March 11 at All Souls at Sundown:

Helen Sung, piano
Jimmy Greene, saxophone • Richie Goods, bass
Samuel Torres, percussion

“An impressive pianist in the post-bop mainstream.”

— Ben Ratliff, The New York Times

Pianist Helen Sung is establishing herself as an exceptional young artist. Her playing has been called “passionate,” “brimming with life,” and “quietly astonishing.” Her recent release Helenistique, the remarkable follow-up to her debut CD, PUSH (both on the Fresh Sound New Talent label), has already been described as “impressive… bursting with freshness and confidence.” Helen earned her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in classical piano from the University of Texas at Austin. She was then accepted into the inaugural class of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at the New England Conservatory. She has worked with Slide Hampton, legendary composer and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Regina Carter, and performed with the Charles Mingus Big Band and trumpeter Clark Terry.

Featuring the Poetry of Stephen Dunn

Stephen Dunn, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for poetry (Different Hours), writes poems that are “strangely easy to like: philosophical but not arid, lyrical but rarely glib, his storytelling balanced effortlessly between the casual and the vivid” (Emily Nussbaum, The New York Times).