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Letizia Gambi: Blue Monday
by James Nadal
As the world continues to shrink--musically speaking of course--the melding of American jazz with Mediterranean melody is another spin cycle that makes appreciation of this evolving art form so interesting. With high expectations, Neapolitan vocalist Letizia Gambi, which hails from a theatrical family, and has extensive jazz education, releases Blue Monday, an exuberant and ambitious production that takes jazz on a romantic Italian holiday. After a collaboration with drummer extraordinaire Lenny White in 2009 led to “Introducing Letizia ...
Continue ReadingHelen Sung Quintet At The Sequoia Room
by Walter Atkins
Helen Sung Quintet Sequoia Room At the Brewery Tap Room Thelonious Monk Birthday Celebration Fort Bragg, CA October 10, 2015 Prominent pianist Thelonious Monk was born October 10,1917 in North Carolina. Over his esteemed career, Monk played with the pantheon of jazz giants that included John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. He was also instrumental in the creation of Bebop. Monk's technique was uniquely inventive and also very demanding. Today, ...
Continue ReadingHelen Sung at the Howard Brubeck Theatre
by Jim Trageser
Helen SungHoward Brubeck Theatre, Palomar Community College Steinway Series San Marcos, CA May 17, 2015 Helen Sung closed out Palomar College's first annual Steinway Series in the newly remodeled Howard Brubeck Theatre with a stunning display of solo jazz piano that not only provided a resounding close to the new musical series in northern San Diego County, but showed why Sung is among the most highly regarded young jazz pianists. (Sung's performance followed those ...
Continue ReadingHelen Sung at Jazz @ Jack's, Denver, CO
by Geoff Anderson
Helen Sung Jazz @ Jack's 2014 Craft Brewers Conference Denver, CO April 9, 2014 Astaire and Rogers; Bogart and Bacall; Sponge Bob and Patrick... The entertainment world is full of classic pairings. Wednesday night's classic pairing was jazz and craft beer. Dropped in the middle of the 2014 Craft Brewers Conference in Denver, pianist Helen Sung, affiliated with North Coast Brewing Company, put together a virtuoso quintet to match the virtuoso beer on tap. ...
Continue ReadingHelen Sung: Anthem For A New Day
by Dan McClenaghan
There's a bit of the iconoclast in pianist Helen Sung. Her musical journey began in the classical world, and didn't take its rebellious tangent into jazz until her college years, after a chance encounter with a Harry Connick, Jr. concert, in a “bang on the piano" solo interlude. And then there was pianist Tommy Flanagan's solo on saxophonist Charlie Parker “Confirmation," and Sung was jazz bitten, in the best way. Anthem for a New Day, Sung's sixth album--her ...
Continue ReadingHelen Sung: (re)Conception
by AAJ Italy Staff
Helen Sung approda al suo quinto lavoro da leader, (Re)Conception, accompagnata in questo viaggio da una sezione ritmica d'eccellenza formata da due veterani come Lewis Nash alla batteria e Peter Washington al contrabbasso.Sung rivisita otto standard che coprono un periodo che va dagli anni quaranta agli anni sessanta -da George Shearing a Duke Ellington e Thelonious Monk, tra gli altri -mostrando i segni di una ricerca meticolosa ed intelligente che rispecchia le sue fonti d'ispirazione e le sue ...
Continue ReadingHelen Sung: (re)Conception
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Helen Sung has got the swing thing down. A graduate of the inaugural class of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance, Sung has put out a series of increasingly distinctive CDs, from her ear-grabbing debut, Push (Blue Moon, 2004), to the classical leaning Sungbird (After Albeniz) (Sunnyside, 2007), through to 2010's quintet outing, Going Express (Sunnyside), with a trio stop for the outstanding Helenistque (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2006).A classically-trained pianist who didn't discover jazz until ...
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