endectomorph music, founded 2015 in brooklyn, ny. dedicated to creative improvised music.
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"...brainy output" - DownBeat
"...Endectomorph Music is in the midst of a prolific run. Part of its strength lies in the fact that it doesn’t adhere to a particular sound, even in a general sense." - The New York City Jazz Record
people of Endectomorph
photo credit: Alice Plati
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. kevinsun.com
photo credit: Nathalie Basoski
Phillip Golub (b. 1993), "a musician in fast ascent" (Wall Street Journal) with "seemingly boundless creativity" (Downbeat), is a pianist, improviser, and composer based in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from Los Angeles, he creates highly original and expressive music, grounded in but not constrained by his engaged practice in jazz, creative music, and new music. Technically audacious, Phillip sublates sound worlds as distant as Thelonious Monk and Alexander Scriabin, the ars subtilior and Cecil Taylor, negating conventions, yet building on traditions.
Phillip’s recordings have been praised as “cutting edge” (Sequence 21) and containing “a profound concept […] triumphant […] fascinating” (Pop Matters). As a player, he has been described as bringing “assurance, charisma, and infectious enthusiasm” (Steve Smith) to his performances and manifesting “exhilarating energy, charisma, and a canny ability to transform the complex and even inscrutable into sophisticated yet joyful noise” (Allmusic.com).
Phillip is in demand as a pianist on New York’s jazz, creative music, and world music stages, performing and recording regularly across numerous sub-genres and scenes, such as Layale Chaker, DoYeon Kim, Lesley Mok, Anna Webber, Jacob Shulman, and Seajun Kwon, at venues such as Roulette, National Sawdust, and many other Brooklyn mainstays.
Phillip has an unwavering commitment to honoring the genealogy of jazz. He has played numerous times with Cecil McBee and worked extensively with Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding on their opera … (Iphigenia). He continues to play a crucial role in the Shorter estate, digitizing and preparing manuscripts for publication. phillipgolubmusic.com
Phillip’s recordings have been praised as “cutting edge” (Sequence 21) and containing “a profound concept […] triumphant […] fascinating” (Pop Matters). As a player, he has been described as bringing “assurance, charisma, and infectious enthusiasm” (Steve Smith) to his performances and manifesting “exhilarating energy, charisma, and a canny ability to transform the complex and even inscrutable into sophisticated yet joyful noise” (Allmusic.com).
Phillip is in demand as a pianist on New York’s jazz, creative music, and world music stages, performing and recording regularly across numerous sub-genres and scenes, such as Layale Chaker, DoYeon Kim, Lesley Mok, Anna Webber, Jacob Shulman, and Seajun Kwon, at venues such as Roulette, National Sawdust, and many other Brooklyn mainstays.
Phillip has an unwavering commitment to honoring the genealogy of jazz. He has played numerous times with Cecil McBee and worked extensively with Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding on their opera … (Iphigenia). He continues to play a crucial role in the Shorter estate, digitizing and preparing manuscripts for publication. phillipgolubmusic.com
Jake Richter is a composer, drummer, and educator who splits his time between New York City and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
He maintains an active performance schedule both as a bandleader and a sideman, and appears frequently at venues like The Jazz Gallery, Chris’ Jazz Cafe, Shapeshifter Lab, Barbés, and Bar Bayeux. He assembled the Jake Richter Quartet during his monthly residency at The 55 Bar in 2021, and has since taken the ensemble on 3 national tours. His debut album, Listen to the Birds is out now on Endectomorph Records.
In 2020, Richter graduated with his Masters Degree in Jazz Composition from the Manhattan School of Music. There he studied with luminaries Miguel Zenón, Jim McNeely, Kendrick Scott, and Jeff Ballard.
Before coming to New York, Richter studied jazz percussion and music composition at Indiana University, where he was a recipient of a full tuition scholarship. While there he performed with Bobby McFerrin, Randy Brecker, Marquis Hill, and Walter Smith III. In 2017 he was the recipient of the David N Baker B.M.I. Jazz Composition award.
He maintains an active performance schedule both as a bandleader and a sideman, and appears frequently at venues like The Jazz Gallery, Chris’ Jazz Cafe, Shapeshifter Lab, Barbés, and Bar Bayeux. He assembled the Jake Richter Quartet during his monthly residency at The 55 Bar in 2021, and has since taken the ensemble on 3 national tours. His debut album, Listen to the Birds is out now on Endectomorph Records.
In 2020, Richter graduated with his Masters Degree in Jazz Composition from the Manhattan School of Music. There he studied with luminaries Miguel Zenón, Jim McNeely, Kendrick Scott, and Jeff Ballard.
Before coming to New York, Richter studied jazz percussion and music composition at Indiana University, where he was a recipient of a full tuition scholarship. While there he performed with Bobby McFerrin, Randy Brecker, Marquis Hill, and Walter Smith III. In 2017 he was the recipient of the David N Baker B.M.I. Jazz Composition award.