Jazz Articles about Daniel Chu

About Daniel Chu

Liner Notes

Before you even drop the needle or hit play, take a moment to soak in the title of the recording you hold in your hands. The emphasis must fall squarely on the first word: these are our jazz pianists—Hong Kong's. A proud statement of ownership, acknowledging a fresh wave of young talent breaking in a city not renowned for its appreciation or cultivation of improvised music.It's the same title of the four-hour concert where these performances were recorded, one long, ...

Live Review

Daniel Chu at Freespace Jazz Festival 2021

by Rob Garratt
November 20, 2021

Freespace Ensemble x Daniel Chu—Game Play The Box, Freespace, West Kowloon Cultural Centre Freespace Jazz Festival 2021 Hong Kong October 29, 2021 The gods of gig scheduling work in mysterious ways and, by some strange twist of fate or malevolence, Hong Kong's two major jazz festivals were this year staged in the same week. In fact, they overlapped—the stripped-down, two-day Hong Kong International Jazz Festival's second and final night awkwardly ...