The New York Times describes her as “the rare musician with fearsome technical chops, a breadth of historical knowledge and enough originality to write tunes that absorb your ear easily.” Influenced by post-bop masters Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner and Kenny Kirkland, Han brings a fire, passion, and maturity that belies her youth. All About Jazz describes Han’s latest album Secrets of Inanna, released in September 2022, as “charismatic” and “compactly complex whirlwinds” that are “smart bombs of the grandest nature,” claiming the album “could very well be the most exciting music heard all year.”
Connie Han Trio
Aug 13,
Sunday -
3pm
PG&E Hammer Theatre Stage
Hailed by Variety Magazine as “one of contemporary jazz’s most talented and inventive musicians” and DownBeat Magazine as “The Jazz Warrior-Goddess,” Steinway artist and pianist Connie Han performs with a fiery contemporary style, “combining the precision of her training as a classical pianist with the improvisation, and irrepressible emotion, of her heroes Freddie Hubbard and Kenny Kirkland.” (Variety)