Jazz Session: Shanghai Jazz | Chinese melodies with Jazz

Chinese melodies. Jazz spirit. Shanghai after dark.

In 1930s Shanghai, jazz orchestras filled the city’s dance halls while a new Chinese popular music took shape on records and radio. Songwriters and performers brought the melodic contours of Chinese folk and traditional music into conversation with American swing and big-band jazz, creating a sound shaped by two cultures and unmistakably its own.

On 16 October, Acidity brings that musical encounter into the present with classic Shanghai jazz alongside beloved Chinese pop and folk songs from the 1930s to later decades. We keep the familiar melodies and their original character, then open them up through jazz reharmonisation and improvisation.

Let the music take you back to an era when Chinese and Western cultures met in the sound of Shanghai.

SET I

給我一個吻 — Give Me a Kiss

夜上海 — Shanghai Nights

玫瑰玫瑰我愛你 — Rose, Rose, I Love You

如果沒有你 — If I Didn’t Have You

得不到的愛情 — Love That I Can’t Have

SET II

何日君再來 — When Will You Return?

我要你的愛 — I Want Your Love

月亮代表我的心 — The Moon Represents My Heart

夜來香 — Evening Primrose

等著你回來 — Waiting for Your Return

16 OCT · 8PM–10PM

acidity. · Richmond