Jazz Articles about Yuwen Peng

Yuwen Peng: Putting a Spin on Sizhukong

by Ian Patterson
December 11, 2012

Yuwen Peng doesn't like resting on her laurels. The pianist, composer and founder of Taiwanese sextet Sizhukong had already taken a bold step in integrating Western instruments, African music and jazz harmonies with traditional Taiwanese and Chinese folk songs on Sizhukong's self-titled debut recording in 2007. The follow-up to that, Paper Eagle (Sizhukong Records, 2009), followed a very similar pattern, though the refinement in the band's sound was notable. More of the same wouldn't have been a ...