Popcast: Jen Shyu Explores the Unknown

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Times critics discuss the jazz artist whose music incorporates poetry and dreams.

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
0:10.6	welcome to the New York Times Popcast,
0:12.4	your recovered heritage of music news and culture. I'm your host, John Caramonica. You are engaging with Song Fernando.
0:35.0	Song Fernando is off Sound and Cries of the World, which is a new album by Jen Shoe and Jade Tongue.
0:42.0	Ben Ratliff is here to talk about Jen Shoo and
0:48.1	Jazz's quest to embrace and incorporate and also to block outside influence.
0:55.0	Well, yeah.
0:57.0	If it is jazz, you want to just go right into that?
1:00.0	Well, sure. You want to just jump right in.
1:02.0	Let's talk about it. Is it jazz?
1:03.0	This is going to be like a jazz times 1966 cover.
1:07.0	That's a...
1:08.0	Well, the first thing to say is that that's sort of a boring question.
1:11.0	I would hope so.
1:12.0	Yeah. Who is Jen-sh shoe? Jen shoe comes from... She's jazz. Well,
1:17.8	Jen shoe comes from Peoria, Illinois, and her father is Taiwanese and her mother comes from East Timor. Her mother was Chinese.
1:30.0	So she's got this complicated, you know, parentage and growing up she was the type of...
1:38.0	Born here.
1:39.0	Born and raised in Peoria, Illinois.
1:41.0	Growing up, she was the type of musician who excelled at everything,
1:45.4	basically, not just in music, but also ballet, and she just studied acting a little bit.
1:51.9	She was the kind of person who was taking piano lessons and violin
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