Jazz Articles about Gilad Hekselman

About Gilad Hekselman

Album Review

Quietly, so quietly the jazz guitar torch is passed from the legends Jim Hall and Pat Martino to Kurt Rosenwinkel and Gilad Hekselman, whose release This Just In makes a conspicuously understated grab for said torch.His fourth release as leader follows Hearts Wide Open (Le Chant Du Monde, 2011) and features the same stellar lineup of Joe Martin (bass), Marcus Gilmore (drums), and saxophonist Mark Turner on three tracks. Having a working group, and one as distinguished as ...

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Kenneth Dahl Knudsen: Clockstopper

Read "Clockstopper" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
July 20, 2012

Not much is known about Danish bassist Kenneth Dahl Knudsen, even his own website reveals little about his personal story, only that he has won several awards, including being voted “Jazz musician of 2010 in northern Denmark," has been fortunate to have performed the music he loves for most of his life and claims inspiration from the music of John Coltrane and Igor Stravinsky. Delivering his second album as leader on Clockstopper, Knudsen leads a core quintet of international players, ...

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Gilad Hekselman: Hearts Wide Open

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 19, 2012

Gilad Hekselman è un chitarrista israeliano che, seguendo una prassi in voga presso molti suoi conterranei, dopo aver frequentato varie scuole in patria completa gli studi negli Stati Uniti, in questo caso, New York. Dove ha la possibilità di incontrare ed esibirsi con molti protagonisti di quella scena musicale. Proprio da uno di questi incontri nasce l'idea di Hearts Wide Open, la terza uscita da leader di Hekselman, qui accompagnato da una ritmica solida e affiatata e, nella maggior parte ...

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Album Review

Gilad Hekselman: SplitLife

Read "SplitLife" reviewed by Laurel Gross

by Laurel Gross
November 6, 2007

Not that long out of school, guitarist Gilad Hekselman has already begun to create a body of work possessing a distinctive lyricism and easily embraceable artfulness that seems to reach beyond his years. Born in 1983 and transplanted to the US from Israel, Hekselman's highly effective debut album--aptly named Splitlife--strides dual worlds, Middle East and West, old world and new, but it's his own personality as both assured player and composer that gives this recording its very personable voice.