Vanessa sings Girl From Ipanema

I’m pleased to report that I will be leading a new band. We’ll be playing fusion jazz, but hopefully on a higher level. I will be the main pianist but another (dare I say, more accomplished) keyboardist will be accompanying me on synths. I hope it will be a very powerful combination of complementary sounds….

Years – decades? – ago as a child, I’d sit, my eyes glued to the telly as I watched my favourite singers win awards. I’d exalt in their triumphs and get all smug about it the next day in school. Now, all I do is I gloat over Premier League scores. I just watched a…

I’ve been eyeing the KORG Triton Studio for quite a few months, and now that City Music is having its usual December sale, I’m seriously contemplating a purchase. ‘Fact is, the original price (with CD writer) was S$4,828 and its current sale price is S$3,932 (about US$2,229). Which is very much cheaper than what the…

I had an amazing jazz afternoon today. In fact I didn’t expect to play very well today since I barely practised anything this week. I arrived at the studio with ten minutes to spare, and looked around for an empty room to tinker around in the futile hope that suddenly, everything would sound all right….

After a hiatus I’m finally back in the studio again. As previously reported, Mac’s wireless keyboard had died so I was unable work on any music. Then because there was no activity for so long, inertia creeped in. Only yesterday, during my jazz piano lesson when my teacher insisted I had to perform one of…

On Jan 6, 2004, my all-time favourite band Tears For Fears will be launching their new single, ‘Closest Thing To Heaven’ Their forthcoming album, ‘Everyone Loves a Happy Ending’, will also be released later this year. [Independent , EOnline articles] During that period of time I’ve listened to the individual efforts of Curt Smith and…