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Sun Chung of Red Hook Records: Listening at the Threshold

by Tyran Grillo
June 30, 2026

Sun Chung's Red Hook Records has, in just five years, become one of the most quietly consequential imprints in contemporary creative music. Its significance lies not in volume, market saturation, or stylistic branding, but in something rarer: a producer's ear turned into an aesthetic world. At a time when recorded music is often treated as content, ...

Clarinetist Virginia MacDonald's Debut + Steve Bernstein and Carlin Lee

by Hobart Taylor
May 27, 2026

Make way for clarinetist Virginia MacDonald's stunning debut release plus new tunes from Emily Kuhn, Alden Hellmuth, Steve Bernstein and a peace anthem from Qasim Naqvi, Wadada Leo Smith and Andrew Cyrille. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Daphne Parker Powell “Perpetual Light of the Void" from The Death of Cool (Self-Produced) 00:00:08 Steven Bernstein “Two ...

Talk Show with Steph Richards and Qasim Naqvi at Roulette Intermedium

by Paul Reynolds
March 4, 2026

Talk Show with Steph Richards and Qasim Naqvi Roulette Intermedium New York, NY February 26, 2026 Like most jazz musicians--even non-mainstream players like her--trumpeter Steph Richards often plays cosy nightclubs on her visits to New York (from Seattle, where she teaches at the University of Washington). Yet her Thursday performance--with Talk Show, her ...

Red Hook Records

by Hobart Taylor
December 18, 2024

Celebrating Red Hook Records artists Wadada Leo Smith, Amina Claudine Myers, Andrew Cyrille and others, plus new music from Samara Joy. Playlist Aymée Nuviola Kemuel Roig"Imágenes" from Havana Nocturne (Worldwide) 0:00 William Cepeda" Con El Corazón (Plena)" from The Sound of Puerto Rican Jazz (Casabe) 4:39 Sessa “Canção da Cura" from Estrela Acesa (Self ...

BlankFor.ms - Jason Moran - Marcus Gilmore: Refract

by Pat Youngspiel
October 6, 2023

Electroacoustic music gains a new modern perspective with the sonic marvel that is Refract, a collaborative effort between degraded tapes artist Tyler Gilmore, aka BlankFor.ms, pianist Jason Moran and Marcus Gilmore on drums. An experimental series of sketched shapes featuring hovering loops turned sound- blankets, drum-set turned beat-machine and piano turned keyboard-impressionism, Refract's largely improvised fabric ...

Two Centuries

By Wadada Leo Smith

Label: Red Hook
Released: 2022
Track listing: For D.F.; The Curve; Spiritual Is 150; Organum; Tympanic; Bypass Decay; Palaver; Sadden Upbeat; Wraith; Halide; Orion Arm.

Producer Sun Chung: Always Listening for a Story

by Tyran Grillo
December 19, 2022

On April 28, 2021, a quiet masterpiece marked the end of an era--and the beginning of another. Hanamichi was to be the last studio recording of Japanese pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, who died in 2015, two years after its creation. And yet, while its sweeter overtones struck balance in the bitterness of his absence, the album marked ...

Qasim Naqvi / Wadada Leo Smith / Andrew Cyrille: Two Centuries

by Chris May
September 23, 2022

Strangely, given their similar ages and trajectories, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and percussionist Andrew Cyrille have worked together infrequently. But when they have, the results have been spectacular. In 2018, Smith and Cyrille collaborated with guitarist Bill Frisell on the well received Lebroda for ECM. Lebroda was produced by Sun Chung, who has since ...

Night

January 4, 2022

Album: Intimate Strangers
By Sara Serpa
Label: Biophilia Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 3:23