They might think they’re playing “jazz” when in actuality, they’re simply retreading well-known standards, yet, for reasons unknown to me, there is this overriding need to be seen as being “jazz cats”, the same old group of usual suspects in Hong Kong who move in herds and “blow” at the usual places- Backstage, Peel Fresco [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Nikki Yanofsky’
HONG KONG: LESS OF ALL THAT JIZZ AND MORE BE BOP A LOO LA
Posted: 1st June 2015 by We-Enhance in ASIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY, American Idol, Hong Kng, Hong Kong Music Industry, MusicTags: "ONE GIANT LEAP", Airwaves Of Love, American Idol, ave Brubeck Quartet, Blaine Whittaker, Ella Fitzgerald, Eugene Pao, JACKY CHEUNG, Jaco Pastorius, jazz, Jezrael Lucero, joni mitchell, Jun Kung, Louie Shelton, Michael Wong, Miles Davis, Nikki Yanofsky, Ornette Coleman, Paul Simons, Ray Charles, Robbie Williams, Rudi Balbuena, Steve Gadd, Steve Lukather, Stevie Wonde, Swing When You’re Winning, Taylor Hicks, Ted Lo, The Afterlife, Thelonious Monk
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BONNIE GOKSON, NIKKI YANOFSKY, SEVVA AND ALL THAT JAZZ
Posted: 15th September 2014 by We-Enhance in ASIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY, Asia, China Music Market, Hong Kong, Music, Music Industry, Music Marketing, Music MattersTags: BONNIE GOKSON, Charise, David Foster, James Torme, jazz, Nikki Yanofsky, Renee Olstead, SEVVA, Yuna
There is Jazz and there is Jizz, and most of the Hong Kong-based “jazz singers” are actually singing jizz- an often embarrassing concoction of self-indulgence comprising very scattered scatting, mimicry that’s cartoon-like, and material that’s so well-trodden, it’s full of career potholes. And yet, so many keep walking into them like lemmings. It’s why the [...]
THE NEED FOR MENTORS- AND HONG KONG MUSIC’S LACK OF THEM
Posted: 5th September 2014 by We-Enhance in ASIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY, Asia, BOB DYLAN, Hong Kng, Hong Kong Music IndustryTags: Hong Kong music scene, Joe Mantegna, maRK, Music, Nikki Yanofsky, Robynn and Kendy, Ted Lo, The Voice China
Peel Fresco is recognised as Hong Kong’s only Jazz club though it stopped being a “jazz club” over three years ago. Frankly, who really knows what all that “jazz” is these days, anyway? Some scat singing? Tedious solos by everyone in a group which, despite often being pretty shaky, are applauded wildly by audiences desperate [...]
JIMMY IOVINE: THE MUSICAL POWER BEHIND "AMERICAN IDOL".
Posted: 21st January 2011 by We-Enhance in American IdolTags: "American Idol" Season 10, Interscope, Jennifer Lopez, Jimmy Iovine, Kenzie Palmer, Miley Cyrus, Nikki Yanofsky, Randy Jackson, Steven Tyler, Taylor Swift, Travis Orlando
Watching the second round of auditions and all the emphasis on the judges, I couldn’t help but think of Jimmy Iovine. Iovine has worked with them all- U2, Tom Petty, Eminem, Dr Dre, Lennon, Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas- and, at the end of the day, as head of the powerful and successful Interscope label, [...]
WHY NOT NIKKI YANOFSKY AND THE END OF "CROSSOVER ACTS".
Posted: 21st November 2010 by We-Enhance in Crossover Acts, Nikki YanofskyTags: 12 Girls Band, Ahmet Ertegun, Celtic Woman, Charise, Crossover Acts, David Foster, Kenny G, Maksim, Nikki Yanofsky, Susan Boyle
Maybe it’s the surname, but despite all the fawning for moppets on “Oprah” and “Ellen” and the kinda creepy shadow of Producer David Foster hanging over many them, Nikki Yanofsky from Montreal is still to become a household name. Then again, is that the right term- “houseman name”? So is Drain-O and Colgate and McDonald’s. [...]