Singapore Night Live

This is blog about my impressions of the live music “goings on” in Singapore, a lot about Jazz, but also other music styles, since there are many and access here is easy. I am including my photos for the visual effect. I will not give commentary on the quality of bands and players, I just don't know enough about that. I will update as often as I can hopefully with a view back on the week or weekend past. I hope to see you here, but also Live at any of these venues on any given Singapore Night!

Monday, January 26, 2015

Singapore Night Live top 30

A nice thing about the blogger.com website is that it provides a bit of statistics. Because my blog always has specific people as focus, it is possible for me to look at it as people's "popularity rating".

Next to that there is of course the satisfaction of people actually looking at your work.

So sharing these statistics with you is a bit of advertisement for the subjects and a massive act of self-satisfaction on my part.

And although my amazing wife is always highly complimentary of what I am doing and many of the "subjects" have provided me with compliments and praise,

at a personal level there is no greater feat then to overcome your modesty and show the world what you think is a job very well done.

This is a milestone post for this blog. What started with a simple 500D camera and one of my favorite performers the late great Atwell Jansen

grew out to a spending of well over 10k, which was necessary to challenge the poor lighting in most of the places I frequent.

My first post was on 4/13/13 and this is my milestone 100. At this point this blog has seen over 25800 visitors and with it, I am giving an overview of what are the 30 most popular ones. It is my hope that this blog has contributed, if only a little bit, to the popularity of all featured. I can say that it definitely added to mine!

If I bring my camera that is! I am just kidding! Camera or not, my wife and I have been warmly admitted to this beautiful family of musicians that we got to know within and outside of the Jazz genre!

My admiration goes out to each and everyone of them, for the hours of practice that they needed, to become, firstly in their own eyes, good enough to stand and play in front of an audience, or to play for hours on end for a group of zombies that are really not at all interested!

I inserted photo's in my text of people that did not make it to the top 30. Although out of 100, you cannot all be in the top 30, I am disappointed that some did not make it.

My analysis; it is genre related. It has nothing to do with how good the singer or musician is/are. And when I say genre related it could very well be, that those that are fans of the underrepresented genre, are simply not interested in my babble and blurs.

I personally am very pleased with my number one and with the bands that are represented in the top 5 as well as multiple times in this entire post. I like them very much...very much!

The most visited posts are, in descending order:

(Click on view for a link to the full post)

1 - Vanessa Fernandez' revenge of the soul View 817 11/30/13

2 - Shagies: Only the strong survive View 748 8/30/14

3 - Alors on Danse View 747 7/28/14

4 - Shagies (Since 1986), a long time standing View 671 7/17/13

5 - The Steve McQueens: Just the Love is not enough View 484 7/30/14

6 - Crozzroads: The intersection of Orchard and Angulia Park View 434 9/24/13

7 - The Family Cheese...On the move View 433 5/25/14

8 - Stephen Francis and friends: View 402 11/24/13

featuring Lily dressed to the frills

9 - Back2BackSBack View 390 6/18/13

10 - Fusing Saigenji and L.A.B. ; A results of good taste View 385 11/29/14

11- Junji Delfino and Ireson, not sacrificing either View 360 9/15/13

12 - Elisa and Artistry: a lovely blend of coffee, cake and music View 353 8/17/13

13 - Men In Golf View 345 4/22/13

14 - Fungkimunkees, how fungki is that? View 333 4/21/13

15 - Havana Social Club; A Singapore Collaboration View 328 7/27/14

- (is it time to lift the boycot?)

16 - Barrio Chino not so China Town afterall View 328 5/21/13

17 - Johnny James: Haze from Sumatra Heat from Miami View 324 6/24/13

18 - I was there… Incognito @ the Sing-Jazz launch (2014). View 320 11/30/13

19 - Tessera and Jeramzee: a mosaic of musicians View 308 9/28/13

20 - Naughty Noor Nice: a great Holiday warm up!! View 307 12/21/13

21 - Tim O'Dwyer soundpainting: a stage filled with color View 281 41862

22 - Lily sings the blues View 279 8/21/13

23 - SteveMcQueen - Papillon and other missing references View 266 4/25/

24 - Men In Groovy shirts View 265 11/25/13

25 - The Hendrix Bani Rahman Experience View 260 41283

26 - Saturday night? All the more reason for the Blues! View 260 41523

27 - What is hip? Goodfellas and What Is Hip!!! View 251 10/28/13

28 - Hanging out with "boss", FRED and The SteveMcQueens View 245 9/14/13

29 - Atwell Jansen: A modern day Minstrel View 238 8/17/13

30 - SingJazz Club: An opening night to remember View 231 41766

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