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Jason Kao Hwang: Edge
by Rex Butters
Violinist Jason Kao Hwang gathers a startling quartet to record Edge. Joining him on the front line is cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, his colleague in SpiderMonkey Strings and a fellow Anthony Braxton alumnus. Like Hwang, Bynum has left his mark on some of the premier ensembles of our time, including a tenure with Cecil Taylor. The ...
Jason Kao Hwang: Edge
by Troy Collins
Edge is the self-titled debut of violinist Jason Kao Hwang's new all-star quartet. Joined by cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum (Fully Celebrated Orchestra, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor), bassist Ken Filiano and experimental percussionist Andrew Drury, Hwang sets aside his seminal, decade-old Far East Side Band for this new venture. Exploring the edges of different genres (hence the ...
Jason Kao Hwang: Edge
by Jerry D'Souza
Jason Kao Hwang is on the edge not only with this recording, but with his band as well. Both share the name, and the reason becomes apparent when listening to the record. Hwang nestles comfortably in a wide range of genres while exploring this musical journey. The violinist has created works that have the harmony of ...
Jason Kao Hwang: Graphic Evidence
by Rex Butters
A member of the Anthony Braxton Sextet and the Reggie Workman Ensemble, as well as a performer with Pauline Oliveros and the Deep Listening Band, William Parker, Sirone and Billy Bang, Jason Kao Hwang brings his well-traveled violin to Graphic Evidence, a collaborative performance with soprano saxophonist Frances Wong and bassist Tatsu Aoki. On this perfect ...
Jason Kao Hwang: Edge
by Kurt Gottschalk
Violinist and composer Jason Kao Hwang has an unusual ability to create compositions that seem as if they're falling together by happenstance. Through the '90s he led the Far East Side Band, with Sang-Won Park, Joseph Daley and Satoshi Takeishi, working out a hybrid of Downtown improv and traditional Asian musics. The band never came off ...
Graphic Evidence
Label: Asian Improv Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: To The Endless Embrace of Light;
Invocation and Resonance;
Microscopic;
Blood Falling Out-of-Bounds;
Door Beneath and Arch;
Transparent Tapestry;
Alluvial Fan;
Before Memory Begins.
Jason Kao Hwang/Francis Wong/Tatsu Aoki: Graphic Evidence
by Kurt Gottschalk
Violinist Jason Kao Hwang has sought to meld American jazz and blues with motifs from the Far East for years, most notably on his excellent 1990 release Unfolding Stone (Sound Aspects). Now, with a group all of Asian descent, Hwang has entered a more fully Asiatic idiom, leaving the particularly American vocabularies behind for something more ...
Outer and Interactions
Label: About Time Records
Released: 1988
Track listing: Moments; Outer and Interactions; Monk Funk; The Hteb of Hanavel; The Crouch Opinion; Arcunum II.
