Jazz Articles about Assif Tsahar

Assif Tsahar: Lost Brother & Solitude

by Jerry D'Souza
January 25, 2006

Assif Tsahar/Cooper-Moore/Hamid Drake Lost Brother Hopscotch 2006

Variety spices this collaboration between three musicians whose creativity takes the music to delightful and exciting heights. There is never a dull moment; even in the calm of their expositions comes a centrifugal force that fills the compositions with intense dynamism.

Assif Tsahar is a bold, authoritative player who never loses the opportunity to take a leap into the unknown. Even as he does, he knows when ...

Cooper-Moore & Assif Tsahar: Tells Untold; Assif Tsahar: Fragments

by Jeff Stockton
October 9, 2005

Cooper-Moore & Assif Tsahar Tells Untold Hopscotch 2005

Cooper-Moore doesn't limit himself to the usual range of instruments. When he hears a sound in his head, he invents a device to reproduce it, surrounding himself with a mysterious aura, a shamanistic charisma that creates the sense that he's tapped into a separate world of undiscovered sound. Who can tell what he's playing at any given moment? He's a one man band. But ...

Assif Tsahar: Dissonance is Consonance

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 19, 2005

Israeli saxophonist Assif Tsahar is preparing for his return to New York, where has resided for the last fifteen years. Tsahar spent the last year touring in Europe and Israel with his musical partner Cooper-Moore, celebrating the release of their second collaboration as a duo, Tells Untold, and recording a new disc together.In his first interview for All About Jazz, Tsahar tells about his experience as a free-minded and independent musician, always searching for new avenues to express ...

Assif Tsahar/Cooper-Moore: America

by Jeff Stockton
March 17, 2004

I suppose America should be categorized as jazz, since it was made by two musicians who have played jazz in the past. The underrecorded Cooper-Moore usually appears on piano, and Assif Tsahar is best known for his Ayler/late Coltrane-style tenor saxophone workouts—and these men play those instruments here, but this is a recording that defies categorization. You could say America is an old fashioned concept album, and I expect its ambition and totality of conviction will continue to reveal itself ...

Assif Tsahar/Mat Maneri/Jim Black: Jam

by AAJ Staff
December 4, 2003

Whether sparse or dense, light or heavy, stuttering or gliding, the nine untitled tracks on Jam feel like a natural progression. Something of a summit for these three out jazz improvisers, the recording unfurls like a series of open conversations might extend to tell a story.

That's appropriate given these players' exquisite control of their instruments and their preference for listening and responding, rather than shooting from the hip. And given that each of the nine untitled tracks ...

Assif Tsahar: Embracing the Void

by Kurt Gottschalk
December 13, 2002

On his first few releases, in duos and trios with Susie Ibarra and William Parker, Assif Tsahar proved himself a talented tenor man. More recently, he is showing his composing side, and a strong side it is. His string-heavy New York Underground Orchestra played a beautiful set at this year's Vision Festival with the leader conducting; that performance has been set to disc on another recent Hopscotch release.

The Zoanthropic Orchestra is a longer-standing ensemble than the ...

Assif Tsahar & the Brass Reeds Ensemble: The Hollow World

by Derek Taylor
December 1, 1999

Those unfamiliar with Tsahar won’t be so for long if discs such as this have anything to say about it. After a handful of releases as both sideman and leader he is now finding renewed opportunity and resources to record his own groups through a fruitful musical partnership with his wife Susie Ibarra. This disc offers his most strikingly ambitious project to date. From both compositional and performance standpoints the idea of a group fronted by voluminous brass and reeds ...