By Filipe Freitas, Jazz Trail
After plunging our ears in this recording, there’s no way to deny that former pop singer Jihye Lee composes for jazz orchestra with unbridled imagination. Daring Mind is the follow-up to her debut release, April (2017), and includes nine compositions that, reflecting the bandleader’s first four years in New York, to be performed by the tight-knit orchestra that serves her writerly ambitions. Read more here.