Li Gaoyang and His Band
China
8:00 pm-9:00 pm,01,Oct 2011

Artists
Drums:Shao Haha
Saxphone / EWI ：Li Gaoyang
Keyboard： Jin Ye
Bass：Bi Zhigang

Li Gaoyang and his band consists of four promising young Chinese jazz players, namely Shao Haha on drum, Li Gaoyang on EWI and saxophone, Jin Ye on piano and keyboard, Hu Hao （or Bi Zhigang）on bass. These four prominent musicians have played an active role in the jazz stages home and abroad, with the band being considered by many experts in the industry as an emerging power brimming with incredible creativity and capability.

The band is committed to jazz study and improvisation. They recompose some Standard in Hard Bop time, merging with it the features of speed, wisdom, freedom and self-affirmation advocated by metropolitans in the industrialized, information and urbanized age. With such effort, their music never fails to strike a chord among audience. Their original works with a combination of different elements reveal their concern for the global environment, pursuit of a harmonious and beautiful life and calling for the tender feelings of human beings.

Bjorn Solli Trio
Norway/Australia
9:30 pm-10:30 pm,01,Oct 2011

Artists
guitar：Bjorn Solli
organ：Steinar Nickelsen
drums：Nick McBride

Norwegian guitarist/composer, Bjorn Solli, now based in New York, was voted “Young Jazz Musician of the year” in 2002 and has since won numerous awards throughout Europe, including soloist prizes in Switzerland and Spain and a composition prize in France. With his trio “SOLID”, he has released 3 critically acclaimed CDs distributed worldwide.

in the last decade or so, Solli’s collaborations have taken him to places like China, Nepal, India, California, Australia and Ireland. In New York, he’s played at Dizzy’s Club, Smalls, The Bitter End and with people like Marcus Strickland and Seamus Blake. Bjorn has also opened for The Manhattan Transfer, Anthony Hamilton, Peter Gabriel, Robert Plant and Jean Luc Ponty.