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Helen Sung Quartet at Kuumbwa Jazz Center

Courtesy of Bennett Jackson | Posted on August 21, 2015

Where

Kuumbwa Jazz Center
320-2 Cedar Street
Santa Cruz, CA
Map
831-427-2227

When

Thu, September 10, 2015
7:00 pm

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Musicians

Walter Smith III
saxophone, tenor
Reuben Rogers
bass, acoustic

About

Helen Sung’s classical piano background enhances her approach to jazz improvisation and composition with stunning results. In the late ’90s she was on the fast track to becoming a classical concert pianist. That was before an epiphany in the form of a Tommy Flanagan piano solo set her on a new path. Immersing herself in the jazz canon, she studied everyone from Jelly Roll Morton to Keith Jarrett and enrolled at the Thelonious Monk Institute (New England Conservatory) where she studied with jazz legends Ron Carter, Clark Terry, Wayne Shorter, and Herbie Hancock. Sung has recorded six critically acclaimed albums under her name, including the recent, Anthem For A New Day...

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