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Kevin Sun: Quartets

Read "Quartets" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Dopo The Sustain of Memory (Endectomorph, 2019) e il suo ideale seguito The Depths of Memory , ecco il terzo album doppio del talentuoso sassofonista e compositore Kevin Sun. Rispetto ai precedenti, veri e propri concept album costruiti nella forma di suites dall'ampio respiro e con formazioni a geometria variabile, Quartets presenta alcune sostanziali novità. Due sedute di registrazione distinte, la prima datata 2022, la seconda 2023, due differenti quartetti, la classica suddivisione in brani strutturati tra tempi ...

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Kevin Sun: Quartets

Read "Quartets" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Sometimes, talent calls out, other times, it is acknowledged with a nod. For saxophonist and composer Kevin Sun, both are obvious. The mastery of his instrument is a given; it is just that his music is never flashy or overindulgent, thus the nod. That fact is evident in previous discs on his Endectomorph Music label; the live trio recording The Fate Odyssey The Tenor (2023), 3 Bird (2021), (Un)Seaworthy (2020) and The Sustain Of Memory (2019). Sun's growing discography is ...

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Kevin Sun: Quartets

Read "Quartets" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Saxophonist Kevin Sun goes big again. Sustain Of Memory (2020) and 2023's Depth of Memory, both on his Endectomorph label, were two-disc offerings. And now we have Quartets, another two CD set. He is an artist with a lot to say. Each disc features Sun on tenor sax accompanied by bassist Walter Stinson. The piano and drum chairs are taken on the first CD by Dana Saul and Matt Honor, respectively. CD 2 finds Kayvon Gordon doing the ...

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Kevin Sun: The Depths of Memory

Read "The Depths of Memory" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Kevin Sun è un ancor giovane sassofonista e compositore newyorkese di origini asiatiche non troppo conosciuto alle nostre latitudini, ma già autore di numerosi lavori che lo hanno segnalato alla critica d'oltreoceano e fatto crescere in considerazione presso i suoi colleghi. Sun è musicista dotato di grande talento ed altrettanta grande ambizione -soprattutto compositiva-come ben illustrato dai due doppi cd The Sustain of Memory (Endectomorph, 2019) e il suo ideale seguito The Depths of Memory, suddiviso come il precedente in ...

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Kevin Sun: The Depths of Memory

Read "The Depths of Memory" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Saxophonist/composer Kevin Sun's 2 CD set, The Depths Of Memory, is said to be more suited to focused listening than to the “convivial distractions of a jazz club." That rings true. From CD 1's opener, “All This Stillness," subdivided into seven sections, the album finds the saxophonist and his bandmates sounding as if they have slipped into a flow. Sun says he wanted the feeling of “being swept along in a current of musical thought over a period of time." ...

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Kevin Sun: The Sustain of Memory

Read "The Sustain of Memory" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Il secondo album da leader del trentenne sassofonista e clarinettista newyorchese Kevin Sun è un'opera lunga, due CD, e complessa, articolata su tre suite diverse per organico e clima. La prima suite—"The Middle of Tension," in sei parti per un totale di trentasei minuti—vede di scena un classico quartetto, nel quale Sun è accompagnato dal pianoforte di Dana Saul, dal contrabbasso di Walter Stinton e dalla batteria di Matt Honor. Ed è il pianoforte, con la frammentarietà e ...

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Kevin Sun: The Sustain of Memory

Read "The Sustain of Memory" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Ambition is good. Saxophonist Kevin Sun has it. He proves it by releasing--before attaining his thirtieth birthday--The Sustain of Memory, a cinematic two-disc set of atmospheric avant-garde music in trio, quartet and quintet settings, which maintains a start-to-finish focus of an expansive artistic vision. “I've always been drawn to sprawling, encyclopedic or maximalist works of art," Sun says. And he has produced an excellent and beautiful example of the genre. The music is divided into three “suites": the ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Quartets

Endectomorph Records
2024

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The Depths of Memory

Endectomorph Music
2023

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The Sustain of Memory

Endectomorph Music
2019

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That Lights a Star

From: Quartets
By Dana Saul

Frozen in Profile

From: The Depths of Memory
By Dana Saul

The Middle of Tensions I

From: The Sustain of Memory
By Dana Saul

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