Results for "Voice"

Song Yi Jeon

Born: August 28, 1984

Hailing from South Korea, Song Yi Jeon is a singer and composer who deftly combines modern jazz harmony and odd time signatures with singable melodies that instantly catch the ear of the listener.

She studied classical composition at the University of Music and Fine Art in Graz, Austria, and Jazz vocals at the Music Academy in Basel, Switzerland and Berklee College of Music in Boston, in the US where she developed her unique sound. Through her background in classical composition, she uses her understanding of harmonic structure to create incomparable improvisations.

In 2013, as the inaugural Quincy Jones CJ&E fellow, she studied at the Berklee College of Music where she was also awarded the Billboard Endowed Award.

Voice

By Hiromi

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Voice; Flashback; Now or Never; Temptation; Labyrinth; Desire; Haze; Delusion; Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8, Pathetique.

Hiromi: Voice

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 13, 2011

Dalla cartella stampa apprendiamo che la pianista e compositrice Hiromi Uehara ha voluto chiamare questo suo terzo lavoro Voice perché «la voce reale delle persone è espressa nelle loro emozioni». E di emozioni le nove tracce in scaletta ne emanano diverse, grazie soprattutto alla buone combinazioni timbrico/melodiche messe a reagire dal trio, completato da Anthony Jackson ...

Hiromi: Voice

by Ian Patterson
July 18, 2011

Hiromi's Voice--her seventh album for Telarc--carries the hallmarks of her previous works: prodigious piano playing, a dash of electro-funk, and strong melodic hooks, served up in a power trio setting. What has changed is the personnel, with Hiromi's rhythm section since' 04 of drummer Martin Valihora and bassist Tony Grey making way for all-rounder Simon Phillips ...

Hiromi: Voice

by Jeff Winbush
July 14, 2011

If there's no guitar are you playing rock n' roll? If there's no singing does it make any sense to call an album Voice? Sure it does because after all, this is a Hiromi record and, while there is no guitar within earshot, there is plenty of rocking and rolling going on.Voice is not--repeat---not ...

Voice Remixes

By Voice

Label: Not On Label (Andreas Hertel Self-released)
Released: 2007

Songs For Our Grandchildren

By Voice

Label: Sheer Sound
Released: 2003
Track listing: Scullery Department; Ida; Days Mandulo; You Are the Way; The Promise; Children in the Rain; #18 St. Mary's; I Remember Billy; Syd's Dilemma.

Quintet Legacy

By Voice

Label: Sheer Sound
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Sinivile (We Heard You) 2. Sweet Anathi 3. Jessica 4. Blues For Green 5. Phindiile 6. Khumbul'i Khaya 7. Lakutshon' Ilanga 8. Under Pressure

Voice: Songs For Our Grandchildren

by AAJ Staff
June 25, 2003

Holding true to the identity established on Volume 1 of this series, the South African bop quintet known as Voice has chosen to stick to material that represents their country's jazz legacy on Volume 2: Songs For Our Grandchildren. You wouldn't necessarily appreciate that fact on first listen, given this group's overwhelming literacy in the world ...

Voice: Quintet Legacy

by Trevor MacLaren
February 17, 2003

Although not the most inventive of contemporary jazz styles, Voice's Quintet Legacy is a remarkable disc that features both great players and unique arrangements. With each listen what may have seemed passive on the surface builds and deepens. The five players represent something of a who's-who of South African jazz, which helps give the ...