Introduction

VOCAL & KEYBOARD | James Li

PIANO | Huang Jianyi

SAX | Li Shihai

TRUMPET | Toby Mak

BASS | Zhang Ke

DRUMS | Yu Guojun

曲目 PROGRAM

Recordame

Have You Met Miss Jones

Mack the Knife

Unforgettable

Just the Way You Are

情人的眼泪

中年

Don't Get Around Much Anymore

Beyond the Sea

Next Year Baby

Hello

眼色

走钢索的人

My Way

*Subject to live performance

VOCAL & KEYBOARD | James Li

Graduated from the Piano and Composition Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, 
he has won the 26th Hong Kong Top Ten Chinese Songs Award, 
the Taiwan Musicians Exchange Association's Top Ten Excellent Albums, 
the Musicians Association's Best Record Award, Best Producer Award, 
and the Golden Melody Award for the best album. 
He is also the first Chinese artist to win the Classical Music Award from the 
Rolling Stone magazine in the United States. 
In 2021, Li Quan will be shortlisted for the "Best Album Producer", 
"Best Chinese Male Singer", 
"Album of the Year" and "Best Chinese Album" at the 
32nd Golden Melody Awards with his new album "Ten Days". 
He has collaborated with many singers to release classic songs, 
including Fan Xiaoxuan's "I Want Us to Be Together", Lin Youjia's "Winks", etc.

PIANO | Huang Jianyi

Jazz pianist, composer, educator, principal of JZ School. 
He graduated from the Piano Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music with a 
bachelor's degree, and holds a master's degree in jazz piano from 
Berklee College of Music and Rutgers University. 
Founder and keyboardist of the top fusion jazz band J3 Trio and electronic jazz band +++++. 
In 2015, J3 Trio and the album "Red Man" won the Best Band and Best Fusion Record Award at 
the first Chinese Jazz Awards; in 2017, they won the Best Jazz Live Band of the Year at the 
LivePower Awards, and the album "Crystal Purple" won the Best Singing Committee in 2018. 
Nominated for Best Jazz Recording. Recordings: 
"Shanghai Jazz" (2005, EMI), Zhao Possibilities' album "Dreamland" (2006, Effendi), 
German jazz harmonica player Jens Bunge's album "Shanghai Blue" (2009) and 
J3's album "Red Man" ""Crystal Purple" and so on.

SAX | Li Shihai

One of the most influential saxophone players, 
composers and arrangers in China today, a signed artist of JZ Music, 
and a master of jazz saxophone from the New England Conservatory of Music. 
In 2015, he won the "Best Newcomer Award" in the first JZ Awards Chinese Jazz. 
In 2016, he completed the recording of his first original jazz album "Inner Rhythm" at 
Wellspring Studio in Boston, USA. 
In 2018, he won two Chinese Jazz Awards - 
"Best Live Performance Award" and "Best Fusion Musician Award". 
In 2020, he released his second solo album "Jet Lag" under the joint production of 
Taihe Music and JZ Music. Now he is a jazz saxophone professional teacher at Nanjing University 
of the Arts and secretary general of the Jazz Professional Committee of Jiangsu Pop Music Society.

TRUMPET | Toby Mak

Outstanding trumpet player, composer, arranger, music producer from Australia. 
He is well-known in the Chinese jazz world for his superb trumpet playing skills that are 
full of emotion, profound elegance and explosive power. 
Toby Mak's footprints are all over the world, and he has collaborated with 
many music pioneers in different fields at home and abroad. 
Since moving to Shanghai in 2005, he has been invited to record more than 
40 albums with different music styles. 
Honorary record: "Impression of Zero Seven" won the "Best Album Award" at the 
2017 JZ Awards Chinese Jazz Awards; 
2017 Taiwan Golden Melody Awards "Best Album Award" (nomination).

BASS | Zhang Ke

Jazz bass player. He grew up in the compound of a music group and studied violin, 
but he chose to study fine arts in college and graduated from 
Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts a few years later. 
Music has always been an important part of Zhang Ke's life. 
After coming into contact with jazz, he quickly mastered the improvisation theory of jazz. 
After that, he returned to music and came to Shanghai, 
where he became one of the most frequently invited bass players in Shanghai's jazz circles. 
In recent years, Zhang Ke and his band partners have performed at home and abroad, 
especially in South Africa, Japan and other places. 
His ability to control the Double Bass has won praise from his peers, 
and he was invited as the dedicated bass player of the international first-line saxophonist 
Antonio Hart in the China Tour Beijing Station. 
Other masters who have collaborated include Ryan Kisor, Willie Jones III, Stefan Karlsson and more.

DRUMS | Yu Guojun

Jazz drum player. Graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2019, 
and admitted to Manhattan Conservatory of Music in 2020 for further study. 
The champion of the jazz drum player group of the 3rd IPEA International Percussion Competition, 
the drummer of the Shangyin Berkeley United Big Band Tour, and has been active in the JZ festival,
the French Jazz à Juan Music Festival, the Shangyin International Jazz Festival, 
JZ Club, and Lincoln Jazz Center for a long time. 
Well-known music festivals and performance venues such as Heyday have performed with 
musicians such as David Liebman, Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts, Walter Blanding, 
Bert Seager, Steve Reich and more.