‘Like the best fiction, it’s entirely enveloping’ – Downbeat Magazine. Recent nominee for the DownBeat Critics Poll in the category “Rising Star” of Vibraphone, New York based Taiwanese vibraphonist Yuhan Su’s three records release as a leader including City Animals(2018, Sunnyside Record), A Room of One’s Own(2015, Inner Circle Music) and Flying Alone(2012, Inner Circle Music), have received widespread approval and numerous music awards and nominations, including ‘Best Jazz Album of the Year’, ‘Best New Artist’, ’ Best Jazz Single’, ‘Best Instrumentalist Award’ from the Golden Indie Music Award and ‘Best Performance Album of the year’, ’Best Composer Award’ from the Golden Melody Award in Taiwan, and “Best Release of the Year” by All about Jazz and Downbeat. Yuhan also performed with different projects in New York including Greg Osby Sextet, Brian Krock’s Big Heart Machine, Miho Hazama’s M_Unit and Kyle Saulnier’s Awakening Orchestra, Amir Elsaffar’s Rivers of Sound, Jason Yeager’s Septet, and more.
On November 8th, Yuhan will celebrate the release of her 4th album Liberated Gesture from the prestigious Sunnyside Records. The music includes a suite inspired by German-French abstract painter Hans Hartung and also the song combining with poetry for women who stand for her own unique voice. The Yuhan Su Quintet will feature a group of masterful improvisers with Matt Mitchell on piano, Caroline Davis on saxophone/poetry reading, Marty Kenney on bass and Dan Weiss on drums.
