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Youn Sun Nah: Same Girl
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quando partono le prime note di “My Favorite Things," un mondo di possibilità musicali sembra dischiudersi. La coreana Youn Sun Nah in un arrangiamento spoglio, suona la kalimba. E sguazza con la sua voce d'avorio come una falena triste tra le note dello standard di Rodgers e Hammerstein II. Pura magia. Un ostinato alla chitarra di ...
SIU2: Shenging It Up in Hong Kong
by Ian Patterson
It shouldn't really come as a great surprise that China hasn't produced an abundance of jazz musicians, while neighboring Japan continues to turn them out at a great rate of knots, given the very different histories the two countries have lived post World War II. The traumatic Cultural Revolution, under Mao Zedong, shunned all things western, ...
Nguyen Le: Songs of Freedom
by John Kelman
For over twenty years, Nguyên Lê has collaborated with a growing cadre of like-minded musicians--mostly Paris-based, where the guitarist of Vietnamese origins resides--building a body of work that is, in the truest sense of the word, “world music." From the Afro-centric band Ultramarine, and exploration of his own roots on the seminal Tales from Vietnam (ACT, ...
Same Girl
By Youn Sun Nah
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2010
Track listing: My Favorite Things; My Name is Carnival; Breakfast in Baghdad; Uncertain Weather; Song of No Regrets; Kangwondo Arirang; Enter Sandman; Same Girl; Moondog; Pancake; La Chanson d'Hélène.
Youn Sun Nah: Same Girl
by Ian Patterson
Korean singer Youn Sun Nah has come a long way in a short time, since casting off from her French quintet of a decade and turning down a five-album deal from Label Bleu, in order to pursue absolute artistic freedom. Her ACT debut, Voyage (ACT Music, 2009), was a stylish introduction to a strikingly original voice, ...
Youn Sun Nah: Same Girl
by Bruce Lindsay
Same Girl is Youn Sun Nah's seventh album, and finds the young Korean singer continuing to explore an eclectic mix of original songs and left-field covers in the company of the stylish trio that joined her on Voyage (ACT, 2009). By turns funny, inventive, dramatic, melodramatic and reflective Same Girl confirms Nah's abilities as a vocalist ...
Various: Magic Moments 4: Jazz Is Cool
by Bruce Lindsay
Germany's ACT Music is an innovative and adventurous label with an international roster that includes some genuinely cutting-edge musicians including Vijay Iyer and Dan Berglund's Tonbruket. Magic Moments 4: Jazz Is Cool is the fourth in ACT's sampler series and a great place to begin exploring the music it has to offer. The ...
Ottawa Jazz Festival 2010: Days 7-9, June 30-July 2, 2010
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 | Days 10-11 radio.string.quartet.vienna / Tord Gustavsen EnsembleTD Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 30-July 2, 2010 As the 30th Anniversary of the TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival enters the home stretch, it once again provided a day of ...
Live!Singapore: June 8-11, 2010
by Ian Patterson
Rarely do the worlds of jazz, classical music, world music and musical theatre come together in one place to hobnob and strut their stuff, but that was exactly what happened at Live!Singapore, an ambitious event organized by Koelnmesse and IMG Artists. Festival directors, producers, agents, managers, executives and artists of these four disciplines came from more ...
Ottawa Jazz Festival 2010: Days 4-6, June 27-29, 2010
by John Kelman
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 | Days 10-11Kenny Garrett Presents / John Scofield and the Piety Street Band Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu / Medeski, Martin and Wood John Geggie and Friends / Youn Sun Nah / Manu Katché TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 27-29, 2010 ...
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