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Into The Light: Music of Korea V
by Ian Patterson
The Korean Arts Management Service (KAMS) has put a great deal of energy and resources into promoting the Korean performance arts abroad in the past nine years. Music is one of its biggest exports, with traditional and contemporary Korean music increasingly finding its way into the World Music, jazz and numerous arts festivals of the world. ...
Yoosun Nam: Light Of the City
by Hrayr Attarian
Seoul native and New York based saxophonist Yoosun Nam's debut Light Of the City, true to its name, is a luminous album that showcases Nam's strong sense of lyricism and her exquisite agility on the her instrument. An incandescent feel imbues all eight Nam penned originals and although none of the tunes are particularly memorable there ...
Jarasum International Jazz Festival, 3-5 October, Bigger And Better Than Ever!
The Jarasum International Jazz Festival returns for its eleventh edition between 3 - 5 October. Last year’s 10th anniversary bash attracted over 230,000 Korean jazz fans and an even greater number is expected this year. As ever, a veritable feast of international jazz will be served up on the festival’s numerous stages. Korean jazz in all ...
Jangeun Bae: JB
by Ian Patterson
Since her debut, The End and Everything After (Kang Music, 2006), Korean pianist Jangeun Bae has largely followed her personal muse, writing original compositions and reworking Korean folk tunes, with the occasional jazz standard thrown in for good measure. She's also refashioned Mozart on Mozart and Jazz (Universal Music, 2007) and recorded with saxophonist Greg Osby. ...
Jiyoung Lee: Snobs, Addicts & Royalty
by Ian Patterson
Jiyoung Lee, pianist/keyboardist and leader of Korean jazz-funk sextet Jazz Snobs Funk Addicts probably has to pinch herself from time to time. Encouraged from a young age by her parents to pursue a life as a classical pianist, Lee instead opted for the greater expressive freedom--and the economic uncertainty-- offered by jazz. Her journey so far ...
Jazz Snobs Funk Addicts: Season 2: The Return of JSFA!!
by Ian Patterson
Jazz Snobs Funk Addicts is a Seoul-based sextet co-led by pianist/keyboardist Jiyoung Lee and bassist Eunchang Choi. Its 2009 eponymous debut mixed electro-acoustic jazz-funk and mellifluous contemporary jazz and was the enjoyable calling card of a band starting out. JSFA has spent the last four years honing its sound on stage, resulting in greater collective cohesion, ...
Yeahwon Shin: Lua Ya
by Alberto Bazzurro
Piccolo capolavoro di minimalismo vocale (ma anche strumentale), quest'opera seconda della giovane cantante coreana (dopo Yeahwon, del 2010, dedicato al Brasile e come tale insignito di una nomination al Latin Grammy) si muove lungo la sottile linea che va dal duetto, alternativamente con i suoi due dirimpettai, al trio, suo traguardo massimo. Il canto di Yeahwon ...
Yeahwon Shin e il Questionario di Proust
by Paolo Peviani
All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della mia musica Yeahwon Shin: Non so esattamente come rispondere a questa domanda. Quello che posso dire è che cerco sempre di essere onesta e sincera con la musica. AAJ La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me Y.S. Ammiro la ...
Jarasum International Jazz Festival Celebrates 10 Years!
The Jarasum International Jazz Festival, one of the world’s best attended jazz festivals celebrates its 10th edition from October 3rd to 6th in Gapeyong, South Korea. JIJF has come a long way since the very first edition in 2004. That year 30,000 people turned up to watched 15 local bands and 12 international acts that included ...
Youn Sun Nah: Seoul to Soul
by Ian Patterson
Since she moved to Paris in 1995, Korean jazz singer Youn Sun Nah has won over French and Korean audiences alike with her rather special voice; dramatic, sensuous and bluesy, it is a tantalizing cross between Bjork and Melody Gardot. Hers is a jazz soul.For years, she led the Youn Sun Nah 5Tet and ...
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