15 Oct

[ October the 18th, 2024 release on Endectomorph Music: Kevin Sun – Quartets ]

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Out October 18, 2024, the double album features two quartets of close collaborators and documents the adventurous rising saxophonist’s most personal and distinctive visions for modern jazz to date.

“The saxophonist Kevin Sun has been making his mark on the New York scene of late by way of studiousness and subtlety … Sun has something original going on, too: his own feeling of loose coil and terse freedom, and a personal approach to disrupting time.” — Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times

“Sun is greasy, at times even lurid … The Fate of the Tenor makes a strong case for showing up and hearing the sounds in person sooner rather than later.” — Ethan Iverson, Transitional Technology

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 Feb

[ February the 26th, 2021 release via Outside in Music: Cowboys & Frenchmen – Our Highway ]

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release date: 26.02.2021 via Outside In Music

” [Cowboys & Frenchmen] is smart, cohesive, and credible in a way like The Bad Plus or Mostly Other People Do The Killing, using virtuosic skills and rhythmic power to walk the line between irony and earnestness, with listenability as high a priority as group creativity.” – Howard Mandel, DownBeat

“The swirling layers this group is able to build upon is remarkable, and when one really listens deep into the music, the interaction is breathtaking.” – Geannine Reid, All About Jazz

On their forthcoming release, Our Highway the inventive quintet Cowboys & Frenchmen reflect on the nomadic life of touring musicians while widening their gazes to take in the landscapes and byways that connect America’s towns and cities.

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.