The May edition of Red White Lounge was full of thrills for so many surprising shows existed here and there. The special collaboration performance between Everette Harp and Indra Lesmana Quartet as a part of their Asian tour (before they landed on Blue Note Tokyo), the ‘reunion’ between Titi DJ and Indra Lesmana, Krishna Balagita’s new project: “Light of 7 Dreams” and the return of Emerald are some of the special treats that could only happen in this particular site. As now we’ve entered June, with a little delay due to the full schedule of Indra and Honhon Lesmana at the end of May, finally we received the complete schedule for the whole month, and we’re ready to share it to you!  You can pick the show(s) you like and mark your calendar from now on, or you can always check who’s on anytime you need some jazz treatments during the service day, from Wednesday to Sunday. Here we give you short descriptions on each performers, but still it’s the best for you to check them out yourself, because there may be lots of surprises in each show.

The Extra Large

Davina and the rest of the band members (Pandji Akbari, Pandu Attahiyyat, Dionaldi Iqbal and Agape) are more than ready to entertain you again this month at the Red White Lounge. Resting their music concept in between jazz and soulful vibes, this band can be surprising when they go outside the broder and bring something unexpected, like pinning popular melayu pop or even dangdut into their style. Will they bring those songs this time? We don’t know. But what we know is, they always serve one extra large party anywhere they go. Either you’re their fan or you’re into the soulful jazz with some twists, you got to check this one out.
The Extra Large will perform on June 1, 2012
First Drink Charge: IDR 60.000

Dennis Junio and Rafi and the Beat ft Matthew Sayersz

Imagine this. A 10 year-old boy played drums like a pro, released an album, playing with no less than 18 international jazz stars and had Harvey Mason as the producer. That might sound hard to believe, but it already happened in 2007 courtesy of Muhammad Rafi. Later he established his own band Rafi and the Beat where he unleashed his skill by pouring the beat over variety of style, from pop, soul, funk, RnB and jazz. On stage he always love to bring the experienced players and many guest stars.  At the Red White Jazz Lounge, Rafi will bring some of his friends who have been playing with him for some years such as Ronald Steven (bass), Johanes Radianto (guitar), Fanny Kuncoro (keyboards) plus Radhini on vocal. If that already look cool enough, he’s rising up the game by collaborating with two more popular young guns, saxophonist Dennis Junio and singer Matthew Sayersz. How would young ensemble like this be? That’s for you to see.
Dennis Junio and Rafi Project will perform on June 2, 2012
First Drink Charge: IDR 60.000

Sudden Jazz Fanny & Friends

Again, Red White Jazz Lounge opens up the collaboration with one of the jazz communities in Jakarta, the Sudden Jazz. Representing Sudden Jazz, Fanny Kuncoro and Friends is the group to anchor the open jam session on Sundays. Fanny Kuncoro came from Yogyakarta and once also worked as a DJ. He’s been showing his passion join the jam sessions wherever he stays, something that he continues to do in his current city, Jakarta. Lately he’s been digging the Hammond organ more as a way to show his big interest in Joey deFrancesco’s music style. This is for you if you’re into the spontaneous jam sessions.
Sudden Jazz Fanny & Friends will perform on June 3, 2012
First Drink Charge: IDR 60.000

Bubu Giri

Setia Giri and Bubu seems to be the regular performer at the Red White Jazz Lounge. They have been getting a spot or two for several months now, most likely for how good this dynamic duo deliver their music in every session. “You only need a minute to see their talent..that’s how good they are..really.” said one of our readers to us a while ago after watching their performance. The strong, thick bluesy, soulful and jazzy vocal of Bubu plus the lovely, breezy guitar sound of Giri equals a melodious acoustic touch that will delight whoever cross path with them. You missed their sessions before? Here you can have the chance. As for you who want to see them again, they are back, only for one session this month.
Bubu Giri will perform on Wednesday, June 6, 2012
First Drink Charge: IDR 50.000

Komunitas Jazz Kemayoran : Red White Experience

After the participation of Margo Jazz Community and Sudden Jazz, here comes another solid jazz community Komunitas Jazz Kemayoran also known as KJK. This community was established in April 2004 at Kampung Irian, Kemayoran. Having Beben Jazz as the brain, this community has been growing bigger and stronger not only with good skills and enough experiences through KJK’s regular events and in other occasions, but as Beben loves to educate people about the history of jazz and beyond, they have been educated about this too. Now KJK is going to have its first Red White Experience, presenting two groups “Live at Wonderland” and “Revival Generation Project”. From what we have seen before, Live at Wonderland brought ear-catchy acoustic style which also involve a cajon and saxophone, while Revival Generation Project often brings some ethnic into their jazz sound. Be there and taste the KJK’s pleasuring jazz.
Live at Wonderland will perform on Thursday, June 7, 2012
Revival Generation Project will perform on Thursday, June 14, 2012
First Drink Charge: IDR 50.000

