Tyrone Block - Trombone
Joel Griffin - Saxophone
Barry Bradley - Bass Guitar
Joel Thomas - Piano
Nathan Ziehm - Drums
Amanda Lee –Piano
Brass Keys Duo (Amanda Lee and Tyrone Block)
The first half of the concert will take the audiences on a musical journey that spans from the Romantic era to modern day. The pieces to be performed present an amalgamation of traditional western art forms and jazz idioms. The audience will experience the richness of jazz traditions in a classical performance setting.
Dallas Asia Pacific Connection
The second half of the concert features a jazz combo from Dallas, Texas that will fill the evening program with unforgettable mainstream jazz selections!
That was the advertisement handout ... to be truthful, I wasn't keen but it was a charity concert and we were given tickets afterall. So we went for the concert slated for 7.30pm at Syuen Hotel.
We arrived on time, got the programme and door gifts (Sabah Tea) and found the ball room not filled. The concert didn't start till 8.00pm (half an hour late) and the organisers did not announce anything. I guess they thought since it was a charity concert afterall, there was no need for efficiency.
Well to be truthful, I was bored from the beginning. The music school that was one of the sponsors, had 2 students play - an erhu and a violinist. They were both not very good possibly because of stage fright.
Then Brass Keys Duo came on. Before they started, Tyrone gave an introduction and said due to time constraints they would not play all the songs listed in the programme. Well, I felt embarrassed! Bad Malaysians late again!!!
Anyway Maria, a friend, told us that Amanda was her college mate before she went off to US to further her studies and Maria went to UK. Amanda is an Ipoh girl and her music teacher is the mother of HJ's nephew's teacher ... small world Ipoh!
Anyway Tyrone is fantastic on the thrombone though I don't appreciate jazz, and Amanda did ok herself. Unfortunately as it was purely classical, I got bored :(
That is until Dallas Asia Pacific Connection came on. Joel gave the introduction this time, and mentioned that US invented jazz. They played songs that were not in the list either but they were good. I enjoyed some of the songs but some not.
However, you can't deny their skill and passion!
There were 2 encores after that too, by which time we finished at almost 11pm....talk about time constraints!
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