Pat Metheny Trrioooo

Christian McBride and Antonio Sanchez joined forces with 7-time grammy award winning Path Metheny to bring Jazz to Sunny Singapore. Mann....are they great of what! $110 for central DD34 seats right behind the mixer. Pat played to expectations...the usual melodious lines with fast paced licks lace. Christian, one of most wanted bassists in the world, played effortlessly. It was Antonio that blew me away. I've seen many drummers, dishing up solos of great energy, mixing high-level technical rolls, double taps, 'out' rhythms to their repertoire. Antonio didn't even seem to try very hard. This is what I like and admire, playing with minimal effort, yet measured and controlled beats, never attempting to overplay. Only gripe was the sound crew upped Pat's guitar so high that the bass and drums got buried on many ocassions, shall email Benson about that...

till the next Mosaic Fest, Adioss!

Sax from Ipanema: Paquito and New York Voices

Mosaic Festival Back in Singapore!

First paid concert went was Paquito and New York Voices, NYV are great 4-some jazz acapella. Captivated by their 'Desafinado.mp3', plonked down the dough to get row D seats! Man are they amazing!

Opening set by Vocaluptuous, 1F4M group, pretty good arrangements etc

Next, DA MAN from Ipanema! seen Clarinet (Paquito) and Trombone (Didn't catch his name) played in such a way!!

Wld have prefered NYV to have more fast numbers ala Manhattan Transfer etc. but well, they did a magnificent job. Ending/Standing ovation/Encore were all great!

Butterflies - A day of

2006 march 1st.

Butterflies crashing into knots,
Results to Qualifying Exam for PhD to released
Fear reached levels unmatched since 5th Jan 06
Simple show of matric card exchange for a small brown envelope
A4 letter in 3-folds, a gentle pull....
......passed.....written right in the middle
Butterflies break loose, fly to a place far, far away......