Wayne Escoffery Quartet:

Entrance Fee 門票: $450   Including a drink ( 含一杯飲料)

music starts 表演 : 9.30pm

Tenor Saxophone: Wayne Escoffery

Piano: Nial Djuliarso

Double bass: Vincent Hsu

Drums: Andrew Salim

Wayne Escoffery– Tenor Saxophone

Since moving to New York City in 2000, London born Grammy Award winning tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery has become one of the Jazz world’s most talented rising stars and in-demand sidemen. At only 38 he has recorded eight CDs as a leader and been on numerous recordings as a sideman. Escoffery began his professional career touring and recording with The Eric Reed Septet. In 2001 he joined The Lonnie Plaxico Group and Abdulah Ibrahim’s Akaya. At that time he also became a steady member of the Mingus Dynasty, Orchestra, and the 2011 Grammy Award winning Mingus Big Band. In 2004 award winning producer, arranger and trumpeter Don Sickler asked Wayne to be a part of Ben Riley’s Monk legacy Septet, an innovative piano-less group dedicated to carrying on the legacy of jazz great Thelonious Monk. At this time Wayne was also touring with Jazz At Lincoln Center’s Music of the Masters, two groups of musicians hand picked by Wynton Marsalis to perform the music of Dexter Gordon and Miles Davis.

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Nial Djuliarso piano

Nial was born in Jakarta, Indonesia on February 05, 1981. He played and had classical piano lessons since the age 5. In the house he heard a lot of jazz from his father’s jazz collection. And he also heard his father playing bass in the local clubs. Nial was not into jazz until 1996, when he heard the Pat Metheny Group playing at a concert in Jakarta. Since then, at the age of 14 yrs he was bitten by the jazz bug. The rest is history.

He went to the USA and graduated from a US high school in Chattanooga, TN. In Chattanooga he played frequently in the Jazz Junction, a local jazz club and where he became a well-known pianist before he graduated in 1999. After graduation he enrolled at the Berklee College of Music, Boston on a full-scholarship. Between the years 1999 and 2004 he won numerous awards and jazz piano competitions (Horace Silver Jazz Piano Competition, $10,000 cash-award). He graduated from Berklee in 2004.

In August 2004 Nial went to NYC where he was accepted at the Jazz Program at the Juilliard School.

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Vincent Hsu double bass

Vincent (Tsung-Yu) Hsu was born in Changhua, Taiwan, and grew up in Kaoushiung.  In the summer of 2010, he graduated from the master’s program of Jazz Performance at NYU. His debut album, “Homeland,” released in 2014, won the “Best Jazz Album of the Year” by the 5th Golden Indie Music Award of Ministry of Culture in Taiwan. It also won the 2014 “Best Instrumental Album” by the 8th Freshmusic Awards held by the music critics from Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan. In 2015, the album received three nominations at the 26th Golden Melody Awards, including “Best Composer,” “Best Album,” and “Best Album Producer,” in the Instrumental category.

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Andrew Salim drums

Andrew Salim is a drummer, engineer, producer, and arranger in the boston area. Despite having a late start in music at the ripe old age of 21, that has never stopped him from pursuing his dreams.

Back in Singapore, he is a regular performer with the Samba Masala band, as well as SMU symphonic band. After completing a diploma in music production and engineering from SOMA (school of music and the arts), he moved to New York to study at the Drummer’s collective for a year, before receiving a scholarship to study at Berklee college of music.

In the Boston area, he maintains a very busy school schedule. Aside from his heavy involvement in campus, he is also busy doing a lot of gigs for the Chinese music community.