Song Yi Jeon

Born: August 28, 1984

Hailing from South Korea, Song Yi Jeon is a singer and composer who deftly combines modern jazz harmony and odd time signatures with singable melodies that instantly catch the ear of the listener.

She studied classical composition at the University of Music and Fine Art in Graz, Austria, and Jazz vocals at the Music Academy in Basel, Switzerland and Berklee College of Music in Boston, in the US where she developed her unique sound. Through her background in classical composition, she uses her understanding of harmonic structure to create incomparable improvisations.

In 2013, as the inaugural Quincy Jones CJ&E fellow, she studied at the Berklee College of Music where she was also awarded the Billboard Endowed Award.

So We Speak

By Eugenia Choe

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Margie; This or That; So We Speak; Fly; Nabiya; River Farm; You Get What You Paid For; After All; Silver Lining.

Agma

By Szymon Mika

Label: Music Corner Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Sacred; Reinvented; Agma; Outline 26; Rubato; Cosmic Sand; Wire Face; Night Waltz; Easy.

Dancing with Elephants

By Gaia Wilmer

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Dancing with Elephants; Leaving with the Herd; Turning the Tide; Finding Water; When They Meet; Blue Desert Jellyfish Lake; Whales Part to Play; Chase Machine; Finding Water (Take 2).

Reinvented

August 17, 2025

Album: Agma
By Szymon Mika
Label: Music Corner Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 08:36

New Music From Irabagon, Atzmon, Farnsworth & More

by Bob Osborne
August 21, 2025

A varied selection of new releases interspersed with tracks from Ivo Perelman's six volume set The Art of Improv focuses on the importance of improvisation in jazz. Playlist Jon Irabagon's PlainsPeak “Tiny Miracles (at a Funeral for a Friend)" from Someone to Someone (Irabbagast Records) 00:00 Ivo Perelman, Karl Berger, Gerald Cleaver “Part 1" ...

Gaia Wilmer, Ra Kalam Bob Moses: Dancing with Elephants

by Angelo Leonardi
July 21, 2025

Questa collaborazione tra la sassofonista e compositrice Gaia Wilmer e il batterista/bandleader Bob Moses, �� stata progettata dieci anni fa, quando i due si sono incontrati al New England Conservatory, nei ruoli di allieva e docente. Il giudizio che Moses esprime in copertina sulle doti di scrittura di Gaia pu�� apparire eccessivo (la paragona ...

Eugenia Choe: So We Speak

by Dan McClenaghan
April 4, 2025

New York-based pianist Eugenia Choe's first two trio albums on SteepleChase Records, 2016's Magic Light (review here) and 2018's Verdfant Green (review here), featured her trio with bassist Danny Weller and drummer Alex Wyatt. For her third album release, So We Speak, Choe goes with a trio once again, this time teaming with vibraphonist Yuhan Su ...

Solitary Bloom

By Song Yi Jeon

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Water Fog; Undefined Mind; Chorinho for Spring; Expecting Spring; Dancing Stars; It Always Comes Back; A Lonesome Place; Imperfect Story; Solitary Bloom.

Chorinho for Spring

July 31, 2024

Album: Solitary Bloom
By Song Yi Jeon
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Duration: 06:06