Monday, December 18, 2006

Tribute to Anondh

It was a month ago that I accidentally had a ticket for this concert without any knowing that this guy, Anondh, was the one of the great thai jazz musicians who played imporntant role pushing jazz to the wider range of audiences. Sadly, he died with another his American freind, also his teacher, during the royal jazz festival 10 years ago. I actually remeber that tragedy very well but I don't think he's the same guy this tribute was all about.
Good music, many good stories and as well the sad bbut true story. I was inroduced that he once played with a female saxophonist who was later lose contact since she had moved to France and havn't contact each other since then. But sometimes life is more strange than fiction, she came back to Bangkok on that week just to stop before taking her flight to Australia and wanted to played her music somewhere in bangkok. Some guys told her about the tribute but she respond back to them "why do we need to paly tribute to Anondh? He's not yet dead". She later realized about the death of her band member, also her teacher. So she straight ahead to the concert to face the truth by her own.
I saw her cry on the way to toilet and later found out about the whole story from the host about her unexpected coming. After she introduced herself to the band and the audience, she play the last song with them...she cried..and smiled it's one of my unforgettable moment

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