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Assif Tsahar / Tatsuya Nakatani / KJLA String 4tet

Solitude

By Assif Tsahar / Tatsuya Nakatani / KJLA String 4tet

Label: Hopscotch Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Love Is; Unmoving; Sand Between a Toe; The Epistemology of Loss (for John Berryman); Of Amazing Most Now (for e.e. cummings); Blue Sun; Falling; By and By; Solitude.

Assif Tsahar / Tatsuya Nakatani / KJLA String 4tet: Solitude

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
May 6, 2006

Solitude, a set of fairly free jazz by multi-reeds player Assif Tsahar, unobtrusive percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani and string quartet, is surprisingly easy to listen to, but difficult to assess. Each time a group creates a performance like this, they're attempting to create a language from whole cloth. Free jazz is demanding because it's teaching us a ...

Assif Tsahar / Tatsuya Nakatani / KJLA String 4tet: Solitude

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 9, 2006

The first cooperative venture between Israeli reed man Assif Tsahar and Japanese conceptual percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani, both based in New York, focused on investigating the more abstract regions of free jazz (Come Sunday, Hopscotch, 2004). Tsahar exerted more control than sweaty power, and Nakatani proved himself a most singular and versatile percussionist. Nakatani hardly ever uses ...