Posadas: Rita Soriano, Boy Posadas & The Romy Posadas Group

Posadas
featuring Rita Soriano, Boy Posadas & The Romy Posadas Group

 

Side A
If I Could reach you
Survival
Hasbrook heights
Last Night
I Didn't Get To Sleep At All
Keep Moving On
Theme from "Summer of 42"

Side B
Whoever You Are I love You
Love
The Happy Medium
Where Is The Love
It's Going To Take Sometime
Sham Time



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Romy Posadas is a pianist and a jazz musician. He is considered to be one of the few foremost jazz musicians in the Philippines, and is the only Filipino who has been invited twice to perform at the world-famous Monterey Jazz Festival, in 1981 and 1982.

It was at the Manhattan Club where Posadas started to learn the rudiments of jazz. Opened in 1958, the jazz club was located along Shaw Blvd. where it is believed to have pioneered in the performance of jazz in Manila as far as club gigs are concerned. His first group that performed at the club was a Latin jazz quartet composed of piano, bass, drums and congas. They played tunes by Cal Tjader, George Shearing, Eddie Cano and Dave Brubeck who are his influences.

After the Manhattan jazz club sometime in 1961, Posadas and his group played at the Champagne Room of the Manila Hotel. Many years later, in 1982, Menchu Apostol played with his band at the Tap Room of the Manila Hotel. This was the year Posadas received the Aliw Awards for best jazz band and best instrumentalist. The band consisted of his wife on vocals, his son on drums and Roger Herrera Jr. on bass.


Posadas has spent about 20 years in Hongkong. He played for seven years at the Crown Colony's Hyatt and another seven years at the Marriott, where he also served as the musical director of all the outlets of the hotel. Romy also entertained nightly for seven years at the Hilton in Thailand and for a year at the Intercontinental Hotel in Singapore.