  Make the music dates
by Mahes Perera
A chance meeting with him, you
strike up a casual conversation, but you’ll never realise that you are
rapporting with a guy who is a remarkable and superb musician. Dylan Lye
guitarist and vocalist is too humble in his ways to speak about his
musical artistry.
But you see him on stage and his is a changed personality. His
fingerwork on the guitar fret board is fiery dynamic and amazing. He is
sure about the varying tempos, they come naturally to him. And when he
sings along with the guitar notes you stay rooted listening to him and
wanting to hear more... Dylan Lye will be back in Sri Lanka from Hong
Kong with his group to perform at the forthcoming jazz festival at the
Mount Lavinia Hotel.
His group comprises Adonis De Jesus, Tak Hong Tsang, Anthony
Fernandes, Bubu Wijesinghe and the beautiful singer with distinctive
vocal stylings Jennifer Palor who was in Sri Lanka on an earlier
occasion with Dylan Lye. Dylan, the famed guitarist with the Jetliners
led by Mignonne Fernando, is happy to have another opportunity to be
back home to play for his fans in music.
The Dave O’Higgins Quartet from the UK are also billed to perform at
the festival, at the Mount. They too were in Sri Lanka before and
performed successful dates. The Quartet comprised Dave O’Higgins blowing
tenor saxophone, Tom Cawley piano, Arnie Somogyi on acoustic bass with
Sebastian de Krom on drums. Dave has won many accolades from the British
jazz awards and has played over the years with named musicians and
singers.
Critics have reviewed him as “a stunning player with an apparently
effortless flow of coherent ideas, beautiful time and a highly developed
harmonic sense.”
Sri Lankan percussionist Sunil de Silva now domiciled in Australia
will be performing with the band Ohzone led by Andrew Oh, a Singapore
born Australian. An accomplished saxophonist he leads a jazz septet with
Armondo Hurley on vocals, Emile Nelson on bass and on keyboards will be
Ara Naccesins. Mitch Farmer will be playing drums and the percussion
spotlight will fall on Sunil de Silva. |
