Here are some videos of BOPLICITY's performance at Bangkok Jazz for my farewell gig on the 13th Jan 2008. The featured clips are courtesy of Ben Lee and Ivy.. thanks to them for bringing their video camera!
Enjoy!
BLUESANOVA - part 1
BLUESANOVA - part 2
JUNE BUG
I will be adding at least one more soon! So stay tuned!
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Happy Chinese New Year!!
Happy Chinese New Year to all of ya!!
Looks like this will be the first CNY I'm spending away from home, family and friends. I miss home, but CNY makes me even more homesick than I really was! Looks like it'll be a few more years of being like this. I suppose I will eventually get used to it, but I'll still miss it.
Anyway, I'm feeling CNY in spirit with everyone back home... I hope you all had a good one!!
May this year bring you even more good health and prosperity!
Anyway, for some pics of NYC and myself (I finally updated them!), click here. Enjoy!
Later!!
Friday, February 01, 2008
Humbled...
... beyond belief!
That's how I feel right now.. coming back from my classes today.
I had a private lesson with AH, and ensemble class slightly later in the evening. That was the moment I could get to see the cats around me play, and boy, can they play!! More on that later.
Private instruction was really good... but I realized how truly weak a saxophone player I was, just from this first lesson. I felt like I couldn't play at all, in front of AH! There's a lot of work to be done... A LOT! My lack of commitment to practicing has shown. This was my first humbling experience for today.
Jazz ensemble... well, we played a few big band arrangements. Among them were two familiar tunes, Mambo Inn and Smoke Gets In Your Eyes. And before you could say, ".. easy song wuttt...", man... the arrangements were kick ass to play! I had some problems sight-reading it (ie. I'm slow), and the other sax players beside me were reading it like it was nothing! Not only that, they could solo so well!! And they weren't easy parts too. 16th notes, with loads of accidentals, etc. Man.. some of them were pretty sick bebop-ish lines to play! Man.. I'm probably one of the weakest members in the group... no, I probably am! The arrangement for Smoke, Mr. Mossman did it for the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band.. oh man.. what a killer arrangement. Gotta work on that..
To say I am humbled, is a severe understatement. Trashed is more like it!
I can understand why some people will give up halfway.. and some even went nuts, too, I heard.
I must... no, I will find the strength in me to pull through. I didn't come all this way to NYC to give in so easily!
.... help!
LOL!
Wish me luck..
That's how I feel right now.. coming back from my classes today.
I had a private lesson with AH, and ensemble class slightly later in the evening. That was the moment I could get to see the cats around me play, and boy, can they play!! More on that later.
Private instruction was really good... but I realized how truly weak a saxophone player I was, just from this first lesson. I felt like I couldn't play at all, in front of AH! There's a lot of work to be done... A LOT! My lack of commitment to practicing has shown. This was my first humbling experience for today.
Jazz ensemble... well, we played a few big band arrangements. Among them were two familiar tunes, Mambo Inn and Smoke Gets In Your Eyes. And before you could say, ".. easy song wuttt...", man... the arrangements were kick ass to play! I had some problems sight-reading it (ie. I'm slow), and the other sax players beside me were reading it like it was nothing! Not only that, they could solo so well!! And they weren't easy parts too. 16th notes, with loads of accidentals, etc. Man.. some of them were pretty sick bebop-ish lines to play! Man.. I'm probably one of the weakest members in the group... no, I probably am! The arrangement for Smoke, Mr. Mossman did it for the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band.. oh man.. what a killer arrangement. Gotta work on that..
To say I am humbled, is a severe understatement. Trashed is more like it!
I can understand why some people will give up halfway.. and some even went nuts, too, I heard.
I must... no, I will find the strength in me to pull through. I didn't come all this way to NYC to give in so easily!
.... help!
LOL!
Wish me luck..
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