Tay Cher Siang

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First night at the Borneo Jazz Festival 2024, WVC Jazz featuring Janet LeeThank you Horngyih Wong for the wonderful capt...
30/11/2024

First night at the Borneo Jazz Festival 2024, WVC Jazz featuring Janet Lee

Thank you Horngyih Wong for the wonderful captured moments

2024 Borneo Jazz Festival at Eastwood Valley Golf Club, Miri. Nov 29 WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble + Janet Lee Nov 30 Th...
28/11/2024

2024 Borneo Jazz Festival at Eastwood Valley Golf Club, Miri.

Nov 29 WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble + Janet Lee
Nov 30 The Shang Sisters - TSS

The WVC team arrived one day earlier for sound check and meetings.
It is great to be back in Miri!

AJ Popshuvit Adriel Wong Isaac Marvin

WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble Murakami and Jazz concert at Lit Books on 20th Nov 2024. I had lots of fun sharing my read...
23/11/2024

WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble Murakami and Jazz concert at Lit Books on 20th Nov 2024. I had lots of fun sharing my reading experience with the audience (some are avid fans of Murakami's words) together with Fong Min Hun.

Thank you all for coming out, my musical comrades AJ Popshuvit and Adriel Wong for playing the music together.

Coincidentally, 5 years ago we also did Murakami and Jazz in Penang Jetty 35 with Ismail Gareth Richards and Bettina Chua Abdullah. That's the concert where the keyboard fell down when we were playing Norwegian Wood. When keyboard falls down and you are in the middle of the song, you keep playing of course.

I still want to keep performing and talking about books and music for the rest of my life. I hope you will enjoy these concert talks.
Thank you very much

Photos by Jenn Yeh

Nov 6th 2024. All That Bossa Nova at Jao Tim Xiong Lee + Tay Cher Siang Guest performers Shaun Chow and Roberta Rivellin...
07/11/2024

Nov 6th 2024.
All That Bossa Nova at Jao Tim
Xiong Lee + Tay Cher Siang

Guest performers Shaun Chow and Roberta Rivellino.

Thanks to all who were present last night. The first set was very enjoyable for me, and the quietness just moved me so much. Thank you.

Tonight 6th Nov 2024 at Jao Tim Tay Cher Siang + Xiong Lee: All About the Bossa Nova https://www.jaotim.com/products/tab...
06/11/2024

Tonight 6th Nov 2024 at Jao Tim Tay Cher Siang + Xiong Lee: All About the Bossa Nova
https://www.jaotim.com/products/table-lamp-concert-ft.-xiong-tay-cher-siang-6th-nov-2024-(bossa-nova)

Nov 17th Tay Cher Siang + Xiong Lee: All About the Bossa Nova at OACC Hall2
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYqu4cZuFItzY7lQmsGiSiJ54XQXrJ6cLggbemyq6PuSbf2Q/viewform
Here are the topics of this Concert/Talk:
1: the Birth of Bossa Nova
2: the predecessor of Bossa Nova: Samba
3: The Creators of Bossa Nova: Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto 4: Musical elements of Bossa Nova

I look forward to see you there!

Nov 5th 830pm: Tay Cher Siang + May Mow 媚毛 at JazzUp9 Nov 6th 830pm: Tay Cher Siang + Xiong Lee at Jaotimhttps://www.jao...
04/11/2024

Nov 5th 830pm: Tay Cher Siang + May Mow 媚毛 at JazzUp9

Nov 6th 830pm: Tay Cher Siang + Xiong Lee at Jaotim
https://www.jaotim.com/products/table-lamp-concert-ft.-xiong-tay-cher-siang-6th-nov-2024-(bossa-nova)

Nov 10th 3pm Tay Cher Siang + David Ngim at Heeren Mansion

Nov 17th 230pm: Tay Cher Siang + Xiong Lee at Oriental Arts and Cultural Center: Jazz Talk: All About the Bossa Nova
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYqu4cZuFItzY7lQmsGiSiJ54XQXrJ6cLggbemyq6PuSbf2Q/viewform

Nov 19th 830pm: Janet Lee + WVC Jazz at Jazzup9

Nov 20th: WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble at Lit Books: Murakami + Jazz
https://litbooks.com.my/product/wvc-jazz-x-murakami
Nov - Dec 2024 Updates

