MUSIC: Kevin Sun Quartet x Daoure Diongue

An evening of modern jazz featuring the Kevin Sun Quartet and Daoure Diongue. On tour for the release of their latest album Quartets, Kevin Sun (alto sax) and his quartet Christian Li (piano), Walter Stinson (bass), Kayvon Gordon (drums), original modern jazz compositions that take inspiration from a wide array of cultural influences, from video game music and electronic pop to mid-century auteur cinema. Daoure Diongue is a Baltimore-based saxophonist, composer, and sound essayist performing a solo music and video art set.

DOORS: 7:30PM

SHOW: 8PM

ABOUT KEVIN SUN

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 seven albums to date—most recently Quartets, in October 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 was the Artistic Director of the Blue Note China Jazz Orchestra from 2018 to 2020. In 2021, Sun was named a Finalist for the Jerome Hill Foundation Artist Fellowship.

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ABOUT DAOURE DIONGUE

Daoure Diongue is a saxophonist, composer, and sound essayist. A polyglot and alchemist, he evokes his homes of Baltimore and Senegal through sound. His work draws on world-class conservatory training as a saxophonist and the self-determining ethos of African American Music. Each of his projects is a first-order experience that is

both mysterious and whole.

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