Jazz Articles about Yitzhak Yedid

Yitzhak Yedid: Oud Bass Piano Trio

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 27, 2008

Possibile riassumere in un solo disco le molteplici, frammentarie, contraddittorie, anime della cultura ebraica? Ci ha provato il compositore-pianista israeliano Yitzhak Yedid dando alle stampe questa pregevole serie di acquarelli mediorientali. Oud Bass Piano Trio: certo il titolo non lascia molto spazio alla fantasia. E quel che non si evince a un primo sguardo lo si intuisce continuando a leggere: Suite in Five Movements. Fortunatamente, l’ispirazione del nostro supera di gran lunga le doti di redattore. E allora, ecco emergere ...

Yitzhak Yedid: Suite In Five Movements

by Glenn Astarita
May 23, 2008

Award-winning Israeli composer/pianist Yitzhak Yedid is a paradox of sorts. His methodology consists of music without boundaries and he's difficult to pigeonhole, which is all good of course. Other than his numerous commissions for various arts-related formats, his overall muse combines an aesthetic that teeters between jazz, new music, avant-garde, Middle Eastern folk and much more.

Suite In Five Movements, released by the bleeding-edge German progressive Between the Lines label, signifies a unique convergence of various cultural elements ...

Yitzhak Yedid: Oud Bass Piano Trio

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 7, 2008

Yitzhak Yedid Oud Bass Piano Trio Between the Lines 2008

Composer and pianist Yitzhak Yedid's new composition is an impressive attempt to weave current and traditional styles and influences into a cohesive contemporary work. In this five part suite, premiered at the Oud Festival in Jerusalem in November 2005 and recorded nine months later, there are references and retentions from a wide spectrum of sources, including Jewish and Christian prayers and benedictions, ...

Yitzhak Yedid: Reflections Upon Six Images

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 30, 2006

Non vi è dubbio che negli ultimi anni la musica di origine ebraica sia divenuta parte integrante di ciò che chiamiamo jazz contemporaneo. Sempre più autori che vi si richiamano, oppure giovani solisti e compositori originari di Israele che immettono la loro creatività nella comunità jazzistica. E’ il caso di Yitzhak Yedid, pianista già al suo sesto disco, questa volta strutturato come un concept-album dalle molteplici trame narrative. Non pensate ad una musica canonica. Yedid è autore ambizioso, voglioso di ...

Yitzhak Yedid: Reflections Upon Six Images

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 5, 2006

Israeli composer and pianist Yitzhak Yedid's sixth release, his third for the German Between the Lines label, is his most assured and most improvised statement to date. Yedid replaced his cerebral, well-crafted, dense and intricate compositions this time with a looser road map that sketched themes and motifs, but left plenty of room for the members of his ensemble (all of whom have taken part in his past projects)--Canadian clarinetist François Houle, Israeli bassist Ora Boasson-Horev and violist Galia Hai--to ...

Yitzhak Yedid: Passions and Prayers: Sextet in Hommage to Jerusalem

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 30, 2005

Jerusalem-based composer and pianist Yitzhak Yedid is a true advocate of the Third Stream, the almost extinct school of music that claims to synthesize jazz sensibility and modern methods of improvisation with new and contemporary techniques of composition. The Israeli musician explains his adherence to this school in the minute liner notes of Passions and Prayers, his second release for the German Between the Lines label: “This approach is based on the belief that the contemporary performer has a mastery ...

Yitzhak Yedid: Myth of the Cave

by Kurt Gottschalk
October 21, 2003

Thirty two year-old Israeli pianist Yitzhak Yedid has issued a considerable statement. In Myth of the Cave, he has created a work with a heady high concept that's still eminently musical. His composed suite with improvised passages avoids falling into the usual jazz trappings. It suggests classicism without wading into pretension.Plato's "myth of the cave" parable is an argument that we cannot be sure we know reality. In it, a group of people is chained inside a cave, ...