Jazz Articles about Sun-Mi Hong

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Zack Lober: So We Could Live

by Marco Iacoboni
November 13, 2025

Zack Lober torna con un lavoro che alza l'asticella dell'attenzione su uno dei musicisti più interessanti dell'attuale scena jazz contemporanea. Il contrabbassista canadese, da anni residente in Olanda, presenta un quartetto chordless in perfetta continuità con la tradizione ma animato da una spinta moderna, a cavallo tra le sonorità newyorchesi e quelle europee.Il riferimento ai progetti di Joe Henderson è evidente fin dal brano di apertura, "Joe Type Tune," che lo omaggia apertamente, ma le suggestioni rimandano anche ...

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John Dikeman: Old Adam On Turtle Island

by John Sharpe
September 13, 2025

Committed improviser John Dikeman assembles a crack Amsterdam domiciled quartet to navigate Old Adam On Turtle Island, a song cycle that probes the intersections of colonization, religion, and their potential to inspire transcendence or tyranny. The framework is deliberately loose: a schematic more than a score, allowing the musicians to chart the course collectively. Themes emerge as insistent phrases rather than fixed melodies, serving as touchstones in a performance defined by ebb and flow. The first half moves ...

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Dikeman / Hong / Lumley / Warelis: Old Adam On Turtle Island

by Mark Corroto
February 17, 2025

The creative community centered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, can be seen as the modern-day equivalent of a city once known as New Amsterdam--a 17th-century Dutch settlement that would eventually become New York City. Just as modern jazz flourished in mid-20th-century New York, some might argue that today's hotbed of creative music resides in old Amsterdam. Evidence for this can be found in Old Adam on Turtle Island, a stunning musical creation by a multicultural quartet. Led by American saxophonist ...

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DUO IN at Isole che Parlano Fest 2023

by Danilo Codazzi
September 23, 2023

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Zack Lober: NO FILL3R

by Jerome Wilson
March 13, 2023

Bassist Zack Lober has been part of the worlds of jazz and musical improvisation for some time but this is his debut as a leader, heading a frisky trio which also includes trumpet and drums. This album was recorded in the Netherlands and has Lober playing with trumpeter Suzan Veneman and drummer Sun-Mi Hong. The three combine for a tight, compact sound which is most immediately striking when Veneman's trumpet drifts melodically over the undulating rhythms laid down ...