Kao Hwang, Jason
Asian Improv, 2006, CD
Instrument: Violin
Issue: 14.1
Jazz Ruler Type: Avant Garde
Performance: 3
Sound: 4
Score: 
O’s Notes: Violinist Jason Hwang leads a string quartet through four free jazz compositions. Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet & flugelhorn), Andrew Drury (perc) and Ken Filiano (b) are the rest of the band. Jason composed all of the music and says it is based on the vibrations between expectations of ethnicity, culture and genre. It sounds like the conversations between our inner atoms as we grapple with life and those vibrations. It is provocative and precise even as the creative juices take the musicians on different vibes.
Publicist: Jazz Promo Services
