Vietnamese jazzman Quyen Thien Dac performed Vietnamese folk melodieswith his friends from Sweden on Mar. 18 at the Ha Noi Opera House.
The show entitled A Oi (Mother's Lullaby) was anoccasion for the 32 year-old artist to present his new album of the samename, recorded in Sweden last May.
Dac's bandconsists of musicians he met at the Malmo Academy of Music in Sweden,including Per-Oscar Nilson on guitar, Johnny Aman on bass, and OlleDernevik on drums.
The group performed sevenoriginal compositions imbued with the feeling of Vietnamese folk music,including Gio Bac (Northwind), A Oi, Phien Cho (Market Day), Trong Ken(Drum and Horn), Nhung Khoanh Khac Nam Bo (Southern Moments) and Vu DieuThang Long (Thang Long Dance). They also performed some popular folkmelodies.
Dac said that he wanted to combine jazz with folk music so that Vietnamese jazz would have its own voice.
"With the show, I wish to ‘Vietnamise' jazz," he said. "I hope thatone day, when the public listens to a jazz melody that I have composed,they will say that they are listening to Vietnamese jazz."
In addition to the Hanoi show, Dac and his band will perform at the Vietnam Maritime University in Hai Phong.
Dac is the son of jazzman Quyen Van Minh, well-known as the first jazzand saxophone instructor at the Vietnam National Academy of Music. Dacbegan to study saxophone when he was 15. Since 1997, he has performedregularly in Hanoi , often at his father's nightclub, Minh's JazzClub, now locates at 65 Quan Su Street . Dac studied in the US in2004 and then began a two-year master's degree at the Malmo Academyin Sweden in 2010.-VNA
The show entitled A Oi (Mother's Lullaby) was anoccasion for the 32 year-old artist to present his new album of the samename, recorded in Sweden last May.
Dac's bandconsists of musicians he met at the Malmo Academy of Music in Sweden,including Per-Oscar Nilson on guitar, Johnny Aman on bass, and OlleDernevik on drums.
The group performed sevenoriginal compositions imbued with the feeling of Vietnamese folk music,including Gio Bac (Northwind), A Oi, Phien Cho (Market Day), Trong Ken(Drum and Horn), Nhung Khoanh Khac Nam Bo (Southern Moments) and Vu DieuThang Long (Thang Long Dance). They also performed some popular folkmelodies.
Dac said that he wanted to combine jazz with folk music so that Vietnamese jazz would have its own voice.
"With the show, I wish to ‘Vietnamise' jazz," he said. "I hope thatone day, when the public listens to a jazz melody that I have composed,they will say that they are listening to Vietnamese jazz."
In addition to the Hanoi show, Dac and his band will perform at the Vietnam Maritime University in Hai Phong.
Dac is the son of jazzman Quyen Van Minh, well-known as the first jazzand saxophone instructor at the Vietnam National Academy of Music. Dacbegan to study saxophone when he was 15. Since 1997, he has performedregularly in Hanoi , often at his father's nightclub, Minh's JazzClub, now locates at 65 Quan Su Street . Dac studied in the US in2004 and then began a two-year master's degree at the Malmo Academyin Sweden in 2010.-VNA
