Checklists demand flaps to be dropped upon engine start, I believe?

do tell more

I appreciate you saying that.

I find the customization of cultural influences here in China so fascinating and have lots more on that to say.

Also special about Jazz in China is how quickly word spreads through social media. I expect the crowd tomorrow to be small and by Saturday to have doubled in size. The most passionate fans soft-brag to each other on Xiaohongshu, creating the fear of missing out.

My gut feeling is that this is because Jazz here wasn't the music of previous generations; young Chinese fans discovered Jazz for themselves and see it as "their thing" that fits into their desire for a higher-quality lifestyle.

Chinese Jazz fans are also often extremely knowledgable and in spite of often coming from ordinary backgrounds willing to spend significant sums on original first-edition vinyl records that they'll bring to get signed.

I fully expect to see some show up with Suzuki's "Friends."

Jazz in China attracts a unique crowd: the average age range here is 20-35 whereas Jazz musicians in Japan attract people in their 70s and 80s. This often deeply impresses and delights the musicians and has made us (as Concert organizers in China) quite popular with them abroad.

Suzuki is a really exciting member of the Japanese jazz scene and we are proud to have gotten his Quintet for China. He spent many years in NYC, where he played for years with Stan Getz and Art Blakey.

Yes, you can.

But I don't see evidence that you should.

After the completion of the Hotel, Andy Andreasen went on to lead Baker McKenzie in China. Later, he became the first Executive Director of the Stanford Center at Peking University.

Read more about this incredible life and this project on Substack:

livinghistorychina.substack.com/p/andy-andre...

The man who managed to convince banks to let him bring an astonishing $72million into China in 1979 ($295mm today) was the legendary CB Sung, who also started the Beijing Jeep Joint Venture.

The Great Wall Hotel was the largest of the first three approved Joint Ventures.

The Great Wall Hotel was designed by the same architects that envisioned the LAX Theme Building.

During its four decades in operation it hosted foreign dignitaries like Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Li-Ka-shing 李嘉诚 or, on one random day I stayed there, North Korean diplomats.

A fun way to describe that!

There are some concerts that you know will sell well.
And then there are concerts that you do because you love the music, even though they probably won't be huge.

This is one of these.

Here is another legendary recording of his - Water's Edge.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gecc...

📅 Dates: Nov 20 (8:00 PM) | Nov 22
(7:30 PM & 9:30 PM)

📍 Venue: Beijing DDC Club

✍️ Post-show signing session after each performance!

🎟Grab your tickets now! (via 秀动)

I really hope to see you there.

For this special Beijing run Suzuki assembled an all-star band:

🎹Hakuei Kim
🎺Keisuke Nakamura
🥁Tamaya Honda

and

🎷Masanori Okazaki - a special guest who long collaborated with the famed pianist Fumio Karashima. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wROc...