Listening to Jazz music from the distance.....
With Flory and Debbie....eh..ada gaya macam artis kah?
Last Saturday (11 Aug), hanged out with Debbie, Flory and some new friends that I just met like Benny, Gabriel (a guy from the US and Deb's new acquaintance from Couch Surfer.com) at the Jesselton Point where the 1st KK Jazz Festival cum Charity Concert were also held. We did not buy any tickets cos it is so damm expensive..cost like RM50 & RM100 and we don't know and not sure how's the quality of the performance yet so we just listen from a far sambil we makan our dinner at the boardwalk area.
By curi-curi listening from the distance which is good enough than paying RM50, there were more performances by local acts such as the Jesselton or Jazzelton (?) Quintet, Mia Palencia & Roger Wang of Double Take and students from the Sabah Institute of Art (SIA) and West Malaysian's Farid Ali played the Gambus with a Jazz touch...which sounded really good and cool actually than what I've expected..of course it sounds better with other accompaniments like the drums and bass guitar than just the Gambus itself. And then the international performers are Son2Nos from Venezuela and Denise Mininfield from the US. I like Mia Palencia's jazz rendition of Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean'. I say..overall, the music was a-okay and pretty inspiring except for one or two local soloist..their voice was a bit out and Jazzless. Inspired me to want to learn how to sing jazz now....maybe if there's a 2nd KK Jazz Festival next year, see lah..I might go this time. I LOVE JAZZ even moreeeee now.
Here's some photos..courtesy of Benny..he's a cool guy with a big and nice camera..and expensive too..see pic below..see what I mean..hehe..(if you wanna know you can check his blog at www.limadang.com). Anyway, thanks for the pics Benny!
Mia Palencia & Roger Wang (Double Take)
The two handsome hunks from Son2Nos
Farid Ali with his Gambus
1 comment:
nice meeting you there donna! :)
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