Yong Yandsen

Member of: Game Of Patience, Hungry Ghosts

Yong Yandsen is a Malaysian tenor saxophonist based in Kuala Lumpur, working in free jazz and free improvisation. He started out on guitar before switching to the saxophone. He plays solo and in improvising groups with musicians from South East Asia, Japan and Europe, among them the trio Hungry Ghosts with the Norwegians Christian Meaas Svendsen and Paal Nilssen-Love. Yong released the solo saxophone LP Disillusion on the French label Doubtful Sounds in 2013. Hungry Ghosts, with Svendsen on bass and Nilssen-Love on drums, put out its first album on Svendsen's label Nakama Records in 2019.