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Ari Erev: About Time

by Samuel Chell
June 20, 2008

Ari Erev About Time A.B.C.D. Music 2008

A reviewer is no longer doing a new pianist or the listener any favors (let alone earning his or her keep) by invoking the name of Bill Evans. Yet Israeli pianist Ari Erev all but makes unavoidable some reference to the seminal predecessor by programming two of Evans' compositions and selecting a theme and title that readily bring to mind the influential progenitor's haunting Time Remembered (Milestone, ...

Ari Erev: About Time

by Eyal Hareuveni
February 7, 2008

The debut recording of Israeli pianist Ari Erev offers his musical musings about time--the relationship between the fleeting time, the shaping of our memories and the perceptions that we all have about time and its implications on our lives. Erev testifies that his main influence is Bill Evans, and he performs regularly with a program, “Jazz from the Heart" that is based on the iconic pianist's repertoire. The thirteen compositions on About Time loyally represent Evans' insistence on clear song ...