architecture is frozen music

Quite a long time we didn't play together. The personil of the band still perform in many events and several times Rencang band perform with additional players. This time on See Hok Kiong stage of Loenpia Jazz 2014, finally we perform together.  With Olive Latuputty on vocal and Ari Kojack on percussion, Rencang band entertain the audiences attendance at front yard of 'Klentheng' See Hok Kiong, Sunday afternoon, June 15, 2014. Olive is a jazz vocalist who had crossed the globe singing jazz songs from stage to stage. That afternoon Rencang band opened their performance with a song Donna Lee, a jazz standards of Charlie Parker. Some musicians also said that the song was actually created by Miles Davis. Olive then sequentially sang two songs namely 'Orange Colored Sky" popularized by Nat King Cole and 'Love That Will Last' from Renee Oldstead. After briefly communicate with the audiences, Olive sang a few songs starting from 'Good Times' belon...

After 6 months of hard work, finally Loenpia Jazz 2014 was held on June 15th, 2014. It was a pretty exhausting and draining mind in organizing a jazz festival in China Town, Semarang City. There are so many new things that we experienced during the preparation of Loenpia Jazz 2014. Get acquainted with new people, meet technology that doesn't know how to make it up to many little things that would be unexpected could be done in this activity of Loenpia Jazz. Many musicians are involved this year so that the schedule of events is quite tight. The traditional art in the show is also quite a lot, so Loenpia Jazz 2014 is getting interesting. Not to mention community activism participating increasingly make Loenpia Jazz colored. We feel very fortunate that we get a lot of help from various parties along the way, ranging from mayor of Semarang, community, social media and closest friends. Finally, when Loenpia Jazz 2014 ends we're only able to be grateful and thank God bec...