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Jeremy Monteiro has won critical acclaim in many parts of the
world. He has performed in the United States (Las Vegas, San Francisco,
Seattle, Washington DC, New York, Chicago), Canada (Toronto, Montreal,
Ottawa) United Kingdom, Switzerland, Finland, Japan (Tokyo, Yokohama,
Fukuoka, Osaka, Nagano,) Taipei, New Zealand (Wellington, Auckland, Waiuru),
Brunei, Thailand, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Malaysia in addition to
numerous occasions at home in Singapore, where he has been dubbed "Singapore's
King Of Swing"
by the local press.
In 1988, Swing Magazine of Switzerland called him "one of the best
exponents of Jazz Piano". That year, he performed
with his other band, Monteiro, Young & Holt alongside jazz greats
Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke & George Duke as well as the
Yellowjackets at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival where he and his
other band Monteiro, Young & Holt, received a standing ovation from
the 3,000 odd crowd there. The concert was also telecast
"live" throughout Europe as well as featured on TV on BBC in the
U.K. and ABC in Australia and received extremely favourable reviews in
European Newspapers such as the La Geneve.
Jeremy has been mentioned in
more than 400 press articles in publications around the world, including
Billboard Magazine and The Washington Post. He has a total of 21 albums
to his credit. He has released albums on WEA, EMI, Polygram, Odyssey,
Golden String International, First Impression Music and Sangaji Music
labels.
He has
performed and/or recorded with the likes of James Moody, Michael Brecker,
Lee Ritenour, Herbie Mann, Paulinho DaCosta, Ernie Watts, Charlie Haden
and Simon & Garfunkel to name a few. He has also worked with
vocalists Matt Monro, Cassandra Wilson, Vanessa Rubin and Eden Atwood
among many others.
In May of 1992 he achieved another landmark in his career, when he
performed at the famed Budokan Hall in Tokyo with trumpeter Terumasa
Hino, who is arguably Asia's most respected jazz musician. The concert
was performed in front of an audience of 7,000 people and beamed by NHK
satellite TV to fourteen countries. He is still currently a member of
Terumasa's Asian All Stars Band.
With another of his own bands, Asiana, he has recently performed at
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas in a concert tour that included the Ritz
Carlton in San Francisco and Four Seasons Hotel in Seattle.
In late 1992, he produced the Ernie Watts album "Stand Up",
joining an illustrious alumnus of Ernie Watts’s producers, which
include Quincy Jones, Creed Taylor, Don Grusin and Gilberto Gil.
In March of 1990, he was admitted as an active voting member of the
National Academy Of Recording Arts & Sciences (Los Angeles Chapter),
and has voted at the Grammy Awards from 1991 through 1999. He holds the
only vote in SE Asia at the Grammies. Besides running his production
company Showtime Productions Pte. Ltd., he presently serves
as Director of the Composers and Authors Society of Singapore Ltd.,
and has served on the Creative Services Working Committee of the
Economic Development Board of Singapore and chaired its Music Industry
Task Force. He also sits on the Board of Regents of the School of Audio
Engineering as well as the Arts Resource Panel and music selection Panel
for the Festival of Arts at the National Arts Council.
He has conducted more than 100 seminar/concerts in schools in Singapore
to introduce jazz to students. He has conducted a jazz clinic at the
Ellington School of the Arts in Washington DC with his band mates Eldee
Young and Redd Holt.
As a composer, Jeremy has been awarded a Silver Medal at the 1991
International Radio Festival of New York, as well as finalist awards at
the 1990 and 1991 London International Advertising Awards for best
original music score (radio, T.V. and Cinema). He has composed or
produced over 700 pieces of music.
Jeremy is a subject of biographic record in Baron's "Who's Who Of
The Asia Pacific Rim" and has just been included for listing in the
"Who's Who Of The World" year 2000 edition.
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