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Younee

PIONEER OF “FREE CLASSIC & JAZZ”

Younee, composer and singer-songwriter from South Korea, has long left her mark, not only due to her unique and virtuoso piano playing. By means of her awesome power of improvisation and that exceptional gift of being able to improvise and to compose freely on a classical foundation, she has defined her very own style: Free Classic & Jazz!

It is with Younee’s spontaneous and freely composed musical pieces in the course of her breathtaking live appearances that she succeeds to win over her audiences again and again. This is why her next album will feature live-recordings of her most exciting live compositions from concerts between 2017 and 2019. Her first two albums had taken the bestseller charts by storm, catapulting her to the No. 1 position. While her German debut album “Jugendstil” (2014) had still relied on Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, and other “classics” as inspiration, Younee, on her next album “My Piano” (2016), by way of her incredible technique and 11 self-penned compositions, had virtually lit brilliant fireworks between furioso and pianissimo, taking the listener on a highly emotional journey into a new world of piano music. Down to the last note, everything happens intuitively, spontaneously, unexpectedly without ever slipping into the realm of “kitsch”, or hiding behind a virtuosity because of virtuosity’s sake. “That’s me” says Younee, who has made her current home in Bavaria. The manner in which Younee presents her music to a live audience does not only have its charm, each time it is as if she were reinventing her own music over again.

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Article: Album Review

Younee: Improvisations Live in Germany

Read "Improvisations Live in Germany" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


La quarantenne (il prossimo 20 ottobre) pianista coreana Younee è nota per la sua abitudine a mischiare jazz e classica, terreno (l'insieme, il totale) su cui questo doppio album live, registrato tutto in terra tedesca fra il 2017 e il 2022, due ore e venti di musica piuttosto tirata, interrotta soltanto dalle presentazioni dei vari brani, ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

2024 Look Back

Read "2024 Look Back" reviewed by David Brown


For this week's program, I want to pick up where we left off last week, revisiting albums released in 2024 that really made an impression on me. This is not a top ten list, but more of a mix-tape if you will of recordings I highly recommend from the past year. Artists include John Zorn's New ...

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Improvisations Live in Germany

Label: Fulminantmusic
Released: 2024
Track listing:
CD 1:

Moderation; Frühling; Moderation; Song for J.O.S; Moderation; Joy; Moderation; Tod Und Leben; Wasser; Moderation; Funky Sonata; Moderation; Stars on the Sky Without Gravity; Moderation; Crazy Night in Lichtenfels; Moderation; Red Indian Summer; Moderation; Vollmond.

CD 2:

Moderation; From Korea to Beach; Moderation; Bright Moonlight; Moderation; Jazz SymphonY; Lefthand Improvisation; Moderation; Cuba; Moderation; Instrument Is Alive; We Will Meet Again; Hello Beethoven; Moderation; Unterfahrt; Moderation; Seoul.

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Kris Davis and Younee: Keys To The Eighty-Eights

Read "Kris Davis and Younee: Keys To The Eighty-Eights" reviewed by Doug Collette


The role of pianist has been crucial to the evolution of jazz throughout its history. To that end, Art Tatum, McCoy Tyner and Bill Evans have achieved iconic status over the decades and, in more recent years, Brad Mehldau and Fred Hersch have laid the groundwork for their own ascents to similarly hallowed positions, Meanwhile Diana ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Meet Naomi Moon Siegel

Read "Meet Naomi Moon Siegel" reviewed by Cheryl K.


In this hour, an interview with composer-trombonist Naomi Moon Siegel. Currently living in Montana, Siegel's upcoming album is titled Shatter the Glass Sanctuary on Slow & Steady Records. It's due out on November 8, 2024. Playlist Kevin Sun “Outlawry" from Quartets (Endectomorph Music) 6:32 Matt Panayides “Ju Ju" from With Eyes Closed (Pacific Coast ...

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Article: Catching Up With

The Musical Universe According to Younee

Read "The Musical Universe According to Younee" reviewed by Lawrence Peryer


At a concert in Nuremberg, surrounded by vintage automobiles, someone in the audience shouted “Cuba!" when YOUNEE asked for a theme to improvise upon. Though she had never visited Havana, the South Korean pianist spun a groove from the classic cars around her, channeling an imagined scene of sunlit streets and chrome bumpers. Such moments of ...


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