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Helen Sung Quintet At The Sequoia Room

by Walter Atkins
October 20, 2015

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, ...

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Helen Sung at the Howard Brubeck Theatre

by Jim Trageser
May 20, 2015

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 ...

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Helen Sung at Jazz @ Jack's, Denver, CO

by Geoff Anderson
April 20, 2014

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. ...

Album Review

Helen Sung: Anthem For A New Day

Read "Anthem For A New Day" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
January 17, 2014

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 ...

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Helen Sung: (re)Conception

Read "(re)Conception" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 24, 2012

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 ...

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Helen Sung: (re)Conception

Read "(re)Conception" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 8, 2011

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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Helen Sung: San Diego, CA, September 15, 2011

by Dan McClenaghan
October 6, 2011

Helen SungDizzy'sSan Diego Wine and Culinary Arts CenterSan Diego, CA September 15, 2011 From post World War II through the 1970s, what is now called San Diego's “Gaslamp Quarter," centered on 5th Avenue in the in the city's downtown, was a neon-lit area of beer bar dives, pornographic theaters, massage parlors, strip clubs and a variety of greasy spoons catering to the town's young sailors. San Diego was, and is, a Navy town. ...