Jeremy Monteiro and Friends

Yesterday Once MoreA Jazz Tribute to

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28 & 29 Sep, Fri & Sat, 8pm | 29 Sep, Sat, 3pm Esplanade Recital Studio

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JEREMY MONTEIRO

MIZ DEE LOGWOOD MARK CHAN

EUGENE PAO BENJAMIN POH JULIAN CHANHONG CHANUTR TECHATANA-NAN

MELISSA THAM

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JEREMY’S MESSAGE

Like many people of my age group, I grew up listening to and loving the music of the Carpenters. Their music was also loved by my parents’ generation and the generation after me. They continue to have great appeal.

Karen Carpenter with her unique “smooth as honey” voice remains one of my favourite singers and in my opinion possessed one of the most beautiful human singing voices ever. She and her pianist, arranger, vocalist, musical partner, and brother Richard Carpenter made musical magic with tunes by composers like Roger Nichols, Paul Williams and Leon Russell amongst others and made these songs their own with their signature sound.

Many people don’t know that Karen Carpenter was also a great jazz drummer and played the occasional mesmerising drum solo on their concerts.

Her sudden and untimely passing in 1983 saddened many of us who love the music of the Carpenters.

In 2002, I recorded my first jazz tribute album of the music of the Carpenters entitled A Song For You, Karen. That album was recorded by Grammy-winning engineer Jim Anderson on the then cutting-edge DSD audio format and featured my dear friend and the great Singapore singer Jacintha Abisheganaden. It was released on the American audiophile label First Impression Music (FIM) on the SACD format and was cited by the respected American audiophile magazine Soundstage as being one of the best sounding SACDs released in North America in 2002, along with Bob Dylan’s album, Highway 51 Revisited.

In 2017, I tried hard to buy back the rights to the album A Song For You, Karen, from FIM after the passing of the founder and since the label was not operating any more. I was not successful and decided to then record a

new jazz tribute to the Carpenters using my current musical sensibilities.

This year, I invited my old friend Mark Chan with whom I first made music with in the ’70s; also my collaborator and musical colleague for more than 10 years, Melissa Tham; and the soulful blues singer from the US, Miz Dee Logwood, to each sing a couple of tracks on this new tribute album entitled Yesterday Once More. I also sang on a couple of tracks. Together with my musician friends guitarist Eugene Pao, saxophonist Tony Lakatos, bassist Rudi Engel and drummer Hong Chanutr Techatana-nan, I recorded this album in Germany, the US, Hong Kong and in Singapore, and I mixed it in Darmstadt, Germany with the ace engineer Klaus Endel.

In this concert, I have Mark Chan, Melissa Tham and Miz Dee joining us together with some great musician friends.

The music goes from being thoughtful and poignant to also being swinging and fun—such was the range of emotion the songs of the Carpenters can make us feel. We did not intend to copy the Carpenters (not possible) but instead have given the music a jazz treatment with jazz harmonies and rhythms while treating the beautiful melodies with reverence and love.

I would like to thank EFG Bank for sponsoring me in the recording of the album and in the production of this show as well as my supporters in the recording of the album, Evgeny Tugolukov as well as Gunjan and Showbhik Kalra.

I hope that this concert brings back many beautiful memories from the time these songs were hits and that you will join us in reliving Yesterday Once More.

With Love,Jeremy and friends

PROGRAMME & PRODUCTION CREDITS

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We’ve Only Just BegunInstrumental Ballad – Trio(Roger Nichols – music / Paul Williams – lyrics)

When I Fall In Love featuring Mark Chan on vocals(Victor Young – music / Edward Heyman – lyrics)

All You Get From Love Is A Love SongInstrumental (Steve Eaton)

Superstarfeaturing Miz Dee Logwood on vocals (Bonnie Bramlett / Leon Russell)

This Masquerade featuring Melissa Tham on vocals (Leon Russell)

Top Of The WorldInstrumental (Richard Carpenter / John Bettis)

Yesterday Once Morefeaturing Mark Chan on vocals (Richard Carpenter / John Bettis)

There’s a Kind of Hushfeaturing Jeremy Monteiro on vocals(Geoff Stephens / Les Reed)

I Won’t Last A Day Without You featuring Melissa Tham on vocals (Roger Nichols – music / Paul Williams – lyrics)

A Song For Youfeaturing Miz Dee Logwood on vocals(Leon Russell)

Songs might not be performed in this order.

Jeremy MonteiroPiano, vocals and Music Direction

Mark ChanVocals

Melissa ThamVocals

Miz Dee LogwoodVocals

Eugene PaoGuitar

Julian ChanSaxophone

Ben PohBass

Hong Chanutr Techatana-nanDrums

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Technical Director and Sound Engineer Sunil Kumar

Production and Artist ManagerMelissa Tham

Production ExecutiveBenny Goh

Lighting Designer & Operator Norashid Bin Zulbahary

A big thank you to the Esplanade team especially Amy Ho, Caroline Cheong and Ernest Tay for working with us to put up a good show and helping to make this show a success. Also, thank you to the Esplanade technical team for the great support as always.

