Pianist Helen Sung honors her musical heroes and expands her sonic scope on her first big-band jazz album, 2026’s Oracles. The 2007 Mary Lou Williams Piano Competition winner, Sung has released a string of highly lauded small group dates, each of which found her further deepening her harmonically fluid brand of post-bop. Yet, Sung (who is classically trained) came to jazz relatively late toward the end of earning her undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin. It was during her first year as a member of the inaugural class at what is now known as the Herbie Hancock Institute that she gained fluency, mentored by a cadre of legendary artists, among them Clark Terry, Ron Carter, Jimmy Heath, Wayne Shorter, Barry Harris, Kenny Barron,…