Pair of tickets to Michel Camilo Trio
I have never heard of Michel Camilo, the Grammy award winning Latin-jazz pianist! In fact i knew little to none about Latin or Jazz piano playing. But getting to know a genre of music is thrilling by itself!
Sure there is a worry that the 100mins of unknown performance may bore us; making matter worse, we were physically tired out by this late evening timing...
By a stroke of luck, the cheery musicians charmed with their upbeat rhythmical Latin numbers, backed by thunderous percussion soon relaxes and i've even a great impel to get up, sway and shoulder-shrug to the beat like any free-spirited Latin Americans!
Latin Jazz is such happy music to lift any gloom!
But as conform Singaporean audiences, we clapped and cheered spontaneously yet remained stuck to our seats :( it was not till the encores that we finally gave the Trio a standing ovation for the sensuous performance!
Michel Camilo - Piece of Cake (live at the Ancient Little Theater in Epidaurus, Greece. Athens-Epidaurus Music Festival 2009)
Staging of the night resembles their gig at the 2009 Athens-Epidaurus Music Festival.
Due credits must be given to Michel's performing part of his trio, Charles Flores on bass (the Cello) and Cliff Almond on drums. The trio compliment one another and climaxes the music pieces.
A pity we were seated at the left hand side of the stage, and couldn't have a proper glimpse of Michel's working fingers on the piano.
Michel Camilo - Solo Album - SUNTAN
This close-up video of his playing which i found on YouTube stun me - watching his dexterous fingers doing a strong tapping dance upon the piano keyboard!
It puts a smile on my face :)
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