New music option: Jazz and more at Jimmy’s
Just received an email from Leon Lee, formerly of OT Lounge and now working with The Legation Quarter, about a new music option set to kick off on May 30. Lee writes:
… hopefully very soon, Beijing will gain another live music venue to carry on the short-lived OT Lounge in presenting the best jazz, world, blues, soul, rhythm & blues, folk, funk, and new music in town (non-rock and DJs, that is).
The place is called Jimmy’s Thai Kitchen and Lounge and is on the ground floor of East Gate Plaza (Tower B) behind Poly Theater. According to Lee:
Jimmy’s will do something more non-rock venues should do, which is, to charge admission and offer the non-rock/dj artists a living wage. It’s no wonder why local DJs and rock bands have been on a development fast-track, nourished by the economics of audience support in cultivating distinctive artistic voices (read: paying audiences). YGYS and Mao Livehouse does it, why not a venue for non-rock no? If you pay, maybe these music groups will actually get decent photographs taken.
He adds that the place can fit 100 people and offers draft beer, mixed drinks, and Thai and Malaysian snacks, all priced from RMB25 to RMB45. The music will start at 10 PM, with the RMB30 cover including a beverage.
The slate: May 30 and June 4, 11, 18, and 25 – Girassol (bossa nova); June 6 – Nathaniel Gao Quartet (jazz); June 12 and 26 – Eastern Quartet; June 19 - Excess Luggage (jazz); and July 11 and 25 – Afrokoko Roots (Afro beat).
The number at Jimmy’s is 6415-5157. For details about the music, contact Leon Lee at leonleebaoyan@gmail.com.
No commentsRynostock photos: Black Cat Bone and more at The Pomegranate
The beer flowed, the BBQ flamed, and more than a dozen bands flaunted their stuff as The Pomegranate (map) held its annual Rynostock music festival last Saturday. DJ Chunky and I ended up plunking down 87 kuai for the Sanlitun to Shunyi cab ride – about 20 kuai of it accumulating as we searched the suburbs for the bar – to catch some tunes and put down a few pints of Carlsberg (RMB25) and bottles of Corona (RMB20). With the place packed and plenty of music, it was good times all around. Here are some photos and, yeah, I know a lot of them are of Black Cat Bone. But then again, these guys rock…
Graffiti in Sanlitun Village in Beijing II: An explosion of color
Wielding an arsenal of spray cans, paint tubes, and brushes, a crack group of graffiti artists invaded Sanlitun Village on Saturday afternoon and unleashed an explosion of color. I earlier posted six photos of what I call the “wall of sound” mural. Here are nine more photos of the other murals and artists.
