(Seventeenth of a series) For the record, I informed this month’s Portraits in Jazz subject of my intention to borrow the first lines from a 1983 Dave Frishberg song, “My Attorney Bernie,” as the title of this piece for two rather in-your-face reasons: First, because Butch Saulog’s given name is “Bernard” (usually shortened to “Bernie”),...
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All that Jazz: The wow in the now
First of two parts On a cool Sunday afternoon in late January, they gathered at the rooftop of the nondescript NCC Building in Mandaluyong City: keyboardists Elhmir Saison and Butch Saulog, guitarists Riki Gonzales and Rey Infante, drummer Rey Vinoya, and bassist Dave Harder. It was clear from the jazz supergroup lineup—first-call musicians all—that there’d...