Nov 29th + 30th: WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble + The Shang Sisters - TSS at Borneo Jazz Festival
jazzborneo.com

Dec 3rd - 5th: WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble + The Shang Sisters - TSS at JazzUp9

Dec 22nd: WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble Swing & Xmas
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYqu4cZuFItzY7lQmsGiSiJ54XQXrJ6cLggbemyq6PuSbf2Q/viewform

Office todayWVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble and The Shang Sisters - TSS at the Bajafash 2024 in Batam. Woke up 410am to re...
02/11/2024

Office today

WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble and The Shang Sisters - TSS at the Bajafash 2024 in Batam.

Woke up 410am to rendezvous in the airport, checked in, flew to JB, took the ferry to Batam. Despite the very smooth transits, there's still a mishap at the immigration. Luckily the problem got sorted out later.

Sound check in the cool drizzling weather, in this nice forest reserve.

Thank you for having us!

The past two weeks have been overwhelming, but I am glad there are books that I could dive into when I have windows of d...
01/11/2024

The past two weeks have been overwhelming, but I am glad there are books that I could dive into when I have windows of down time.

Longitude by Dava Sobel is enjoyable, following the human pursuit of Longitude, stories of the horologist John Harrison and the plethora of other scientists in making sense of the geography in seafaring. I have not been aware of Harrison, am glad that I got to know his stories and the clocks and watches that he made (checking out the movie about him recommended by a good friend who is so knowledgeable in this department). Thank you Tracey Goh for lending me the book. Good read.

Cost of Living by Emily Maloney has been by bedside for awhile. At last I dug into it and found it a good read too. The reliance and perhaps addictions to drugs to cure all sorts of ailments, and the powerful pharmaceutical complexes that drove the trend to drug everyone with more and more drugs, is hard and painful to read. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingslover is one of those works. Here Maloney told her journey of living with drugs, the costs financially, physically and psychologically. Good read, but painful to read.

Standing in front of the bookshelf to find that one book to accompany me on the trip to Batam tomorrow. I have picked this The Road to Sata, by Alan Booth. I purchased this in Kinokuniya a couple of months ago, I look forward to starting the journey. For me, I always take good care to pick that book as a companion for traveling, something not too heavy (physically and content wise), that I know could put down and pick up easily, in a car, in a bus, in a train, on the plane or ferry.

Happy reading. Day day is reading day.

Today's office. Concert with Eewen Teoh: Garden of Love. Featuring WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble and Eddie Wan, Poann Hu...
30/10/2024

Today's office.

Concert with Eewen Teoh: Garden of Love. Featuring WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble and Eddie Wan, Poann Huan, with BV led by Irene Sow

Together with many good friends in the technical team.

Congratulations to Eewen Teoh 張旖雯

Thank you RAP Distribution for assisting with the piano. Always trusted and reliable instrument for me

Oct 2024 Update: One more week left for the month of Oct: Here are more public performances that might interest you! Oct...
23/10/2024

Oct 2024 Update:

One more week left for the month of Oct: Here are more public performances that might interest you!

Oct 24th 830pm Tay Cher Siang + Rivellino at Jaotim
https://www.jaotim.com/products/table-lamp-cancert-ft.-beta-rivellino-tay-cher-siang-24th-oct-2024-(brazilian-music)

Oct 26th 12.45pm: Winnie Ho + Tay Cher Siang KLAV Show

Oct 26th 1.45pm: Tea for Two KLAV Show

Oct 27th 1030am Tay Cher Siang + Junji Delfino The Art of Jazz Singing at 1 Lasam, Ipoh
https://www.kvssipoh.org/event-details/workshop-the-art-of-jazz-singing

Oct 27th 3pm Tay Cher Siang + Junji Delfino at Pastrymu De
Garden Ipoh
https://www.kvssipoh.org/event-details/concert-jazz-duo

Oct 30th 8pm: Eewen's Garden of Love with WVC Jazz
https://www.ticket2u.com.my/event/38653/eewen-s-garden-of-love

I used to love the series of recordings by Charlie Haden's Quartet West, started from the album "Now is the Hour" with t...
23/10/2024

I used to love the series of recordings by Charlie Haden's Quartet West, started from the album "Now is the Hour" with the iconic photo from the end of the WWII at NYC Time Square. When I was a teenager, I was particularly attracted to the Film Noir sensibilities, the B&W photography of the 1940s, the fashion of the time. Of course, the music and literature of that time very much seeped into my taste in things.

