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Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter May 25
Sent May 25th 2009
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter May 25 Palindromes do it - forwards and backwards. Last week shot by with the early start to jazz poetry fusion ahead of open mic, on through Shoichi-san's bebop and latin, with chilling out Sunday to finish it off. ...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter May 19
Sent May 19th 2009
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter May 19 Jazzified poetics and Russian ursines! Characterization: busy early week, a calmer weekend, and while the interest waxed, the performances were rendered. I had quite a lot of fun on an unusually large open mic...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter May 11
Sent May 11th 2009
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter May 11 Short formats lead to terse words :) Hello all; keeping with the general 5D-la theme of HK speed, here's another short update on Fresco. Walking in to hear the El Gordon latin music ensemble last Thursday was ...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Apr 27
Sent April 27th 2009
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Apr 27 And then it was Monday. East of West threw down a solid performance this Saturday, after a few hot nights with the Chung Quartet and the double keyboards of Joao. Here's a look at the scene on Saturday: Coming...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Apr 7
Sent April 7th 2009
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Apr 7 With velocity we expedite memetic transfer! Sorry for the fast update this week guys, Monday was its usual Monderific self and conspired to keep me from our regular weekly chat, so let me just outline what's on ...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Mar 30
Sent March 30th 2009
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Mar 30 Grand pauses, forceful forzandos, and curtailed cue notes beware! The Roots Rumble caught us all a little off guard last week, as the sounds of blue grass met hawaiian fast picking, with blues men showcasing sl...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Mar 23
Sent March 22nd 2009
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Mar 23 The day of reckoning is upon us! I'm procrastinating from studying for my Cantonese oral exam this Tuesday to talk to you, so let me be brief before the guilt gets to me too much, and I can get on with preparin...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Mar 16
Sent March 16th 2009
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Mar 16 The creative creations sing but once in music, and then are gone ever more. That doesn't keep us from putting more shows together for you every week, and this past weekend ended up having a few big nights befor...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Mar 9
Sent March 9th 2009
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Mar 9 Backed tracks stack though we sometimes know jack. The wet winds of the weekend troubled not the ardent live music listeners of Hong Kong! It was with some surprise that I walked into Fresco Saturday night to s...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Mar 5
Sent March 5th 2009
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Mar 5 The weekend update strikes again! Just a few words for the weekend, should be back to our regularly scheduled newsletter next week *(Mar 5 - Mar 8)*: [*]*Thursday: *Latin jazz sensation Joao Mascarenhas meets u...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Feb 23
Sent February 24th 2009
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Feb 23 Well met, triviaistas! Tripthongs and neologisms aside, you answered the last few trivia questions with vigor; I will have to be a bit more careful about what I ask.. Given the new jazzetry event that we're go...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Feb 10
Sent February 11th 2009
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Feb 10 The tech continues its mystery. Greetings Fresco readers! We began an experiment that was only supposed to last a few hours, but Rob and I were at it most of the day this past Sunday and a few nights last week...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jan 19
Sent January 20th 2009
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jan 19 It was the best of times, it was- well.. Today. The year is well under way, though I'll still probably be signing checks with the wrong date for another two months before I come to grips with another digit to ...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jan 6
Sent January 7th 2009
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jan 6 2009. In all of its 2009'ness. The holidays are gone (though the Chinese New Year looms largely!), and 2008 passes from the present to the processed. Yours truly even managed 3 hours of sleep in cattle class o...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Dec 30
Sent December 31st 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Dec 30 Mid holiday night's dream. Greeting Fresco fans from the (generally) unified states! I've heard word from Rob and Joyce that big things are afoot for the next few days, including *a double header of New Year's...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Dec 17
Sent December 18th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Dec 17 Hello Everyone! Short letter this week, way too much of a rush trying to sort things out before heading back to see the 'rents for Christmas (Merry Christmas / Happy Hanakkah / Kwanzaa / Bonsai! / Geronimo / Wh...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Dec 8
Sent December 9th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Dec 8 Upturns. Because it can't rain all the time. Our very own Joyce (who's frequently Here more than There) has gone on a rant and a rave about the difference between Eastern and Western medicine... Which probably...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Dec 1
Sent December 2nd 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Dec 1 Tinsel ring and green bell bling! Christmas[1] is upon us, and merchandise is rolling off the shelves! Well, perhaps /"rolling"/ isn't the right word in a /"diminuitively increasingly constrained"/ economy (fin...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Nov 17
Sent November 18th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Nov 17 Fest fest fest... and more jazz! Now Rob and Joyce did warn me that if I wasn't going to be available for the newsletter last week, something crazy might have to come out. With meeting after meeting piling up...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Oct 28
Sent October 28th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Oct 28 Greetings! I'd like to thank Rob for writing the newsletter the last few weeks, much as he said in the last issue, I probably did need a blood transfusion, and certainly know that I could do with a solid week o...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Sep 23 - T8!
