Jazz Articles about Cooper-Moore & Assif Tsahar

Cooper-Moore & Assif Tsahar: America

by AAJ Staff
December 11, 2003

Half protest statement and half call for renewal, America offers a wonderful combination of the familiar and the unexpected. The heartland music known as Americana--for lack of a better term--meets up here with an eager partner in the form of improvisation.

As a definitive missive of social protest, the opening track presents the only vocals on the record: a cry for justice ("America, do you think about the lives that you have stolen?") followed by a statement of ...