Yuying Hsu – Happened, Happening (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:14:31 minutes | 804 MB | Genre: Jazz
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An award-winning Taiwanese jazz pianist and composer, YuYing Hsu has performed in legendary jazz clubs in New York City, such as Birdland, Sweet Rhythm, and with renowned musicians like legendary jazz drummer Albert “Tootie” Heath, Alex Sipiagin, Michael Philip Mossman, Antonio Hart, Giuseppe Bassi, Gegè Telesforo, and the complete violinist Benjamin Schmid. For this album she is joined with Alex Sipiagin, Donny McCaslin, Donald Edwards and Boris Kozlov.
Her debut album “Untitled” won two Golden Indie Music Awards, which is Taiwan’s version of the Grammy, for “Best Jazz Album” and “Best Jazz Single” in 2011. Two years later, her second album “sentimotional”, which featured trumpet virtuoso Alex Sipiagin on three songs, again garnered two Golden Indie Music Awards for “Best Musician” and “Best Jazz Single”. YuYing has a Master of Music degree from Purchase College, State University of New York, and studied with piano masters such as Gerard D’Angelo, Hal Galper, Arturo O’Farrill, Charles Blenzig, and Sam Yahel. Her thesis focused on jazz piano legend Keith Jarrett and his style of improvision in piano trio and solo in the late 1960s and 1970s. Since YuYing relocated back to Taiwan in 2010, she has performed in major music festivals such as Shanghai Jazz Festival, Taichung Jazz Festival, and Summer Jazz Party held by the National Theater Concert Hall. She has also held her own concerts, workshops, and performed at various jazz venues around Taiwan.
An avid listener of jazz music, YuYing seeks to fuse improvisation with her own life experience. She takes inspirations, thoughts of her travels, her love of artists such as Francis Bacon and Yayoi Kusama, and turns them into musical notes that bounce off the pages, as heard in her original, award-winning pieces “Twisted One” and “Anything Can Happen on a Sunny Afternoon.” Through her music, YuYing hopes to share her emotions, passions, and love of life with jazz aficionados around the world, one performance at a time.
Tracklist:
01 – Ouverture (Pour Un Film)
02 – Catching THE Monk
03 – Nellie, My Dear
04 – You, In The Past
05 – One For Jokulsarlon
06 – Amsterdam Red Light District
07 – Three People On A Trip
08 – Landscape Painting
09 – Last Minute
10 – Red Velvet
Musicians:
YuYing Hsu – piano, rhodes
Alex Sipiagin – trumpet, flugelhorn
Donny McCaslin – tenor saxophone
Boris Kozlov – bass
Donald Edwards – drums
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