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Jungsu Choi

Composer, Producer and Band leader Jungsu Choi has had diverse rolls in all areas of music, be it orchestra, big band or electronic music.

In his ten years of working in Europe, he has built a remarkable musical career and studied jazz composition, film music as well as electro-acoustic music at Vienna Conservatory and Kingston University London.

His unique compositions and arrangements have been played by numerous orchestras and big bands. He has written for modern dance, musical, theatre, TV spots and film and also holds a leading position as educator with Korea’s Word Cyber College.

He released his debut album in 2011 with his first own jazz big band based in London, the name of JUNGSU CHOI New Jazz Orchestra in London.

Since then at this time, Jungsu Choi has assembled again a formidable contemporary large jazz ensemble with Korea’s best jazz musicians - JUNGSU CHOI TINY ORKESTER.

They show an incredible performance, transporting Jungsu’s exceptionally demanding music with skill and creative solo performances.The compact big band Jungsu Choi Tiny Orkester shows well how modern, orchestral jazz can interpret old jazz standards in a unique fashion.

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Album Review

Jungsu Choi: Tschuss Jazz Era

Read "Tschuss Jazz Era" reviewed by Chris Mosey


Living in a state of unresolved civil war since 1945, and lately under threat of nuclear annihilation, obviously sharpens the senses, gives the Korean people an edge the rest of us don't have. Recently, Donald Trump took one look and was blown away. He said (or perhaps Tweeted), “These are wonderful, hard-working people." With the release of this album, comes the time for the jazz world to rise and join the American president in singing the praises ...

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Album Review

Jungsu Choi Tiny Orkester: Tschuss Jazz Era

Read "Tschuss Jazz Era" reviewed by Jack Bowers


At last, after lo these many years, a big band--make that a Tiny Orkester--from South Korea. If that's not surprising enough, what is even more striking is that composer / arranger Jungsu Choi's diminutive ensemble (tentet plus voices) is highly proficient and really swings. Choi wrote two of the album's five numbers; the others are Charlie Parker's “Anthropology," an extrapolation of an Ellington / Strayhorn classic ("What If Duke Ellington Didn't Take the 'A' Train?") and Chick Corea's impassioned “Spain." ...

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"JTO has put together a sensational record that not only revitalizes both big band and fusion but also spawns

something entirely new...absolutely slay. Incredible." ★★★★★ - Music-News.com / UK

"Choi's Tiny Orkester leaves no doubt that it is a topnotch player...He is a talented composer / arranger who certainly bears watching" ★★★★★ - All About Jazz

"At the moment, twelve high-profile musicians from Korea..They will open a new horizon in this year." -Jazz Now / HR (German public broadcasting)

"This is a super-structured orchestral jazz – Soul & Jazz / NPO (Holand national broadcasting)

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Tschuss Jazz Era

Challenge Records
2018

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THE BIG BAND

Good international
2012

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Anthropology

From: Tschuss Jazz Era
By Jungsu Choi

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