She’d just returned from Chicago, after playing piano on a recording and video shoot of composer Patrick Zimmerli’s Children of Bronzeville. “I really appreciated their attitude and enthusiasm for the music, and I was impressed with their understanding and interpretation of jazz,” Sung said on a morning Zoom call in mid-October from the Queens apartment she bought a few years ago. The project gestated in June 2018, when Sung and Harlem Quartet played a two-night jazz-meets-classical gig at Jazz at Lincoln Center with Eddie Daniels and Ted Nash. Sung’s intelligence and mastery of the piano is evident throughout, illuminating her clear melodic conception and the cohesive logic of her ideas. The units code-switch fluently and synchronously between hardcore jazz, the classical Euro tradition, and pan-Latin dialects, each idiom addressed on its own terms of engagement, through Sung’s five original compositions and new arrangements of works by female jazz composers Toshiko Akiyoshi, Geri Allen, Carla Bley, Marian McPartland, and Mary Lou Williams. The project documents a collaboration between Sung’s working quartet (John Ellis, woodwinds David Wong, bass Kendrick Scott, drums) and the Harlem Quartet, a veteran trans-genre string ensemble. Sung’s eighth leader release, Quartet+, is more prosaically titled than its predecessors, but it’s perhaps the most daring and personal item in her discography. More recently, in 2017, came Sung With Words, a successful jazz-meets-poetry encounter featuring Sung’s harmonically acute, tuneful charts – for four individualistic singers and a top-shelf jazz quintet – for lyrics by poet laureate Dana Gioia. Two years later, she deployed her classical chops on Sungbird, a virtuosic solo signification on the music of fin de siècle Catalan composer Isaac Albéniz. An early example is Helenistique, a romping straightahead 2005 trio date with Derrick Hodge and Lewis Nash on which Sung channeled the spirit of formative jazz influences Tommy Flanagan, Barry Harris, Herbie Hancock, and Thelonious Monk. Known for her “as serious as your life” approach to musical production since she moved to New York in 1999, pianist Helen Sung is not averse to punning on her name when she titles albums. Helen Sung Article in Jazziz re Quartet+: In the past the term Daltonism has also been used as a synonym for the (now obsolete) term *colour blindness.This post contains a feature profile I wrote about Helen Sung for Jazziz in 2021 when her album Quartet+ was released, and a Downbeat Blindfold Test from 2019. Daltonism is commonly classified as an *entoptic phenomenon, and tested with the aid of an Ishihara colour plate (Fig. Daltonism can be subdivided into a dichromatic form, called ‘green’ for short, in which the retina’s medium-wavelength cones (M-cones) are missing, and an anomalous trichromatic form, referred to as ‘green weak’, in which the M-cones are present, but in which the peak of the sensitivity for light is displaced towards the red-sensitive cones. The fact that the prevalence is higher in men was already noted by Dalton. Attributed to an X-linked autosomal condition, it affects 6% of all men and very few women. Today Daltonism is considered the most prevalent form of colour vision deficiency. As early as 1777, it had been described by the British hydrographer and engineer Joseph Huddart (1741–1816 Fig. Dalton was not the first to publish on this type of colour vision deficiency. However, a genetic analysis of the tissue preserved from his eyes, carried out some 150 years after his death, indicates that it was actually of the green-red type. He initially referred to his own condition as ‘red-blindness’. In addition to his own colour vision deficiency, Dalton also described those of his brother and 28 other males. That part of the image which others call red appears to me little more than a shade, or defect of light after that the orange, yellow and green seem one colour, which descends pretty uniformly from an intense to a rare yellow, making what I should call different shades of yellow’ (Fig. As Dalton explained, ‘ My yellow comprehends the red, orange, yellow, and green of others and my blue and purple coincide with theirs. 1), who in 1794 published an account of his own colour vision deficiency. The eponym Daltonism refers to the British chemist and physicist John Dalton (1766–1844 Fig. All four terms are used to denote a *colour vision deficiency of the green-red type. Also known as *deuteranopia, deutan colour blindness, and deutan colour deficiency.
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