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Ticket Free Party with hot live band in Sanlitun The BRICKS Live Jazz Bar !!!! your time to dance !

The Huntersare one of Beijing’s best expatriate music groups and their talent on stage will blow you away. Since the beginning of 2014, this explosive five-piece continues to receive the accolades of the music scene by combining old school Funk, Soul, and Rock classics with modern hits, all mixed and served in an intoxicating and action packed delivery.

The band recently wonthe 2017 Best Band –Editor’s Choice by City Weekend.

The group features the energetic female vocalist Nkese, backboned by four seasoned musicians: James Guo, Conor Watson, Ivan and Daniele.

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The BRICKS Halloween Party Night with Italian DIVA Simona de Rosa in the house!

Lines:

Vocal: Simona de Rosa (Italy)

Pianist: Moreno Donadel (Italy)

Bass: Daniel Callaghan (Ireland)

Drums: Victor Bastidas (Colombia)

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Simona De Rosa is an award-winning singer, composer, educator. Having released two albums as a leader and appearing on numerous albums, she has established herself in the NY jazz scene and continues touring internationally.

Born in Napoli, Italy, Simona De Rosa started to play piano at the age of ten. As a teenager she discovered her voice and started singing different types of music from classical to pop and soon become fascinated by jazz and the thrilling possibilities of spontaneous improvisation.

While studying geology science in Napoli, Simona already had the chance to work with many bands ranging from a duo to big bands. After graduating, Simona moved to New York, and has been living there and in Italy since then. During the time in New York, she was enrolled at Queens College where she developed her skills in arranging and jazz performance. She was offered to travel with her projects gracing several stages in USA (United Nations NY, Kupferberg Center of Arts NY, Zinc Bar, Stage 72, Untermayer Park NY, Trumpets Jazz Club NJ, Bloomfield Italian Festival PA, Mercer County Italian Festival NJ, Warren Italian Festival OH, Lake Worth Street Painting Festival FL, Italian American Museum NY, Consulate General of Italy NY, Ft Lauderdale Italian Festival FL, San Gennaro Fest NY, Madonnari Art Festival MD), in Watamu Kenya, Vietnam Hanoi “Jazz Diva Residency at Sofitel Metropole) and Europe with her projects and as guest (Umbria Jazz, Pomigliano Jazz Festival, Moncalieri Jazz Festival, Napoli Jazz Festival, Blue Note Milano, Peperoncino Jazz Festival, Alatri Jazz Festival, Montecorice Jazz Festival, Pozzuoli Jazz Festival, Sunset Jazz Festival, Teatro Summerte, Teatro La Claque, Teatro Eduardo De Filippo, Sunset Jazz Festival, and many more). Simona joined the Duke Ellington Sacred Concerts conducted by Randal Keith Horton (Duke Ellington, Michael Jackson) and was invited to sing many times at the prestigious Friars Club in Manhattan by the actor/singer Dominic Chianese (The Godfather, Sopranos). Simona is also very close to her neapolitan roots in the USA, organizing events for the italian-american community. In 2014 she produced and organized a concert named after the same parallel that links Napoli and New York:”41st parallel”. A titanic operation with 60 musicians on the stage of the LeFrak Concert Hall in Queens. That night was awarded by the Country Executive Ed. Mangano for her spirit of leadership and dedication to the italian-american community. She was also invited to represent Italy for the ABC7 National American TV during the Columbus Day Parade 2014 on the famous Fith Ave.

A pure Italian style Jazz Quartet leading by Bassist Nicola Lancerotti, Lines:

Guitar: Quentin Stokart (Belgium)

Saxo: Daniele Martini （Italy）

Bass: Nicola Lancerotti (Italy)

Drums: Antonio FUSCO (Italy)

