Jazz Articles about Gilad Hekselman

About Gilad Hekselman

Album Review

Make A Sound marks the first full release from saxophonist and composer Oded Tzúr's fledgling label, Sky River Music. After a pair of fiery albums for Enja Records and a string of esteemed releases on ECM Records, Tzúr sets out in a new direction with a set of tracks channeling deeply personal expression through his Indian-influenced jazz. He is accompanied on this journey by an experienced group of collaborators: Joe Martin (bass), Nasheet Waits (drums), Vanraj Shastri (sarangi), and Gilad Hekselman (guitar). Guitar and sarangi bring entirely ...

Album Review

Oded Tzur: Make A Sound

Read "Make A Sound" reviewed by David Bruggink

by David Bruggink
November 30, 2025

Storytelling has been part of Oded Tzur's modus operandi since his first album, his reed playing enfolding drama, tension, and narrative shifts like any spellbinding tale. In this 2025 single, the instinct comes into even sharper focus, as he accompanies a newly-assembled band with his words and voice for the first time on record. Tzur is no stranger to accolades, having won much acclaim for his instrumental releases (e.g., the superb My Prophet, ECM Records, 2024). Introducing vocals may ...

Radio & Podcasts

Tomin, Henriette Eilertsen, Gilad Hekselman, Christophe Marguet & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 15, 2025

Around the jazz world in seven songs, and forty-five minutes! Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Christophe Marguet “Thérapie" Echoes of Time (Mélodie en sous-sol) 0:16 Host talks 4:57 Gilad Hekselman “The Headrocker" Life, at the Village Vanguard (La Reserve) 6:15 Host talks 14:37 Greg Ward, Ziv Ravitz, Matthew Stevens, Leo Genovese “Full Cream" Full Cream (Sugah Hoof) 16:33 Henriette Eilertsen & OJKOS “Springer i Coimbra" Recharge ...

Album Review

Andy Wheelock: Whee3trio: In The Wheelhouse

Read "Whee3trio: In The Wheelhouse" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 25, 2024

The first minute of an imminent immersion into the sound of In the Wheelhouse, by drummer Andy Wheelock and the Whee3trio, is “rhythm, rhythm, rhythm." The second impression is “Africa." This is not surprising given that Wheelock took a good deal of his inspiration for this effort via his study of the Ghanaian gyil, a type of xylophone. He speaks of “running my gyil through the POG2 pedal while writing the music for this album, of playing the instrument with ...

Album Review

Daniel García Trio: Wonderland

Read "Wonderland" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
August 12, 2024

On their third release for Germany's ACT Music, pianist Daniel Garcia, bassist Reinier El Negrón and drummer Michael Olivera display in spades why they have moved to the fore of the fiery foment of Spain's spirited and trailblazing jazz scene with the imaginative and highly approachable Wonderland. Fired by eleven Garcia originals of expansive grace, Wonderland opens liltingly and peaceably with the aptly titled “Paz" but soon gets down to business with “Gates to the Land of Wonders," ...

Album Review

Clarence Penn: Behind the Voice

Read "Behind the Voice" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
July 5, 2024

Drummer Clarence Penn, a serious force on the scene for more than three decades, has worked with a who's who of vocalists--Betty Carter, Kandace Springs, Luciana Souza, Kate McGarry, Nellie McKay, Claudia Acuña, Paula Cole, Melissa Walker and Nneena Freelon, to name just a few. He knows more than a thing or two about history and creativity behind the voice, and he's here to show it with this sharply-constructed date. Working with a stacked lineup of singers and instrumentalists, and ...

Album Review

Trio Grande: Urban Myth

Read "Urban Myth" reviewed by Mario Calvitti

by Mario Calvitti
July 1, 2024

Il chitarrista israeliano Gilad Hekselman si è da tempo distinto come uno degli interpreti moderni più interessanti del suo strumento con i suoi vari progetti solistici, e anche questa recente collaborazione lo conferma. Il trio denominato Trio Grande è stato formato dal chitarrista nel 2019 insieme al sassofonista e tastierista Will Vinson e al batterista Antonio Sanchez, e lo stesso anno ha registrato un album omonimo pubblicato nel 2020 in piena pandemia, il che ha impedito al gruppo di esibirsi ...