SINGAPORE: The year was 1972 and 12-year-old Jeremy Monteiro was in the living room of his family home. He was crying. His concerned mother asked why. “I said, 'Mum, I have never heard anything so beautiful in my life.' I decided then that I wanted to be a professional musician and more skilled towards jazz,” he tells me during our interview. When I ask him what he was listening to, he pauses. For a moment, I feel he might start crying right there in front of me. But he doesn’t. Instead he tells me with a faraway look on his face - as if he were again listening to the jazz record that made him decide the course of the rest of his life - Brown Ballad composed by Ray Brown, performed by Quincy Jones, featuring Toots Thielemans on the harmonica. “Just the way Toots was playing the harmonica. The whole thing was so beautiful, the melodic lines were so impeccable.” About 30 years later, he would share the stage with Thielemans at the Victoria Concert Hall as part of the Singapore Arts Festival. Dubbed Singapore’s King of Swing, Mr Monteiro, a jazz pianist, singer and composer, has won multiple awards...from News Page http://ift.tt/2DMa3kO https://youbrandinc.com
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