Jazz Evening with A We

We will meet at 7.00 pm for drinks and the performance starts at 7.30pm. I-Wei will join for drinks after.

I-Wei’s love affair with jazz began when she bought her first album at the age of 11 and liked the songs by Cole Porter. She completed the foundation program at the International College of Music with honours and has jammed with vibrant young musicians as part of the Trinity College Jazz Society in Dublin, Ireland. As a jazz singer, she has been compared to Norah Jones and Diana Krall. live singing by The 1930s was the Swing Era, with big bands led by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Benny Goodman making jazz mainstream. Swing’s smooth rhythms and tight arrangements fueled dance halls, while vocalists like Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgeraldbrought emotion and skill to jazz singing. Kansas City jazz, influenced by the blues, encouraged improvisation, with musicians like Lester Young and Coleman Hawkinsredefining the saxophone. Despite the Great Depression, jazz thrived on radio and in ballrooms, offering an escape. By the decade’s end, swing dominated, setting the stage for bebop’s rise in the 1940s and cementing jazz’s cultural impact.