Jazz Articles about Yaron Herman

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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 ...

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Yaron Herman Trio: Muse

by Chris May
July 19, 2009

Muse is Yaron Herman's fourth album and with it the Israeli-born/French-based pianist continues his steady progress towards a mature post-Keith Jarrett, post-Brad Mehldau style and the certainty of world ranking. Still in his late twenties, Herman set out his stall with the piano/drums duo album Takes 2 To Know 1 (Sketch, 2005), which was followed by a solo set, Variations (Laborie Records, 2006), and most recently a trio plus electronica album, A Time For Everything (Laborie Records, 2007). The new ...

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Yaron Herman: A Time for Everything

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 8, 2007

Primo disco in trio per il giovane pianista israeliano - ma attivo sulla scena francese - Yaron Herman, bene assecondato da Matt Brewer al contrabbasso e da Gerald Cleaver alla batteria. La musica di A Time for Everything si inserisce a pieno titolo in un filone ormai abbastanza battuto, quello [con le dovute differenze pensiamo al trio EST o ai Bad Plus] che muove dalla tradizione del piano trio per innestarvi modalità ritmico espressive più vicine al rock e alla ...

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Yaron Herman Trio: A Time for Everything

by John Kelman
October 27, 2007

Sometimes the power of a back story can eclipse the music it supports. For Israeli-born pianist Yaron Herman it's a close call, but A Time for Everything is such a refreshing and multifaceted album that a little background is necessary.

Herman, still in his mid-twenties, began playing piano at sixteen, a shift in focus resulting from an unexpected basketball accident that put an end to his sporting aspirations. The sports world's loss became the music world's ...

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Yaron Herman: Variations

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
June 13, 2006

Variations is Israeli-born pianist Yaron Herman's first solo release. Now 25, he didn't start studying piano until he was sixteen. At nineteen he moved to Boston to attend Berklee, but was turned off by its competitive climate; a return stopover in Paris and a spontaneous jam session led to a recording contract and a new home. His first recording was a well-received duo with drummer Sylvain Ghio called Takes 2 to Know (Sketch, 2005).

Variations is an intriguing disc that's ...

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Yaron Herman/Sylvain Ghio: Takes 2 to Know 1

by AAJ Staff
January 8, 2005

Though the piano/drums duo format is not unprecedented (Russ Freeman and Shelly Manne were doing it back in the early '50s), the Sean Lennon look-alike, Israeli-residing-in-Paris pianist Yaron Herman avoids the seemingly inevitable avant-garde tendencies that this experimental pairing has conveniently evolved into over the decades. A very thematic player who remains conscious of where he's come from and where he's going, Herman works in waves of developing momentum in meditative, even seductive fashion, while drummer Sylvain Ghio ...