October has unofficially become jazz month in the PRD. Both Guangzhou and Shenzhen have their own flashy festivals, brimming with international and domestic talent.
“When you hear music, after it’s over, it’s gone, in the air. You can never capture it again,” jazz musician Eric Dolphy once said. An obvious solution: play another song.
Perhaps the organizers of the OCT-Loft Jazz Festival had this in mind when they decided to continue the festival for its sixth year.
Starting October 8, musicians from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America will converge in the OCT-Loft, bringing wildly different styles of jazz.
Highlights include seven-member Danish band Horse Orchestra, who will kick off the festival with their original fusion of 1920s New Orleans-style jazz and the ‘freejazz’ style of the 60s.
Lectures and a workshop will round out the latter half of the event, with Nagai Akiko talking about her success re-launching a music festival in Japan and Italian band Mothra discussing rhythm, modal music and electronics.
Jazz fan or not, some pretty interesting groups will be rotating through and are definitely worth a listen.
Some say Shenzhen doesn't have any culture. That’s not true. We just import it.
The OCT-Loft Jazz Festival 2016 takes place Oct 8-23. A full schedule and tickets are available at octloftjazz.com.
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