MILK & JADE
Dana Leong's debut studio album featuring Aviv Cohen(drums), Adam Platt
(keyboards), & Core Rhythm (MC) is OUT NOW!
Buy the album at:
MILK &
JADE LIVE IN SWEDEN
Dana Leong's LIVE album featuring Aviv Cohen (drums), Adam Platt (keyboards),
& Core Rhythm (MC) is OUT NOW!
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LIFE AFTER
DARK - EP
Dana Leong's new EP is OUT NOW! Buy the album
at:
ANTHEMS OF
LIFE Buy the album
at:
LEAVING NEW YORK
featuring Christian McBride, 8x Grammy winning clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera
and others is available now! Buy the album at:
Jazz at Lincoln Center and the U.S. Department of State Bureau
of Educational and Cultural Affairs presents The Rhythm Road: MILK
& JADE by Dana Leong (formerly known as The Dana Leong Band) has
been selected for The
Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad program.
GLIDE MAGAZINE:Interview:
Dana Leong’s Blurred Boundaries August 24, 2010
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS: Peninsula-born
Dana Leong brings his
jazz/hip-hop band home for the first time, to play at S.J. Jazz
Festival and Yoshi's-Oakland August 10, 2010
EQ MAGAZINE:Classical Gas(Interview)
by Patrick Wong
May 2009
How is your personal recording facility, Life After Dark
Studios, setup? "It’s hidden away at the border
of Harlem and Morningside Heights in "Manhattan. I have three
tracking areas and a control room. There’s a small collection
of Neumanns and other mics that I route into Vintech 473 and Universal
Audio 4110 preamps..."
GRITtv Interview
and In Studio Performance: Dana Leong
by Laura Flanders
October 2008
"Whether playing the cello, trombone, laptop or all three,
Dana Leong breaks all boundaries by mixing jazz with funk with
hip-hop and electronica. His influence comes from urban music,
pop, rock but also orchestral music and jazz and has been described
as innovative and sublime." Click
for more
PLATEAU MAGAZINE:Dana Leong Interview
by June Medrano
October 2008
"Dana's uncanny ability to cross genres and give his audience
as he would call it 'music for situation' has been one reason
for his massive success. We wanted to find out where it all started,
so we asked for his blueprints for getting inspiration, creating
music, and staying busy..."
INTUNE MONTHLY:
Hip Hop Cello, Just One of the Talents of Dana Leong
October 2008
"Milk & Jade by Dana Leong are a New York based group
with Leong as the head. Currently, they are touring Europe, but
will be back in New York in December for a show at the Sister’s
Uptown Bookstore. Aside from the fact, that Leong’s combination
of instruments and music tastes are unique, perhaps his live performance
makes him stand out even more..."
DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE:
Dana Leong; Global Production Science
by Ted Panken
August 2008
"Last winter, Dana Leong embarked on his longest tour ever:
six-and-a-halfweeks through eight Southeast Asian countries with
his working quartet. With deep grooves and virtuoso blowing by
Leong on the cello and trombone..."
"Dana Leong isn't your average cellist. Sometimes referred
to as a 'hi-def Yo-Yo Ma' Dana has revolutionized the classic
cello with cutting-edge techniques, jazz and hip-hop textures,
and signature improvisations. In a way, Dana's hybrid artistic
vision represents the melding of all kinds of music in one unique
form."
ASIANCE MAGAZINE:
Dana Leong Interview By Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat June 2008
"Innovative, eclectic, and superb are just a few words to
describe the amazing musical concoctions that New York musician,
Dana Leong, creates. At only the age of 28, his music has caught
the attention of music lovers and music professionals alike. He
has been able to captivate an assortment of music genres and skillfully
blend them together."
