Jazz Lunch: Kylie Estrela & Jazzicians
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Description
Description
If you work in Central, escape the hustle and bustle, come and immerse yourself in a lunchtime concert of live jazz music. As Miles Davis once said, “Jazz washes away the dust of everyday life.”
Presented by the Fringe Club as one of the programmes of “Jazz-Go-Central, Jazz-Go-Fringe” project, Jazz Lunch showcases an impressive jazz combo in the classy setting of the Fringe Dairy. The combo includes professional jazz musicians and young emerging talents who all appreciate the opportunity to gain exposure, showcase their musicianship and improve their skills.
From January to April, Kylie Estrela will be sharing their jazz music stories together with her jazzicians.
P.S. Jazzicians= Jazz + Musicians
Wed 18 April 2018
4th Episode: When Juejian Juejian meets C-Pop (Have A Bite version)
Juejian has a double meaning of Persistence and Jazzicians (in Mandarin pronunciation). It has a connotation of jazzicians who persist in playing jazz even though this genre is small compared to mainstream pop music.
Since 2015, Kylie Estrela has promoted the concept of jazzified Cantopop, and has presented it in concerts by La Petite Jazzy Jam, with arranger Bernard Hui. The concept is definitely not brand new, and they’re certainly not the only people to re-arrange it, but there’s no denying that Cantopop plays a key role in Hong Kongers’ musical upbringing. So Kylie tries to embrace jazz and Cantopop, to discover what the combination might look and taste and sound like.
The culture/language/phraseology of jazz and Cantopop are totally different, which makes jazzifying and vocalising difficult. However, the jazzicians have persisted, spending time to choose songs and create jazzified pieces without being in a rush to launch them. The new arrangements could be in the style of Swing or Bossa Nova, Fusion Jazz or Jazz Funk, or maybe even Soul or R&B.
Influenced by the culture of her Taiwanese mom, Kylie has also picked some tunes from Taiwan. And Bernard has selected some pop tunes so that each concert tells its own unique story.
Today’s fourth and final Jazz Lunch, led by Kylie Estrela, features Hong Kong jazzicians Kwok Wing Hei (trumpet), Marcus Ho (bass) and Anna Fan (drums).
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Free
Indoor
Local