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Nicola Lancerotti Born on 18/08/1975 in Padova, Italy. In 1994 he enrolled in the AerospaceDepartment of the University of Pisa andbecame Engineer in 2003.Progressively introduced to the academic world of music by the hand of Master Nino Pellegrini, he started to learn jazz doublebass at the private school Scuola di Musica "G. Bonamici" in Pisa, in 2000. He simultaneously worked with school combos lead by Andrea Pellegrini with

monographic project on Mingus, Monk and Parker. He took part into workshops for talented musicians with I talian doublebass players Paolino Dalla Porta (Pisa, 2000) and Furio Di Castri (Terni, 2001). He took part into a special 2years course oriented to the "Piano trio language" with pianist Enio Corsaro and drummer Roberto Traverso. Masters Stefano Battaglia, Paolino Dalla Porta and Fabrizio Sferra taught the course. And as a result of their trio's work over a year time, they were awarded the first prize First Pisa Jazz Contest in 2002. Later that year, he followed the prestigious SIENAJAZZ Summer Workshops. He increased his skills studying jazz doublebass with Master Pietro Leveratto, combo class and refined ear training with Master Pietro Tonolo and theory and analysis with Stefano Zenni. In 2003 he was granted a place for studies on jazz doublebass class at The Hague Conservatory, in the Netherlands. In 2004 he switched to Brussels Conservatory where he studied fortwo years with Bart De Nolf, Diederik Wissels, Jeroen Van Herzeele, among others .

Come and enjoy your swing dance party on Saturday night!

Line-up:

Singer and Rhythm Guitar：Vince Vahram

Guitar：Doug Martin

Clarinet：Toni Moretso

Bass：Pikar Rozi

Drums：Nico MEGE

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China’s premier gypsy jazz ensemble, The Hot Club of Beijing was founded in Beijing, China on January 23rd 2010. This date not only marks the beginning of the band’s formation, but also marks the 100th birthday of gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt who is credited as being the creator of gypsy jazz as well as founder of the legendary band, The Hot Club of France, with violinist Stephan Grappelli in Paris, France in the 1930s. On this date in 2010 guitarist Vince Vahram (France) met clarinetist Toni Moretso (France) and guitarist Li Zhengkai (China) at a local jam session celebrating Django Reinhardt’s centennial. It was here that the three decided to start their own ensemble in tribute to the musical legacy started by Reinhardt and Grappelli, thus The Hot Club of Beijing was born.

Just weeks after the band’s formation, the three founding members were joined by upright bassist Pikar Rozi (Xinjiang, China) and the new quartet was solidified. Within months the ensemble was performing all over Beijing as well as throughout mainland China.

In 2013 HCOB expanded to a quintet when American guitarist Doug Martin (Lulo Reinhardt Quartet, John Jorgenson Quintet) relocated back to Beijing and became the band’s new lead guitarist. Later that year founding member Li Zhengkai relocated to France and the group took a turn by adding percussionist Claudi Azizaj (Greece) to round out the swinging rhythm section. The band downsized once again in 2016 when clarinetist Toni Moretso left China to return to Europe. As it stands today the Hot Club of Beijing is a power quartet with two gypsy guitars, upright bass, percussion as well as vocals.

The group continues to carry on the tradition of Django Reinhardt as well as perform American swing classics complete with vocals and full band arrangements. Additionally, the band can be heard playing traditional gypsy waltzes, fiery Latin pieces and even traditional Chinese and Italian compositions where guitarist Doug Martin occasionally plays mandolin to add a different tonality. The band has a wide ranging vocal repertoire as well where listeners can hear rhythm guitarist and singer Vince Vahram sing in English, French, Italian and Chinese.

Since its inception, The Hot Club of Beijing has been extremely active all over China. In 2012 and 2013 the band won the category for Best Local Band in the Beijing City Weekend Reader’s Choice Awards and HCOB have recently won the same category again in 2017 and remains the only jazz ensemble to have done so.

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Line up:

Piano: Michał Ciesielski (Poland)

Tenor Saxo: Liu Xiaoguang (China)

Bass: Dan Callaghan (Ireland)

Drums: Victor Bastidas (Colombia)

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Michał Ciesielski - Composer, arranger and jazz pianist. He completed his studies in the Academy of Music in Gdańsk, where he received his master’s degree as a jazz composer and jazz pianist. He also studied for a year in the Institut of Jazz in Katowice.

He has composed almost one hundred compositions (contemporary music, film and theatre music, chamber and symphonic music as well as pop songs and many more). He was awarded in several international and national music competitions such as: the International Krzysztof Komeda Composition Competition, Big Sky Jazz Festival, RCK Pro Jazz Festival, School & Jazz Festiwal, Novum Jazz Festival, European Jazz Contest and many more.

