YTD
Jeong Lim Yang- bass
Deric Dickens- drums
Elijah J. Thomas - flutes

"YTD" (or "year-to-date"): a term used to describe the measurement of growth, loss, and earnings over a set period of time.

The exploratory trio of Jeong Lim Yang, Elijah J. Thomas, and Deric Dickens ("YTD") creates, performs, pays homage to, and charts new directions in creatively improvised music, holding within their musical repertoire and output the ebb and flow of musics over time and place to the present day and towards the future.

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Native South Korean bassist Jeong Lim Yang has been a prominent figure in New York City's music scene since 2011, collaborating with notable artists such as Jason Palmer, Oscar Noriega, John Chin, and Kenny Wollesen. Her debut album as a leader and composer, *Déjà Vu* (Fresh Sound, 2017), was honored as NPR’s 'Best Debut Album of the Year.' Yang has also released two albums with the experimental Brooklyn-based collective *Mute*: the self-titled album (Fresh Sound, 2020) and *After You’ve Gone* (Endectomorph, 2024), both of which received international recognition.
In 2022, she unveiled her project with Santiago leibson and gerald cleaver *Zodiac Suite: Reassured* (Fresh Sound), a reimagining of Mary Lou Williams's *Zodiac Suite* (1945). The Zodiac Trio has been actively performing across the United States and abroad at venues like Lincoln Center, SF Jazz, and the Angel City Jazz festival. In early 2025, Yang released a quartet album featuring her original compositions titled *Synchronicity* (Sunnyside, 2025), collaborating with bandmates Mat Maneri, Jacob Sacks, and Randy Peterson. Her lyrical and melodic approach to playing is highly sought after by contemporary jazz and improvised music artists

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Brooklyn-based percussionist, composer and improviser Deric Dickens divides his time between the improvised, creative music scene and the indie rock scene in NYC. Dickens has toured and recorded for many years with Robinella (Columbia Records) Daniel Carter, Jaimie Branch, John Ralston, Russ Lossing, Caroline Davis, Erica Dicker, Sara Schoenbeck and Brad Linde, and has worked on soundtracks for James Schamus’ Indignation, D.W. Young’s Too Cold to Swim, as well as many other indie films and T.V. projects.

Deric has forged many long term musical relationships and has been a founding member of bands such as Brad Linde’s Team Players, DAD’s, Dix Out, John Ralston, Urbane Outfit and Arms Bent Thrice, a graphic score ensemble. He has performed at major venues throughout North America, Europe and Asia and currently leads his groups Speed Date, Rocket #9, The Dickens Campaign, Left Bomb Bay, and co leads Arabic for Beginners, Zero Point with Marius Duboule and Daniel Carter, Big Trouble W/ Eva Novoa.

Dickens’ drums combine rhythmic drive with keenly attenuated dynamics in a manner akin to Paul Motian. Dickens takes the tradition in a fresh direction and points to aless-travelled means of inspiration for his jazz-versed peers.

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Elijah J. Thomas (he/him) is a Black Philadelphia-born, Harlem-based flutist, multi-instrumentalist, educator, creative producer, and composer/experimentalist. His learning of improvisation, composition and music education he chiefly credits to Reggie Workman, Tim Warfield, Jr., Walter Bell, William Parker, Dr. Cynthia Folio, Kevin Rodgers, Dr. Allison Reynolds, and Dr. Rollo Dilworth. He has held numerous teaching positions and has four recorded projects: enuff music, vols. i and ii, Our Search, and Three Contemplations for Jason Moran. Elijah proudly serves as Jazz Program Manager for the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music (BKCM), as an Assistant Line Producer for the world-renowned Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA), as Musical Director of the non-profit performance-based organization Honk NYC!, and Co-Organizer and Music Director for the Artists For a Free World Marching Band (AFFW).

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YTD - Yang/ Dickens/ Thomas

YTD - Yang/ Dickens/ Thomas