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JEREMY MONTEIRO Dubbed “Singapore’s King of Swing”, Cultural Medallion recipient Jeremy Monteiro, who marked his 40th anniversary as a musician in 2016, has garnered critical acclaim all over the world.

As a composer, he has won awards and accolades all over the world and has composed and produced over 700 pieces of music, with 40 albums under his belt. He is also a vocalist in the crooning style, and has been singing more and more often in his performances.

Jeremy has performed and recorded with the likes of James Moody, Michael Brecker, Bobby McFerrin, Lee Ritenour, Herbie Mann, Paulinho DaCosta, Ernie Watts, Charlie Haden, Leroy Jones, Cassandra Wilson, Vanessa Rubin, Carmen Bradford, Matt Monro, Toots Thielemans and Simon & Garfunkel, to name a few. He was the artistic director of the Singapore International Jazz Festival in 2001 and the Kuala Lumpur International Jazz Festival in 2012.

Since 2006, he has been a Fellow of the London College of Music and the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce in the UK (the RSA), and was appointed Visiting Professor of the University of West London – London College of Music last year. He is also the first Singaporean to be appointed Professor and Visiting Chair of Jazz, School of Music at LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts.

The jazz veteran has been involved in fundraising for charities such as the Community Chest of Singapore, The Singapore Children’s Society, Reach Services and other organisations. He has also been the International Arts Ambassador for EFG Bank since 2012.

Founder of the Composers & Authors Society of Singapore Limited, a company responsible for music copyright in Singapore, he also serves as a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of its Licensing Committee.

Jeremy marked his 40th anniversary in 2016 with a concert at Esplanade, held in joint celebration with The Business Times, which was also celebrating its 40th. He also released two albums, Brazilian Dreams and Montage, as well as helped establish the Jazz Association (Singapore), to promote and encourage young musicians who are interested in playing jazz.

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MIZ DEE LOGWOODInternational entertainer and vocal stylist Miz Dee Logwood grew up in Berkeley California and is now a musical force to be reckoned with in the San Francisco Bay area. She has raised the roof at many of the great venues and festivals of the world.

She received tumultuous response at the Umbria Jazz Festival while performing with the Johnny Nocturne Band in a festival that included the likes of Diana Ross, Herbie Hancock and George Benson.

In 2015, she was the featured vocalist with Jeremy Monteiro and Alberto Marsico with the Jazz-Blues Brothers when they performed at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival.

She has sung on a number of albums as guest vocalist, notably with the great Italian blues guitarist Maurizio Pugno in his projects with Alberto Marsico & Sunshine Gospel.

MELISSA THAM Melissa Tham captivates her audiences with her large repertoire and impeccable delivery of songs from The American Songbook.

In 2015, she released her debut jazz album, Falling in Love Again, on Jazznote Records to critical acclaim.

Jazz writer Ian Patterson of allaboutjazz.com praised her for having “won over the Queen Elizabeth Hall” at her guest performance with the Jeremy Monteiro Trio at the EFG London Jazz Festival in 2014. Tham was one of the special guest artists at Jeremy Monteiro’s 40th anniversary concert in 2016.

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MARK CHANMark Chan is one of Singapore’s premier composers.

A singer, multi-instrumentalist, poet and painter in his own right, his unique blend of East and West, established in the ’80s has refined and matured up till the present day.

Composer-in-residence at Theatreworks for 10 years, Mark was music director for the hit Lear. More recently, with his hugely successful Little Toys《小玩意》he became the first to properly score a black and white Chinese Silent Film (2003, Singapore & Hong Kong Arts Festivals, Copenhagen Images of Asia, 2007 Shanghai International Arts Festival, 2010 Singapore Season Paris). He has produced and written songs for Andy Lau, Huang Xiao Hu and Tracy Huang.

His last big production at the Esplanade opened the 2012 Singapore Arts Festival: the opera: The Flight of the Jade Bird in the Esplanade Concert Hall.

He was awarded the Artistic Excellence Award by COMPASS in 2016.

EUGENE PAOEugene Pao is Hong Kong’s most publicly recognised jazz musician and his name is synonymous with jazz in Hong Kong. Such reputation cannot be more deserving as Pao has been at the vanguard of promoting jazz in the territory through his performances and recordings over the last 30-plus years.

Hong Kong first discovered its own guitar hero in the mid 1980s when Pao returned from studies in the US and began playing around town. Recognition came early from leading international jazz musicians. Some of his early recordings featured legends such as bassist Eddie Gomez, blues great Jimmy Witherspoon and saxophonist Michael Brecker. Over the last two decades, Pao has truly established himself as Hong Kong’s premier jazz guitarist. Jazz greats with whom he has performed on stage since then include Terumasa Hino, Bob Berg, Ulf Wakenius, Ernie Watts, Martin Taylor, James Moody, Bill Bruford, Jeff Berlin, Bobby McFerrin, Eric Marienthal, Richard Galiano, Georgie Fame and many more.

