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Always dapper: Pikong warms up preshow. —PHOTOS COURTESY OF PIKONG GUEVARRA
Always dapper: Pikong warms up preshow —PHOTOS COURTESY OF PIKONG GUEVARRA
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December 26, 2025December 26, 2025Music

Portraits in Jazz: Michael Mark Guevarra keeps it real

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(Twenty-first of a series) If the end of the pandemic lockdown had a face, it was—at least for me—that of Michael Mark “Pikong” Guevarra. It was April 2022, the first night Tago Jazz Café opened its doors after nearly two years of silence. Setting up on stage that night were guitarist Riki Gonzales and Balooze,...