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Room to Grow

Label: Smalls Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Kentucky Girl; It

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Omer Avital Group: Room To Grow

Read "Room To Grow" reviewed by J Hunter


In 1996, the Omer Avital Group was in transition. Due to their increasing workload outside the band, Avital was forced to replace original members Ali Jackson and Mark Turner. Losing musicians of that quality would have crippled other groups; but if Room To Grow (recorded live at Smalls the following year) is any indication, the band ...

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Omer Avital Group: Room to Grow

Read "Room to Grow" reviewed by Tom Greenland


Opening with the soul-full call of the acoustic bass, Omer Avital's Room to Grow speaks from and to the heart with the very first note. Recorded live in early 1997, the album is the second in a series on Smalls Records documenting the bassist's growth as an instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. Like its predecessor, Asking ...

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Omer Avital Group: Room to Grow

Read "Room to Grow" reviewed by Jim Santella


Recorded 1997 at Smalls in New York, this session maintains the growth that was spawned by the late John Coltrane thirty to forty years earlier. Along with the traditional elements that made their way into jazz from European classical music, Omer Avital's ensembles add Middle Eastern ties that broaden the harmonic horizon and create fresh new ...


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