The Unofficial Traxx.FM Jazz Selecta!

We’re slowly approaching our 3rd year on-air (April 1st is our birthday - hint hint) and all we can say is WOW. Not only has it been fun hosting the show with Jezza, but more so it’s been a great learning experience!

Apologies for not being the best when it comes to updating this blog. But do check back time to time to see what’s happening with us.

Right now, it is 12:17 a.m. and last hour we just finished featuring Gruv Avenue’s THE AWAKENING live album. Before that it was the RTM Jazz Orchestra with featured vocalists Shafinaz, Adibah Noor, Leonard Tan & Dia Fadilla. Here are the tracks we played:-

1. Unforgettable - Instrumental
Composer: Irving Gordan
Arrangement: Ruslan Bin Mohd. Imam

2. All I ask of you - Shafinaz
Arrangement: Ruslan Bin Mohd. Imam

3. I Finally Found Someone - Adibah Noor & Leanard Tan
Arrangment: Isabella Pek

4. Orange Colored Sky - Dia Fadilla
Arrangment: Ruslan Bin Mohd. Imam

Thanks to Eugene for kickin our butts into gear when it comes to the blog…here’s to a more happening 2008!

Best,
Maya

two and a half years since it’s inception and we are now beginning to understand the concept of jazz in Malaysia and how we continue to close one eye to all the unwanted stuff that is in no way helping promote the genre. We need to get rid of all the unwanted back biting that takes place in the background. Every musician or at least 80% of the ones i’ve met had something to say about another musician. Everyone gives me well edited stories of how they winged it at berklee and how the ones that haven’t made the pilgrimage don’t understand Jazz. they then top it up by giving me a display of how proffesional they are by saying nice things to the said musician laced with the rhetorical HOw r U LAH BRO? workiing the bile to somewhere around my molars. SO, how do we get rid of the unwanted back biting. Let 2007 be ayear of introspection, and except that we will be a year older. I dont know if this is information but I have been teaching Aikido for quite a while and the kids i teach are far better then those in Japan. Here’s the irony, I have never in my life been to Japan and i think sushi will taste better if fried.The lesson : Work at embracing ur people not dissing them.

APPY NEW YEAR
JEZZA

Hey listeners of Jazz Selecta, I’m Serene, the outsource producer you might have heard on the show now and then. Well, Maya’s a pretty busy lady so I’m going to do the job of keeping this blog site updated whenever I can. Thanks for checking in! Don’t forget to listen to the show every Tuesday night 10pm - 1am. Jazz rocks, yeah!