The liner note to the group's album "Always Say Goodbye" especially left a mark in my heart: Charlie Haden wrote: it is important to always say goodbye, after meeting with friends and family, because you wouldn't know if will see them again the next time. For the 16 years old me, the writing sounded morbid and heavy, but still I remembered it.

In Love by Amy Bloom and The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion were the two books I finished recently that dealt with old age, sickness and death. Not that I am reading to prepare for deaths, I don't read trying to gain anything. Reading is as natural as breathing for me; but over the years, I do hope that I accumulated some sort of wisdom for me to face life wisely.

Over the years, I have had experience my fair share of deaths and griefs. One learned how to face it, but when some one left is your closest, such as my dad's departure, I found myself went through the motion: in hind sight I am grateful to the professionals, family and friends for carrying us forward. Grief came only when things calmed down.

"Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die, but we do not look beyond the few days or weeks that immediately follow such an imagined death. We misconstrue the nature of even those few days or weeks. We might expect if the death is sudden to feel shock. We do not expect this shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind." (Didion)

“we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.” (Didion)

"What is the body? Endurance. What is love? Gratitude. What is hidden in our chests? Laughter. What else? Compassion" (Amy Bloom)

"We’re not here for a long time, we’re here for a good time." (Amy Bloom)

To live a life with less regret (as much as possible), every day should be lived to the fullest.
Always say goodbye.

"I realized that my impression of myself had been of someone who could look for, and find, the upside in any situation. ...
18/10/2024

"I realized that my impression of myself had been of someone who could look for, and find, the upside in any situation. I had believed in the logic of popular songs. I had looked for the silver lining. I had walked on through the storm. It occurs to me now that these were not even the songs of my generation. They were the songs, and the logic, of the generation or two that preceded my own. The score for my generation was Les Paul and Mary Ford, "How High the Moon," a different logic altogether. It also occurs to me, not an original thought but novel to me, that the logic of those earlier songs was based on self-pity. The singer of the song about looking for the silver lining believes that clouds have come her way. The singer of the song about walking on through the storm assumes that the storm could otherwise take her down"

Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking pg. 171

The above quotation rings true to me. I find myself magically transformed after I turn 31. I started and continue to look for silver linings in dark clouds, I find meanings and encouragement, most of all hope in classic songs, in literature, films, plays, and human interactions.
At this age I unabashedly claim that reading (a lot and a lot of reading) perhaps prepared me and continues to make me see things in a different light.
Not to say the sun is always shining, but when I bite the dust, I just pick myself up and dust myself off and start all over again. Whatever will be will be, the future is not ours to see.

Oct - Dec 2024 Updates: Oct 13th 3pm Tay Cher Siang + Yuni Wun at Heeren MansionBooking: 012-6063666Oct 20th 3pm Tay Che...
14/10/2024

Oct - Dec 2024 Updates:

Oct 13th 3pm Tay Cher Siang + Yuni Wun at Heeren Mansion
Booking: 012-6063666

Oct 20th 3pm Tay Cher Siang + Janet Lee Tea For Two at Royal Selangor Visitor Centre

Oct 23rd 8pm: Tay Cher Siang Eslite Books Talk: Encountering 100% Literature & Jazz

Oct 24th 830pm Tay Cher Siang + Rivellino at Jaotim

Oct 27th 1030am Tay Cher Siang + Junji Delfino The Art of Jazz Singing at 1 Lasam, Ipoh

Oct 27th 3pm Tay Cher Siang + Junji Delfino at Pastrymu De Garden Ipoh

Oct 30th 8pm: Eewen's Garden of Love with WVC Jazz

Nov 2nd: WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble + The Shang Sisters - TSS at Batam Bajafash Festival

