Jung-Jae Kim

Music

• Kim Jung Jae - Shamanism (2025)
  Relative Pitch Records
  Bandcamp

  Selected among Top 10 Releases of 2025, Henkin Edition – JazzTimes

  "On the stellar recording, together they engage in a dynamic set of improvisations of stunning clarity, dynamic range, and energy." – Peter Margasak, Nowhere Street

  "It imagines a powerful, life-affirming ritual that bridges the Eastern ancient sonic aesthetics with the modern Afro-American and European ones." – Eyal Hareuveni, salt peanuts

  "Here is an excellent quartet of South Koreans with tenor, soprano, alto saxophones, and two drummers." – Ilia Belorukov, Jazzist

  “Shamanism provides its own tour, undeniably Korean and global, of a music that emerges from the inextricable combination of ancient and modern traditions of secular and sacred themes.” – The Poison Pie Publishing House

• Flinn Monchoce Kim - Quark (2025)
  Creative Sources Recordings
  Bandcamp

  "The trio creates unpredictable, rich, and nuanced soundscapes that flow through meditative waves and tranquil moments." – Eyal Hareuveni, salt peanuts

  “Quark is less a collection of songs and more a map of invisible particles—sound atoms colliding, refracting, disappearing.” – Vito Camarretta, Chain D.L.K

  "A highly condensed wail from the wind instruments meets confusing percussion and string sounds... but also extremely good." – Karsten Zimalla, Westzeit

• TriJJo - Conversations with Snow (2024)
  Creative Sources Recordings
  Bandcamp

  “Saxophonist Jung-Jae Kim, guitarist Joel Haag and drummer Henrik Wartel carve out a finely tuned album here.” – Jonas Lidbrandt Persson, Lira

  "Through its unpredictability and spontaneity, it becomes an exciting challenge where the listening experience is constantly changing like a musical snowfall." – Ulf Thelander, Orkester Journalen

• Axel Dörner, Guilherme Rodrigues, Jung-Jae Kim, Stephen Flinn - Chess Music (2023)
  Creative Sources Recordings
  Bandcamp

  “Analogous to the hushed concentration of a chess match, fascination of this disc lies in following how these improv masters plot and express every move.” – Ken Waxman, Jazzword

  “The aleatoric chess game sustained over this CD's almost 41 minutes depicts sophisticated lower case sounds which sometimes accelerates to block capitals.” – Ken Waxman, Squidco

• MØ:SAN - Mr. Mountain's Folktales (2023)
  AMP Music & Records
  Bandcamp

  “With unpredictable soundscapes, Mr. Mountain's Folktales is a testament to the power of collaboration and sound arrangement as an art form.” – Filipe Freitas, JazzTrail

  “An experiment full of secrets and unfathomable sounds, played by musicians with excellent technique and sensitive artistic imagination." – Jazz-Fun.de

  “This group creates unique soundscapes, maintaining their musical approach with a minimalist touch.” – Byeongseon Yoon, MMJazz

• PAN - I Had a Dream (2020)
  Creative Sources Recordings
  Bandcamp

  “They embrace the eccentricities of their sound while grounding the broader project firmly in an avant-garde aesthetic, which, apparently, is becoming quite global.” – Nick Ostrum, Squidco

  “PAN’s adventurous creative styling relies on curious themes that breathe, clink, clank, and noodle together, sometimes in a low simmer, other times in a controlled state of trepidation.” – Filipe Freitas, JazzTrail

• The JJ Motion - Expressions (2019)
  Bandcamp