Toti Fuentes and Emil Mijares

Toti Fuentes and Emil Mijares play at the 2nd Annual Fil-Am jazz festival at the Catalina Bar and Grill in Hollywood in Dec 2006. On bass is Ben Luis and on drums, Jun Viray. About ten months before Emil's passing and not long after that, so did Maestro Toti Fuentes pass away. Thanks for allowing me to repost this, Alex! GM

Piano: Toti Fuentes, Emil Mijares
Bass: Ben Luis
Drs: Jun Viray

Category:

Music

Tags:

• emil
• mijares
• toti
• fuentes
• jazz
• piano
• pinoy

[GabeMij]

Two Filipino masters have now left us and gone on to be with the Lord, Emil Mijares and Toti Fuentes. This video is but a small tribute to such great men. I can just imagine the most awesome music up there where neither time nor sickness can hold them back any longer. Mabuhay ang pinoy jazz!

[lolaanet]

Toti Fuentes was truly a great pianist. Watched him at Catalina Jazz last December 2010 where he was accorded Lifetime achievement award. He also paid tribute to Emil Mijares at that time. Two Filipino masters indeed!

[smilinmoon]

Absolutely Azurite2K!

[Azurite2K]

great people never die, they just fade away...but their music lives!

[rlf888rlf]

Toti was the musical director of Tony Orlando & Dawn for many years...saw him in Las Vegas stints...He was also a favorite of many filipino artists such as Vernie Varga, Dulce, Jackie Magno, Richard Merk, Rico J., Jun Polistico to name a few...and worked with Julia Fordham & Kevyn Lettau in '07 & '08...Thank you Gabe for uploading this memorable gig with Emil..God Bless!

[bluegrand]

Two world class musicians... Two marvelous for words...

[nadja715]

His music made him live. It was his life. Thank you for sharing it to the world. We'll all miss you. YOU'RE GREAT!

[ralphy716]

Great performance Toti! You are the man!