NEW YORK MAGAZINE:
Saturday Night Live
(A SearchFor New Party Music)
May 11, 2008
"The catholic taste of Dana Leong and his collaborators was
on full display at BAMcafé, with a live Stevie Wonder remix,
a cover of indie band Firewater, and plenty of rapping. Equally
impressive was the diverse crowd it got moving—a mix of
gray curls, flowing caftans, dapper Fonzworth Bentley–style
suits, and quite a few zip hoodies."
"Cellist and composer Dana Leong is all about melting-pot.
He is of both Chinese and Japanese descent. And his music mixes
jazz with funk, hip-hop and electronica. He brings his band for
a live performance in the studio."
THE WASHINGTON
TIMES: Jazzing up America's image abroad
By Jenny Mayo
April 11, 2008
"New York City-based musician Dana Leong's quartet does a
little bit of both these uniquely American styles [Hip Hop and
Jazz] and had the chance to play a State Department tour of Southeast
Asia last year. 'Most of the people we met had never been outside
their city or country before,' he says."
ALL ABOUT JAZZ:Dana Leong: No Boundaries
By Franz A. Matzner
February 26, 2008
"Whether on the cello, trombone or laptop, whether playing
straight-up jazz, classical, or the many hybrid concoctions
his work has already produced, Dana Leong seems to
acknowledge no boundaries."
AsiaExpress.com:
Anthems of Life Review
Top 5 Albums of the Year By Joe Nguyen
January 2008
"Cellos and trombones aren't exactly instruments that are
typically associated with hip-hop, but Dana Leong isn't one to
stay inside the box. Top 5 albums of 2007!"
ALL ABOUT JAZZ:
Anthems of Life Review By Lyn Horton
December 2007
"The songs find their origins in hip-hop, but this is no
surprise. It is actually comforting that an artist of this generation
has instilled his poetry with universal vision; a vision that
permeates the state of art, music, race and the world to life
them up and bring them to an attention that is broad, and not
simply for a select few."
"Dana Leong is here to rescue you from your jaded cynicism
about the US3s and Groove Collectives of the world. Jazz can still
be funky and danceable, and hip-hop can most certainly still be
artistic and built around--dare we say it--song structure...If
the federal government's stamp approval doesn't cut it for you,
take ours: Dana Leong is one to watch."
MP3.COM VIDEO INTERVIEW Dana recently visited MP3.COM's offices in San Francisco to talk with editor Jim Welte. Check out the links below and find out more about Dana's new album Anthems of Life, the wide array of artists he's worked with, and much more. Watch Part 1 & Part 2 Now!
“To hear (him) generate such populist fare might surprise jazz devotees
impressed with his far-flung improvisations and spot-on ensemble playing, but for Leong, such cross-genre mixing is ‘a logical extension from my past’.” - Downbeat
"The songs find their origins in hip-hop, but this is no surprise. It is actually comforting that an artist of this generation has instilled his poetry with universal vision; a vision that permeates the state of art, music, race and the world to life them up and bring them to an attention that is broad, and not simply for a select few." - All About Jazz
“The catholic taste of Dana Leong and his collaborators was on full display at BAMcafé, with a live Stevie Wonder remix, a cover of indie band Firewater, and plenty of rapping. Equally impressive was the diverse crowd it got moving—a mix of gray curls, flowing caftans, dapper Fonzworth Bentley–style suits, and quite a few zip hoodies.” - New York Magazine
“Dana Leong crafts [cello and trombone] lines of sublime lyric content” - Chicago Tribune
“Dana Leong is here to rescue you from your jaded cynicism about the US3s and Groove Collectives of the world. Jazz can still be funky and danceable, and hip-hop can most certainly still be artistic and built around--dare we say it--song structure...If the federal government’s stamp approval doesn’t cut it for you, take ours: Dana Leong is one to watch.” - MP3.com
“Sizzling, highly stylized solos” - Philadelphia Inquirer
“Cellos and trombones aren’t exactly instruments that are typically associated with hip-hop, but Dana Leong isn’t one to stay inside the box. Top 5 albums of 2007!” - AsiaExpress.com
