Connie Han

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Connie Han (born February 4, 1996 in Los Angeles ) is an American jazz musician ( piano ).

Live and act

Connie Han, who comes from a musical family in Los Angeles, learned piano as a child; She took an interest in jazz at 14 when she attended Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. Her mentor there was the drummer Bill Wysaske , who later also produced her first albums and supervised her trio. At the age of 17, she got an engagement to perform at UCLA for three weeks . In 2015 she presented her debut album The Richard Rodgers Songbook , which was self-published. This was followed by a record deal with Mack Avenue Records and the production of Crime Zone with compositions by Han / Wysaske, a musical tribute to their role models McCoy Tyner , Chick Corea , Herbie Hancock and Kenny Kirkland . She recorded the album with Wysaske and Edwin Livingston (bass) as well as guest musicians Walter Smith III (saxophone) and Brian Swartz (trumpet). The title track is of such films as Blade Runner and the anime film Akira inspired. She also played with Walter Smith III, Bob Sheppard and Mike Clark; In 2017 she performed with Stanley Clarke and Bob James at the Rhodes Fest .

The music critic Bill Milkowski counts Connie Han among the twelve jazz musicians who “should be kept an eye in 2019”.

Discographic notes

  • Connie Han Interprets the Richard Rodgers Songbook (2015) with Chris Colangelo (double bass), Bill Wysaske (drums)
  • Crime Zone (2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bill Milkowski : 12 New Jazz Artists to Watch in 2019. Paste, January 4, 2019, accessed on January 18, 2019 .
  2. ^ Crime Zone at Mack Avenue Records
  3. ↑ Brief portrait at All About Jazz
  4. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 10, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Han, Connie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles