Complete Discography

Sung With Words: A Collaboration with Dana Gioia

1. Meet Me at the Lighthouse (Intro) [feat. Dana Gioia]
2. Convergence
3. The Stars on Second Avenue (feat. Dana Gioia)
4. Hot Summer Night (Spoken Intro)
5. Hot Summer Night
6. Pity the Beautiful (Spoken Intro)
7. Pity the Beautiful
8. Too Bad (Spoken Intro)
9. Too Bad
10. Lament for Kalief Browder
11. Into the Unknown
12. Touch
13. Coda (Spoken): Touch
14. In the Shadwoland
15. Mean What You Say (Spoken Intro)
16. Mean What You Say

Personnel: Helen Sung - piano, Fender Rhodes, organ Dana Gioia - spoken word, John Ellis - tenor and soprano sax, bass clarinet, Ingrid Jensen - trumpet, Reuben Rogers - bass, Kendrick Scott - drums, Samuel Torres - percussion
Guest vocalists: Jean Baylor - tracks 3, 7, Christie Dashiell - track 5, 9, 12, 16 Carolyn Leonhart - track 5, 9, 10 Charenee Wade - track 16

© 2018 Co-produced by Helen Sung and Darryl Harper
Recorded by Pete Rende at Brooklyn Recording Studio
Additional Recording & Sound Design by James San- tiago at Birdy & Bear Studio, Los Angeles, California.
Mixed by Rich Breen
Mastered by Paul Blakemore (www.paulblakemore.com)
Cover Art by Seanings
Graphic Design by Ziddi Msangi

Anthem for a New Day (2013)

Concord Records

1. Brother Thelonious 5:37
2. Armando's Rhumba 4:37
3. Hidden 5:48
4. It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) 4:10
5. Hope Springs Eternally 5:33
6. Anthem For A New Day 5:43
7. Never Let Me Go 7:18
8. Chaos Theory 5:04
9. Epistrophy 5:30
10. Equipoise 2:16

Personnel: Helen Sung, piano, Fender Rhodes; Seamus Blake, tenor and soprano sax; Ingrid Jensen, trumpet; Reuben Rogers, bass; Obed Calvaire, drums; Samuel Torres, percussion; John Ellis, bass clarinet (track 6); Hand/foot percussion on track 2 by Sung, Calvaire & Torres

Special Guests: Regina Carter, violin (tracks 3, 7); Paquito D'Rivera, clarinet (track 2)

© 2014 Helen Sung under exclusive license to Concord Music Group, Inc.
Recorded by Mike Marciano at Systems 2 Studios
Mixed by Jeremy Loucas at High End Studios
Mastered by Paul Blakemore at CMG Mastering
Photography: Kat Villacorta
Package Design: Albert J. Roman

(re)conception (2011)

Steeplechase Records

1. (re)conception (George Shearing) 5:51
2. I Believe In You (Frank Loesser) 6:46
3. Far From Home (Jerry Bock) 4:43
4. Duplicity (Helen Sung) 7:14
5. C Jam Blues (Duke Ellington) 8:00
6. Wives And Lovers (Burt Bacherach) 5:35
7. Crazy, He Calls Me (Carl Sigman) 7:35
8. Teo (Thelonious Monk) 5:04
9. Everything But You (Duke Ellington) 6:03

Personnel: Helen Sung, piano; Peter Washington, bass; Lewis Nash, drums

© 2011 Steeplechase Productions ApS
Recording: Manfred Knoop, Knoop Studios
Mixing: Nils Winther
Cover Photo: Jason A. Cina
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Going Express (2010)

Sunnyside

1. Going Express (8:16)
2. Bitter (4:18)
3. Love For Sale (6:02)
4. Hope Springs Eternally (7:44)
5. In Walked Bud (7:27)
6. Eronel (7:55)
7. Bittersweet (8:47)
8. Lotus Blossom (5:53)

Personnel: Helen Sung, piano; Seamus Blake, tenor & soprano saxophone; Lonnie Plaxico, bass; Eric Harland, drums

Bonus material available via iTunes and/or putting the CD into a CD-R drive. Two bonus songs: Duplicity (Helen Sung) and Smile (Charlie Chaplin), and audio liner notes by pianist BIlly Childs.

Sungbird (after Albeniz) (2007)

Sunnyside

1. Prelude 1:50
2. Tango 2:23
3. Preamble 1:12
4. Shall We Tango? 6:28
5. Malaguena Miniatura 2:10
6. Malaguena 3:16
7. Serenata 3:42
8. Sungbird 6:10
9. Capricho Catalan 3:35
10. Capricho American 3:28
11. Free Fusion 5:50
12. Encore: Zortzico 2:27

Personnel: w/Marcus Strickland, tenor & soprano saxophone; Reuben Rogers, bass; Nasheet Waits, drums; Samuel Torres, percussion

Helenistique (2006)

Fresh Sound New Talent

1. H*town 3:03
2. Lover 4:18
3. Sweet & Lovely 6:48
4. Voyage 7:11
5. Willow Weep For Me 4:56
6. Where or When 4:40
7. Black Narcissus 6:05
8. Bye Ya 5:49
9. Cottontail 3:06
10. Carolina Shout (Solo Piano) 3:12
11. Alphabet Street 4:01
12. H*town (Reprise) 2:08

Personnel: Helen Sung, piano; Derrick Hodge, bass; Lewis Nash, drums
Cover photo by misterarmando design

PUSH (2003)

Fresh Sound New Talent

1. Conundrum 4:46
2. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back 5:37
3. On A Clear Day 4:50
4. Push 7:00
5. Beauty For Ashes 5:46
6. The Fourth Maria 6:47
7. Bittersweet 5:31
8. Speak Low 5:01
9. The Waiting Game 5:20
10. Ugly Beauty

Personnel: Helen Sung, piano; Richie Goods, bass; Brian Blade, drums; Marcus Strickland, saxophone; Jeffrey Haynes, percussion
Cover by Robert Morrison

Live at the Blue Note

1. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
2. Willow Weep For Me (arr.'d by H.Sung)
3. Fast Forward

Personnel: Helen Sung, piano; Steve Wilson, alto/soprano saxophones; Dwayne Burno, bass; Donald Edwards, drums.