The 1988-89 Saxophone Solo Recitals at the Hội Nhạc Sĩ Việt Nam (From the files of Quyền Văn Minh: A Jazz Life Story)

Dr. Stan BH Tan-Tangbau is Associate Professor at Akita International University. Stan started out as a
Vietnamologist focusing on agrarian change and ethnic relations before expanding his research to cover the
Southeast Asian Massif. In 2010, Stan founded Kachin Life Stories, a public autoethnographic project designed
for the Kachin people originating from the uplands of northern Myanmar, and also Yunnan (China) and
Arunachal Pradesh (India). He believes in producing knowledge with stakeholders, for stakeholders and by
stakeholders in a multi-directional, open and inclusive knowledge ecology. Stan is currently building on the
foundations of #kachinlifestories to develop a more ambitious project to help remake our ethnographic
understanding of Transboundary Continental Southeast Asia where China meets India. In spite of all the changes
in his professional life, Stan remains a Vietnamologist at heart.

Maestro Quyền Văn Minh is a recipient of the Eminent Artist Award from the government of the Socialist
Republic of Vietnam. Minh has recorded ten Jazz albums to date, beginning with Birth ’99 released in 2000. He
is the owner and resident principal musician of Bình Minh Jazz Club in Hà Nội, which has been around since
1997. Minh is one of the premier musicians in the Vietnam music circle, rising to prominence in the late 1970s.
He has performed with various leading state song and dance troupes, experimental music ensembles, the
Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra and of course, his own Jazz groups, namely the Red River Jazz Band
and the Red River Jazz Big Band. Minh has performed in many international Jazz festivals since 2001. He has
been teaching at the Học Viện Âm Nhạc Quốc Gia Việt Nam [Vietnam National Academy of Music] (formerly
the Hà Nội National Music Conservatoire of Vietnam) since 1989, being the first teacher of Jazz Saxophone at
the conservatoire. Minh plays nightly at the Jazz club.