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MUTE
MUTE
Lim Yang
Kevin Sun
Christian Li
Dayeon Seok
MUTE is a Brooklyn-based improvised music quartet co-led by Kevin Sun, Christian Li, Lim Yang, and Dayeon Seok.
Mute formed in 2017 in Brooklyn and features the Chinese-American musicians Kevin Sun and Christian Li as well as Korean-born musicians Jeong Lim Yang and Dayeon Seok. Li and Yang met as classmates at Berklee in the early 2010s, while Sun and Seok met through the creative music scene in Brooklyn in the mid-2010s. The band toured twice to China and South Korea in late 2017 and late 2019, and their latest album, After You've Gone, recorded earlier in the pandemic in May 2021, captures the musical chemistry of this close-knit group of improvisers and friends.
Mute's eponymous debut album was released in 2019 on Fresh Sound New Talent.
Kevin Sun
Christian Li
Dayeon Seok
MUTE is a Brooklyn-based improvised music quartet co-led by Kevin Sun, Christian Li, Lim Yang, and Dayeon Seok.
Mute formed in 2017 in Brooklyn and features the Chinese-American musicians Kevin Sun and Christian Li as well as Korean-born musicians Jeong Lim Yang and Dayeon Seok. Li and Yang met as classmates at Berklee in the early 2010s, while Sun and Seok met through the creative music scene in Brooklyn in the mid-2010s. The band toured twice to China and South Korea in late 2017 and late 2019, and their latest album, After You've Gone, recorded earlier in the pandemic in May 2021, captures the musical chemistry of this close-knit group of improvisers and friends.
Mute's eponymous debut album was released in 2019 on Fresh Sound New Talent.
COMPONENTS
Kevin Sun is a Brooklyn-based saxophonist, clarinetist, and improvisor-composer. A member of the collective quartet Earprint, Sun contributed several compositions to their 2016 eponymous release, which was named #1 Debut Album in the 2016 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll. His writings on music have appeared in Music & Literature, JAZZed, and his blog, "A Horizontal Search." He has served as editor of Jazz Speaks, the official blog of The Jazz Gallery, a nonprofit jazz cultural center in New York City, and works for the organization in a grant-writing capacity. Sun graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. in English from Harvard College and also holds an M.M. in Jazz Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Miguel Zenón, among many others.
Christian Li is a pianist, composer, and arranger based in New York City. Born in Montreal, Quebec and raised in the small town of Horseheads, NY, he began performing regularly at the age of twelve. He has since been mentored by a colorful cast of musicians, including Danilo Perez, Ben Street, Greg Osby, Hal Crook, Joe Lovano, Joanne Brackeen, John Patitucci, and Alain Mallet. Christian has appeared in such notable venues as The Newport Jazz Festival, The Panama Jazz Festival, Jazz En Comminges, The Monterey Jazz Festival, The Blue Note, Birdland, and the Detroit Jazz Festival. He has performed with several renowned artists, including Greg Osby, Dave Liebman, Chris Cheek, Rich Perry, Adam Cruz, Jason Palmer, and Chad Lefkowitz-Brown. Christian is also active in the field of education, serving on the faculties of the Berklee College of Music and the Calhoun School. He has given workshops in Panama as a part of the Fundacion Danilo Perez as well as at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia.
Jeong Lim Yang is a bassist and composer. Born and brought up in South Korea, Yang moved to New York City in 2011 upon graduating from the Berklee College of Music. Since moving to the city, she has performed regularly as a sideman with artists such as Tim Berne, Russ Lossing, Jacob Sacks, Oscar Noriega, Mary Halvorson, Adam Kolker, Michaël Attias, Jason Palmer, Billy Mintz, and many others. Her debut album, déjà vu, (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2017) was recently released to critical acclaim.
Dayeon Seok is a New York-based Korean drummer. A graduate of the Berklee College of Music and New York University, Seok is a member of Russ Lossing’s King Vulture and has performed as a sideman with Adam Kolker, Matt Pavolka, Kyoko Kitamura, Frank Kimbrough, Ken Filiano, Kenny Wessel and many others. She has worked previously at the School for Improvisational Music, directed by Ralph Alessi, and continues to perform frequently around New York.
GIGS
2018
—October 30: Korzo (Brooklyn)
—October 19: Barbes (Brooklyn)
—August 18: Recording at Bacque Recording (New Jersey)
—August 8: The Jazz Gallery (Manhattan)
—July 17: Barbes (Brooklyn)
—May 26: The Drawing Room (Brooklyn)
—January 5: Formtec Works Hall (Seoul)
—January 4: Club Evans (Seoul)
—January 3: Club Ghetto (Seoul)
2017
—December 30: Good Bait (Beijing
—December 29: East Shore Jazz Club (Beijing)
—December 28: Jiang Hu Bar (Beijing)
—December 27: DDC (Beijing)
—November 29: Threes Brewing (Brooklyn)
—November 15: Balboa (Brooklyn)
—November 5: Halyards (Brooklyn)
—October 19: Halyards (Brooklyn)
—October 30: Korzo (Brooklyn)
—October 19: Barbes (Brooklyn)
—August 18: Recording at Bacque Recording (New Jersey)
—August 8: The Jazz Gallery (Manhattan)
—July 17: Barbes (Brooklyn)
—May 26: The Drawing Room (Brooklyn)
—January 5: Formtec Works Hall (Seoul)
—January 4: Club Evans (Seoul)
—January 3: Club Ghetto (Seoul)
2017
—December 30: Good Bait (Beijing
—December 29: East Shore Jazz Club (Beijing)
—December 28: Jiang Hu Bar (Beijing)
—December 27: DDC (Beijing)
—November 29: Threes Brewing (Brooklyn)
—November 15: Balboa (Brooklyn)
—November 5: Halyards (Brooklyn)
—October 19: Halyards (Brooklyn)
PRESS
"...makes the case—and provides a robust blueprint—for a postmodern jazz" — DownBeat (★★★★) |
-DownBeat (March 2020)
-The Vinyl District (February 2020) -Jazz Club de Nit (December 2019) -Midwest Record (October 2019) -"Jazz Group 'Mute' is Anything But" (The Art Music Lounge, October 2019) |
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