#Yuhan Su 蘇郁涵

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Mid-week covers, ‘cos the stay-at-home videos are piling up around here!  =D

Axel Lee 李雨壕 and Amrita Soon 孙惠洋 covering a Taylor Swift x Ed Sheeran tune.

Next, 許郁瑛 Yu Ying Hsu & Yuhan Su 蘇郁涵 play a jazz arrangement of The Musical Offering “a collection of keyboard canons and fugues and other pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, all based on a single musical theme given to him by Frederick the Great (Frederick II of Prussia), to whom they are dedicated.”  

Finally, 阿丹 Dan Hsueh (薛詒丹) and Elin Lee 李宜玲 covering Dua Lipa's Break My Heart:

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Rave review for the new album, City Animals from Yuhan Su 蘇郁涵  =D  

(Bandcamp audio for all the releases mentioned at the link)

The new album has a couple of songs influenced by episodes that happened on her 2016 European tour; let’s hear a live clip from a gig in Barcelona:

Rising from KuaFu Suite Live at Jamboree in Barcelona, Spain. (This suite is included on City Animals. Rising is Part 1.)

Yuhan Su Quintet 2016 Europe tour (With local musicians, not her NYC band. I think the same is true on her current Asian tour)

Marceŀlí Bayer - Saxophone 

Yuhan Su - Vibraphone, Composition 

Marta Sanchez - Piano 

Juan Pablo Balcazar - Bass 

Ramon Prats - Drums

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Listen/purchase: Magic by HON CHONG CHAN QUARTET

Some new (and old) jazz for your Tuesday!  =D

First up, from the debut album by the Hon Chong Chan Quartet, Traveling Coffee, this is Macau guitarist 陳漢聰 (Hon Chong Chan) and his band.  The album was recorded at Bunker Studio in NYC, and I think the musicians are all based in the area:

Guitar - Hon Chong Chan  (from Bandcamp: Hon Chong Chan is a famous guitarist in Macau, graduated from New York’s The Collective School of music and Beijing’s Modern Music Academy) Piano - Bob Quaranta Bass - Gregory M. Jones Drum - Tobias Ralph

Hon Chong Chan YouTube

And a new version of an old tune - this is Yuhan Su 蘇郁涵’s arrangement of Salt Peanuts:

“今年在紐約隔離期間悶到突然完全沒心情寫曲的同時，發現編曲時打破重組的過程也是件超好玩的事！堅定咆哮二號分享曲：Salt Peanuts!”

Bing trans: “This year, I was bored during the New York quarantine, and suddenly I was completely in the mood to write, and it was also fun to find the process of breaking the restructuring while making the song! Salt Peanuts!”

2020/8/13 Taiwan National Concert Hall Summer Jazz Series (more songs from the set back at YT)

Saxophone：Minyen Hsieh (謝明諺 Min-Yen Terry Hsieh)

Piano: Tseng-Yi Tseng

Bass: Vincent Hsu (Vincent Hsu 徐崇育)

Drums: 林偉中 Weichung Lin

Vibes: Yuhan Su 蘇郁涵  

Yuhan Su Links: Official,  YouTube,  Spotify,  SoundCloud 

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Lovely piece & concept from Yuhan Su 蘇郁涵!   =D

Yuhan Su (Yesterday at 9:30am)

[“Here comes Feet Dance video release!! In past few years, I spent lots of hours working in dance studios as an accompanist. Studying how to play for movements allowing dancers to jump freely in the air, make turns, slide a legato, or across floor with small steps by changing vocabularies and articulation is a true eye-opening experience. Feet dance is my first attempt writing for this subject. This film is directed by the incredible photographer Adrien H. Tillmann. It features my colleague wonderful dancer Lucia Jackson and dear quintet guys Alex LoRe-sax, Matt Holman-trumpet, Petros Klampanis-bass, Nathan Ellman-bell-drums. big thanks also to the film team Bianca Yeh, Kat Cameron, Shuo Hsiao and Michael Chambers for the beautiful space. I'm deeply moved that because of all your talents we collectively make this dialogue farer than I could.

Hope you enjoy it! Stay tuned for more videos and City Animals record coming out in 2018 Fall

Special thanks to inspiration from Dance Theatre of Harlem. Ballet Academy East (BAE). Ballet Arts-The Performing Arts Center of Southern Westchester. Resta Jay Percussions. Experimental Film Virginia”]