There’s a new Filipino jazz band around called the Witchdoctors of Underground Jazz Improvisation, or WDOUJI. They come as the local scene is in a hiatus, with just a handful of bands still keeping ...
This past weekend, Pinoy jazz superstars graced the World Youth Jazz Festival at the Jungle Land Theme Park in Bogor, near Jakarta, Indonesia. The Filipino guests were jazz keyboard icon Boy Katindig ...
MANILA, Philippines - It’s the blue-and-green of it all. Jazz greats like Miles Davis and John Coltrane encountered a more adoring audience in Europe, so did Jaco Pastorius and John McLaughlin. Ben ...
Guitarist Eddie Munji III, who recorded the groundbreaking "Pinoy Jazz Volume I" in 1978, died Sunday, Nov. 18, of a heart attack. Munji died at 7 p.m. at Queen Mary Help of Christians Hospital in ...
Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. Nguyên Lê. Photos from EUNIC Philippines French guitarist Nguyên Lê and German jazz vocalist Michael Schiefel struck ...
There's a famous photograph of HM the King playing jazz with a band of enthusiastic musicians. It is from 1963 when His Majesty held regular jam sessions with locally-based and visiting musicians.
Roger Herrera, bass player par excellence, died Wednesday, Nov. 14, leaving behind a full life spent pushing the boundaries of modern Philippine music, principally Pinoy jazz. He was 80. His cremated ...
Noteworthy jazz artists from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Philippines engage in a cross-cultural collaboration at “Euro-Pinoy Jazz Concerts,” Feb. 17-22, in Taguig and Manila. Presented by ...
Paolo Garcia had a rough 2020, even by COVID standards. Around this time last year, Taal Volcano erupted, blanketing the Filipino musician’s Laguna home in thick ashfall. Days after the volcanic fury, ...