Journeying on with Jazz

When we organ­ised 'Jazz by the Beach' recently, friends from all over called up to express dismay as to what happened to the Her­itage Jazz Yatra, which sur­prised me since that is one show we plan to take all over Goa.

Right now we are already back with a bang with the next show of the yatra slat­ed for the December 5. Since IFFI is going to be going big guns by then, what better way to treat all our lovely Goans and our IFFI guests to the grandeur of a Goan home as well as music of the highest cal­iber? And what about show­casing different Goan tal­ents to our guests?

For our last show at Betalbatim, it was a great pleasure work­ing with Querozito and Liesel who put up a lovely, painting exhibition and with Jack Russel who had the range of jazz artifacts at the venue. And even better, the type of re­sponse they got at the show has pro­pelled us to take this concept further and to invite our Goan craftsmen, artistes, painters et al to join forces with us to take our lovely heritage further.

On the music front, we have an array of musicians who will be playing at the show. We intend to make the show one of a kind and, one of a kind it will be. Trum­peters, saxophonists, Indian violinists, In­dian percussionists, flautists, pianists, guitarists, tabla maestros, you name it. After all, there has been so much of en­couragement that we have got from all over that it is now time for the concept to get into orbit. When Harikumar mesmerized the crowd with his intricate violin playing, it was also evident that top qual­ity jazz fusion was something that ex­cites. And that is why we have an array of world class musicians from East and West to create a fusion that goes with our Goan core.

So, get down to calling us on 9890616696 or 9822487818 and tell us how you would like to participate. Whether participating by putting up your works on display at the venue or actually bringing along a musical instrument and enthralling the discerning crowd. Let us put our hands together and showcase our talents to the world.

At the same time, we also look forward to your suggestions as to what we can do at 'The Heritage Jazz Yatra' since it is only team work and suggestions from all quarters that can help take all this for­ward.

And, just to create the first ripples, we'd like to hint about a truly world class trum­peter that will be in our midst. Frank Dubier, exciting trumpeter as well as sax­ophonist will be with us along with a dozen and more other musicians for an even­ing of war­mth, excel­lence, world class music and a lot more. See you there.

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