DLB Jazz Group
China
Time
2014.10.24 20:00 – 21:00
Venue
B10 Live, North District of OCT-LOFT
Artists
Wang Xubo – Bass
Deng Boyu – Drums
Li Lin – Keyboard
Li Xing – Guitar
DLB Jazz Group
National, Pioneer, Electronic, Jazz, Rock, and Funk mixes with a lot of improvisation, which makes up the DLB Jazz Group. Those three modern musicians from Shenzhen represent Shenzhen’s new level in modern music performance and music creation. The DLB Trio has just finished their tour around 10 cities in China in the beginning of 2014. This autumn, the refreshing DLB Jazz Group with a new member Li Xing, will be staging on the 4th OCT-LOFT Jazz Festival.
Weibo
http://weibo.com/u/5047877973
Wang Xubo
Wang Xubo, who comes from Dalian, is a composer, an avant-garde musician and also the bassist of DLB Jazz Group. In 2005, he immerges into Jazz. Influenced by Dave Holland, his performance was aggressive. Meanwhile, he is particularly interested in Chinese traditional opera. Not only creating and playing traditional music, he also cooperates with many avant-garde musicians both at home and abroad. Most of his original works are in the discography of DLB Jazz Group. Now he is the bass teacher of Jinzhong Conservatory of Music, Shenzhen University.
Weibo
http://weibo.com/bassxubo
Xiami
http://i.xiami.com/xubo
Lofter
http://ibass.lofter.com/
Deng Boyu
Deng Boyu is a drummer of many bands, and he is sophisticated in Rock, Jazz and Improvisation music. He is also an avant-garde electronic musician, indulged in minimalism atmosphere. His sound is sensitive and dedicate with whimsy rhythm. He has his own perspective about music.
Douban Site
http://site.douban.com/CUOCUO/
Weibo
http://weibo.com/u/2370567507
Li Lin
Li Lin, who plays keyboards in DLB Jazz Group, is also the important people of returnee generation and now is active in the China contemporary music scene. After graduation from Composition in China Conservatory of Music, he went to France for further study on piano. Li Lin is accomplished in mixing the characteristic of various folk music around the world with the performance of modern music. He also put these concepts into the performance of DLB Jazz Group.
Now he is a keyboard teacher of Jinzhong Conservatory of Music, Shenzhen University.
Weibo
http://weibo.com/12449457
Li Xing
Li Xing is a jazz guitarist who was born in Hohhot Municipality, Inner Mongolia. He lives in Shanghai now.
He is good at the melange of various music styles, such as Rock and Roll, Free Jazz, Blues, Environmental Experiment, Avant-Noise and many other music styles. Furthermore, he has his own unique understanding of timbre, which makes the sound hypnotic. And his own understanding about his music is “To show the harmony and contradiction in human beings’ awareness of freedom.”