Results for "Insoo Kim"

Insoo Kim

Beat Mirage

By Mina Cho

Label: International Gugak Jazz Institute Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Nacht Song; A Bit of Grace; Beat Mirage; G-Street Dance; Prints of Imperfection; Parallel Destiny (Unmyung II); If There's a Stage for Me in Heaven.

Mina Cho: Beat Mirage

by Jack Bowers
March 9, 2024

Korean-born, Boston-based pianist Mina Cho's Beat Mirage represents a marriage between western contemporary jazz and traditional Korean rhythms and percussive modulations. The question that arises is this: on what basis should such a hybrid be evaluated? While it isn't strictly jazz, neither is it entirely Korean and thus devoid of such jazz components as interplay and ...