Jazz Articles about Win Pongsakorn

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Album Review

Win Pongsakorn: Time Has Changed

Read "Time Has Changed" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 6, 2025

Time Has Changed is the second recording as leader by trumpeter Win Pongsakorn who was born in Bangkok, Thailand, but has been firmly wedded to American-style contemporary jazz since he started playing trumpet at age fourteen in 2011. As on his debut album, Yes, It Is! (Cellar Music, 2020), Pongsakorn is backed by a stellar rhythm section overseen by the celebrated pianist David Hazeltine with Paolo Benedettini on bass and Jason Brown on drums. Unlike that initial ...

Album Review

Win Pongsakorn: Yes, It Is!

Read "Yes, It Is!" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 14, 2020

Although it may take a while (if ever) for Pongsakorn “Win" Lertvanitsutha to become a household name outside his native land, the twenty-nine-year-old trumpeter from Thailand makes an impressive debut on Yes, It Is!, a buoyant studio session, recorded in Italy, that makes room for a brace of guest appearances by Pongsakorn's mentor, Jim Rotondi. Besides leading his tight-knit quartet, Pongsakorn wrote seven of the album's eight numbers to complement the lone standard, Leo Robin / Ralph Rainger's lovely ballad ...