Min Xiao-Fen   Ensembles

- SOLO PIPA   -   BLUE PIPA TRIO   -   MIN-WU-XU   -   ASIAN TRIO   -   CHINESE ENSEMBLE   -   ORCHESTRA & OTHERS -

BLUE PIPA TRIO
 
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Min Xiao-Fen Pipa / Vocals      Dean Johnson Bass      Steve Salerno Guitar

The Blue Pipa Trio plays Min Xiao-Fen's compositions and arrangements, interpreting and improvising the best of  Chinese folk music,  American Jazz standards and even  Bluegrass.
The Trio features masterful bass work of  Dean Johnson and the sensitive playing of guitarist Steve Salerno.

broad-band Live at the Trinity Church 2008
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PRESS
 
Min Xiao-Fen, appeared at the festival with her jazz trio. Guitarist Stephen Salerno and bassist Dean Johnson made the sound into a full throated string symphony while maintaining a centered focus as Chinese folk, pop and American music were reinterpreted. A popular Chinese pop song from the 1930’s “Fragrant Flowers of Night” served as a forum for an American “Old Timey” take on its melody and as opportunity for Xiao-Fen to display her vocal skills. Likewise, the Chinese folk tune “A Pair Of Flowers” featured pipa banjo flailing and guitar flat pickin’. The traditional bluegrass number “Red-Haired Boy” was given Asian tinge as he was portrayed as the “Red-Haired Boy Dancing with Golden Snake”. Program closer “Fascinating Chinese New Year”, fittingly inspired by the Gershwin tune “Fascinating Rhythm” melded slide guitar with pipa for a cross cultural delight.                                                           By Elliott Simon  "All About Jazz"

A Pair of Flowers

pipa, guitar and bass

Nanjing Temple

pipa, guitar and bass

Red Hair Boy
    dancing with Golden Snake

pipa, guitar and bass
 

The Murmuring Creek

pipa, guitar and bass

Chinese take out

pipa, guitar and bass

Wild Wild East

pipa, guitar and bass

Tian Wu Wu

Fascinating Rhythm

pipa, vocal, guitar & bass
 

Ask Me Now

pipa, guitar and bass
 

All Blues

The Cowboy

saxophone, bass, piano & vocal

The Loneliest Monk