Post by Kenny on Nov 12, 2005 15:27:34 GMT 10
Lois at Jazz Corner regularly posts info about jazz festivals around the US and the world.
I post this one here in a bid for some understanding:
Given the recent, often traumatic shared history between Australia and Indonesia/Bali, isn't it strange there are no - zero, zip - Australians on the list of international guests?
Can anyone shed any light on this? Belinda?
Here is the list (also at the bottom of the story):
INTERNATIONAL
1. Eero Koivistoinen Trio, Finland
2. Eye 2 Eye Jazz Mix, Malaysia
3. Urs Ramseyer Trio, Switzerland
4. Jan de Haas, Belgium
5. Bali Lounge, Indonesia – Malaysia – Singapore
6. Yokohama Artist Association Orchestra, Japan
7. Marcus Williams Group, USA
8. Joe Rosenberg Quartet, USA-Hong Kong- Japan
9. Rudresh Mahanthappa MSG, USA
10. David Sills, USA
11. The Ron Davis Quartet feat. Daniela Nardi, Canada
12. Jack Lee Asian *ergy, Singapore
13. Peace of Cake, Japan
Bali Jazz Festival
The very first Bali Jazz Festival is designed to be a dialogue forum and culture-sharing between participating elements who come from various countries around the globe, with the main objection on producing new creativities with universal references needed into the building of a nation. Unity and global brotherhood to sounding peace can also be quoted as a starting point of this festival, and that it becomes an independent medium that is distances away from political interference and inter-racial issues.
FROM BALI – SOUNDING PEACE THROUGH ECHOES OF BALI JAZZ FESTIVAL, 18-20 NOVEMBER 2005
BALI, FESTIVAL IN ITS TRUE ESSENTIAL
As big as Bali sounds to be an icon in the world’s tourism industry, has never been far apart from what the island’s contents are. Various arts and culture, amazingly beautiful nature, the people’s friendliness and innumerable tourist destinations are amongst Bali’s best. This is the genuine festival in its true sense, and it is happening every day in Bali. It is if this wealth in overflow hardly suffices, yet still need all the support with many thoughts on strategy and management so as to become an asset with a lengthy lifespan. With this regard it is invented various measures to create additional value to Bali. The planning of events on the island need to be listed as new fortune that supports Bali on its best. A celebration in the form of festivals on Bali invite potentials, as new assets where in realization is a consolidated version of many issues, mainly in art and culture, be it traditional or contemporary. Bali Arts Festival, Kuta Karnival, Festival Nusa Dua, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival and other festivals need government and society support to become a festival containing quality in their values. This would include in placing the orders within an annual calendar of events, so that one festival and the other are placed consecutively and orderly upon their organizations. When this comes to place, within one calendar year Bali holds itself a Festival Agenda that is enormously colorful and bears so deep a meaning that enables the government to produce a resume and distribute the required information to all stakeholders who requires all details. Upon successful creation of this Festival Agenda, Bali develops its hidden potentials aside of the existing assets it holds currently, so that the inflow of people to Bali does not merely depend on high season but ensures stability of the numbers throughout the calendar year. The main point of creating this Agenda is included within the birth of Bali Jazz Festival – where in future is projected to extend the high season lifespan on Bali – or in other words made to create another high season on a different quarter of the year. We extremely hope this idea would digest smoothly and will serve as an important reference for society contribution towards Bali’s development, where the government accommodated and facilitated various initiatives growing from the society, so as to lessen the government’s focused burdens that accumulated by the day. At the same token, this idea is aimed to inspire an incredible move other members of Bali society to come into a focus for packaging a better festival form.
The very first Bali Jazz Festival is designed to be a dialogue forum and culture-sharing between participating elements who come from various countries around the globe, with the main objection on producing new creativities with universal references needed into the building of a nation. Unity and global brotherhood to sounding peace can also be quoted as a starting point of this festival, and that it becomes an independent medium that is distances away from political interference and inter-racial issues. As a festival that is designed to be simultaneous and continuous, Bali Jazz Festival would in its rhythm place a space to every community in taking part and provide its contribution towards its perfection in future. Especially a major thought is given on the future Bali Jazz Festivals to be dedicated for development of education on music for the young generation Indonesians. When and if we speak about Jazz, its history derives from a movement that brings the spirit of existence to live. Let us all have a clear vision that Bali Jazz Festival not only is a form of musical stage that performs music through jazz, but it is an open arena to build a gigantic objective towards the written commitment of togetherness. Welcome to Bali, to where the festival is in its true sense and essentials.
