Jazz Articles about Benny Sharoni

About Benny Sharoni

Album Review

Debutto da leader per il saxofonista di origini israeliane Benny Sharoni, alla guida di un ensemble dove trovano posto musicisti affiatati e pronti ad imbastire jazz di classe e dalla buona intensità esecutiva. Il suo Eternal Elixir è un lavoro di sicuro spessore, nel quale viene proposto una sorta di mainstream canonico, lineare nei modi e dalle atmosfere che non tradiscono mai una lucidità espressiva tesa a raggiungere lidi di pefezione formale. Le iniziali “Bernstein" - originale swingante dedicato all'omonimo ...

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Benny Sharoni: Eternal Elixir

Read "Eternal Elixir" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
September 3, 2010

The Benny Sharoni at work on Eternal Elixir shares two sides of his emerging voice and therefore a true personality that is developing deep within the soul of the tenor saxophonist. One side of the artist is a brash young man, who favors the language of modal music. And he makes good this aspect of the artist by kicking off the proceedings on “Bernstein," his reverential sketch of the legendary American musician and conductor of various equally legendary orchestras of ...

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Benny Sharoni: Eternal Elixir

Read "Eternal Elixir" reviewed by Jordan Richardson

by Jordan Richardson
August 27, 2010

Tenor saxophonist Benny Sharoni's debut as a leader, Eternal Elixir, mixes the vitality of a spiritual journey with the intelligence of an academic lesson, to come up with an intoxicating cocktail of brains and brawn. Sharoni is a precise and exciting player. His record is couched in the idea of music as salvation, and is largely culled from his experiences during a mandatory three-year term with the Israeli Army in the 1980s. Says Sharoni, “While I was in ...