21-6-2011 The Works Korean Jazz Pop from Winterplay

If you pay much attention to the Asian pop charts, you'll know just how influential J-pop and K-pop, from Japan and Korea respectively, are. But Korea and Japan also have musicians, and listeners, who like a smoother, more mature kind of music that isn't all about rehearsed dance movies and trendy matching costumes. One such group of musicians is Winterplay, a pop jazz trio from Korea that features producer, songwriter and trumpet player Juhan Lee, vocalist Haewon Moon, guitarist Saza-Woojoon Choi, and contra-bassist Eunkyu So.Recently in Hong Kong for the Summer Jazz Festival, the band initially topped the Korean Jazz charts with its first album 'Choco Snowball, but then gained even more exposure through a TV commercial. They were in Hong Kong recently.

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[KhoeblalSonny]

I AM PROUD OF JUHAN LEE. At age 13 he was with me in a rockjazzfusion band 'Thalamus' in Suriname, as his family worked temporarily in this country. This was in the early 80's . We were neighbours and soon became friends. Juhan always said he'd become a scientist. Years later we met again thanks to the internet and then he told me he had become a Jazz musician-producer ! It was my fault ! :-))))