MAR 17-20 | Piano Week
Mar 18, 2022
Joe Henderson Lab
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Original show description below.
Pianist, composer, and 2021 Guggenheim fellow Helen Sung returns with her working quartet featuring saxophonist John Ellis, bassist David Wong, and SFJAZZ Collective drummer Kendrick Scott, along with Northern California violinist Jenny Scheinman. They perform music from Sung’s new Sunnyside release Quartet+.
One of jazz’s most accomplished pianists, the Houston native studied at the city’s vaunted High School for the Performing and Visual Arts with classmates including pianists Jason Moran and Robert Glasper. Since making her Bay Area debut with Wayne Shorter at an SFJAZZ concert in 2000 she’s toured widely with the Mingus Big Band and trumpet legend Clark Terry, and drummer Terri Lyne Carrington featured Sung on her GRAMMY-winning 2015 album The Mosaic Project.
Sung made her SFJAZZ debut in support of her 2014 Concord release Anthem For a New Day, and she performed along with fellow pianists Joanne Brackeen and Kris Davis in a Thelonious Monk birthday celebration during the 2018-19 Season.
Quartet+ is Sung’s most audacious project yet, consisting of original compositions and new arrangements of work by women composers including Geri Allen, Mary Lou Williams, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Carla Bley, and Marian McPartland — a project tailor made for Women’s History Month.
Quartet+ is Sung’s most audacious project yet, consisting of original compositions and new arrangements of work by women composers including Geri Allen, Mary Lou Williams, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Carla Bley, and Marian McPartland.
A pianist and composer with a taste for crisp modernity
The New York Times
A pianist and composer with a taste for crisp modernity
The New York Times
Personnel
Helen Sung piano
Jenny Scheinman violin
John Ellis saxophone, flute
David Wong bass
Kendrick Scott drums
A versatile, imaginative and assertive musician
JazzTimes
Personnel
Helen Sung piano
Jenny Scheinman violin
John Ellis saxophone, flute
David Wong bass
Kendrick Scott drums
A versatile, imaginative and assertive musician
JazzTimes
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