Sent September 24th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Sep 23 - T8! Typhoon... this! (Yup, it's true, *we're open* for a Typhoon Jam Night tonight! More on that later, I have to tell you about last week first!) Hello everybody! The allstars rocked the house last week, ...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Sep 15
Sent September 16th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Sep 15 Whoa Nelly! Adrienne, John, and Phil brought together a great night of blues-ie classics last Thursday, with Adrienne even bowing a few songs on her electric violin. Or check out the scene yourself: Sunday's m...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Message Sep 9
Sent September 10th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Message Sep 9 Off we go, not remembering where we were. It was an unusually varied week that passed us by, with such range in the mix as bossanova through to country rock, with a fair taste of jazz and pop peppering t...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Sep 1
Sent September 2nd 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Sep 1 The devil probably went to South Carolina, actually. Mephistophanelia behind us, things heated up last week with sell out performances from the Dan La Velle trio, a comfortable chill jam with Kitty Ng, and two b...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Aug 27
Sent August 27th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Aug 27 Pijpes. The dutch have given us many things, but one of the greatest that I've seen in my limited history has been the excellent use of the letter J. I thinjk I wjill need to ajdd a few more sijlent J's in my ...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Aug 13
Sent August 14th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Aug 13 Yum buei. I've needed a yumbuei pretty bad lately, the working world being what it is. But it wasn't so late that I missed kissing the last pint of Hoegaarden goodbye as we prepare our new quad tap this week, ...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Aug 5
Sent August 6th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Aug 5 All the news that's not quite fit for print. Hello everyone - being a busy week, just a quick note for now of what's coming up (I know you were dying for your trivia fix, but we'll extend the last questions for ...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jul 28
Sent July 28th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jul 28 I bless the rains down in Africa. The connectivity nightmare seems past, and I'm writing to you again, this time from a link that seems to handle more than 2k before cutting out. Techery aside, my people tell m...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jul 14
Sent July 15th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jul 14 The good, the bad, and the.. Hou leng, ah! Latin jazz went off particularly well last Friday, with Jason Ho and the players from Red Taurus finding their smooth rhythms and augmented pentatonics while making i...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jul 9
Sent July 9th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jul 9 Where the deed is usually done. Chilling out at Fresco last Sunday brought us a sad farewell jam to Paulo Levi, as one of our legends moved out of our daily sphere and on to other gigs and dialing prefixes; but ...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jun 30
Sent July 2nd 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jun 30 Back on the block, guns toting and music roaring! Rob and Joyce tell me that the Reign Lee / Joves trio was a Friday night nearly busting at the seams - it's good to hear you all came out for a bit of fun; we a...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jun 23
Sent June 24th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jun 23 Technical errors can't keep the newsletter down! Thank you Joyce for the clinch save last week with the manual mailing of the newsletter; sorry to everyone about the delay in the publication. The Karissa Muse ...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jun 9
Sent June 11th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jun 9 Rain, rain, go away, and if you come back, we'll play anyway. Record rainfall fails to deter the musicrati! Despite centennial records of rainfall, clogged gutters, and a couple feet of water on the freeway, mu...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jun 2
Sent June 3rd 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jun 2 Change has a habit of making things different. Fresco has proven to be a bit more work than usual with the month end and given everything between me and Yahoo lately (long story short, I've had enough of Deep Pu...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter May 26
Sent May 27th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter May 26 The return of liberty. In my nation's capitol I am both saddened and enthused. The sadness I won't elaborate on (*cough* America has seen better years *hack* *wheeze*), but the final results came in; after the...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter May 19
Sent May 20th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter May 19 That's what she said. All sassiness aside, we have a few big things going on over at Fresco since last we spoke. It was a fun week on the Japanese jazz night with Shoichi and Kayoko last Thursday, followed by ...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter May 14
Sent May 14th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter May 14 A short note for a short week. Just a quick newsletter this week since this that and the other thing has conspired to keep me from writing to all of you until there weren't so many days left for me to write abo...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter May 5
Sent May 6th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter May 5 Chill.. seems to lead to creativity. Sunday turned to be the sort of night we dreamed about when the inspiration struck to put together a night to chill out; Jim Schneider and Kevin Guffy were hosting when a war...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Apr 28
Sent April 29th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Apr 28 With nonverbal salutations do you welcomed should be. Faux machine translation aside, Mia Samira and Ela Alegre teamed up with Dan LaValle and Mike Carr for a powerfully emotive mix of acoustic jazz with some f...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Apr 21