BACKGROUND
Jazz festivals are events that happens almost all countries worldwide, as annual events. Bearing various missions and visions, each country that holds the jazz festivals has their own backgrounds on their own local conditions. There are pure jazz festivals that completely hold commercial values, there are also festivals that are dedicated for the education of jazz music, and there are other festivals for tourist purposes, festivals for charity, festivals for social campaigns and so many other aims for creating a festival.
All festival created are presentations of variety that are in extreme attraction for the people. Music festivals, including herein is jazz music, is holding its top importance within a certain period of timeframe as a “celebration” and form of appreciation for universal music creativity.
For the sake of importance in placing a responsibility of a festival within relevant context with current condition and situation of Indonesia’s culture, has become a background view upon Bali Jazz Festival on 18-20th November 2005.
A COMMUNITY-BASED FESTIVAL
A musical event such as Bali Jazz Festival is an actualization of dynamics that occurs upon a running space and time. In Bali and in other cities and places in Indonesia such as Batam, Bandung, Jakarta, Jogjakarta, Surabaya, Makassar which are also representations of jazz music activities show a fruitful dynamics within its consistence running smoothly and regularly with specific events. This update of conditions are walking in rhythm alongside the increasing from of jazz communities in Indonesia, who have closely built an enormously great network within the country and also abroad. There is Bali Jazz Forum in the picture, and alongside WartaJazz that have come together into bringing Bali Jazz Festival to live whereas in its actualizations it is arranged and organized by Matapro-Bali and Idekami Communications-Jakarta, throughout the spirit of community development that is trusted to be a vital base upon dynamics and creativity of jazz music activities in Indonesia.
A FESTIVAL SOUNDING PEACE & BROTHERHOOD
Although preparations have commenced as far as one year ahead, and artists & musicians confirmations have arrived from 10 countries and Indonesian artists & musicians have as well shown their willingness to attend – however with the current situations and conditions that have arisen recently in Bali the crew of Bali Jazz Festival have responded carefully into an in-depth research so as to the ongoing aspect of the event. That after passing mourning periods and showings of sympathy on the incidents that occurred lately in Bali, and in accordance to the developing responses upon the tragedy where many other events have been cancelled, there is still a demand of necessity for an event that may and can perform dynamics and spirits of Bali in its positive sense to the outside world, with the full support from various sides of society and government bodies. Hotel associations, cultural communities, local government and security providers in Bali have uttered their utmost concern to the ongoing event of the Bali Jazz Festival as originally planned. This is mainly to motivate activities derived internally in Bali and from inside out from Bali, so as to create and reassure trust built upon Bali – again.
On the organizing of Bali Jazz Festival – the very first occasion – with its theme “The Spirit of Love & Peace” which is a full-on reflection jazz music spirit on its creativity, dynamics and its pact towards the development of brotherhood and peace. Bali Jazz Festival is also a design on a sustainable event, which in turn could be part of Bali’s Tourism Agenda of Events, as well as a cross-cultural dialogue forum.
A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FESTIVAL: CROSS-CULTURAL AND INDONESIA’S TOURISM
Bali Jazz Festival has become the peak upon the chain of jazz community activities as well as a “cross-cultural” international celebration that has taken place for actualization in its quality increase of value and broader vision. Bali Jazz Festival has indeed been a presentation of fortune and variety within jazz music, seen from the perspectives of development history in jazz music as well as the musicians and artists who have come from around the world to participate. This extreme beauty of variety brings the unity together onto jazz music is taking form into a specific special moment in Bali Jazz Festival to perform ideas-sharing and dialogue that is of enormous importance for the inter-dimensional international social aspects of live.
PARTICIPANTS AND PERFORMERS
Bali Jazz Festival’s artistic team has come forward with a concept onto accommodating its participants with the orientation of popularly-known artists and also at the same time hold quality musically, and in its whole is a formulation of reference towards creativity, success, musical concept creations and their existence as a musical group, so as to hold variety values that gives the opportunity upon musical groups or artists who are on the contrary to the above: not known widely in public or newcomers to this Bali Jazz Festival.
