Jazz Forum - Kevin Sun Quartet
Green Music Center, Room 1029
1:00 pm
Free Admission, $6 Parking
Kevin Sun is a saxophonist and composer living in New York City. His music has been called “...intense, harmonically virtuosic and compositionally complex" by DownBeat Magazine, and he has released six albums to date—most recently his first live album, The Fate of the Tenor, in March 2024.
Sun has also recorded four albums with the ensembles Mute, Earprint, and Great On Paper, and he appears on recordings led by Jacob Garchik, Dana Saul, Xiongguan Zhang, and Elijah Shiffer.
In addition to performing in the U.S., Sun has performed extensively in China and has served as the Artistic Director of the Blue Note China Jazz Orchestra. In 2021, Sun was named a Finalist for the Jerome Hill Foundation Artist Fellowship.
As of June 2024, Kevin Sun uses VENN reeds by D'Addario exclusively because they're excellent.