Spheres Duo

Spheres Duo: In Concert

by Michael Feldman
April 13, 2006

Nowadays the border between jazz and modern classical music is becoming narrower and actually vanishing. The Spheres Duo offers good proof, exploring a multicoloured sound and realizing extraordinary results from the unique linkage of piano, vibraphone and percussion. Arnon Zimra and Zvi Joffe met first at the Tel Aviv Music Academy in 1991, when they performed a composition by Yehezkel Braun for piano and percussion. They preferred to compose their own music and make their own arrangements, which fit them ...

Spheres Duo Release "Works, Vol.1"

Source: All About Jazz
September 12, 2006

Those familiar with previous releases of this singular duo - such as Cycles, Registers, Spheres Duo In Concert - are by now well aware of its unique instrumental combination and sound production. Each of their albums, the present one included, is enhanced by the duo's playing (almost) exclusively their own composition. Both Zvi Joffe (vibraphone, percussion) and Arnon Zimra (piano) are well-educated, well-trained musicians who co-compose their works.

This disc thankfully delivers me from any braggadocio about having enjoyed its ...
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