Here are the artists who have given their confirmation on being present at Bali Jazz Festival 2005:
INTERNATIONAL
1. Eero Koivistoinen Trio, Finland
2. Eye 2 Eye Jazz Mix, Malaysia
3. Urs Ramseyer Trio, Switzerland
4. Jan de Haas, Belgium
5. Bali Lounge, Indonesia – Malaysia – Singapore
6. Yokohama Artist Association Orchestra, Japan
7. Marcus Williams Group, USA
8. Joe Rosenberg Quartet, USA-Hong Kong- Japan
9. Rudresh Mahanthappa MSG, USA
10. David Sills, USA
11. The Ron Davis Quartet feat. Daniela Nardi, Canada
12. Jack Lee Asian *ergy, Singapore
13. Peace of Cake, Japan
NATIONAL
1. Bubi Chen Quintet feat. Oele Pattiselano, Jeffrey Tahalele, Jacky Pattiselano and Bertha
2. Pra Budi Dharma, Indra Lesmana, Gilang Ramadhan (PIG)
3. SimakDialog, Jakarta
4. Krakatau, Jakarta
5. Idang Rasyidi dkk, Jakarta
6. ISI Big Band, Jogjakarta
7. Jacko Quartet featuring Tuti, Jogjakarta
8. NERA, Jakarta
9. Imam Pras Quartet featuring Imel Rosalin, Bandung
10. Cherokee, Jakarta
11. Tomorrow People Ensembel, Jakarta
12. SOVA, Jakarta
13. Park Drive, Jakarta
14. Zefa & Rudi Aru, Bandung
15. Gadis V & Bass G, Jakarta
16. Anane, Jogjakarta
17. Cappucino
18. Kul-kul Band, Jakarta
19. Ensemble d’Etudiant, Jakarta
20. Jazzyphonic, Jakarta
21. Balawan and Batuan Ethnic Fusion, Bali
22. Koko Harsoe & Friends, Bali
23. Saharadja, Bali
24. Xinau featuring Dian Pratiwi, Bali
25. Soulmate featuring Riwin & Maya Hasan, Bali & Jakarta
26. Yuri Mahatma Quartet, Bali
Within this time frame the Organization Committee of Bali Jazz Festival will held press conferences on 10th November at Media Centre Bali Tourism Board and the 2nd one on 14th November at the Hard Rock Hotel Bali towards this upcoming first international jazz happening in Bali by this jazz community.
I post this one here in a bid for some understanding:
Given the recent, often traumatic shared history between Australia and Indonesia/Bali, isn't it strange there are no - zero, zip - Australians on the list of international guests?
Can anyone shed any light on this? Belinda?
Here is the list (also at the bottom of the story):
INTERNATIONAL
1. Eero Koivistoinen Trio, Finland
2. Eye 2 Eye Jazz Mix, Malaysia
3. Urs Ramseyer Trio, Switzerland
4. Jan de Haas, Belgium
5. Bali Lounge, Indonesia – Malaysia – Singapore
6. Yokohama Artist Association Orchestra, Japan
7. Marcus Williams Group, USA
8. Joe Rosenberg Quartet, USA-Hong Kong- Japan
9. Rudresh Mahanthappa MSG, USA
10. David Sills, USA
11. The Ron Davis Quartet feat. Daniela Nardi, Canada
12. Jack Lee Asian *ergy, Singapore
13. Peace of Cake, Japan
Bali Jazz Festival
The very first Bali Jazz Festival is designed to be a dialogue forum and culture-sharing between participating elements who come from various countries around the globe, with the main objection on producing new creativities with universal references needed into the building of a nation. Unity and global brotherhood to sounding peace can also be quoted as a starting point of this festival, and that it becomes an independent medium that is distances away from political interference and inter-racial issues.