Nov 5th 830pm: Tay Cher Siang + May Mow 媚毛 at JazzUp9

Nov 6th 830pm: Tay Cher Siang + Xiong Lee at Jaotim

Nov 10th 3pm Tay Cher Siang + David Ngim at Heeren Mansion

Nov 17th 230pm: Tay Cher Siang + Xiong Lee at Oriental Arts and Cultural Center: Jazz Talk: All About the Bossa Nova
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYqu4cZuFItzY7lQmsGiSiJ54XQXrJ6cLggbemyq6PuSbf2Q/viewform

Nov 19th 830pm: Janet Lee + WVC Jazz at Jazzup9

Nov 20th: WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble at Lit Books: Murakami + Jazz

Nov 29th + 30th: WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble + The Shang Sisters - TSS at Borneo Jazz Festival

Dec 3rd - 5th: WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble + The Shang Sisters - TSS at JazzUp9

Dec 22nd: WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble Swing & Xmas
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYqu4cZuFItzY7lQmsGiSiJ54XQXrJ6cLggbemyq6PuSbf2Q/viewform

Haircut: I used to just go to a very local barber, those that would put a board over the handle bars if you are a kid. T...
08/10/2024

Haircut: I used to just go to a very local barber, those that would put a board over the handle bars if you are a kid. Then later I would go to those salons run by aunties for haircuts and hair wash only.

Thanks to Janet Lee 's connection, we the musicians in her harem were introduced to Barberbar Pavilion Embassy. I tried it and was in heaven, thus I have become their regular customer now. Highly recommended. RM 98 for one plus hour of hair cut, hair wash, head massage, hot wrap. So nice.

Bottom: Holla Bolla croissant so nice. Highly recommended also!

Background: highly recommended EQ 42nd floor skyline.

Photos: highly recommended Janet Lee photo shoot.

Oct - Dec 2024 UpdatesOct 6th 230pm: Tay Cher Siang + Janet Lee at Oriental Arts and Cultural Center: Sunday Afternoon C...
04/10/2024

Oct - Dec 2024 Updates

Oct 6th 230pm: Tay Cher Siang + Janet Lee at Oriental Arts and Cultural Center: Sunday Afternoon Concert Talk: What We Talk About When We Talk About Making Music Your Career
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYqu4cZuFItzY7lQmsGiSiJ54XQXrJ6cLggbemyq6PuSbf2Q/viewform

Oct 13th 3pm Tay Cher Siang + Yuni Wun at Heeren Mansion
Booking: 012-6063666

Oct 20th 3pm Tay Cher Siang + Janet Lee Tea For Two at Royal Selangor Visitor Centre

Oct 23rd 8pm: Tay Cher Siang Eslite Books Talk: Encountering 100% Literature & Jazz

Oct 24th 830pm Tay Cher Siang + Rivellino at Jaotim

Oct 27th 1030am Tay Cher Siang + Junji Delfino The Art of Jazz Singing at 1 Lasam, Ipoh

Oct 27th 3pm Tay Cher Siang + Junji Delfino at Pastrymu De Garden Ipoh

Nov 2nd: WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble + The Shang Sisters - TSS at Batam Bajafash Festival

Nov 5th 830pm: Tay Cher Siang + May Mow 媚毛 at JazzUp9

Nov 6th 830pm: Tay Cher Siang + Xiong Lee at Jaotim

Nov 10th 3pm Tay Cher Siang + David Ngim at Heeren Mansion

Nov 17th 230pm: Tay Cher Siang + Xiong Lee at Oriental Arts and Cultural Center: Jazz Talk: All About the Bossa Nova
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYqu4cZuFItzY7lQmsGiSiJ54XQXrJ6cLggbemyq6PuSbf2Q/viewform

Nov 20th + 21st: WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble at Lit Books: Murakami + Jazz

Nov 29th + 30th: WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble + The Shang Sisters - TSS at Borneo Jazz Festival

Dec 3rd - 5th: WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble + The Shang Sisters - TSS at JazzUp9

Dec 22nd: WVC - Malaysian Jazz Ensemble Swing & Xmas
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYqu4cZuFItzY7lQmsGiSiJ54XQXrJ6cLggbemyq6PuSbf2Q/viewform

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