First Impression

Wana Hong's album leaves listeners with a lasting "First Impression" that kept this listener going back for more. She has a playful romance with her jazz violin. It's a wonderful combination of sophistication and sass. Her compositions inspire images of old smoke filled jazz clubs filled with well dressed patrons sipping on fancy twelve o'clock-tails. She incorporates a rainbow of rhythms. A jazzy rumba, a colorful samba, a modern twist on a classic bossa, waltz, swing, and funk. She even takes a child's song from despair to playtime and back again.