FROM BALI – SOUNDING PEACE THROUGH ECHOES OF BALI JAZZ FESTIVAL, 18-20 NOVEMBER 2005
BALI, FESTIVAL IN ITS TRUE ESSENTIAL
As big as Bali sounds to be an icon in the world’s tourism industry, has never been far apart from what the island’s contents are. Various arts and culture, amazingly beautiful nature, the people’s friendliness and innumerable tourist destinations are amongst Bali’s best. This is the genuine festival in its true sense, and it is happening every day in Bali. It is if this wealth in overflow hardly suffices, yet still need all the support with many thoughts on strategy and management so as to become an asset with a lengthy lifespan. With this regard it is invented various measures to create additional value to Bali. The planning of events on the island need to be listed as new fortune that supports Bali on its best. A celebration in the form of festivals on Bali invite potentials, as new assets where in realization is a consolidated version of many issues, mainly in art and culture, be it traditional or contemporary. Bali Arts Festival, Kuta Karnival, Festival Nusa Dua, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival and other festivals need government and society support to become a festival containing quality in their values. This would include in placing the orders within an annual calendar of events, so that one festival and the other are placed consecutively and orderly upon their organizations. When this comes to place, within one calendar year Bali holds itself a Festival Agenda that is enormously colorful and bears so deep a meaning that enables the government to produce a resume and distribute the required information to all stakeholders who requires all details. Upon successful creation of this Festival Agenda, Bali develops its hidden potentials aside of the existing assets it holds currently, so that the inflow of people to Bali does not merely depend on high season but ensures stability of the numbers throughout the calendar year. The main point of creating this Agenda is included within the birth of Bali Jazz Festival – where in future is projected to extend the high season lifespan on Bali – or in other words made to create another high season on a different quarter of the year. We extremely hope this idea would digest smoothly and will serve as an important reference for society contribution towards Bali’s development, where the government accommodated and facilitated various initiatives growing from the society, so as to lessen the government’s focused burdens that accumulated by the day. At the same token, this idea is aimed to inspire an incredible move other members of Bali society to come into a focus for packaging a better festival form.
The very first Bali Jazz Festival is designed to be a dialogue forum and culture-sharing between participating elements who come from various countries around the globe, with the main objection on producing new creativities with universal references needed into the building of a nation. Unity and global brotherhood to sounding peace can also be quoted as a starting point of this festival, and that it becomes an independent medium that is distances away from political interference and inter-racial issues. As a festival that is designed to be simultaneous and continuous, Bali Jazz Festival would in its rhythm place a space to every community in taking part and provide its contribution towards its perfection in future. Especially a major thought is given on the future Bali Jazz Festivals to be dedicated for development of education on music for the young generation Indonesians. When and if we speak about Jazz, its history derives from a movement that brings the spirit of existence to live. Let us all have a clear vision that Bali Jazz Festival not only is a form of musical stage that performs music through jazz, but it is an open arena to build a gigantic objective towards the written commitment of togetherness. Welcome to Bali, to where the festival is in its true sense and essentials.
BACKGROUND
Jazz festivals are events that happens almost all countries worldwide, as annual events. Bearing various missions and visions, each country that holds the jazz festivals has their own backgrounds on their own local conditions. There are pure jazz festivals that completely hold commercial values, there are also festivals that are dedicated for the education of jazz music, and there are other festivals for tourist purposes, festivals for charity, festivals for social campaigns and so many other aims for creating a festival.
All festival created are presentations of variety that are in extreme attraction for the people. Music festivals, including herein is jazz music, is holding its top importance within a certain period of timeframe as a “celebration” and form of appreciation for universal music creativity.
For the sake of importance in placing a responsibility of a festival within relevant context with current condition and situation of Indonesia’s culture, has become a background view upon Bali Jazz Festival on 18-20th November 2005.
A COMMUNITY-BASED FESTIVAL
A musical event such as Bali Jazz Festival is an actualization of dynamics that occurs upon a running space and time. In Bali and in other cities and places in Indonesia such as Batam, Bandung, Jakarta, Jogjakarta, Surabaya, Makassar which are also representations of jazz music activities show a fruitful dynamics within its consistence running smoothly and regularly with specific events. This update of conditions are walking in rhythm alongside the increasing from of jazz communities in Indonesia, who have closely built an enormously great network within the country and also abroad. There is Bali Jazz Forum in the picture, and alongside WartaJazz that have come together into bringing Bali Jazz Festival to live whereas in its actualizations it is arranged and organized by Matapro-Bali and Idekami Communications-Jakarta, throughout the spirit of community development that is trusted to be a vital base upon dynamics and creativity of jazz music activities in Indonesia.
