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Hyewon Park’s Symphony Of Success
Hyewon Park has emerged as a luminary in the music industry, exhibiting her multifaceted talent as a pianist, composer, and recording artist. With a unique ability to blend jazz and classical music alongside influences from electronic and South Korean traditions, she has carved out a distinctive niche for herself. Hyewon Park is a prolific artist whose ...
Duke Ellington at 125 Years Young
April 29 marked the 125th anniversary of Duke Ellington's birth in 1899. Catching the Ellington bug over the weekend, I figured what better way to kick off the week than with seven celebratory video clips and a bonus album: Here's Ellington conducting the Dick Cavett band on August 8, 1969. Bill Kirchner sent this one along. ...
Virtuoso Composer And Pianist Hyewon Park: A Global Influence From South Korea
Hyewon Park, an acclaimed and internationally-recognized composer, pianist, and music educator from South Korea, continues to garner respect and admiration on both domestic and international stages for her notable achievements and contributions to the music industry. Since 2021, Park has been the Lead Composer and Arranger for Osunjirang, a distinguished South Korea-based company founded by the ...
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Free for All
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers' Free for All was recorded in February 1964 and released in July 1965. Only four tracks were recorded, two per side. And yet the album is one of the hard-bop sextet's finest and most ambitious works. The band is firing on all cylinders. The lineup in 1964 featured Blakey on ...
10 Clips: João Bosco at Birdland Next Week
João Bosco, Brazil's legendary master of bossa nova and post-bossa nova pop known as música popular Brasileira will be making a rare appearance at New York's Birdland club next week, June 4-8. He'll be joined by Ricardo Silveira (guitar), Guto Wirtti (bass) and Kiko Freitas (drums). I don't know how producer Pat Philips does it, but ...
Acclaimed Composer Hyewon Park Appointed To Prominent Music Programs In The U.s.
Acclaimed South Korean composer, pianist, and music educator Hyewon Park is about to make waves in the music industry in the United States. Known for her extraordinary ability to perform, compose, and communicate her musical expertise to students, Park is about to bring her expertise to the next generation of students in the United States, as ...
Lee Ritenhaur and Dave Grusin: Brasil
Just as sunshine pop offered a counterweight to psychedelic hard rock in the late 1960s, soft jazz evolved in the 1970s as a lighter FM alternative to the mystical psychedelic jazz fusion movement. Two artists who helped pioneer soft jazz were guitarist Lee Ritenour and keyboardist Dave Grusin. Mind you, these categories weren't exclusive. There was ...
The Recording Industry's Music Performance Trust Fund Invests $1.1 Million in Grants to Communities to Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month
The recording industry's Music Performance Trust Fund (MPTF), a leading non-profit organization enriching lives and uniting communities through the power of music, wrapped up its annual initiative to present admission-free live musical performances celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) in April. Nearly 5,000 professional musicians in 78 markets across North America performed for appreciative audiences from Honolulu ...
Backgrounder: Sonny Stitt's Night Crawler
When I was collecting Sonny Stitt albums as a kid in the early 1970s, my purchases divided into three categories: not bad, meh and perfection. Back then, there was no internet. Instead, I listened religiously to jazz FM radio stations and entered favorites in a small notebook that fit in my back pocket. Everyone I knew ...
Backgrounder: Jazz Sounds From Peter Gunn
One could argue that Henry Mancini picked up where Bill Holman left off. As noted earlier this week, Bill's arrangements for recordings captured the sound of 1950s Los Angeles' jazzy cool, with his charts clutch-shifting like brand-new cars cruising the region's many freeways. Mancini's music, by contrast, was for TV and the movies, and captured the ...
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