Jazz Articles about Yaron Herman

Yaron Herman: Radio Paradise

by Anastasia Bogomolets
April 12, 2025

"When I started working on this album, the first thing that came to my mind was melody. I have been writing a lot over the last few years, mostly in my notebooks, for myself. On the road or at home, anything from long lines to short fragments. With time, (and hard work) these “motifs" started to take shape and turn into 'songs,'" Yaron Herman shares about his backstage process. Even though there are no human vocals on the ...

Yaron Herman: Everyday

by Vincenzo Roggero
November 17, 2015

È tutt'altro che noioso, e questo è un bel biglietto da visita per un duo piano/batteria. Non è un omaggio a chicchessia né la solita passerella di standard più o meno noti, a meno che si vogliano considerare tali “Retrograde" di James Blake e “Prelude n° 4, Opus 74" di Alexander Scriabin. E non rivela nessun filo conduttore che accomuni i tredici brani, talmente differenti sono le atmosfere, le sonorità, le forme. Ma Everyday non è disco ...

Yaron Herman: Alter Ego

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 28, 2013

Alter Ego, l'ultimo lavoro di Yaron Herman, ha un titolo senz'altro evocatico: indica una diversa prospettiva, un differente pertugio dell'esitere; al contempo, suggerisce necessariamente una continuità con le proprie radici, ovvero ciò che ci constraddistingue, ci qualifica, ci fa riconoscere. Tradizione ed innovazione, continuità e rottura, dove il fil rouge è la rappresentazione di sé attraverso gli stati d'animo più diversi ed eterogenei. Il pianista israeliano (con trascorsi alla prestigiosa Berklee School of Music e oggi francese di adozione) è ...

Yaron Herman Trio: Follow the White Rabbit

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 21, 2011

Dotato di eleganza e asciuttezza, lo stile di Yaron Herman ha ben impressionato il pubblico del jazz. Promettente giocatore di basket fino a diventare membro della nazionale di Israele, ma reduce da un grave infortunio, il pianista israeliano prosegue la sua opera dopo A Time for Everything e Muse. In questo Follow the White Rabbit, più che nelle precedenti esperienze discografiche, la musica sfiora il rock senza mai toccarlo. Il classico groove appare mai ossessivamente preciso, schematico, squadrato - come ...

Yaron Herman: Follow The White Rabbit

by Bruce Lindsay
October 23, 2010

Follow The White Rabbit is Israeli pianist Yaron Herman's fifth album--his first on the ACT label and his first with the rhythm section of bassist Chris Tordini and drummer Tommy Crane. Continuing the format of his past trio albums A Time For Everything (Laborie Records, 2007) and Muse (Laborie Records, 2009), Herman mixes original tunes and covers, including one or two unusual and not altogether successful choices. Radiohead's “No Surprises" keeps close to the sound of the ...

Yaron Herman Trio: Muse

by Raul d'Gama Rose
September 8, 2009

If music could exist outside of time--not as in rhythm, but as in the time-space continuum--then it might sound like the glassy, ice-hot pianism of Yaron Herman. How did he get to inhabit this spare soundscape in almost suspended animation? Perhaps it is because he is powered by the magic of an uninhibited soul--that and the happy accident of the finiteness of mathematics. Add the mysterious trickery of melding of the two, and the result is music that sways, mirage-like ...

Yaron Herman: An Urgent Need to Play

by Jean-Marc Gelin
August 26, 2009

Pianist Yaron Herman, an Israeli now living in Paris, is one of the most talented artists of the Parisian jazz musical scene. He was a promising basketball player on the Israeli national junior team when he was cut short by a knee injury. He then decided to take up playing the piano at age 16. His teacher, the renowned Opher Brayer--famous for his methods based on philosophy and mathematics--taught him the craving for self-knowledge and discovery.

At 19, Yaron left ...