Hey Rim Jeon in the Theater
Presented by Birdland Jazz Club
Tuesday, Mar 7, 2023 at 5:30 PM (Doors at 4:30 PM)
Birdland Jazz Club
(315 West 44th St, New York, NY 10036)
Tickets: $25.69 - $35.99
Described as a “brilliant pianist” by legendary saxophonist Benny Golson, Hey Rim Jeon returns to Birdland Jazz Club on March 7th, 2023. Please join Ms. Jeon as she celebrates her new album release “Groovitude.”
As a jazz pianist, composer, arranger and educator, Ms. Jeon has just released her fifth album as a bandleader, “Groovitude” (Sony/Orchard distribution, October 2022) featuring Multi-Grammy-Award-Winning drummer and producer, Terri Lyne Carrington.
“Groovitude“ has been one of the Top 20 albums on the National Jazz Radio Chart for several consecutive weeks.
Ms. Jeon has been featured on numerous TV and radio shows, including NBC’s Weekend Today in New York, and KBN, Korea’s National TV network channel. As leader of her own band, Hey Rim Jeon and Friends, she has performed both nationally and internationally.
Her album Mona Lisa Puzzle (jazzjeon Records, September 2009) has been described as an “intense, intelligent statement” by Bill Milkowski of Jazz Times Magazine, won the Best Jazz Album category in the 2009 New England Urban Music Awards, and reached CD Baby’s “Top 10 Modern Creative Jazz Albums” list.
A recipient of Berklee’s prestigious “Exemplary Mentorship Award” and a “Marquis Who’s Who” acknowledgment (2021), Ms. Jeon is the first Korean faculty member at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, where she has served as an Associate Professor in the Piano Department since 2010.
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit https://birdlandjazz.com/event/hey-rim-jeon-in-the-theater/
◆ Hey Rim Jeon, Jazz Pianist
Hey Rim Jeon has been very active as a jazz pianist during the past 20 years. While based in the New England and New York areas, she has performed in Japan, Turkey, Canada, and on many occasions in Korea including at the Jarasum International Jazz Festival. “My most memorable gig was performing there in 2009, leading a group that also included Dave Liebman, Terri Lyne Carrington, and John Lockwood. Coming back home, I felt very happy that I had succeeded at my goal of becoming a jazz pianist; it felt wonderful.” Among the many venues in which she has performed in the United States have been Jazz At Lincoln Center, Birdland, the Iridium, Ryles Jazz Club, the Beantown Jazz Festival, the Smithsonian Museum, and with Benny Golson at Wellesley College. Other notables with whom she has performed include bassists James Genus and Lonnie Plaxico, drummers Ralph Peterson Jr, Yoron Israel and Nasheet Waits, trombonist Robin Eubanks, and saxophonists George Garzone and Ronnie Laws.
https://www.heyrimjeon.com/