Open Platform – Bebop Era

Want to practise your improvisation skills and jam with a jazz band? Here’s your chance! Presented by the Fringe Club as one of the programmes of the “Jazz-Go-Central, Jazz-Go-Fringe” project, Open Platform provides opportunities for young, amateur musicians to jam and improvise with professional artists and bands.
Improvisation is a key aspect of jazz. It is fun to play, improvise, take risks, and jam as a team. As a famous saying goes, “Once is a mistake, twice is jazz.”

The 2nd Open Platform will be hosted by Tjoe Man Cheung, who leads his band NTBM (not-to-be-missed) in an evening of jazz at the Fringe Club. They’ll be opening with a set of original jazz compositions from their latest album, And Orange, and selected standards, followed by a jam session focusing on music of the 50s and 60s by such luminaries as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Lee Morgan, Oscar Peterson, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon and John Coltrane.

* “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