JEN SHYU

Jazz Related Improv/Composition / Vocal Jazz / Third Stream / Post-Fusion Contemporary / Avant-Garde Jazz • United States
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Born in Peoria, Illinois, USA, from Taiwanese and East Timorese parents, 2014 Doris Duke Impact Award recipient JEN SHYU is an·experimental jazz vocalist, composer, multi-instrumentalist,·dancer, producer, and·Fulbright scholar. Larry Blumenfeld (Wall Street Journal) writes, “…Ms. Shyu is among New York's most invigorating vocal presences. And perhaps the most enigmatic.” She has produced five albums as a leader: For Now, Jade Tongue, Inner Chapters, Raging Waters and Red Sands, and is the first female artist and vocalist as bandleader on the Pi Recordings label with the widely praised album Synastry with legendary bassist Mark Dresser. After graduating from Stanford University, she became the vocalist of saxophonist Steve Coleman’s Five Elements from 2003 to 2011 and has presented her own music at Lincoln Center, Brooklyn·Academy·of Music, Bimhuis (Netherlands), Salihara Theater (Indonesia), National Gugak Center, and National Theater of Korea, to name a few. She has also·performed with Dave Burrell, Chris Potter, Michael read more...
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JEN SHYU For Now album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
For Now
Vocal Jazz 2002
JEN SHYU Jade Tongue album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jade Tongue
Avant-Garde Jazz 2009
JEN SHYU Inner Chapters album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Inner Chapters
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2010
JEN SHYU Jen Shyu / Mark Dresser ‎: Synastry album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jen Shyu / Mark Dresser ‎: Synastry
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2011
JEN SHYU Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue : Sounds And Cries Of The World album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue : Sounds And Cries Of The World
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2015
JEN SHYU Song Of Silver Geese album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Song Of Silver Geese
Third Stream 2017
JEN SHYU Zero Grasses : Ritual for the Losses album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Zero Grasses : Ritual for the Losses
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2021

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JEN SHYU Jen Shyu & Patrícia Magalhães : Raging Waters, Red Sands album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jen Shyu & Patrícia Magalhães : Raging Waters, Red Sands
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2010

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