Apart from being the leader in Confusion Project, with which he recorded 3 albums and played over 100 concerts, Michał performs in many other bands, such as: Ad Shave, Do Se Sajd, Visegrad Quintet, Tribute To Turnau, Gaba Janusz Quintet Aga Maciaszczyk Quintet. He also performs with his solo project “Between Black & White”

He collaborated with many musicians, such as: Maciej Sikała, Piotr Lemańczyk, Dorota Miśkiewicz, Krystyna Prońko, Maciej Grzywacz, Marcin Gawdzis, Grzegorz Nagórski, Cezary Paciorek, Marcin Jahr or Brian Fentress.

As a pianist Michał toured all around Poland as well as Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Nederlands, Russia, China and Kazakhstan.

作曲家，编曲和爵士乐钢琴家。他在Gdańsk音乐学院完成了他的学业，在那里他获得了爵士作曲家和爵士钢琴家的硕士学位。他还在卡托维兹的爵士学院学习了一年。他创作了近100部作品（当代音乐、电影和戏剧音乐、室内乐和交响乐以及流行歌曲等等）。他曾在多个国际和国家的音乐比赛中获奖，例如：国际克日什托夫科姆达作曲大赛、大天空爵士音乐节、RCK职业爵士音乐节、学校与爵士音乐节、诺姆爵士音乐节、欧洲爵士乐比赛等。Michał不仅是“混乱项目”的领导者，他录制了3张专辑，并播放了100多场音乐会，还在许多其他乐队中演出，如：Ad Shave、Do Se Sajd、Visegrad Quintet、Bonnow To Turnau、Gaba Janusz Aga Maciaszczyk Quintet。他还与他的个人项目“Between Black & White”表演。他与许多音乐家合作，如：Maciej Sikała，Piotr Lemańczyk，Dorota 。作为一名钢琴家，Michał周游了波兰、德国、英国、意大利、荷兰、俄罗斯、中国和哈萨克斯坦。

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Piano: Sejin BAE (Korea)

Bass: Charlie Wang (China)

Drums: Antonio Fusco (Italy)

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Sejin Bae is a Korean based jazz pianist, composer and arranger who received her bachelor’s degree in jazz performance at one of the most famous and competitive colleges in Seoul, The Dongduk Women’s University; there she was awarded many scholarships to attend and graduated with honors. Wanting to further pursue her music education, she moved to New York City in 2010 to attend graduate school at Queens College. At Queens College she had the privilege to study with David Berkman, Jeb Patton, Michael Mossman, Antonio Hart and Johannes Weidenmuller. During her time in New York City, she participated in many gigs, concerts and master classes.

After completing her Master’s degree at Queens College, she returned to Korea and began teaching music at several colleges in Seoul and Daegu, as well as frequently performing at some of the most well-known venues in Korea; participating in broadcasts, festivals and recording sessions. In addition to jazz, she is also a member of the famous Korean latin band “Pinar Del Rio” and has worked with several famous Korean jazz vocalists. In 2016, Sejin participated on the soundtrack to the Hong Kong film, “Our Time will Come”. To date, Sejin Bae has performed all of the world including the United States, Korea, Japan and China.

Sejin is currently living in Beijing and performing with some of the finest musicians including Anthony Vanacore, Natanial Gao, J Kyle Gregory, Zhang Ke, Dan Callaghan, Simone Schirru and many others at venues like the Blue Note, East Shore, DDC, Jianghu, etc. In addition, She had recently performed with Mark Turner and Michael Mossman with Blue Note Beijing Jazz Orchestra, Jz Festival, and Changchun Jazz

裴世珍是位钢琴家，作曲家以及编曲家并在韩国很著名的同德女子大学获得爵士表演学士学位。2010年，她搬到纽约市并在皇后大学上研究生。在皇后大学她师从David Berkman ，Jeb Patton, Michael Mossman ，Antonio Hart以及Johannes Weidenmuller。在纽约的时候，她经常参加各种演出，音乐会以及大师班。

获得了爵士表演的硕士学位，裴世珍搬回韩国并在首尔和大邱里的几所大学开始授课。与此同时，她经常在韩国各地最著名的音乐俱乐部和音乐厅演出，另外还参加广播电台、音乐节以及参与很多录音棚的录音工作。除了爵士乐之外，她还参与很多别的音乐风格。她是韩国很有名的拉丁乐队“Pinar Del Rio”的成员，她也曾经也跟许多韩国爵士-流行明星有过合作。2016年，她为著名香港影片“明月几时有”而参加配乐。裴世珍已经在世界各地演出过，包括美国，韩国，中国和日本等。