A FESTIVAL SOUNDING PEACE & BROTHERHOOD
Although preparations have commenced as far as one year ahead, and artists & musicians confirmations have arrived from 10 countries and Indonesian artists & musicians have as well shown their willingness to attend – however with the current situations and conditions that have arisen recently in Bali the crew of Bali Jazz Festival have responded carefully into an in-depth research so as to the ongoing aspect of the event. That after passing mourning periods and showings of sympathy on the incidents that occurred lately in Bali, and in accordance to the developing responses upon the tragedy where many other events have been cancelled, there is still a demand of necessity for an event that may and can perform dynamics and spirits of Bali in its positive sense to the outside world, with the full support from various sides of society and government bodies. Hotel associations, cultural communities, local government and security providers in Bali have uttered their utmost concern to the ongoing event of the Bali Jazz Festival as originally planned. This is mainly to motivate activities derived internally in Bali and from inside out from Bali, so as to create and reassure trust built upon Bali – again.
On the organizing of Bali Jazz Festival – the very first occasion – with its theme “The Spirit of Love & Peace” which is a full-on reflection jazz music spirit on its creativity, dynamics and its pact towards the development of brotherhood and peace. Bali Jazz Festival is also a design on a sustainable event, which in turn could be part of Bali’s Tourism Agenda of Events, as well as a cross-cultural dialogue forum.
A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FESTIVAL: CROSS-CULTURAL AND INDONESIA’S TOURISM
Bali Jazz Festival has become the peak upon the chain of jazz community activities as well as a “cross-cultural” international celebration that has taken place for actualization in its quality increase of value and broader vision. Bali Jazz Festival has indeed been a presentation of fortune and variety within jazz music, seen from the perspectives of development history in jazz music as well as the musicians and artists who have come from around the world to participate. This extreme beauty of variety brings the unity together onto jazz music is taking form into a specific special moment in Bali Jazz Festival to perform ideas-sharing and dialogue that is of enormous importance for the inter-dimensional international social aspects of live.
PARTICIPANTS AND PERFORMERS
Bali Jazz Festival’s artistic team has come forward with a concept onto accommodating its participants with the orientation of popularly-known artists and also at the same time hold quality musically, and in its whole is a formulation of reference towards creativity, success, musical concept creations and their existence as a musical group, so as to hold variety values that gives the opportunity upon musical groups or artists who are on the contrary to the above: not known widely in public or newcomers to this Bali Jazz Festival.
Here are the artists who have given their confirmation on being present at Bali Jazz Festival 2005:
INTERNATIONAL
1. Eero Koivistoinen Trio, Finland
2. Eye 2 Eye Jazz Mix, Malaysia
3. Urs Ramseyer Trio, Switzerland
4. Jan de Haas, Belgium
5. Bali Lounge, Indonesia – Malaysia – Singapore
6. Yokohama Artist Association Orchestra, Japan
7. Marcus Williams Group, USA
8. Joe Rosenberg Quartet, USA-Hong Kong- Japan
9. Rudresh Mahanthappa MSG, USA
10. David Sills, USA
11. The Ron Davis Quartet feat. Daniela Nardi, Canada
12. Jack Lee Asian *ergy, Singapore
13. Peace of Cake, Japan
NATIONAL
1. Bubi Chen Quintet feat. Oele Pattiselano, Jeffrey Tahalele, Jacky Pattiselano and Bertha
2. Pra Budi Dharma, Indra Lesmana, Gilang Ramadhan (PIG)
3. SimakDialog, Jakarta
4. Krakatau, Jakarta
5. Idang Rasyidi dkk, Jakarta
6. ISI Big Band, Jogjakarta
7. Jacko Quartet featuring Tuti, Jogjakarta
8. NERA, Jakarta
9. Imam Pras Quartet featuring Imel Rosalin, Bandung
10. Cherokee, Jakarta
11. Tomorrow People Ensembel, Jakarta
12. SOVA, Jakarta
13. Park Drive, Jakarta
14. Zefa & Rudi Aru, Bandung
15. Gadis V & Bass G, Jakarta
16. Anane, Jogjakarta
17. Cappucino
18. Kul-kul Band, Jakarta
19. Ensemble d’Etudiant, Jakarta
20. Jazzyphonic, Jakarta
21. Balawan and Batuan Ethnic Fusion, Bali
22. Koko Harsoe & Friends, Bali
23. Saharadja, Bali
24. Xinau featuring Dian Pratiwi, Bali
25. Soulmate featuring Riwin & Maya Hasan, Bali & Jakarta
26. Yuri Mahatma Quartet, Bali
Within this time frame the Organization Committee of Bali Jazz Festival will held press conferences on 10th November at Media Centre Bali Tourism Board and the 2nd one on 14th November at the Hard Rock Hotel Bali towards this upcoming first international jazz happening in Bali by this jazz community.
