Helen Sung

A look back at features, profiles, interviews and performances from wbgo.org during 2022

The pianist pays tribute to the late Sue Mingus, champion of the music of her husband, Charles Mingus

This week's Take Five gathers exciting new music by Terrace Martin, Artifacts, Mareike Wiening, Helen Sung, and Miles Okazaki with Dan Weiss.

Filmed at Dizzy's Club, Helen Sung's quartet plays several pieces born out of the sorrow, loss and anxiety caused by the pandemic.

Sung reflects on how, as a young classical pianist, she stuck to her jazz dreams. More recently, she's translated her emotions on social justice into a thematic composition for her quartet.

From jazz and poetry to the plight of immigrants, Take Five looks at five new tunes that explore cultural currency in music.Lionel Loueke, “Mandé”The…

Helen Sung is a classically trained pianist who discovered jazz and found her passion for writing music when working with master bassist Ron Carter at the…

Before she honored the life and music of her “friend and sister” Geri Allen with a Winter Jazzfest concert at the New School, drummer Terri Lyne…

What are the holidays without Charlie Brown? Nowadays, the quietly elegant and celebratory recordings by pianist Vince Guaraldi have become as much a part…

A pair of great pianists, Helen Sung and Isaiah Thompson, recently stopped by Morning Jazz to play and chat about what moves them to move us.Sung was in…