ESQI:EF (Syaharani and the QueenFireWorks) – Special Show -

The first special show in this month will be presented by the group who always loves to share the music in many forms, ESQI:EF. The iconic Syaharani, the blues-jazz-rock guitar master Donny Suhendra and the multi-talented Didit Saat are the core of this liquid group. But they often perform with many other sessionists from the likes of Ian Ingram (trumpet), Andy Gomez (keyboardist), Sirhan Bahasuan (drums), Kristian Dharma (bass) and many more. Either performing in simple 3 formation or full band, Syaharani and friends always more than capable to bring a kind of friendly party to their crowds. Experience the feel-good tunes in fully interactive gig with them.
ESQI:EF will perform on Friday, June 8, 2012
First Drink Charge: IDR 100.000

Indro Hardjodikoro & Friends

Being an active sessionist for 2 decades, finally Indro Hardjodikoro decided to change his course to stand in front. He successfully did it in 2010 with his first album “Feels Free” and then doubled up his success with his band “Indro Hardjodikoro & The Fingers”. With this group he has reached Russia not just once but twice with several gigs in each visit. This friendly and smiley man is not only famous as a bassist but also a teacher. Many of his students have become successful musicians too inside the real circuit, let’s say some name such as Barry Likumahuwa, Fajar Adi Nugroho and Shadu Shah Chaidar. This time Indro is going to bring his jamming project under a simple name, Indro Hardjodikoro & Friends. Taste the rich bassline in this one along with colorful jazz tones.
Indro Hardjodikoro & Friends will perform on Saturday, June 9, 2012
First Drink Charge: IDR 60.000

Barry Likumahuwa Project (BLP)

Attention Barry Likumahuwa Project’s fans, your favorite group is coming this month at Red White Lounge. Matthew Sayersz has left the band to pursue his solo career, but that doesn’t mean the band got weaken. Besides the group still has the rest of the members including Henry Budidharma, Jonas Wang, Donny Joesran and Dennis Junio, Barry deals with the loss by focusing more on instrumental tracks or having some guest stars with him. One thing for sure, this group is still funkin’ high with infectious dose of groove. Again, a big party will be served here in BLP’s fire-up style.
BLP will perform on Wednesday, June 13, 2012
First Drink Charge: IDR 50.000

Sierra Soetedjo – Special Show - 

The beautiful songbird is coming again at the Red White Lounge, this time appear in one of the Special Shows. She took her Bachelor Degree of Music in Jazz Performance at Edith Cowan University in Australia and entered the industry right away in 2008. An album with basically rooted in beautiful bossanova and standards over pop jazz quickly brought her to stardom with many loyal fans behind her. You can read our special article about Sierra here: http://jazzuality.com/indonesian-jazz-artists/something-about-sierra/ if you don’t know her yet, but the most important thing is for you not to miss her landing once again at the Red White Lounge.
Sierra Soetedjo will perform on Friday, June 15, 2012
First Drink Charge: IDR 100.000

Dara Jana – Special Show -

Dara Jana is a ladies vocal trio formed by Titi DJ in 2010, came from her idea to utilize the talents of some Indonesian Idol’s finalists. Today this group consists of three beautiful singers, Eno, Laras and Sondang. This show is going to be interesting to see for many reasons. We know Dara Jana as a pop group, but now they are ready to go jazzin once again after last month’s gig where Titi DJ was in the headline collaborating with Indra Lesmana group. This time both Titi and Indra Lesmana will surely be there too, joining Dara Jana in the show. If you’re into ladies vocal trio on pop jazz, which is rare by the way, you should see this one.
Dara Jana will perform on Saturday, June 16, 2012
First Drink Charge: IDR 100.000

Idang Rasjidi Syndicate – Mostly Jazz Open Jam Session

Idang Rasjidi once again will become the anchor of the Mostly Jazz’ tradition where jam sessions is being served open for anyone who want to join in. Idang Rasjidi is one of our living jazz legend who has been riding his career for around 4 decades. Although he’s been gracing the industry for those long years, he loves to play alongside young players in his shows, especially with his Syndicate. Joining him in this group are his sons Shadu Shah Chaidar (bass) and Shaku Rasjidi (drums), and also Ticco Laksana on guitar. If you’re a musician, you can always come and play with them. If you’re a jazz lovers, the unpredictable, unplanned fully improvised show is surely a must see.
Idang Rasjidi Syndicate will perform on Sundays, June 17 and 24, 2012
First Drink Charge: IDR 60.000

Hemiola Quartet

What’s interesting lately in Indonesia’s jazz scene is the emergence of bands comprise of young players. One of these bands is Hemiola Quartet. Hemiola is a musical term that describes a metrical pattern in which two bars of simple triple composition such as 3/4 or 3/2 are articulated in simple duple time. This is not only belong to jazz, as Mozart used it long time ago in his Piano Sonata K 332. How cool to see a group took it as a name in serving their high quality music. Hemiola Quartet was formed last year in January and has been active ever since. They have landed on many places all the way to Bandung where we saw them at the first time (read our coverage here) and enjoyed how they tore down the normal jazz pattern, had fun with all the changes in order to present something new to hear. Gerald Situmorang (guitar), Dimas Pradipta (drums), Kevin Yosua (bass) and Gabriella Miranda (keys) will blow your mind away with their unusual jazz touch.
Hemiola Quartet will perform on Wednesday, June 20, 2012
First Drink Charge: IDR 50.000

