Hey guys! Week after week we’ve been blessed with having such fantastic guests on our show and this week tops the (already delicious cake). For you avid Jazz Selecta listeners (All two you - Eugene and Brian..ha ha just kidding) - Greg Lyons has already been on our show once before. As a matter of fact, you always hear his voice on our Jazz Selecta promo’s through out the day! Anyway, this Tuesday Greg Lyons will be in our studios again alongside Global Spirit.
Global Spirit is a Jazz Quintet - a very international one at that with members coming from four continents join to make music. Hence “Global”. Members of the band create a unique blend of America, European, African and Asian cultures.
Greg Lyons leads the band and you also have Finnish pianist/composer Jarmo Savolainen, who embraces contemporary US styles with a large dose of Scandivania. Jarmo spends much of his time in New York playing and recording with the cream of the contemporary jazz scene, and has also lately been touring frequently in Latin America.
Malaysia’s very own percussionist Lewis Pragasam is also part of this quintet. And for those of you familiar with his style, you’ll definitely hear the Indian classical tradition. He brings, and I quote, “an incredible arsenal of polyrhythmic dexterity that feeds and builds the group’s improvisations to a dramatic effect.”
You also have British trumpeter Damon Brown bringing diverse styling from reggae to free-jazz and Christy Smith - the pulse of the band - on bass. Christy hails from California but he also represents the continents of both America and Africa.
Though all members of the group have played together before, this will be the first time that the quintet meets as a whole.
When all five members of the quintet come together, it will definitely be quite a performance unlike any others.
Of course all of what you’ve read is a summary of what can be found here.
Should be an interesting show - so make a date with us (Jezza and Maya) and the rest of the world (Global Spirit) as we talk ‘all dat jazz’..
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Jumping back to last weeks show - February 28th, 2006 - we had Fairuz Hussein in the studios but Jezza was nowhere in sight! Fairuz played my co-host that evening and we featured a couple of songs from her Anugerah album plus gave 3 copies away. She’s been having a good year so far. Her song - Yamano Ima (Shine On Love) was in the top 10 on this website under the World Music category and she’s also preparing for a tour of China mid this year. And as an added piece of trivia, Fairuz and her husband Zul listen to punk rock too! And I quote Fairuz, “Exene Cervenka is in the Original Sinners now..”
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Greetings from California! Mualaikum Musalam
Tahniah! Congratulations! It is very exciting for me to be able to tell you that I have hear your program “Jazz Selecta” on short wave radio. What a great program of jazz music! I heard the following:
Frequency: 7295 kHz., shortwave
Date: Selasa/Tuesday, 7 Mac 2006
Time: 09:10 PM – 09:35 PM, Malaysian Standard Time
[13.10 UTC – 13.35 UTC]
Language: English
The music you play is great, as I especially enjoyed jazz. Do you ever play any Dave Brubeck music? He is one of my favorite jazz musicians.
Wish you continued success with “Jazz Selecta”.
Terima kasih.
Ron Howard
Monterey, California
Hello ! I think your blog is great even though it ain’t official. At least you get to read comments from people who use to tune to listen to you. I am always on the road and one of the stations keeping me company is you, your programmes and your station. I have a blog of my own. But nothing as compared to yours. You have a great way of cheering people up. Like somebody said something the other day and I just laughed out loud in the car. Other car users might think I am a cookoo. But it a psychological advantage to laugh out loud. I also listen to how you interact with one another because there are programmes whereby you have more than one announcer. So keep your good work and keep us posted about the latest happennings in Traxx FM.