Sent April 22nd 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Apr 21 Long past the witching hour. Hong Kong has had its inaugural Typhoon for the year; but that didn't really stop most of you! Here's a shot from the El Destroyo / Swinging Haymakers double header: In the spirit ...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Apr 14
Sent April 15th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Apr 14 Beer for good (and a few other types of drinks too)! It was nice to be here to hear the Tommy Ho trio and the guys from Take Out Comedy bring cheers and laughs to everyone who came by and supported the Hope for...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Apr 7
Sent April 8th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Apr 7 The early part of the week is the only time to rest, it seems. We want to thank you for keeping us extra busy last week, with a triple header of the Shoichi / Kayoko duet, the Glad-Lowe Project, and the Kevin Gu...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Mar 31
Sent April 1st 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Mar 31 Well, all good things.. Occasionally need a little bit of modification. Thanks everyone for participating in the first newsletter trivia challenge. Our three winners for last week were (in order of response ti...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Mar 24
Sent March 24th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Mar 24 And on rode the six hundred. A few of you aptly pointed out the Dune references in last week's newsletter; it seems the trivia buffs out there just couldn't resist! You were absolutely right, I have been readi...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Mar 17
Sent March 17th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Mar 17 Once more into the breach, dear friends. I don't know where you people found the energy! Thank you for making our second monthly Wine Tasting at Fresco at success! But if that wasn't enough, Bone Table defini...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Mar 10
Sent March 11th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Mar 10 Something bold.. and something blue? The Rising Sun set over Fresco last week, and we'd like to thank our Japanese Nights performers Chinda and Haruta as well as all of you for making last weekend a success; we...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Mar 3
Sent March 4th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Mar 3 Salutations, Shenzhen could not have sold Nolex better than us last Friday! Thanks everybody for coming and I'll make sure that Leo, Don, and I keep cracking on rehearsals and getting a new show ready for you ...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Feb 25
Sent February 25th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Feb 25 Nolex!! That's right.. The moment you (or at least I) have been waiting for; this Friday, I will be joined by Leo Ku and Don Anthony to pla...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Feb 18
Sent February 19th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Feb 18 The SoHo bar news for which you were waiting* Bone Table did it again, rocking out the Music Lounge with their own specially Hong Kong twisted musical spin on country rock and blues.. Thanks everybody for comi...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Feb 11
Sent February 11th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Feb 11 Happy Chinese New Year everybody! We would like to extend you a warm post holiday cheer from Fresco, and hope that you all had a good time out and about wherever you may have been. Getting back into the swing ...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Feb 6
Sent February 6th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Feb 6 Hello everybody, Just a quick note for a short week ahead of the Chinese New Year.. We had a pretty good turnout for the Ted Lo show last week, you can see the picture here: Ted and Rickard had fun regaling you...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jan 28
Sent January 29th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Message Jan 28 And the week of the 28th was upon us. The masses have spoken. After last week's successful wine tasting, you can count on us bringing another wine and jazz night back to deluge (never delude!) your se...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jan 24
Sent January 24th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Message Jan24 Hello Fresco Fans, So, you guys really took to the Brazilian influence at Fresco! Paulo and Joao brought their creative energy to the stage, and the results turned out to be quite a treat for those of ...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jan 14
Sent January 15th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jan 14 Peel Fresco.. Goes Brazilian and enological for the week? That's right, this Saturday we have the honor to host something a little different, but keeping with our high quality selection of music favorites for ...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jan 7
Sent January 8th 2008
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Jan 7 So we meet again! Thoughts of 2007 washed away, promises made anew, and the endless possibility of a new year stretching out in front of us. It's good to be back in Hong Kong, and even better to think about wha...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Message
Sent January 2nd 2008
Hello All Happy and Prosperous New Year! So sorry we have been so busy over the holidays, and still making last minute arrangements for the January Music Schedule here at Fresco. Just want to let you know what is up this weekend and then we will be back...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Dec 17
Sent December 18th 2007
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Dec 17 Fresco News. Since sometimes you just need something palatable to listen to. That was quite a night from the Anna Nygren Quartet! Thanks for helping to make the night a big success, and I'm sure that Anna wil...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Dec 10
Sent December 10th 2007
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Dec 10 Fresco News. When you want to know /what's going on*/. Hey, thank you everyone who showed up for the Muse, our holiday party last week; it was a lot of fun, and Mark Peter and Co. really livened things up with...
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Dec 3
Sent December 4th 2007
Peel Fresco Music Lounge Newsletter Dec 3 Fresco News. Everything you wanted to know about the /Coolest/ new bar in town! There's quite a week coming up before the holidays, including our own holiday party (and official opening party as well!), "MUSE -...
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