Jazz+ : Gwat6 Koeng5Fringe Club

Are you tired of typical Cantopop music, and are you looking for a change? But is it possible to combine Chinese music and jazz music? And how can dance collaborate with jazz?

Presented by the Fringe Club as part of the new “Jazz-Go-Central, Jazz-Go-Fringe” project – Phase II, Jazz + is a series of cross-over performances between jazz and other genres that will happen every month from October 2018 to May 2019.

The first Jazz+ show is hosted by local jazz vocalist Kylie Estrela and her band Gwat6 Koeng5, featuring some exciting experimental and redefined, jazzified Cantopop and Mandopop. The band’s name has the double meaning of Persistence and Jazzicians (in the Mandarin pronunciation). It has a connotation of jazzicians who persist in playing jazz even though this genre is small compared to mainstream pop music.

The members of Gwat6 Koeng5 are Bernard Hui (arranger, keyboards), Rod Chui (co-arranger, harmonica), Chan Kam-ming (bass), Kwok Wing-hei (trumpet) and Samson Sin (drums).

* “Jazz-Go-Central, Jazz-Go-Fringe” is financially supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
* The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
* Hong Kong Fringe Club reserves the right to change the programme and performers