Cecile Licad plays in the garden-surrounded Gallery MiraNila at the MiraNila Heritage House & Library on Oct. 1—her only solo performance in Metro Manila this year. The “pianist’s pianist,” as she has been described by The New Yorker, chose romantic and early modern works for her one-night-only concert: Beethoven’s famous Piano Sonata No. 14 (“Moonlight”)...
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Portraits in Jazz: Butch Saulog’s flow and order
(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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Portraits in Jazz: Quiet nights with Jeannie and Henry
(Fifth in a series) Fresh off the heady excitement of the Philippine International Jazz Festival (PI Jazzfest), which was revived in May after a six-year pause, and in which partners Jeannie Tiongco and Henry Katindig shared the stage with PI Jazz All Stars headliners and foreign jazz artists, the couple have returned to the dim...