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Eugene Pao

Eugene Pao is a Hong Kong guitarist who has been at the forefront of promoting jazz in Hong Kong for over three decades. He was the first Hong Kong jazz musician to sign with an international label, releasing By The Company You Keep (Flying Pig Studio, 2008) with {{m: Michael Brecker = 5275}}, {{m: Jack DeJohnette = 6202}} and {{m: John Patitucci = 10152}}. He has also  toured and recorded extensively with {{m: Jeremy Monteiro = 11924}}, and has performed at  international jazz festivals around the world.

Louis Stewart's Out On His Own: A Landmark Solo Guitar Recording

by Ian Patterson
January 5, 2024

Dublin's finest export? Not Guinness, but Irish jazz guitarist Louis Stewart (January 5, 1944--August 20, 2016). A guitarist of tremendous skill, invention and personality, Stewart was certainly the first world-class jazz musician to emerge from Ireland and make a name on the international stage. During a fifty-plus-year career, Stewart played with Benny Goodman, ...

Freespace Jazz Festival 2022

by Rob Garratt
November 17, 2022

Freespace Jazz Festival 2022 Freespace, West Kowloon Cultural District Hong Kong October 26-30, 2022 Hong Kong's best jazz fest launched at the worst possible time. The debut Freespace Jazz Festival, in 2019, struck a bold chord with its choice of A-list international headliners-- most especially Robert Glasper, ...

Jazz World Records: From Hong Kong with Love

by Rob Garratt
July 14, 2022

"I've had plenty of labels in the past—three or four, I can't remember—and I always swore I'd never do it again," begins Clarence Chang as he sits down to lunch. And yet here we are, chewing linguine and discussing the label he just founded, Jazz World Records. “The only true jazz label in ...

Jazz-Blues Brothers

Label: Jazztone
Released: 2021
Track listing: Opening Act; Olympia; I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water; Mount Olive; Lou; Jack-Pot; Catastrophy; I'd Rather Go Blind; Wishy Washy.

Hong Kong International Jazz Festival 2021

by Rob Garratt
November 19, 2021

Hong Kong International Jazz Festival 2021 Hong Kong City Hall October 27-28, 2021 Forced to restrict programming to locally based musicians, the always enjoyable Hong Kong International Jazz Festival's greatest surprise this year came early in Chi Chau's Choice, a super-ish group of HK luminaries assembled ...

Jeremy Monteiro & Alberto Marsico: Jazz-Blues Brothers

by Pierre Giroux
November 16, 2021

The effervescent Singapore-based pianist Jeremy Monteiro has hooked up with boss Hammond B-3 organist, Italian Alberto Marsico, to create this funky soul / blues album. Although the session previously had a world-wide release (except in North America) in 2014 on Verve Records, three new tracks have been added to the 2021 reissue. Also included are tenor ...

Patrick Lui Jazz Orchestra at Hong Kong City Hall

by Rob Garratt
June 30, 2021

Patrick Lui Jazz Orchestra Hong Kong City Hall French May June 17, 2021 Yes, that date above is correct--and if the world's ongoing global nightmare has offered any relief to musicians of late, it might be the fresh appreciation afforded often overlooked players in their own communities. Nightlife ...

Jeremy Monteiro: No Black Tie Required

by Ian Patterson
June 23, 2021

Jeremy Monteiro has been Singapore's unofficial jazz ambassador since the late 1970s, carving out a pioneering path around the world. The first South East Asian to perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival and the first S.E. Asian to record for the Verve label, Monteiro has made a habit of playing with the very best, from James ...

Jazz-Blues Brothers

By Jeremy Monteiro & Alberto Marsico

Label: Jazznote Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Opening Act; Olympia; I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water; Mount Olive; Lou; Jack-Pot; Catastrophy; I'd Rather Go Blind; Wishy Washy