Jazz Articles about Amit Friedman

About Amit Friedman

Album Review

Once upon a time, jazz, an American creation, was confined for the most part within its borders. But that was once upon a time. Today, any barriers that once kept jazz within a prescribed realm have long since vanished, and the music Americans once embraced as their own has flourished around the world, performed with increasing awareness and dexterity by artists who have built upon the patterns created in the land of its birth to weave colorful and charming tapestries ...

Album Review

Amit Friedman Sextet: Sunrise

Read "Sunrise" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
April 23, 2012

This seems to be shaping up as the year of the “Sunrise." Two outstanding sets by that name have been released in 2012: one by the Masabumi Kikuchi Trio on ECM Records, the other a self-produced gem by the Indo/American chamber ensemble, Karavika. Israeli saxophonist Amit Friedman makes it a triptych with his own Sunrise, on Seattle's Origin Records.Friedman has a knack for memorable melodies enmeshed in sophisticated and lively arrangements. On the title tune (which opens the ...