Jazz Articles about Amanda Suwondo

Amanda Suwondo: Revisit

by Mike Jurkovic
March 18, 2021

It's genuinely odd and oddly gratifying that a young native Indonesian whom, after traveling to LA to study with Tamir Hendelman, mentor in New York with Christian Sands, and who now calls the land down under home, can remind one of America's lost, defiant lilt and how badly we need to get it back. Gigging around Sydney has brought Amanda Suwondo many an accolade, and those early and late sets have bequeathed the pianist with a graceful, Dave ...