Rhythms, Music and
Instruments together with Western Musical elements to create it’s
own unique musical style. The Indian Tabla and Taviel,
Chinese erhu and Dizi, Malay Kompang and Gendang, Australian Digeridoo,
Brazillian Surdo, African Djembe are some of the instruments used in
the group’s highly energetic performance.
Consisting of 12 talented multi-instrumentalists, Aseana Percussion Unit has released an album entitled “Colours of Rhythm” and will be releasing it’s second album in 2008 which coincides with the group’s “10th Anniversary”. Some of the Festivals which the group have performed in are the Sunrise Jazz Festival, Rainforest World Music Festival, Penang Island Jazz Festival, Johor Arts Festival, Malaysian Drum Festival, KL Music Fest, Singapore Arts Festival, Peace Festival (Korea), Jarasum International Jazz Festival (Korea) and The Zhu JiaJiao WaterVillage World Music Festival (China). An Aseana Percussion Unit performance is a mixture of it’s own original compositions and popular cover versions re-arranged in it’s own distinctive “APU” style. |
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Guitarist, Composer and
Arranger, Cheong Xion Gi, who cites Brazilian music as a major
influence spent a year in Rio De Janeiro after graduating from the
Berklee College of Music, ha practically “done it all” in
the local music scene from playing club gigs to playing and recording
as a secessionist for local and foreign Artistes.
Xion Gi has performed with various groups in Music Festivals such as The Rainforest World Music Festival with Akar Umbi, Langkawi Festival of Arts with Asiabeat and the Kuala Lumpur Arts Festival. His voice on guitar is laconic and softly spoken as the man himself, who favors short sweet phrases, dense chords modulations, and an occasional yearning guitar sols Cheong's style has been described as “mellow, feel-good laid-back” - a tone which is rich yet unadorned with the warm melodic sound of an unaffected guitar. Joining him for the festival is Andy Peterson on bass, Mac Chew on keyboard, Badar on percussions and John Thomas on drums. |
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