Album Review: Jo-Yu Chen’s ‘Rendezvous’ - Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More'
A Jazz Trio Plays The Great Composers
Jo-Yu Chen
New York-based pianist and composer Jo-Yu Chen treats the great composers like most jazz musicians treat the Great American Songbook: a familiar musical foundation upon which to build a musical style.
Chen trained at Juilliard but was seduced by jazz’s siren song. Her first four albums: “Obsession” (2011) “Incomplete Soul” (2012), “Stranger” (2014), and “Savage Beauty” (2019) featured her compositions before she engaged the classical canon with “Schubert & Mozart: ‘Round Midnight’” (2024).
“Rendezvous: Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More,” released (Sony Music, May 2, 2025) continues her classical fusion as she interprets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky, and Ravel with her jazz trio.
Rendezvous: Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More
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