Indra Aziz Cool Jazz Quartet

There are many sub-genres in jazz, but Indra Aziz will pin them all easily. He’s a fabulous singer and teacher, able to play saxophone just as good and has many creative ideas. Either you listen to his unique singing and scatting style, learning from whatever he shares in his lessons or through his twitter, or even tasting the magical blend between bop and hiphop through his Beatbop Project, this man will awe you right away. Lately he’s busy in building his Vox + (Vocal Plus) which not only presents workshops but also lotsa of daily tips and even a CD that enables us to learn at home. Looking at these big efforts, gifts and breakthrough, it’s reasonable for us to call him a jazz man. Indra Aziz will bring his team named Cool Jazz Quartet to fill up one session of the Red White Jazz Lounge.
Indra Aziz Cool Jazz Quartet will perform on Thursdays, June 21 and 28, 2012
First Drink Charge: IDR 50.000

Otti Jamalus: A Tribute to Michael Jackson – Special Show -

Two years ago this month: The world got shocked when the King of Pop Michael Jackson suddenly passed away. It was such a big tragedy considering how legendary he was with so many classic hits, still loved by millions especially when it happened right at the time he was ready to come back. June 25 was the day, but the Red White Jazz Lounge will serve a special tribute to Michael Jackson a couple of days earlier with Otti Jamalus in charge. In this tribute, she will surely bring some of the famous songs along with her team. Her thick jazz vocal and lovely piano playing will definitely send the respect to Michael in the ellegant way. Let’s join her!
Otti Jamalus will perform on Friday, June 22, 2012
First Drink Charge: IDR 60.000

Monita Tahalea and Friends

From Indonesian Idol to her successful solo career with one pop jazz album, Monita Tahalea does surely have a bright future. Her smooth and tender vocal sounds really nice in pop jazz and standards. Look at her version of “God Bless the Child”, “Over the Rainbow” or “Di Batas Mimpi” for example, those would bring you into the beautiful dreamland in no time. This month Monita is set to have her own show again on the fourth week. For all the charm, sweetness and relaxing jazz vocal tone, she’s definitely not to miss.
Monita Tahalea will perform on Saturday, June 23, 2012
First Drink Charge: IDR 60.000

Joy Marantika

Looking for a piano delight? This one’s for you, with Julian ‘Joy’ Marantika in charge. He started with classical when he was 14 years old before he switched to jazz by learning music theory and saxophone with Benny Likumahuwa. Later he got Riza Arshad and Krishna Balagita as his mentor then pursued his formal education further at Institut Musik Daya. He’s been busy both as playing musicians and teachers. With the Sarimanouk Quartet he had landed on many prestigious stages and released one album, his “Jazz Masa Kini” project was a big hit, and he serves as an educator at UPH Music Faculty and Ponpin Music. Perhaps an album where he stands as the band leader should be his next step. We are waiting for it, but first let’s welcome him to his first own show at the Red White Lounge.
Joy Marantika will perform on Thursday, June 27, 2012
First Drink Charge: IDR 50.000

Indra Lesmana & Glenn Fredly : Indonesian Songs Book – Special Show -

You might still remember when Indra Lesmana and Glenn Fredly worked hand in hand in presenting Indonesian Songs Book last April. That show happened just one day before the International Jazz Day celebration hosted by Indra Lesmana and Peter F. Gontha. This collaborative project delivered many well known songs from our own collections in one nice package. Indonesia has so many timeless songs throughout ages, so we were thinking, how would it be possible for them to bring as many as possible with only one show existed? Now they are back again, ready to bring some more hits taken from the Indonesian songs book. If the collaboration itself is already promising, let’s wait and see what they are going to bring this time. Write down the date and be there.
Indra Lesmana and Glenn Fredly will perform on Friday, June 29, 2012
First Drink Charge: IDR 100.000

Soulvibe – Special Show -

Here is an easy prediction: the last show of June’s program will become one big party. Why not? It’s none other than Soulvibe in there. They have released only a couple of albums, but amazingly almost all their songs became big hits, especially to the fans. As the result, it’s always like watching a big choir in any of their gigs since the crowds seems to know the lyrics and sing together with them. With 7 personnels inside and both the vocalists are energetically exploring the stage from side to side, how would they perform in relatively smaller venue inside a cafe? They have done it before, and now they are ready to do it again. Nothing can stop them from giving a helluva party and of course, you won’t be able to hold yourself not to dance. It’s time for you to catch the groovy Soul and feel the Vibe!
Soulvibe will perform on Saturday, June 30, 2012
First Drink Charge: IDR 100.000

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