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GENTING INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2008 (GIJF) >DIAMOND DAVE AND THE DOODADDIES PRESS
HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS - DIAMOND DAVE AND THE DOODADDIES AT GENTING JAZZ FESTIVAL
These Perth-based Australian boys play Chicago rootsy blues complete with harmonica, soulful vocals, groovy guitar, good ol’ shuffling and sob-story lyrics. You can’t quite listen to them without getting on your feet and egging them on.
This is Diamond Dave and the Doodaddies – a four-man band who can fill stages both big and small and bring the house down every time.
Dave Billing, the “Diamond” of the band, is an expert harmonica player with great passion and enthusiasm for his art. The other Dave of the band plays guitar, with Eric Yugon on drums and Robert Thomson on bass.
They have played at the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Byron Bay Blues Fest, the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Bangkok International Jazz Festival and many venues across Australia.
The blues was an instrumental and vocal form of music built on certain chords and notes that were described as “blue” because they invoked an emotional, melancholy response.
It was a forerunner of jazz, evolving from the laments of African slaves working the fields in America.
Chicago Blues had its own characteristics. It added a heavier bass and drums to the original guitar and harmonica combination. It was also a more urban sound as the African workers drifted into industrialized cities looking for work.
The Doodaddies will be playing on Friday night at the 2-day festival.
The Genting International Jazz Festival was born in 2007, bringing together bands from South Africa, USA, Malaysia, France, Wales, Cuba, UK, New Zealand, China and Benin.
The festival aimed to bring a fresh perspective to jazz – from the styling and evolution of jazz to newer styles that might include ethno-jazz, experimental jazz, and fusion with reggae or funk. All while maintaining the improvisational nature and soloistic turns that are the mainstay of the jazz genre.
Many people still think there is only one form of jazz. It is Genting’s mission to introduce all the different varieties of jazz and bring them to this region.
2008 is no different. There will be 10 bands over the 4th and 5th of April.
Joining the Doodaddies are bands from – to name a few – Brazil, Scotland, Singapore, UK & Jamaica.
Room and ticket packages for the festival can be found at www.gentingjazz.com. Or you can call the hotline number 03-2718 1118.
To this day, Diamond Dave and the Doodaddies sound fresh out of a bar in northern USA. Their innate sense of humour and style backed by solid musicianship will make them one of the favourites at the festival.
Yeoh Jun Lin
Artistic Director
Genting International Jazz Festival
These Perth-based Australian boys play Chicago rootsy blues complete with harmonica, soulful vocals, groovy guitar, good ol’ shuffling and sob-story lyrics. You can’t quite listen to them without getting on your feet and egging them on.
This is Diamond Dave and the Doodaddies – a four-man band who can fill stages both big and small and bring the house down every time.
Dave Billing, the “Diamond” of the band, is an expert harmonica player with great passion and enthusiasm for his art. The other Dave of the band plays guitar, with Eric Yugon on drums and Robert Thomson on bass.
They have played at the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Byron Bay Blues Fest, the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Bangkok International Jazz Festival and many venues across Australia.
The blues was an instrumental and vocal form of music built on certain chords and notes that were described as “blue” because they invoked an emotional, melancholy response.
It was a forerunner of jazz, evolving from the laments of African slaves working the fields in America.
Chicago Blues had its own characteristics. It added a heavier bass and drums to the original guitar and harmonica combination. It was also a more urban sound as the African workers drifted into industrialized cities looking for work.
The Doodaddies will be playing on Friday night at the 2-day festival.
The Genting International Jazz Festival was born in 2007, bringing together bands from South Africa, USA, Malaysia, France, Wales, Cuba, UK, New Zealand, China and Benin.
The festival aimed to bring a fresh perspective to jazz – from the styling and evolution of jazz to newer styles that might include ethno-jazz, experimental jazz, and fusion with reggae or funk. All while maintaining the improvisational nature and soloistic turns that are the mainstay of the jazz genre.
Many people still think there is only one form of jazz. It is Genting’s mission to introduce all the different varieties of jazz and bring them to this region.
2008 is no different. There will be 10 bands over the 4th and 5th of April.
Joining the Doodaddies are bands from – to name a few – Brazil, Scotland, Singapore, UK & Jamaica.
Room and ticket packages for the festival can be found at www.gentingjazz.com. Or you can call the hotline number 03-2718 1118.
To this day, Diamond Dave and the Doodaddies sound fresh out of a bar in northern USA. Their innate sense of humour and style backed by solid musicianship will make them one of the favourites at the festival.
Yeoh Jun Lin
Artistic Director
Genting International Jazz Festival