Results for "Jo-Yu Chen"

Jo-Yu Chen: Obsession

by Dan Bilawsky
March 28, 2012

Japanese musicians get most of the ink when jazz sights turn to Asian-born wonders, but pianist Jo-Yu Chen is proof that Taiwan has its fair share of homegrown talent. Chen has been making waves over the past few years, self-releasing her Sam Yahel-produced debut, joining the fold as a Steinway Artist and, most recently, signing with ...

Jo-Yu Chen Trio: Incomplete Soul

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 ...

Jo-Yu Chen: Incomplete Soul

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 ...

Jo-Yu Chen Trio Incomplete Soul

Featuring the music of Jo-Yu Chen
Duration: 5:54
October 17, 2011

Jo-Yu Chen: Obsession

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 2, 2011

Allieva di Kenny Barron, Jason Moran e Sam Yahel, la pianista taiwanese fa il suo ingresso sulla scena del jazz dalla porta principale, debuttando in trio con un lavoro co-prodotto con il suo mentore Yahel, grande strumentista ancora in attesa dei dovuti riconoscimenti. Il CD dopo essere apparso sul mercato come autoproduzione è stato poco dopo ...

The first Taiwanese jazz pianist to be listed in the Steinway hall of fame: Jo-Yu Chen signed an exclusive artist contract with Sony Music Taiwan

March 18, 2011

Jazz pianist Jo-Yu Chen, who has long made New York her home, was recently shortlisted as Steinway Artist and thus becoming the first Taiwanese jazz pianist to obtain this honor. At the end of 2010, she was featured prominently in the coverage of two American heavyweight jazz magazines: Downbeat and Jazziz. In addition to being featured ...