Jangeun JB Bae was born in Seoul, Korea, where she began her professional career as a keyboardist and a composer for Korean pop artists. At her age of 23, she fell in love with jazz, so she decided to go to study jazz in the United State. She earned both a bachelors degree and a master degree in jazz studies at the University of North Texas.. Her professional performance experience has grown to include the Sammons Center for the Arts, the Addison and Denton Jazz Festival, the International Association of Jazz Educators, tours of Europe, and concerts with Fred Hamilton, Lynn Seaton, Ed Soph, Marcel Ivory, and Andrew Griffith. She has participated 2004 Betty Carter Jazz Ahead at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC and 2004 & 2006 International Jazz and Creative Music, directed by Dave Douglas, Banff, Canada. In May, 2006, her first album "the End and Everything After" was released(Kang and Music). This album won Korean Music Awards, 2007. In May, 2007, her project album, "Mozart and Jazz" came out (Universal). Currently, she is a full time jazz faculty of Seoul Artspool Conservatory in Korea.
JB is a brilliant musician who is forging an honest and original
path in modern jazz.Her music evokes a humanistic quality
and innocence, full of emotional expression and spirit. JB truly
brings a heightened sense of musicality to every project and
overwhelming joy to all that are able to experience her grace
through her art.
Greg Osby - (2007)
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Bae is the most serious sounding of the group and yet has a romantic streak just beneath the surface. Serious here does not mean, of course, taking the music seriously, but rather the air of mystery combined with using small rather than large gestures as building blocks. The arrangements are full of drama and make full use of the trio's interplay to create emotional waves.
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Budd Kopman - All Aout Jazz (2007)
