Jazz Articles about Bongwool Lee

About Bongwool Lee

Album Review

Bongwool Lee: My Singing Fingers

Read "My Singing Fingers" reviewed by Paul Rauch

by Paul Rauch
July 14, 2018

Much has been written about the different creative processes engaged between classical and jazz musicians, more specifically, as applied to the collective worlds of jazz and classical piano. New York based pianist Bongwool Lee has an intimate relationship with these perceived differences. Born and raised in Seoul, Korea, she was exposed by her parents to a variety of music at a very early age, winning her country's acclaimed Samik Competition at age seven. Considered a prodigy in the classical world, ...

Album Review

Bongwool Lee: My Singing Fingers

Read "My Singing Fingers" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
May 25, 2018

The music of pianist Bongwool Lee has a hopeful feeling. The Korean-born and now New York-based artist drew her first jazz inspiration--after classical studies in her homeland--from the work of Oscar Peterson, who sent much musical time walking on the sunny side of the street. But where Peterson rolled mostly in the jazz standards/Great American Songbook realm, Lee presents, on her debut recording, My Singing Fingers, a set of compelling original compositions. With one exception--the Ray Henderson-penned classic “Bye Bye ...