Pao continues to travel the world for performances at international jazz festivals, concert halls and jazz clubs, and to take part in selected recording projects. As a composer, he has contributed music to countless TV commercials, and his film soundtracks have been nominated for best original score at the HK Film Awards. Esquire magazine featured him on the cover as one of the 20 most influential men in their 20th anniversary Issue.

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HONG CHANUTR TECHATANA-NANChanutr Techatana-nan (aka HONG) is one of the most innovativeand exciting drummers to emerge from the Asian jazz scene. He is best known for his groovy swing juxtaposed with exciting polyrhythmic embellishments.

Chanutr began his professional career as a drummer in 1995 when he played at Saxophone, Thailand’s most prestigious jazz venue. In 2002, he was the winner of the Best Drummer award in the Open League Category at the inaugural Thailand Drum Contest, following which, he studied privately with the great American drummer Shawn Kelley. Since 2003, he has pursued a fulfilling path as a music instructor, training young musicians, in particular, drummers at Thailand’s most prestigious faculty of music, Silpakorn University.

Chanutr regularly performs at various local and international jazz venues and festivals. Currently, he performs with The Asian All-Stars Power Quartet, comprising Jeremy Monteiro; Eugene Pao and Tots Tolentino. He can also be heard in the Organamix trio led by Jeremy Monteiro and Andrew Lim.

BENJAMIN POHAn articulate, solid and melodic bass player, Benjamin Poh is an up and coming performer and sessionist in the pop and jazz circuit. At 26, he has already performed on international platforms Mosaic Music Festival. Apart from the electric bass, Poh took the opportunity to hone his craft as a bassist and has taken up the Double Bass under the tutelage of Christy Smith. His versatility and ability to play across genres has seen him performing alongside Jazznote recording artiste, Melissa Tham and Jeremy Monteiro. Poh also completed his Diploma in Jazz Performance (Bass) at LASALLE College of the arts.

JULIAN CHANJulian Chan is a freelance saxophonist/flautist based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He graduated with a master’s degree in jazz performance from Queens College in NYC. Chan has been actively performing since 2001, in Malaysia and other parts of the Asian region. He has performed with various Malaysian jazz luminaries including Michael Veerapen, David Gomes, Junji Delfino, and Jose Thomas; performed and toured with Chinese international pop artists such as Jonathan Lee and Jeff Chang; and Malaysian pop artists such as Ning Baizura, Dayang Nurfaizah, Anuar Zain, Sheila Majid and Sharizan Borhan.

Jazz pianist, composer, producer, vocalist and educator – Jeremy

Monteiro FRSA has been a professional musician since 1976,

with more than 40 solo albums to his name. He has performed with music

icons such as James Moody, Ernie Watts and Simon & Garfunkel in great venues all over the world, in the process earning the accolade “King of Swing”. In 2002 he received Singapore’s highest honour in the arts, the Cultural Medallion.

Jeremy is also a keen observer and deep thinker. The stories he tells on stage at his many packed concerts and jazz club shows never fail to keep his audiences in rapt attention. Here, for the first time, he has put many of his “late-night thoughts” to paper, offering us a wealth of hard-won wisdom about life, love, music and human nature.

From fond reminiscences that tug at the heartstrings, to funny anecdotes that will evoke a huge guffaw, the essays in this volume take us on an intimate journey into the mind of one of Singapore’s most talented, most respected and most loved musicians.

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Jazz pianist, composer, producer, vocalist and educator – Jeremy

Monteiro FRSA has been a professional musician since 1976,

with more than 40 solo albums to his name. He has performed with music

icons such as James Moody, Ernie Watts and Simon & Garfunkel in great venues all over the world, in the process earning the accolade “King of Swing”. In 2002 he received Singapore’s highest honour in the arts, the Cultural Medallion.

Jeremy is also a keen observer and deep thinker. The stories he tells on stage at his many packed concerts and jazz club shows never fail to keep his audiences in rapt attention. Here, for the first time, he has put many of his “late-night thoughts” to paper, offering us a wealth of hard-won wisdom about life, love, music and human nature.

From fond reminiscences that tug at the heartstrings, to funny anecdotes that will evoke a huge guffaw, the essays in this volume take us on an intimate journey into the mind of one of Singapore’s most talented, most respected and most loved musicians.

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ISBN 978-981-4516-65-5

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Jeremy Monteiro and Friends

Yesterday Once MoreA Jazz Tribute to

SHOWTIME PRODUCTIONSPRESENTS

28 & 29 Sep, Fri & Sat, 8pm | 29 Sep, Sat, 3pm Esplanade Recital Studio

In Collaborationwith Esplanade

JEREMY MONTEIRO

MIZ DEE LOGWOOD MARK CHAN

EUGENE PAO BENJAMIN POH JULIAN CHANHONG CHANUTR TECHATANA-NAN

MELISSA THAM

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