f.y.c. in these categories:
• Best Large Ensemble Jazz Album
• Best Improvised Jazz Solo: Sean Jones/"Struggle Gives You Strength"
• Best Arrangement Instrumental or A Capella: "Suji"
• Best Instrumental Composition "Relentless Mind"
“An award-winning big-band composer... whose music is turning heads around the globe." – JAZZTIMES
Scroll down to Listen To The 9 Tracks of DARING MIND.
"Bursting with ingenious ideas … one of 2021’s real standouts, and confirmation of Jihye Lee’s big future in the front rank. (4 stars)" – JAZZWISE
"The music is a lush garden.” – STEREOGUM
LISTEN TO DARING MIND:
TRACK 1 – UNSHAKABLE MIND:
TRACK 2: RELENTLESS MIND – for consideration for "BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION" – Studio Video:
TRACK 3 – SUJI for consideration for "BEST ARRANGEMENT INSTRUMENTAL OR A CAPELLA." – Studio video:
"She has her own style. Her crisp arrangements balance frenetic virtuosity with an overarching reflective mood..." – NY TIMES
TRACK 4 – I DARE YOU:
TRACK 5 – REVIVED MIND:
TRACK 6 – STRUGGLE GIVES YOU STRENGTH for consideration for "BEST INSTRUMENTAL SOLO" / SEAN JONES [Solo times: 2:45 – 4:40]
"Complex tapestries woven out of simple threads" –DOWNBEAT
TRACK 7 – WHY IS THAT?:
TRACK 8 – DISSATISFIED MIND:
TRACK 9 – GB:
"Listening to Bandleader-composer Jihye Lee and her mic-drop orchestra is like watching your life flash before your eyes. You see it all: All the richness of spirit one can attain. All the sadness one can espouse. All the waltzing mischief to which one can aspire." – ALL ABOUT JAZZ
“My goal is to invite listeners into my creative world, to relate to my stories, and to reflect on the truth that as humans, we share similar struggles and triumphs regardless of where we come from. It is my hope that we can create genuine connections with each other through art.” – JIHYE LEE
A native of South Korea, Lee had no jazz or classical training growing up, and she first found success in Korea performing as an indie-pop singer. She graduated from Dongduk Women’s University with a degree in Voice Performance, discovering her love of large-ensemble jazz only after beginning her studies at Boston’s Berklee College of Music in Boston in 2011.
Navigating the transition from pop singer to jazz composer has given Lee a different angle on jazz composition, providing her not only with a lyrical melodic sense but also a way of imagining characters in every composition, and writing memorable themes with which people can identify. Her first instinct is not to find chords and melodies — Lee is not herself an instrumentalist — but rather an idea, image, or message, and then find a way to express it through musical elements. All of this and more is realized on Daring Mind.
ANIMATED VIDEO CLIP FOR REVIVED MIND –
Read the in-depth feature on Jihye Lee in JazzTimes.
Read GRAMMY.COM's post "Six Big Band Composers Pushing The Format Foward."
" A consistently fascinating aural adventure" – New York City Jazz Record
Unanimous international acclaim for DARING MIND has now confirmed Lee's place as a formidable rising force in large ensemble jazz.
Co-produced by Secret Society innovator Darcie James Argue and featuring the renowned trumpeter Sean Jones, Daring Mind includes Lee’s award-winning 'Mind Series' (Relentless Mind, Unshakable Mind, Revived Mind, Dissatisfied Mind) and reveals a richly cinematic musical imagination with a bright future in orchestral jazz and film scoring.
All compositions by Jihye Lee (Jihyemusic.com). Released by Motema Music on March 26, 2021. Read the full press release here. For more information contact lydia@lydialiebmanpr.com
Thank You For Your Consideration – Team Motéma