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Where To Find Jun Hee Park This Year
Source:
Frank Gazerro
The Korean jazz pianist Jun Hee Park is bringing her brand of jazz to New York and is booked to star in concerts at some of the city's most-recognized jazz rooms, including the Django Jazz Club, where she will be performing as the lead pianist of Marty Scott's quintet. A few nights a week, at a different venue entirely, Park is somewhere else. She is part of a weekly residency at the historic Stonewall Inn as lead pianist for trombonist ...
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Jazz Pianist Jun Hee Park Is Shaking Up The New York Jazz Scene
Source:
Frank Gazerro
Jun Hee Park, the acclaimed jazz pianist who built her career headlining major festivals and clubs in South Korea is now making her mark on the jazz scene in New York. Park was still in her twenties when she co-founded Jazz Deo in 2016, a Daejeon quartet built around her piano and arrangements. Within a year, the band was the go-to act at Yellow Taxi, the biggest jazz club in the city. The band's calendar filled up fast after that. ...
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David Ling And The New Pulse Of Boston Jazz
Source:
Frank Gazerro
Boston’s jazz scene is defined by profound resilience. For decades, the city thrived as a northern sanctuary for the genre. This is the city where George Wein opened Storyville in 1950, handing the microphone to Charlie Parker and Billie Holiday. It is the city where Miles Davis famously tore the roof off the Jazz Workshop. But the late 2010s and early 2020s threatened that momentum. The beloved Beantown Jazz Festival collapsed in 2018, stripping the city of its “biggest block ...
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Blue Fire: Aayushi Karnik And The New Indian Guitar Crossing
Source:
Frank Gazerro
Aayushi Karnik, 32, plays the guitar with breathtaking authority. Widely acclaimed as the leading Indian female blues guitarist of her generation, the Juilliard-trained, Fender-endorsed virtuoso has built a career that completely defies the traditional borders of American roots music. What listeners hear first is her touch. Karnik knows exactly how to make a bent note sting, how to let an acoustic phrase bloom around open strings, and how to snap a rhythm figure into place before widening the harmony underneath ...
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The Man Behind The Sessions: Why Artists, Producers, And Studios Keep Calling Jose Luis Castro
Source:
Frank Gazerro, Journalist
In music, the most influential artists are not always the ones with their faces on a billboard. Oftentimes, they are the people who get the call before the call — the ones artists trust to compose music for their albums, the ones producers trust with deadlines, and the ones studios hand the keys to when they need someone to lead a project. They are the collaborators who can walk into a room, understand the artist, the business, the sound, the ...
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Jose Castro Is Creating Music For A World Without Borders
Source:
Frank Gazerro, Journalist
Jose Luis Castro, who also performs under the stage name “J. Jeaux," came up in a music business that no longer asks artists to stay in one lane. The old categories — recording artist, producer, composer, sound designer — still exist, but for many modern musicians, those lines have started to blur. Castro, who records under the name J. Jeaux, is one of those artists: a Mexico-born composer, producer, and sound designer who is widely-recognized in the music industry for ...
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The Rhythmic Alchemy Of Srisley: Weaving Korean Heritage With Afro-cuban Heat
Source:
Frank Gazerro
When pianist, composer, and teaching master Yae-Seul Kim—known to the jazz world as Srisley—touches the keys, listeners are instantly transported to a captivating landscape of sound. Through a deeply internalized grasp of Latin jazz rhythms and a profound connection to Korean roots, Srisley has forged an artistic signature that resonates across continents. From early beginnings as a classical prodigy in South Korea to emerging as a celebrated voice in contemporary jazz, this journey is a testament to the universal power ...
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Jordan Rich: Cardiff Keyboard Wizard On A Global Stage
Source:
Frank Gazerro
In 2015, when Wales Online described Jordan Rich as the “Cardiff keyboard wizard,” the recognition wasn’t just for a promising up-and-comer—but for a 22-year-old who had made waves far beyond his native Wales, writes Jenny Ashcroft. Born in 1993, Rich had matured into one of the UK’s most gifted jazz fusion keyboardists and composers by his early twenties, with a reputation built not on hype but on an unmistakable musical intelligence and an ability to bridge genres. His early years ...
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