Well supposably I'm supposed to write something about the band(s) we saw last night... Before i write about that however, I'd like to acknowledge how grateful i am to have my cast off!!! The last 4 weeks have been a pain in the you-know-what. Everything has been very different with one hand, as im sure everyone who's broken something has experienced. One of the things different is that i havent been able to hold a saxophone with one hand. So today, after getting my arm back i had a saxophone "jam session" with the really only person who i've met that is passionate about saxophone, Abahey, whos 19 and is very good. It was very fun to get back to playing and believe it or not, i hadn't been that bad for not playing for 4 weeks!
Finally, we had found some sort of jazz scene here and that was a "Jazz Utsav." (utsav is like a festival in hindi.) Last night two groups where playing. The first was a band from Polland called "Pawl (the "L" having some weird line through it... Some Polish thing i guess...) Kaczmarczyk Audiofeeling Band." They were amazing! The played very contemporary style music. They did a very good job of always playing; They kept the music in the air. They did that by always having a soloist wether it was a melow piano solo or bass. The songs had no strong chord changes behind them but they had very good melodic ideas behind their solos, especialy the saxophonist and pianist. The saxophonist was very good and hit some REALLY high notes on his tenor. The pianist was very musicaly talented. He was always having fun with his solos, sometimes even playing from inside the piano.
The second group was called "The Louiz Banks/ Braz Gonsalves Jazz Combo" which was all indians. We didnt stay for all of it, but at one point there was only a trio onstage which included Louiz Banks on the piano, Sheldon D' Silva on bass guitar, and Gino Banks on drums. Gino Banks really rocked the drums for his solo and got going really fast, but he was nothing compared to Sheldon D' Silva!!! Sheldon moved his hands so fast, you couldn't see his hands. At one point he started playing by hiting the strings like a bongo drums. Don't be suprised if you hear the name "Sheldon D' Silva" as a famous bassist soon!
So that was last night! It was very entertaining! I'll keep on posting- Chase
Finally, we had found some sort of jazz scene here and that was a "Jazz Utsav." (utsav is like a festival in hindi.) Last night two groups where playing. The first was a band from Polland called "Pawl (the "L" having some weird line through it... Some Polish thing i guess...) Kaczmarczyk Audiofeeling Band." They were amazing! The played very contemporary style music. They did a very good job of always playing; They kept the music in the air. They did that by always having a soloist wether it was a melow piano solo or bass. The songs had no strong chord changes behind them but they had very good melodic ideas behind their solos, especialy the saxophonist and pianist. The saxophonist was very good and hit some REALLY high notes on his tenor. The pianist was very musicaly talented. He was always having fun with his solos, sometimes even playing from inside the piano.
The second group was called "The Louiz Banks/ Braz Gonsalves Jazz Combo" which was all indians. We didnt stay for all of it, but at one point there was only a trio onstage which included Louiz Banks on the piano, Sheldon D' Silva on bass guitar, and Gino Banks on drums. Gino Banks really rocked the drums for his solo and got going really fast, but he was nothing compared to Sheldon D' Silva!!! Sheldon moved his hands so fast, you couldn't see his hands. At one point he started playing by hiting the strings like a bongo drums. Don't be suprised if you hear the name "Sheldon D' Silva" as a famous bassist soon!
So that was last night! It was very entertaining! I'll keep on posting- Chase
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