Jazz Articles about Daphna Sadeh

Daphna Sadeh: Born in Parallel

by Ian Patterson
February 8, 2015

Bassist/composer Daphna Sadeh may have left her native Israel over a decade ago but the country's colorful musical potpourri is firmly embedded in her DNA. For Sadeh, the confluence of Arabic, Eastern European and Mediterranean influences that resound throughout Israeli culture have provided the building blocks for her longstanding, UK-based ensemble The Voyagers on albums like Reconciliation (Tzadik, 2009). After a five-year break from the recording studio Sadeh returns with Born in Parallel, her most ambitious compositional work to date. ...

Daphna Sadeh: Through Walls

by Ian Patterson
June 3, 2009

It's to her credit that Israeli-born composer and double bassist Daphna Sadeh has embraced the vibrant multi-culturalism of the great melting pot of Israel to be the defining character of her music. Her exile is less political than driven by more basic human needs, and her openness to all cultures and a brighter future shines through the beautiful music she creates with The Voyagers.

Now based in the UK, this most original of bass players has led The ...

Daphna Sadeh and the Voyagers: Reconciliation

by Ian Patterson
June 2, 2009

The ringing endorsement by John Zorn, describing bassist Daphna Sadeh and the Voyager's Reconciliation as 'brilliant and hypnotic... seductive and powerful music" might sound just a tad like self publicity, given that he commissioned the music for his own label, were it not for the fact that it is true. Sadeh has led the Voyagers on a journey of musical discovery since 2003, and this, their third album, is a distillation of the musical veins that run through ancient and ...

Daphna Sadeh & The Voyagers: Reconciliation

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 7, 2009

Israeli-born, England-based composer and double-bassist Daphna Sadeh's third release, Reconciliation—the musician's second recording with her band, The Voyagers—is true to its title. Following the group's first album, Walking the Line (33 Records, 2007), Reconciliation reconciles the varied cultural roots of Sadeh—her classical training, jazz education in New York, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jewish music, and traditional Arabic scales—into an organic and optimistic stew, all cooked through flowing, rhythmic and melodic arrangements. In her elaborate and well-crafted compositions, it is only natural ...