{"id":450656,"date":"2011-06-30T05:50:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T05:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/30\/chris-bitok-saxs-the-city-away\/"},"modified":"2011-06-30T05:50:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T05:50:25","slug":"chris-bitok-saxs-the-city-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/chris-bitok-saxs-the-city-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Bitok Sax&#8217;s the City Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"22.1028645833\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nairobistar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nairobi Star<\/a> (Nairobi)<\/p>\n<p>Karen Mbugua<\/p>\n<p>29 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The inaugural edition of the much hyped Sax and the City concert was held at the International School of Kenya last Saturday. It saw an all Kenyan saxophone cast of Chris Bitok (Alto), Don Ouko (Alto), Jack Anduuru (Alto) and Edward Parseen (Alto\/Tenor\/Trumpet) bring the house down with their unique horn-based arrangements. The four had amazing chemistry and each brought their own unique touch. The quartet has a great mastery of the sax and it is just a pleasure to watch them perform and bring the sax to life.<\/p>\n<p>They also had a chance to shine individually as Don Ouko performed a solo Crawling while Parseen opted for Brew. Lawrence Mwai took to the piano on stage and accompanied Bitok and Ouko as they played popular songs like American Girl and Whitney Houston&#8217;s saving all my love for you respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The evening&#8217;s highlight had to be the additional entertainment in the form of Samantha Jones (yes, she from the popular Sex in the City Series) who was brought to reality by the sultry Kaz Lucas by performing a duet with Bitok. Atemi Oyungu also added her vocals to the show that thrilled the audience present.<\/p>\n<p>Sax in the City will be held on a quarterly basis where future editions will bring together Saxophone players from the region, continent, and other internationally acclaimed acts.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read this article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106300085.html\" title=\"Chris Bitok Sax's the City Away\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Bitok Sax&#8217;s the City Away<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Karen Mbugua 29 June 2011 The inaugural edition of the much hyped Sax and the City concert was held at the International School of Kenya last Saturday. It saw an all Kenyan saxophone cast of Chris Bitok (Alto), Don Ouko (Alto), Jack Anduuru (Alto) and Edward Parseen (Alto\/Tenor\/Trumpet) bring the house down with their unique horn-based arrangements. The four had amazing chemistry and each brought their own unique touch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":450657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-450656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chris Bitok Sax&#039;s the City Away - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/chris-bitok-saxs-the-city-away\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Chris Bitok Sax&#039;s the City Away - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Karen Mbugua 29 June 2011 The inaugural edition of the much hyped Sax and the City concert was held at the International School of Kenya last Saturday. 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