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Jared Schonig
Born 1983 in Los Angeles, CA to a family of professional musicians, Jared Schonig began playing the piano at age 5 and the drums at age 14. While a young student in Los Angeles, Jared had numerous opportunities to perform professionally and with various all-star bands, and won 4 Downbeat Student Music Awards, including a “Best Soloist” award, his senior year. Jared attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, during which time he received 3 more Downbeat Student Music Awards (including "Best Soloist" and "Top Collegiate Combo") before receiving his BA in 2005. While still a student, Jared also performed with vibraphonist Joe Locke and Dr
City Suite
By Rin Seo
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: City Suite I: The Big Apple; City Suite II: Cityscape; City Suite III: Alone, But Not Alone; Lullaby;
Desert Flowers; Music for Dance No. 2; Blues a la Carte; Riding a Bike.
Rin Seo: City Suite
by Jack Bowers
There is no doubting which metropolis Korean-born composer Rin Seo had in mind when writing City Suite, the panoramic opening salvo and centerpiece on the debut recording by her fourteen-member Rin Seo Collective, as the suite's first movement is titled “The Big Apple." Seo moved to New York City, her present home, after coming to America ...
Tracks and Tipples to End the Winter
by Kristen Lee Sergeant
Dear All About Jazzers, Kristen here, your singer/songwriter/sommelier. I'm thrilled to be sharing my wine and song pairing, Jazz & Juice, with you once more. What started during the pandemic as a deep-dive series has now become a bi-weekly, two minute meditation on the pleasures of both music and wine, meant to be enjoyed ...
Anat Cohen and Oded Lev-Ari: On Togetherness, The 3 Cohens and The Art of Interaction
by Dan Bilawsky
As clarinetist Anat Cohen and arranger Oded Lev-Ari sit down to chat on a frigid February morning, they're completely cognizant of a pair of major milestones on the horizon in early 2025: Anzic Records--the label they initially launched with valued partner and supporter Colin Negrych, and have long run as a two-person team--marks its 20th anniversary; ...
Ben Kono Group: Voyages
by Jerome Wilson
This album is saxophonist Ben Kono's tribute to his family's history, dating back to his grandfather's migration from Japan to the United States in 1911, performed by a combination of small jazz group and string quartet, The first half of the work concerns with his family's transition into life in the United States, and the second ...
Voyages
By Ben Kono
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Yobiyose (The Calling); Bata-Kusai!!; Belong; Across the Pond; Issei; Nisei; Sansei; Yonsei.
Infinite Connections
By Jihye Lee
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Surrender; We Are All from the Same Stream; Born in 1935; Eight Letters; Karma; You Are My Universe; Nowhere
Home; In the Darkest Night; Crossing the River of Grace.
Ben Kono Turned Family History into Chamber Jazz
by Lawrence Peryer
Ben Kono discovered his family's American origin story in the pages of his grandfather's memoirs. Thirteen-year-old Juhei Caleb Kono sailed alone from Japan in 1911, worked Pacific Northwest farms, and attended fourth grade as a young adult to build a new life. These translated accounts sparked Kono's new album Voyages (Self Produced), an ambitious blend of ...
Jihye Lee Orchestra: Infinite Connections
by Jack Bowers
Some eighty-odd years ago a handful of trailblazers led by saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie changed the vocabulary of jazz, introducing bebop as a successor to trad jazz and swing and radically transforming the music's landscape and perspective. Their terminology remained pretty much intact for a number of years, with partisans choosing a path ...
