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                    [Title] => Jazz great Buddy DeFranco dies at age 91
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With snarled traffic, owing to rain and an apparent vehicular accident on EDSA, I missed Weber’s and Mendelssohn’s Overtures as played by ABS-CBN Philharmonic Orchestra under outstanding conductor Gerard Salonga.

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US Amb. Harry Thomas Jr. helped celebrate the International Jazz Day in the Philippines by sharing his personal jazz favorites and notes on the music in special segments that aired from May 8 to 21 on what he described as “the smoothest place on your radio,” 105.1 Crossover.

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                    [Title] => A jazzy MacArthur Park
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I still have to fully understand what the song MacArthur Park is trying to say but I am sure you will agree that it was a very big hit many years ago and is now considered a classic. Written by Jim Webb, the original version was recorded by country music star Waylon Jennings in 1968. It was only a few months later when the second one was released and it was in the debut album by the late actor Richard Harris who turned recording artist with much success.
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                    [Title] => Which way to Wasabi?
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Which is a pity, because on Fridays and Saturdays when the bar features what it calls the Wasabi jazz weekends, only a handful of people are in attendance to listen to some excellent jazz, as good as any you’ll be able to hear this side of town.


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                    [Title] => Seeing stars at Party in the Park
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Jazz great Buddy DeFranco dies at age 91

By Melissa Nelson-Gabriel | December 27, 2014 - 9:26am

Renowned jazz clarinetist Buddy DeFranco has died at the age of 91, his family said Friday.

Music

Simon, Salonga electrify/ Santamaria, Molina amaze

August 3, 2014 - 12:00am

With snarled traffic, owing to rain and an apparent vehicular accident on EDSA, I missed Weber’s and Mendelssohn’s Overtures as played by ABS-CBN Philharmonic Orchestra under outstanding conductor Gerard...

Letters to the Editor

US Amb. Harry on 105.1 Crossover

July 9, 2013 - 12:00am

US Amb. Harry Thomas Jr. helped celebrate the International Jazz Day in the Philippines by sharing his personal jazz favorites and notes on the music in special segments that aired from May 8 to 21 on...

Entertainment

Tunesmith 2

By Juaniyo Arcellana | April 1, 2013 - 12:00am

Before YouTube, there was Tunesmith, first on N. Domingo near corner Blumentritt in San Juan, then in its fadeout days along Aurora Blvd. between a girlie bar and a nondescript joint, in the shadow of LRT2.

Arts and Culture

Isay Alvarez goes big band

November 18, 2011 - 12:00am

Isay Alvarez brings back the nostalgia and romance of the big band era when she performs with musical arranger Mel Villena...

Entertainment

A jazzy MacArthur Park

By Baby A. Gil | July 26, 2006 - 12:00am

I still have to fully understand what the song MacArthur Park is trying to say but I am sure you will agree that it was a very big hit many years ago and is now considered a classic. Written by Jim Webb,...

Entertainment

Which way to Wasabi?

By Juaniyo Arcellana | May 30, 2005 - 12:00am

You can’t miss it, it’s right smack behind the Manila Peninsula Hotel along Makati Ave., the Wasabi jazz bar that according to its operation manager has seen better days. Which is a pity, because on Fridays...

Arts and Culture

Jones’ Cubao

By Juaniyo Arcellana | March 20, 2005 - 12:00am

It’s the first time of Norah Jones in the Philippines, it’s her first time in Cubao. She doesn’t know how much Cubao has changed from the adolescent hangout it was in the 1970s to the ’80s, just...

Entertainment

Isha & Mishka

By Juaniyo Arcellana | November 7, 2004 - 12:00am

Lately there have been sightings of two jazz divas, right about the Shangri-La Plaza, Isha and Mishka, or is it Mishka and Isha, in a concert or two launching their respective albums. Isha is Pearlsha Abubakar, associate...

Entertainment

Seeing stars at Party in the Park

By Baby A. Gil | August 30, 2004 - 12:00am

Some years ago on a trip to London, I went to Hyde Park to look for the statue of Peter Pan I had always wanted to see. And surprises of surprises, I stumbled on Party in the Park. To use a cliché, the...

Entertainment

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