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Jo-Yu Chen’s fourth trio album “Savage Beauty,” featuring special guest saxophonist Mark Turner, has been released on March 15, 2019 by Sony Music. She is the first Taiwanese jazz artist signed to a major record label, and has also joined the distinguished international roster of Steinway Artists.
The title composition "Savage Beauty" was in memory of the British avant-garde fashion designer Alexander McQueen. “Musically, I’ve always wanted to express myself as delicate, dramatic, and playful but ultra-powerful. McQueen mixed strength and fragility to create a picture of an empowered woman warrior who is ultra-feminine yet powerful. I found myself deeply resonating with McQueen’s aesthetic approach and the dark romanticism of his style. I also respect how he challenged the market by staying true to himself as an artist in such a commercial and consumer lead fashion industry. “, says Chen.
Rendezvous - Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More
By Jo-Yu Chen
Label: Sony Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 / Piano Sonata Moonlight; Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker: Dance of the Reed Flutes; Beethoven – Sonata No. 8, Pathétique 2nd Movement; Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake; Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet: Dance of the Knights; Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition: The Old Castle; Prokofiev – Piano Concerto #2; Ravel – Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte.
Eugenia Canale, Jo-Yu Chen, Ninanda, Verena Zeiner & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
The never-ending fertile interplay between jazz and classical music, opera, and other musical genres is at the heart of a wide-ranging and compelling set. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Ninanda “Primrose" A Place Where (Komos) 0:16 Host talks 6:12 Eugenia Canale “Olà, ...
Jo-Yu Chen: Rendezvous - Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More
by Frank Housh
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, ...
Jo-Yu Chen: Rendezvous: Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Jo-Yu Chen's artistic mission can be described in her words: “When the music is right, it brings us back to the true essence of music, beyond labels and boundaries." But a discussion of labels and boundaries is necessary when addressing her album Rendezvous: Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More. First, some ...
Savage Beauty
By Jo-Yu Chen
Label: Sony Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: Slightly Ajar; Panthers; Stay With Me; Savage Beauty; Walking Through Fear; A Tale Of Two Cites; Spooky Ooky; Song For Twins (Mia & Max); Creepers; Will I See You Again.
Jo-Yu Chen: Savage Beauty
by Angelo Leonardi
La brava pianista taiwanese allieva di Kenny Barron e Jason Moran è tornata a incidere dopo quattro anni di silenzio, confermando il suo valore e le linee di fondo della sua estetica. Anche in quest'album Jo-Yu Chen aggiunge al suo stabile trio un ospite (Mark Turner prende il posto di Kurt Rosenwinkel) e conferma la co-produzione ...
Brandee Younger, Alexi Tuomarila, Fabian Almazan & More New Jazz
by Ludovico Granvassu
From tributes to past masters to new perspectives, acoustic to electronic, the new and upcoming releases we play this week show the wide-range of today's creative scene. Happy listening! Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Brandee Younger “Games" Soul Awakening (Self-released) 0:17 Host talks 5:54 ...
Jo-Yu Chen: Savage Beauty
by Dan McClenaghan
The cover art of pianist Jo-Yu Chen's fourth album, Savage Beauty, is provocative and beautiful. So is the music. There is a sense of a “stepping up of the game," in terms of public persona and artistry. Chen has always taken the physical product—the hard copy of her CDs—seriously, beginning with her debut, Obsession (Sony Music ...
Stranger
By Jo-Yu Chen
Label: Okeh
Released: 2014
Track listing: Mon Cher; Wolfman; Castle; Fragments; Stranger; The Pirate; Interlude; Song for Ryder; Happy New Year; Art of Darkness; Foliage at Night.
