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Album Review

Anat Fort: The Dreamworld of Paul Motian

Read "The Dreamworld of Paul Motian" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
November 25, 2025

Pescando nel vasto songbook di Paul Motian, certo uno dei più ricchi (nelle molteplici accezioni del termine) che un batterista abbia saputo regalare al grande serbatoio del jazz, Anat Fort e compagni confezionano un album prezioso, muovendosi nelle trame tematiche create dal grande musicista di Filadelfia (notoriamente di origini armene, retaggio talora coglibile nelle pieghe della sua musica) con leggerezza e pertinenza. Un'operazione certo molto rispettosa che tuttavia non impedisce ai quattro musicisti (notare il raddoppio armonico pianoforte-chitarra) di dire ...

Album Review

Anat Fort: The Dreamworld of Paul Motian

Read "The Dreamworld of Paul Motian" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 1, 2025

Borrowing a sentiment from the title of the 1959 Riverside Records album Everybody Digs Bill Evans, it is safe to say that pianist Anat Fort digs Paul Motian. Her The Dreamworld of Paul Motian says so. We can attribute a big part of Motian's career success to pianist Bill Evans (1929 -1980). Portrait In Jazz (Riverside, 1960) was the first Evans album that included Motian in the drummer's chair. More followed, including the groundbreaking Sunday At the Village ...

Album Review

Anat Fort: The Dreamworld of Paul Motian

Read "The Dreamworld of Paul Motian" reviewed by Kyle Simpler

by Kyle Simpler
September 18, 2025

Other performers inspire every musician to some extent, but for Anat Fort, the influence of drummer Paul Motian altered her approach to performing and thinking about music. Although Motian passed away in 2011, his presence remains a motivating force in Fort's work. With The Dreamworld of Paul Motian, she pays homage not just to the man but to the mystery, lyricism, and true spirit of his music. Motian elevated the role of drumming in modern jazz. ...

Album Review

Anat Fort Trio: The Berlin Sessions

Read "The Berlin Sessions" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
March 18, 2024

Non credo esista oggi nel jazz un altro piano trio che operi stabilmente da 20 anni. La pianista israeliana Anat Fort l'ha formato nei primi anni duemila col bassista Gary Wang e il batterista Roland Schneider, registrando notevoli album per l'ECM (uno ampliato al nostro Gianluigi Trovesi) e la Sunnyside. Come altri dischi usciti nel 2023, questo è stato registrato sul finire della pandemia covid, dopo i mesi d'isolamento forzato che hanno visto i tre partner confinati ...

Album Review

Anat Fort Trio: The Berlin Sessions

Read "The Berlin Sessions" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
March 19, 2023

"They said nobody makes CDs anymore. So I made a DOUBLE CD with stuff I've never recorded. Ever." So says Israeli pianist Anat Fort. To borrow a term from the United States' 2016 presidential election, Fort “doubled down" on the “nobody makes CDs" thing. Bless her for that. That double CD is The Berlin Sessions, featuring Fort and her longtime trio mates, bassist Gary Wang and drummer Roland Schneider. Fort released her debut recording, ...

Multiple Reviews

A World of Piano Trios

by Mark Sullivan
August 6, 2019

The piano trio format is alive and well, judging by this disparate collection of piano trio albums (mostly: a couple of them feature a guest vocalist on a track or two). They come from Israel (recorded in Berlin), Slovenia (recorded in New York City), Greece (recorded in Hungary), Boston, and Asheville, North Carolina. Traditionally the pianist is also the leader, but this collection also includes one cooperative group and one led by the drummer. Anat Fort Trio ...

Live Review

Anat Fort Quartet at Cornelia Street Café

by Tyran Grillo
March 1, 2018

Anat Fort Quartet Cornelia Street Café New York, NY February 20, 2018 It's easy (and tempting) to think of a great musicians working together like cogs in a well-oiled machine, but when basking in the waves of pianist Anat Fort and her quartet with altoist Michaël Attias, bassist Gary Wang, and drummer Rudy Royston in the intimacy of the Cornelia Street Café, it was impossible to think of them as anything less than ...