5th Kota Kinabalu Jazz Festival 2011: Day 2. The Dream Continues
Friday’s perfect dream continued into Saturday: the skies were clear, and Day Two of the KK Jazz Festival burst into action with the exuberance of the SIA LITTLE JAZZ BAND. [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2011
5th Kota Kinabalu Jazz Festival 2011: Day 1. A Dream Come True
Guitarist Safri played a simple haunting melody. Singer DAYANG NORAINI walked on stage, and their voices entwined in a duet of long, spiritual notes which hung in the night air, clear and hypnotic. Shimmering cymbals lifted their song like a magic carpet, carrying it across the harbour out to sea like a Sabahan prayer. I was honoured to hear it…
5th Kota Kinabalu Jazz Festival 2011: Sound check! Ready?
I came to Sutera Harbour tennis courts after finishing my usual gig at Bella Italia. It was Thursday night, the night before the first day of KK Jazz Festival 2011. [...]
5th Kota Kinabalu Jazz Festival 2011: Lights! Sound! Action!
June 15, 2.30pm. Day Two of Stage set-up. I parked at Sutera Harbour Marina Golf & Country Club, and stepped out into a soft drizzle. The day was cloudy, but [...]
5th Kota Kinabalu Jazz Festival 2011: Building the Foundations of a Dream
Tuesday, June 14th, 2pm. The sun is bright. Beneath the arched canopies which stretch over the tennis courts at Sutera Harbour Marina, Golf & Country Club, bare-backed Mega Boogie men [...]
Beauty in Simplicity. That’s the “Janji” EP. That’s Jade Sisters.
This is my advice to every Sabahan guy who is living somewhere in the world OUTSIDE SABAH: Get hold of this two-track EP “Janji”. Go to your nearest Tesco’s, WalMart, [...]
