A couple of months ago, to be precise in April 2023, Venus Tunes Live was invited by Banyan Tree Events to perform all the way in India! World Jazz Festival Bengaluru is part of a whole festival tour held in several Indian cities. There were also shows in other cities but we flew straight to Bengaluru, then Mumbai and we performed both acoustic jazz and also made people dance together with Zosja as Venus Tunes Live. This was the last performance of the evening and we are joined here by Alexander Beets (tenor saxophone) and Ellister van der Molen (trumpet). Special thanks to Banyan Tree for inviting us and Alexander Beets and Sven Rozier for putting the program together and coordinating our travels! Also see out India aftermovie with a mix of the other performances.
So the first time we played the music from Royalty For Real wasn't in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, but in Bengaluru and Mumbai, all the way in India in 2023!Here you'll see me play Au Privave, Classy Cats and Royalty For Real, together with Timothy Banchet (piano), Marius Beets (bass) and Sven Rozier (drums).Au Privave is a well-known blues by Charlie Parker which I often like to start with, almost like a soundcheck tune. Although most of the time a soundcheck is done I found out it's a good idea to play a tune everybody of the band knows very well so we all can get used to the sound of the stage, the presence of the audience and it also gives the sound engineer the chance to adjust microphones last minute. During the soundcheck, the sound of the room is significantly different because of the lack of audience. All that flesh and clothes work a little bit like a totally empty room versus a room with furniture and carpets, if you know what I mean :-)Acoustics are so interesting and full of surprises.. Anyways.. hope you like it! - A couple of months ago, to be precise in April 2023, Venus Tunes Live was invited by Banyan Tree Events to perform all the way in India!World Jazz Festival Bengaluru is part of a whole festival tour held in several Indian cities. There were also shows in other cities but we flew straight to Bengaluru, then Mumbai and we performed both acoustic jazz and also made people dance together with Zosja as Venus Tunes Live.This was the last performance of the evening and we are joined here by Alexander Beets (tenor saxophone) and Ellister van der Molen (trumpet).Special thanks to Banyan Tree for inviting us and Alexander Beets and Sven Rozier for putting the program together and coordinating our travels!Also see out India aftermovie with a mix of the other performances.