裴世珍目前住中国北京并跟当地一些最优秀的音乐家一起合作譬如该场地包括Blue Note，东岸，DDC，Bricks，江湖等并在现代音乐学院任教爵士钢琴。她近期跟Blue Note爵士大乐团和Mark Turner与Michael Mossman同台以及在Jz爵士音乐节于长春音乐节演出。

House band of the week: Pierre Pradat Trio

Pianist: Pierre Pradat (FR)

Bass: Philippe Mege (FR)

Drums: Fiach Obrian (IR)

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Pierre Pradat is one of the most requested musicians established in China. He has played thousands of shows all over the country at the greatest venues for more than a decade after relocating from France, including many for some of the top Chinese pop stars and movie directors. He is a highly versatile and creative artist, cultivating a mainstream jazz piano style balancing elegant lyrism and virtuosic energy with a great sense of swing. He is also specialized in playing Rhodes electric piano and analog synthesizers, and is very open-minded on other genre like Funk and Electronica. His main influences to name a few are Kenny Barron, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett.

He is also a very respected jazz educator, having taught to hundreds of Chinese students so far.

皮埃尔普拉达是目前为止中国公认的最受欢迎的音乐家之一。自他从法国搬迁之后，在中国国内各个最棒的音乐场地出演过数千场精彩极致的音乐盛会，其中不乏一些顶级流量的明星和极富盛名的电影导演（李宇春，张靓颖，TFBoys，冯小刚）。他是一位多才多艺，富有创造力的音乐家，他建立了主流的爵士钢琴风格，在优雅抒情和精湛技艺之间，他以一种强烈跃动的节奏感，非常自然地平衡了两者。皮埃尔还专注于弹奏Rhodes电钢琴，更以开放的心态接纳着其它类型的音乐，比如Funk以及电子音乐。他的音乐的主要影响元素有Kenny Barron，Bill Evans，Herbie Hancock，Chick Corea 和Keith Jarrett。

皮埃尔更是一位受人尊敬的爵士导师，教授过不计其数的国内音乐家与学生。

Line up:

Guitar: Zhangjing (China)

Bass: Charlie Wang (China)

Drums: Antonio Fusco (Italy)

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Zhang Jing was enrolled in Guangzhou Xinghai Conservatory of Music with excellence grade in contemporary music majoring in Jazz guitar, and he is also the first jazz guitar student in Guangzhou Xinghai Conservatory of Music. He won various kinds of awards during his study in Xinghai Conservatory of Music, including individual and group awards. In 2014, he received full scholarship of Northern Illinois University in the U.S. and studied for his master degree. In addition, he was a teaching assistant of his mentor--Fareed Haque, a famous guitarist and guitar professor. Because of his excellent grades and performance, Jing was admitted to the highest level jazz big band in his college, which was called Rosebud.

他并不拘泥于一种音乐风格, 从南方金属核代表 “六道母” 到当红Hip-Hop 艺人满舒克, 从充满电气色彩的 Dubstep 乐队 “镜花缘” 到城市中爵士乐现场都找到他的踪影。2012年获得星海音乐学院爵士音乐表演学士学位; 2014年获得美国北伊利诺伊( NIU) 大学研究生助教及全免学费资格仆美深造；2016年获得爵士吉他硕士学位；2017年与所在金属乐队 "六道母" 完成了新EP "Prelude to a Doom" 的录制，并在九月发行。同年6月完成个人专辑"Untitled"录制，将于年底发行。 现任北京现代研修学院吉他专业导师

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Vocal: Simona De Rosa (Italy)

Piano: Sejin Bae (Korea)

Bass: Daniel Callaghan (Ireland)

Drums: Antonio Fusco (Italy)

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Simona De Rosa is an award-winning singer, composer, educator. Having released two albums as a leader and appearing on numerous albums, she has established herself in the NY jazz scene and continues touring internationally.

Born in Napoli, Italy, Simona De Rosa started to play piano at the age of ten. As a teenager she discovered her voice and started singing different types of music from classical to pop and soon become fascinated by jazz and the thrilling possibilities of spontaneous improvisation.

