[jihee Heo Quartet] at Five Spot Jazz

Jihee Heo - Piano
Jihee Heo is a jazz pianist and composer based in New York City. Heo has showcased her talents at renowned festivals and venues, including Smalls, Mezzrow, Birdland, Guggenheim Museum, Dizzy’s at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Zinc, Django, Sunset Sunside in Paris, and Jacques Pelzer in Belgium, as well as prominent events such as The Washington D.C. Jazz Festival, Leverkusen Jazz Festival, The International African Arts Festival, The Jersey Shore Festival, Bergen PAC, and Harlem Stage, among others.
She has also played with many jazz legends, including Vincent Herring, Eric Alexander, Joe Farnsworth, Steve Davis, Lonnie Plaxico, Todd Coleman and more....

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Jihee Heo - Piano
Jihee Heo is a jazz pianist and composer based in New York City. Heo has showcased her talents at renowned festivals and venues, including Smalls, Mezzrow, Birdland, Guggenheim Museum, Dizzy’s at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Zinc, Django, Sunset Sunside in Paris, and Jacques Pelzer in Belgium, as well as prominent events such as The Washington D.C. Jazz Festival, Leverkusen Jazz Festival, The International African Arts Festival, The Jersey Shore Festival, Bergen PAC, and Harlem Stage, among others.
She has also played with many jazz legends, including Vincent Herring, Eric Alexander, Joe Farnsworth, Steve Davis, Lonnie Plaxico, Todd Coleman and more.
Her nonet album, “Passion” (2015, self-released), along with “Are You Ready?” (2020, featuring Marty Kenny and Rodney Green, Origin Records), has garnered attention in esteemed publications such as DownBeat Magazine, All About Jazz, France Musique, MM Jazz Korea, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s monthly jazz album roundup, and New York City Jazz Record.
Heo's latest album was recorded on September 21, 2023, at the historic Rudy Van Gelder Studio, featuring distinguished jazz musicians Joe Farnsworth on drums, Alexander Claffy on bass, and Vincent Herring on saxophone. This album is scheduled for release through Origin Records on June 21, 2024. Her music has been highlighted in various magazines and radio stations, and she is currently touring internationally to promote her recent work.
Heo holds a master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a bachelor’s degree from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.

Tivon Pennicott - Saxophone
American composer, orchestrator and tenor saxophonist.
Of Jamaican parentage, he grew up in Marietta, Georgia, but moved to Miami, Florida, where he studied music at the University of Miami. On a visit in Los Angeles, he met and was invited to perform with Kenny Burrell, who was a major influence on him. He ultimately recorded on Kenny Burrell's record Be Yourself, recorded live in Jazz at Lincoln Center at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola on September 9, 2008. Pennicott then moved to New York City in late 2009, where he formed the Sound Quartet with pianist Mike Battaglia, bassist Spencer Murphy, and drummer Kenneth Salters. These members are featured on his debut album Lover of Nature, which was released in November 2014. Pennicott was on drummer Ari Hoenig's 2018 album NY Standard.
Pennicott released his sophomore recording in the fall of 2020, Spirit Garden (New Phrase Records), having produced, orchestrated, composed and performed with and for a 26 piece string orchestra alongside several combinations of a chord-less quartet. Joe Saylor, Philip Dizack, Yasushi Nakamura, Dominique Sanders, Olivier Glissant and Yoojin Park are key contributors to the record.
The album was recorded to tape at Studio G in Brooklyn and Dreamland Recording Studios in Hurley, New York. It was mixed by Russell Elevado and mastered by Alex DeTurk.
As of September 2021 he has been a contributor to three Grammies, one with Esperanza Spalding and two with Gregory Porter. He is also the 2nd-place winner of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz competition held in 2013.
Since early 2016 he has been performing full-time with Gregory Porter,also as he continues his artist-in-residence at the Annual Charlie Parker Celebration in Kansas City, Missouri.
In 2024 he released the album Roots to Branches on Dox Records.

John Webber - Bass
John Webber has been a mainstay on the NYC jazz scene for several decades. After relocating from Chicago in ‘87 he has been regularly featured with many of the top names in jazz. He has played all the main clubs in New York with great artists such as Horace Silver, Johnny Griffin, Etta Jones, George Coleman, Jimmy Cobb and many others. He has also played on countless recordings and toured the world playing many festivals and clubs overseas. As well as being a top bassist he also is an accomplished guitarist and continues to please audiences on both instruments in New York City and around the world.

Willie Bowman - Drums

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