Jinjoo Yoo

Jinjoo Yoo is a jazz pianist and composer from Seoul who is based in New York. She came to jazz during her university years in South Korea, later moving to New York and earning a master's degree in jazz performance from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College in 2017. Steeped in the piano tradition of players such as Bud Powell, Sonny Clark, and Mary Lou Williams, she leads her own trio and quartet on the New York scene and has performed internationally across the United States, Europe, and South Korea. In 2018 she released her debut album, I'm Curious, on Gut String Records.