Archive for September, 2008
Alex Cunha Band Interview
Alexandre Cunha played with his band on Sunday at the Shanghai Jazz Festival and will be playing at Shanghai JZ Club in Shanghai tonight and Hangzhou JZ Club tomorrow. Alexandre plays drums, the rest of the band is: Marcelo on saxophone, Janice on piano, and Bruno on bass.
The interview began with Alexandre asking what coffee [...]
Music Shock in Shanghai
Last weekend was so full with music even layabozi’s website got affected, it took until yesterday to have it all working fine again. We finally figured out the problem and we came back not only safe but with more; we open a new section: Playlists, every two weeks we will publish a new set of [...]
Joe Rosenberg Quartet at Yuyintang
While chatting with him after the show, I made the mistake of referring to the music that Joe Rosenberg’s Quartet played last Sunday as “free jazz.” Like most genre labels, this one is frequently inaccurate. While concerts do take place that are “free” in the sense that nothing is decided upon before the musicians start [...]
Daedelus of our times
Since I hear about Daedelus, I was thinking who is this guy I think I know. Well is not Daedelus, but Daedalus the one I knew about, and according to sacred wikipedia; “he was a most skillful artificer, or craftsman, so skillful that he was said to have invented images that seemed to move about.” [...]
The Kandinsky Effect – Instant Kandinsky Review
[Warren Walker played at CJW Xintiandi in late 2006 and early 2007, during which time he was loved by audiences there and at various jam sessions around town for his musicianship, creativity, passionate extended solos, and some extras! He lives in Paris. --ed]
The first release of The Kandinsky Effect, is an energetic and honest [...]
Coco Zhao’s sundtrack “Wonder Town”
Coco comes from an art family; his parents were Chinese-opera artists. He naturally creates a familiar environment around jazz, he’s constantly acclaimed and highlighted by the Jazz world as the big star of jazz in Shanghai, he is the precious jazz voice of our big city.
Coco has been singing on Shanghai’s stages since the early [...]
The Shanghai Jazz Festival is Basically Here
Tonight is the big opening, so get ready. We’ve got the line-up in our live dates page now, so you can check out who’s playing when. It’s been organized by the people at JZ club, and will feature many of their bands, as well as other local acts, and national and international stars. Like many [...]
Celebrating The Antidote
The last Antidote party I went was the one during the Olympics at Captain Bar, those days Shanghai was very much like a ghost town, if possible. I went with a friend who was happily impressed with the environment. Even he’s not much into electronic music he did thank the music, the space and [...]
