21 Oct

[ October 27th, 2023 release via Endectomorph Music: Kevin Sun – The Depths of Memory ]

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The Depths of Memory, due out on October 27, 2023 via Endectomorph Music under exclusive license to la reserve, features Sun’s core collaborators Adam O’Farrill, Dana Saul, Walter Stinson, Matt Honor, Simón Willson, and Dayeon Seok.
The album’s first half, From All This Stillness, was due for digital-only release on July 7, 2023, with the second half, The Depths in Slow Motion, to be released October 27 with the physical double album.

“Kevin Sun is well on his way toward staking a major claim as a distinctive composer and soloist… [with] a formidable compositional apparatus but a strikingly accessible sound.” – Troy Dostert, All About Jazz

“[Kevin Sun is] clearly a player who sees the big picture and his evolving place within it.”– David R. Adler, New York City Jazz Record

20 Aug

[August the 29th, 2021 release via Endectomorph Music: Kevin Sun’s ‘<3 Bird']

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release date: 29.08.2021 via Endectomorph Music

“An engaging, delightful excursion into Birdology.” — George Kanzler, Hot House

“Radically inventive original compositions inspired by Charlie Parker.” – Mat Micucci, Jazziz

“…Sun swings for the fences with his sense of form and scale.” – Nate Chinen, WBGO

“Sun has a warmth, richness and rhythmic vitality to his playing that at times brings Lester Young or Sonny Rollins to mind.” – Troy Dostert, All About Jazz

“An outstanding recording…The album acknowledges the past, lives in the present and looks to the future… The spirit of Charlie Parker is very much alive on this one, an album that seems to bring new discoveries with every listen. Highly recommended.” – Miguel Zenón, saxophonist/composer

Kevin Sun‘s visionary, radical re-imagining of the music of Charlie Parker for a new century. The ‘<3 Bird’ album will be released on August 29, 2021, Parker’s 101st birthday.

16 Oct

[ October 30,2020 release on Firehouse 12 Records: Mary Halvorson – Artlessly Falling ]

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release date: 30.10.2020 via Firehouse 12 Records

“Not only the most distinctive guitarist of her generation – her barbed, warped sound also has few rivals in any other.” – Michael J. West, Washington Post

“When all her influences click into place, the result is like little else, in any genre.” – Seth Colter Walls, Pitchfork

“One of the most distinctive voices in jazz … possessing a slippery tone.” – Chris Barton, LA Times

“Ever since [Halvorson] began recording in the mid-2000s, she’s projected a strikingly personal voice on the electric guitar; you only need to hear a few seconds of her fastidious fingering and extravagant pitch bends to know it’s her….her compositional style, with its intricate melodies and sudden tempo changes, is as distinctive as her playing.” – Bill Meyer, Chicago Reader

“Maybe it’s the weathered grace of Wyatt’s vocals or the astringent lyricism of O’Farrill’s trumpet, but the writing here conveys the quirky charm of Carla Bley’s collaborations with Paul Haines. Except Bley’s keyboards were never as otherworldly as Halvorson‘s guitar.“ – J.D. Considine, DownBeat

01 Nov

[ November the 8th release on Endectomorph Music: Kevin Sun – The Sustain of Memory ]

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Out November 8, 2019, CD Release Concert Friday, November 15 at The Jazz Gallery, NYC

“This may be the first you’ve heard of Mr. Sun, a tenor saxophonist, but that will soon change… Mr. Sun’s playing develops an identity of its own, equal parts direct and discursive.”–Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times

The Sustain of Memory, out November 8, 2019 via Endectomorph Music, is saxophonist and composer Kevin Sun’s ambitious follow-up to his acclaimed 2018 debut release Trio. Featuring three extended compositions for trio, quartet, and quintet – with trumpeter Adam O’Farrill, pianist Dana Saul, bassists Simón Willson and Walter Stinson, and drummers Dayeon Seok and Matt Honor– the double album shows Sun’s commitment to the formal and dramatic possibilities of small-group formats as well as his emergent vision within them.