Today we will continue talking jazz with Vincent Hsu, who will enlighten us about his current projects, how tough it is to make it as a composer, how has jazz evolved and how it is to play bass. 

Vincent Hsu is an award-winning bassist and composer who fuses jazz and Afro-Cuban music with his Taiwanese roots. Born in Changhua, Taiwan, and raised in Kaohsiung, he launched his musical career in New York City, where he lived for eight years. His debut album, Homeland, won “Best Jazz Album” at the 2014 Golden Indie Music Awards and was nominated for three Golden Melody Awards in 2015: Best Album, Best Composer, and Best Producer (Instrumental).

His second album, Lullaby for the Youth, with Harold Danko on piano and Billy Drummond on drums, was also nominated for three Golden Indie Music Awards in 2017. In 2018, Hsu’s latest album In Our Blood featuring Victor Mendoza, with Soy La Ley Afro-Cuban Jazz Band, won “Best Jazz Single of the Year” with Hsu’s composition “Dreamer's Blues” at the 2018 Golden Indie Music Awards. It was also honored with the Global Music Awards' “Silver Medal for Outstanding Achievement” in 2019. In 2020, Hsu’s composition “The Era” was selected by International Songwriting Competition (ISC) as a finalist in the Jazz category.

To know more about Vincent, please visit the following links:

https://www.vincenthsujazz.com/

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