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Jazz returns to Taichung on smaller scale

Jazz is back, but just don’t call it a festival as the Give Me Five concert series is set to kick off tomorrow in Taichung.
Running through Oct. 31, the small-scale performances take the place of the annual jazz festival, which was canceled for a second year in a row due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In years past, the multi-day event attracted hundreds of thousands of spectators.
“It’s totally different this year,” Hsiao Jing-ping (蕭靜萍), head of performing arts for the city’s Cultural Affairs Bureau, says.
Nearly 30 traditional and contemporary jazz bands will perform at venues throughout the city. The old ....

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The Heartaches and Joys of Organizing Music Festivals in Taiwan


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Taiwan has become a hub for music festivals, both big and small, over the past two decades. The passionate organizers – many of them foreigners – work hard to put on the best show possible despite the numerous risks and challenges.
In April of 1995 two young American expats, Wade Davis and Jimi Moe, held the first Spring Scream music festival in Kenting at the southern tip of Taiwan. It wasn’t the first festival of its kind in Taiwan, and it was attended by only around 200 people, but the musical and cultural impact created by this iconic event was enormous. It also became a springboard and template for countless other festivals to come and laid the foundation for an industry in which foreigners have played an outsized role. ....

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Column: San Diego's Ira B. Liss and his big band make music built for smiling


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The music that the Ira B. Liss Big Band Jazz Machine makes could never be called noise. But it sure is joyful.
On the new album, “Mazel Tov Kocktail!,” the San Diego-based group rolls out a rollicking batch of songs that swings from dizzying big-band showstoppers (“Gimme That,” an original by Andrew Neu) to smoky torch tunes (“You’d Better Love Me While You May,” featuring vocalist Janet Hammer), to dancefloor ready funk (“Bass: The Final Frontier,” featuring famed San Diego bassist Nathan East). There are new tunes, old tunes and even a song inspired by klezmer music, all of them set in the key of happy. ....

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