Author Archives: Mark Bolam

Finally, a concert announcement in 2009…!

It’s been a long dry spell for Enlightened Planet, there’s no question about it.

The last few months of 2008 went pretty well, with three particularly successful events. You can check out our event archives if you like, and see that we hosted the Hoenig-Pilc Project in September, we worked together with the good folks at Prart Music Group to present the John Scofield and Joe Lovano Quartet in October, and, to close out the year, we were delighted to produce a special New Year’s Eve party with Ron Grant and Friends at the beautiful Sofitel Centara Grand Resort in Hua Hin.
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Finding great jazz in Southeast Asia

A man walks into a bar on a Friday night.

And I don’t mean just any man, bar, or Friday night.

It’s Friday, September 5, 2008, and I’m going into Harry’s Bar on Boat Quay in Singapore to meet a former colleague for happy hour. It’s an after-work ritual I probably went through a hundred times in the eight years I lived on this island nation, roughly evenly split with visits to the aptly named Ice Cold Beer on Emerald Hill.
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