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Matt Honor

Our Highway

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: American Whispers: Pines; Alice in Promisedland; American Whispers: Streams—An Old Church; Where Is Your Wealth?; Gig Life—American Whispers: Mountains; The Farmer’s Reason.

Kevin Sun: (Un)seaworthy

By JEROME WILSON

Kevin Sun brings a fresh energy and and sense of adventure to the saxophone trio format on this CD. In the company of bassist Walter Stinson and drummer Matt Honor, he plays around with tone, rhythm and tempo, creating exciting music which blends the traditional and the experimental. Sun's sax tone on “Seaworthy (Unseaworthy)" ...

Kevin Sun: The Sustain of Memory

By NERI POLLASTRI

Il secondo album da leader del trentenne sassofonista e clarinettista newyorchese Kevin Sun è un'opera lunga, due CD, e complessa, articolata su tre suite diverse per organico e clima. La prima suite—"The Middle of Tension," in sei parti per un totale di trentasei minuti—vede di scena un classico quartetto, nel quale Sun è accompagnato ...

Cowboys & Frenchmen: Our Highway

By JACK BOWERS

Okay, the name may be rather out of the ordinary (Cowboys & Frenchmen?), but once past that, what remains is a burnished New York City-based quintet whose music might best be described as decidedly liberated and contemporary. This isn't “free" jazz wherein each member of the group goes his own separate way; there is, however, a ...

(Un)seaworthy

Label: Endectomorph Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: Bad Lady; Seaworthy (Unseaworthy); Latinate; Prelude/Genuflecting at the Cathedral of the Perpetual Hustle; Facsimilate (Unlike You).

Kevin Sun: (Un)seaworthy

By TROY DOSTERT

Although he's a relative newcomer to the jazz world, having released his debut album, Trio (Endectomorph Music) in 2018, tenor saxophonist Kevin Sun is well on his way toward staking a major claim as a distinctive composer and soloist. After an excellent two-disc effort, The Sustain of Memory (Endectomorph) in 2019, he's now adding to his ...

The Middle of Tensions I

Album: The Sustain of Memory
By KEVIN SUN
Label: Endectomorph Music
Released: 2019
Duration: 03:30

Kevin Sun: The Sustain of Memory

By DAN MCCLENAGHAN

Ambition is good. Saxophonist Kevin Sun has it. He proves it by releasing--before attaining his thirtieth birthday--The Sustain of Memory, a cinematic two-disc set of atmospheric avant-garde music in trio, quartet and quintet settings, which maintains a start-to-finish focus of an expansive artistic vision. “I've always been drawn to sprawling, encyclopedic or maximalist works ...

Kevin Sun: The Sustain of Memory

By JEROME WILSON

This is an ambitious set of compositions by saxophonist Kevin Sun, 2 CDs which contain three suites for various-sized small groups, each with its own distinct identity. “The Middle Of Tensions" is in six sections played by a quartet of Sun, pianist Dana Saul, bassist Walter Stinson and drummer Matt Honor. Most of this ...