Jazz Articles about Peter Apfelbaum & The New York Hieroglyphics

Peter Apfelbaum & The New York Hieroglyphics: It Is Written

by Paul Olson
August 30, 2005

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Peter Apfelbaum's It Is Written is his first recording with the East Coast version of his large Hieroglyphics ensemble. There's no denying the deep musicianship of the leader and his band, but what's most striking here is Apfelbaum's genre-mashing ambition as he blends jazz with a host of world music influences to form a powerfully grooving sound that's utterly benign, even beatific: large ensemble, horn-heavy music that's tailor-made for the jamband set, yet free of the more ...