Victor Noriega - piano/nord stage
Sean Cronin - bass
Kassa Overall - drums
Wow, what an experience. The festival is easily the best part of the year for the Vancouver Jazz community; so glad to be a part of it. Here's a couple tracks from the performance - enjoy!
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2009 HIGHLIGHTS
THE 1ST ANNUAL ASIAN AMERICAN JAZZ FESTIVAL (LOS ANGELES, CA)
OCTOBER 30 :: CAFE METROPOL, 6:30pm
Victor Noriega - piano
JP Maramba - bass
Abe Lagrimas Jr. - drums
The 1st Annual Asian American Jazz Festival was a huge success! Special thanks to Paul Im and Gary Fukushima for making it possible for me to participate. Pictures and audio from the festival coming soon!
"The first annual Asian American Jazz Festival is the brainchild of Paul Im, presenter, producer and founder of Disruptive Management, LLC. In a combined vision and effort, Los Angeles area artists and entrepreneurs: Paul Im, Phok Lim, Gary Fukushima, Tarikh Melancon, David Park, and Bryan Wong, Ten Chirathivat, Amy Lee, among others, decided to launch this 3-day event to celebrate the Asian American artistic voice in jazz."
FILIPINO JAZZ ARTISTS FEATURE | ROGUE MAGAZINE (MANILA, PHILIPPINES)
MAY 2009
I've been featured as one of fifteen Filipino jazz artists in a pictorial in ROGUE MAGAZINE, a publication from the Philippines.
"The latest from pianist Victor Noriega features his "Trio + 2." On FENCELESS(Ponyboy Records), Noriega demonstrates his growing fleetness at the keyboard as well as his expanding compositional and improvisational imagination and skill. A rising presence on the local scene - late last year he impressed greatly at the Earshot festival with the radiant Paul Rucker Quartet - Noriega is both a masterful leader and sympathetic sideman. On Fenceless, the seven tunes are all by him. In moods ranging through effusive, quizzical, and thoughtful, he and his trio mates - bassist Willie Blair and drummer Eric Eagle - join with the "+2" of Jay Thomas on trumpet, flugelhorn, and soprano sax and Mark Taylor on alto sax, to great effect. An earmark of all five performers is their equal attention to soloing and comping. The rhythm section is solid in support, and the soloists are assured."
- Peter Monoghan, Earshot Jazz
2009 PONY BOY RECORDS JAZZ PICNIC (Seattle, WA)
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 12:00-5:00pm
The Pony Boy Picnic is always a blast. Great jazz all afternoon long underneath blue skies in Seattle's Magnuson Park Garden Amphitheatre.
P.S. - Summer weather in Seattle lasts well into October :)
VICTOR NORIEGA TRIO | LIVE AT THE CELLAR (VANCOUVER, B.C.)
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 7:30 & 9:00pm
Come catch my trio at Vancouver's top jazz club featuring two of the city's finest musicians!
Victor Noriega - piano
Sean Cronin - bass
Bernie Arai - drums
AN EVENING WITH JOAN RIVERS
FEBRUARY 13 :: THE TRIPLE DOOR - 7:00 & 9:30pm
This is not a misprint; yours truly will be accompanying television/movie personality Joan Rivers at The Triple Door! This will be a show to remember... a unique event to say the least. Click here for info!
VICTOR NORIEGA TRIO | PRESENTED BY SEATTLE CENTER
AUGUST 6 :: MURAL AMPHITHEATRE - 7:00pm
Enjoy a Summer evening jazz concert at an incredible outdoor venue! My trio will be opening for Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra - the Northwest's premier big band jazz ensemble. This all-ages performance is free of charge and open to the public - a summer event not to be missed!
Victor Noriega - piano
Phil Sparks - bass
Royce Shorter - drums
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