The Art of Changemaking

As I write this, Grammy Award-winner and legendary blues man, James Cotton “Superharp”, is playing live with his band just outside my balcony. True to the classic definition of jazz, I’ve had a swingin’ time here in the Miri International Jazz Festival–but it’s not just because of the music and the excellent media treatment courtesy [...]

This trip to Miri, Malaysia to cover the Miri Jazz Festival was special in two ways: one, because I had never been to Miri before and was excited to cover the jazz festival together with my journalist friends from the Sarawak Tourism Board family; and two, because it would be the first time that my [...]

This will be a quick blog post to say that I am now in Miri, Malaysia, where my sister Ena and I are covering the 2010 Miri Jazz Festival.

Malaysia is known for many things, but not for the fact that, every year, it organizes awesome music festivals that bring together artists, audiences, and journalists from [...]