The Jazz Purveyor Presents: Helen Sung's H-Town Boogie Quartet

Sat, Nov 29

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for the Jazz Purveyor Presents: Helen Sung's H-Town Boogie Quartet! Helen Sung – Piano Shelley Carroll – Saxophone David Craig – Bass Cory Cox – Drums “Undeniable… piano playing at a quite unbelievably jaw-dropping level." – Sebastian Scotney, London Jazz News “She will be a very important person to hear whenever you get a chance to hear her.” – Ron Carter, quoted in JazzTimes For her debut engagement at Monks, Helen brings together a multi-generational band composed of fellow native Houstonians and HSPVA grads to take listeners on a thrilling musical adventure through time and space. Helen Sung is an acclaimed jazz pianist, composer, and Guggenheim Fellow. A native of Houston, Texas, and alumna of its celebrated High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, she diverged from her classical upbringing after encountering jazz while attending the University of Texas at Austin. Helen went on to join the inaugural class of the Thelonious Monk Institute (now the Herbie Hancock Institute) and win the Kennedy Center’s Mary Lou Williams Jazz Piano Competition. She has since forged a substantial presence and career amongst heavyweights of our modern generation. In addition to her band and album projects, Helen has performed and toured with such luminaries as the late Clark Terry, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra, Regina Carter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Cecile McLorin Salvant, and Mingus Big Band. She is currently visiting faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and an Associate Professor at Columbia University in New York City, where she was the inaugural jazz artist-in-residence at its Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute exploring connections between jazz and neuroscience. Other activities of note include her large ensemble project “Oracles” (featured on her next album); a digital streaming series “Re-Orientation: Asian American Artists Out Loud” (made possible by a Chamber Music America Digital Residency grant); and partnerships with the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, the Zuckerman Institute’s Public Programs Department, and Arts & Minds to present programs showcasing the neuroscience behind making/hearing music to engage those living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias. A Steinway artist, “Sung plays with crisp swing and elegant invention, her rhythms drawing from the music’s deepest blues roots – and setting listeners’ heads bobbing – while she explores her own fresh ideas, often inspired from her classical training.” (New York Times) This performance is facilitated by The Jazz Purveyor, bringing adventurous programming to the Listening Capital of Texas. Look out for upcoming events. Please Note: This is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Cold bottles of still and sparkling water will be available for purchase, but this event is BYOB. Ice will be available if needed, wine keys and 9oz cups provided! 22 free parking spaces onsite are first-come-first-serve. First Show: Doors at 7:45pm, Show at 8pm. Second Show: Doors at 9:45pm, Show at 10pm.