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Helen Sung

Helen Sung is an acclaimed jazz pianist and composer, and a newly named 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. A native of Houston, Texas, and graduate of its High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA), she eschewed her classical piano upbringing after a jazz epiphany during undergraduate studies at UT Austin. Helen went on to become part of the inaugural class of the Thelonious Monk Institute (now the Herbie Hancock Institute) at the New England Conservatory of Music. Her recent releases Sung With Words (Stricker Street), a collaborative project with renowned poet Dana Gioia funded by a Chamber Music America New Jazz Works Grant, and Anthem For A New Day (Concord Jazz) topped the jazz charts

Article: Album Review

Aubrey Johnson, Helen Sung, Dave Douglas, David Hajdu: Lives of the Saints: Portraits in Song with Words by David Hajdu

Read "Lives of the Saints: Portraits in Song with Words by David Hajdu" reviewed by Vic Albani


Chi diavolo è David Hajdu? Ce lo insegna il web: David Hajdu (nato nel 1955 a Phillipsburg, New Jersey con origini ungheresi e italiane) è un editorialista laureato alla New York University, autore e professore statunitense alla Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. È stato critico musicale del New Republic per 12 anni ed è redattore ...

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Lives of the Saints: Portraits in Song with Words by David Hajdu

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Enchantress of Number (for Ada Lovelace); Angelina's Cry (for Angelina Napolitano); I Weathered The Storm (for Lena Horne); The Seafaring Maiden (for Bessie Hall); The White Rose (for Sophie Scholl); Pure Thought (for Hypatia); Pretty Brilliant (for Hedy Lamarr); The Nanny on Her Day Off (for Vivian Maier); The Conjurer (for Leonora Carrington); Song for My Sister (for Barbara Ann Hajdu).

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

UNLV Jazz Ensemble, Jamile, Eli Yamin, Peter Campbell, Shuteen Erdenebaatar & More

Read "UNLV Jazz Ensemble, Jamile, Eli Yamin, Peter Campbell, Shuteen Erdenebaatar & More" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast includes new releases from Jamile, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Jazz Ensemble (UNLV), Eli Yamin, Peter Campbell and Shuteen Erdenebaatar & Nils Kugelmann, with birthday shoutouts to Doris Tauber (Them There Eyes, Drinking Again) Cecilia Coleman, Ramona Horvath, Helen Sung, Champian Fulton, Giacomo Gates, Maria Muldaur, Amy Winehouse, Christie Dashiell and Lorraine Feather, among ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

The Summer Knows (Un été 42)

Read "The Summer Knows (Un été 42)" reviewed by Artur Moral


Not so young, but still foolish: arduous is the path chosen by pianist, composer and singer Franck Amsallem, a lesser-known figure--outside his immediate performance circle--even among some of the jazz world's most avid and encyclopedic enthusiasts. Nevertheless, this musician's name should appear in that roster of outstanding French baby boomer keyboardists mentioned in Pierre de Bethmann: ...

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Article: Live Review

Cécile McLorin Salvant's Ogresse At Carnegie Hall

Read "Cécile McLorin Salvant's Ogresse At Carnegie Hall" reviewed by Adam Beaudoin


Cécile McLorin Salvant Carnegie Hall Ogresse New York, NY May 21, 2025 The relationship between jazz and classical music has a long, complicated history. Musicians themselves tend to care more about the music than concepts of genre, and you only need to listen to the echoes of French Impressionism ...

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Article: Liner Notes

Jordan VanHemert: Survival of the Fittest

Read "Jordan VanHemert: Survival of the Fittest" reviewed by Gary Fukushima


For most of his life, Jordan VanHemert has been on a quest of growth and mastery as a saxophonist, composer and musician. But equally important have been his efforts to contextualize some of the difficulties of his life experiences within the deeper themes of his DNA, discovering in the process resilience, optimism and joy. Jordan's music ...

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Article: Interview

Sharel Cassity: In the Spirit

Read "Sharel Cassity: In the Spirit" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright


Even on an old familiar tune like Charlie Chaplin's “Smile" (1936), it is clear from note one that Sharel Cassity is a child of Bird, an altoist in the modernist tradition of Charlie Parker. Her first influence was actually her biological father, an organist, with whom she shared the stage in New Orleans at age 11, ...

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Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 05:43


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