This has been a while, both that I posted anything and the
subject of this particular one. But it is interesting from several
perspectives. Primarily that there seem to be more people that are successful
in getting foreign Jazz talent to play in Singapore. As in this case, where
Nicole Duffel managed to pluck the guitarist Teriver Cheung off his tour
through Asia to play a couple of evenings here.
I happened to catch the B28
gig. Teriver was in good company with Kerong Chok on organ
and Wen Ming Soh on drums.
No
doubt a couple of them met in the U.S., which must have helped raising interest
for Teriver to come over. Singapore’s growing talent base, with members like
Kerong Chok and Wen Ming Soh, is likely putting this island state, with it’s growing
potential for any arts scene, on the Jazz map while on their own international
ventures.
Entrepreneurial initiatives like at a larger scale the new Singapore International Jazz Festival and at a smaller scale but hopefully with a regularity spread
over the year, by people like Nicole, can cement it all together. Nicole's B28
International Jazz Series are hoping to bring more International glory to
Singapore. I understand the regularity is dependent on opportunity like last
month’s visit by Teriver.
Thursday nights are probably not that hot anyway at B28, and
it being a Halloween evening did not help either, I guess, so the audience was
regretfully modest in number.
That did not keep the musicians back from putting up a lovely
show, thoroughly appreciated by those who did attend.
A small pictorial impression below.
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