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Jo-Yu Chen: Rendezvous - Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More

Read "Rendezvous - Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More" reviewed by Frank Housh

by Frank Housh
May 21, 2025

New York-based pianist and composer Jo-Yu Chen treats the great composers like most jazz musicians treat the Great American Songbook: a familiar musical foundation upon which to build a musical style. Chen trained at Juilliard but was seduced by jazz's siren song. Her first four albums: Obsession (Sony Music, 2011), Incomplete Soul (Sony Music, ...

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Incomplete Soul

By Jo-Yu Chen

Label: Sony Music
Released: 2012
Track listing: Wandering Songstress; Chess; Incomplete Soul; Improv 1; Black Forest; Love Letter; Tipsy Cat; Departure; Improv 2; Dreamer; Follow Me; Improv 3; Red Bean.

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Jo-Yu Chen Trio: Incomplete Soul

Read "Incomplete Soul" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 20, 2012

Giunta al secondo disco, la pianista taiwanese conferma e perfeziona quanto aveva espresso nel precedente Obsession. Stessi partner e stesso produttore (Sam Yahel) per un lavoro nuovamente ricercato, in cui il talento strumentale si lega a quello compositivo. In Incomplete Soul troviamo sette temi a suo nome, tre momenti liberamente improvvisati, due motivi pop taiwanesi ("Chess" ...

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Jo-Yu Chen Trio: Incomplete Soul

Read "Incomplete Soul" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
February 2, 2012

Taiwanese-born pianist Jo-Yu Chen is going somewhere. The cover photo of her Incomplete Soul shows the artist in the back seat of a car, gazing at an indeterminate distance, with a look of quiet, unyielding determination on her face. Her journey with this recording is one of a melding of her classical influences with the improvisational ...

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Jo-Yu Chen: Incomplete Soul

Read "Incomplete Soul" reviewed by James Nadal

by James Nadal
December 9, 2011

Where most musicians today release a record as a statement that they have arrived, Jo-Yu Chen's recording Incomplete Soul characterizes the ongoing journey of musical exploration which the pianist began with Obsession (Sony, 2010). Opening with the erhu (two-stringed Chinese violin) opening to “The Wandering Songstress," the record is a musical metaphor of Chen herself. In ...