While studying geology science in Napoli, Simona already had the chance to work with many bands ranging from a duo to big bands. After graduating, Simona moved to New York, and has been living there and in Italy since then. During the time in New York, she was enrolled at Queens College where she developed her skills in arranging and jazz performance. She was offered to travel with her projects gracing several stages in USA (United Nations NY, Kupferberg Center of Arts NY, Zinc Bar, Stage 72, Untermayer Park NY, Trumpets Jazz Club NJ, Bloomfield Italian Festival PA, Mercer County Italian Festival NJ, Warren Italian Festival OH, Lake Worth Street Painting Festival FL, Italian American Museum NY, Consulate General of Italy NY, Ft Lauderdale Italian Festival FL, San Gennaro Fest NY, Madonnari Art Festival MD), in Watamu Kenya, Vietnam Hanoi “Jazz Diva Residency at Sofitel Metropole) and Europe with her projects and as guest (Umbria Jazz, Pomigliano Jazz Festival, Moncalieri Jazz Festival, Napoli Jazz Festival, Blue Note Milano, Peperoncino Jazz Festival, Alatri Jazz Festival, Montecorice Jazz Festival, Pozzuoli Jazz Festival, Sunset Jazz Festival, Teatro Summerte, Teatro La Claque, Teatro Eduardo De Filippo, Sunset Jazz Festival, and many more). Simona joined the Duke Ellington Sacred Concerts conducted by Randal Keith Horton (Duke Ellington, Michael Jackson) and was invited to sing many times at the prestigious Friars Club in Manhattan by the actor/singer Dominic Chianese (The Godfather, Sopranos). Simona is also

very close to her neapolitan roots in the USA, organizing events for the italian-american community. In 2014 she produced and organized a concert named after the same parallel that links Napoli and New York:”41st parallel”. A titanic operation with 60 musicians on the stage of the LeFrak Concert Hall in Queens. That night was awarded by the Country Executive Ed. Mangano for her spirit of leadership and dedication to the italian-american community. She was also invited to represent Italy for the ABC7 National American TV during the Columbus Day Parade 2014 on the famous Fith Ave.

SIMONA DE ROSA是一位获奖歌手、作曲家、教育家。她已经发行了两张专辑，并出现在众多的专辑中，她已经在纽约的爵士舞台上站稳了脚跟，并继续在国际上巡回演出。

出生于意大利那不勒斯的西蒙娜德罗萨在十岁的时候就开始弹钢琴。十几岁的时候，她开始唱不同类型的音乐，从古典音乐到流行音乐，很快就迷上了爵士乐和即兴创作。

在那不勒斯学习的时候，西莫娜已经有机会和许多乐队一起工作，从二人组到大乐队。毕业后，西莫娜搬到了纽约，从那时起就一直住在那里和意大利。在纽约的那段时间里，她在皇后学院学习，在那里她培养了自己的编曲和爵士乐表演技巧。

她参加过世界各地著名的爵士音乐节，具有非常丰富的现场表演经验。

她现在正在国际巡回演出的路上，她也正在制作她的第三张专辑。

Come to School Live Bar on this evening for an experimental night of music featuring Li Xinyu and Yan Yulong.

Liu Xinyu: "Liu Xinyu, born in Beijing. Regular participant in Beijing's Zoomin' Night and MIJI experimental music performance series. In 2008, he started a project of solo guitar performance. The first time he performed, due to his enthusiasm for feedback and resonance, he succeeded in expelling every single audience member from the room with 30 minutes of non-stop, earsplitting guitar noise.

In recent years, Liu Xinyu has gradually shifted his attention from guitar to no-input mixer as a source of feedback. Instead of earsplitting noise, he pays more attention to subtle sound. Currently, he mainly uses no-input mixer feedback and self-made sound installations to explore micro sound worlds. He is also currently a member of Beijing bands Chui Wan and Deadly Cradle Death."

Yan Yulong: "1989, Born in Harbin, lives in Beijing. Frontman of neo-psycho rock band Chui Wan, actively working in Chinese younger generation of rock, experimental, improvised music scenes. He has collaborated with a variety of different styles of musicians, dancers, theaters, and composers. Individual plans are usually playing violin improvisation. Initially he played drone, minimalism and compose…is not limited thereto now."

*Artist intros ripped from their Douban pages*

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Liu Xinyu: https://site.douban.com/liuxinyu/

Yan Yulong: https://site.douban.com/xiaolong/

School Bar: http://site.douban.com/school/

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