Jihye Lee Quintet Will Perform at Flushing Town Hall For APA Heritage Month
The event includes a special dedication to the women who were killed in the Atlanta, Georgia spa shootings in March. by BWW News Desk
On Friday, May 21, the Jihye Lee Quintet will perform live from the stage at Flushing Town Hall for an all-virtual audience.
The livestream event honors Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and includes a special dedication to the women who were killed in the Atlanta, Georgia spa shootings in March. At Flushing Town Hall, we are responding to the recent rise in hate crimes as best we know how through the arts, says Ellen Kodadek, Executive & Artistic Director. Our mission is to bring people together by presenting arts and culture from around the world. The Atlanta killings were widely understood to be driven by racism and misogyny. We are proud to present Jihye Lee s all-female, Korean jazz quintet to share their message and music with our diverse aud
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Tomoko Omura, Tomie s Blues
Born in Shizuoka, Japan and based in Brooklyn, NY, violinist Tomoko Omura has earned just acclaim for her command of the jazz tradition on her instrument, going back to Joe Venuti, Stéphane Grappelli and Stuff Smith. But she has also made a conscious and inspiring study of folkloric music from her homeland, notably on her albums
Roots, in 2015, and
Branches Vol. 1, in 2020. A follow-up,
Branches Vol. 2, is coming soon, featuring Omura with an ensemble that includes pianist Glenn Zaleski, guitarist Jeff Miles, bassist Pablo Menares and drummer Jay Sawyer. Its most touching piece is Tomie s Blues, an original dedicated to the memory of Omura s grandmother.
The New York Times, and the only “jazz release” in
Rolling Stone’s list of the 50 best records of 2017. Iyer’s Sextet was voted 2018 Jazz Group of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association.
Iyer’s previous ECM releases include
A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (2016), a collaboration with Iyer’s “hero, friend and teacher,” Wadada Leo Smith, which
The Los Angeles Times calls “haunting, meditative and transportive”;
Break Stuff (2015), with a coveted five-star rating in
DownBeat Magazine, featuring the Vijay Iyer Trio, hailed by
PopMatters as “the best band in jazz”;
Mutations (2014), featuring Iyer’s music for piano, string quartet and electronics, which “extends and deepens his range. showing a delicate, shimmering, translucent side of his playing” (
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