Jazz Articles about Zhengtao Pan

About Zhengtao Pan

Radio & Podcasts

New Music from the Zhengtao Pan Jazz Orchestra, Remembering Hal Galper, and Darius Jones

by Hobart Taylor
July 30, 2025

Welcome the Zhentao Pan Jazz Orchestra, Plus new music from Lauren Henderson, Joe Farnsworth, Ohad Talmor and Remembering Hal Galper.Playlist Lauren Henderson “Vida" from Sonidos (Brontosaurus) 00:00 Hal Galper Reggie Workman Rashied Ali “ Stella by Starlight" from Art-Work (Origin) 4:19 Host Speaks 13:38 Waitiki 7 “Cave of the Tarpon (live)" from Exotica Reborn: In Studio and Live at House Without A Key (Self-Produced) 15:00 Nicole Zuraitis “Everything Must Change" from Live at Vic's (La Reserve) 22:00 Host ...

Album Review

Zhengtao Pan Jazz Orchestra: Scenery in My Story

Read "Scenery in My Story" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 6, 2025

Zhengtao Pan, born in Shanghai, China, less than twenty-five years ago, was already well-known as a designer of video games when he chose to move to Boston, MA, to study jazz composition at the Berklee College of Music. Scenery In My Story is Pan's debut recording as leader of his Jazz Orchestra, and as its title suggests, the music is personal and thematic, tracing in solicitous terms Pan's impactful voyage from Shanghai to Boston. Intimate, yes, but ...