Pop Meets Big Band Jazz,” held last Oct. 8, was a double celebration of 100 years of jazz, one of America’s most original art forms born at the turn of the century in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the opening of the first American Express Asia Office in 1916. A century later, that led to the strategic partnership forged with BDO today.
It was almost full house on a Tuesday night at Historia featuring the AMP Big Band and its current female lead singer Gail Blanco. Dubbed as a “boutique bar and restaurant,” Historia has been drawing in a good crowd with its regular schedule of top-rate live acts.
THE AMP (Asosasyon ng Musikong Pilipino) Band is really going places. From its home base in [email protected] in Quezon City, the swinging jazz band—composed of the country’s top session musicians with musical director Mel Villena conducting—has been given the opportunity to play in other venues around the city, including a few special gigs in Malacañang.
