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Take Five With...

Take Five with Ariel Bart

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Meet Ariel Bart Ariel Bart is a harmonica player and composer born in Israel in 1998 and currently based in jny: Berlin. Her debut album, In Between, was released in May 2021 on Ropeadope. In the album, Ariel presents a unique approach to the harmonica and her composed melodies, which are inspired by the European jazz tradition and the Middle-Eastern world. Ariel began playing the chromatic harmonica at the age of seven and since then it's been her primary instrument. ...

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Album Review

Steve Swell: The Center Will Hold

Read "The Center Will Hold" reviewed by John Sharpe


Unusual instrumentation inspires NYC-based trombonist Steve Swell to ever greater heights on the six compositions comprising The Center Will Hold. Pride of place goes to veteran drummer Andrew Cyrille, who certainly deserves the extra billing he receives on the cover. Beside him are a mixture of long time colleagues of the trombonist, violinist Jason Kao Hwang and cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, and more recent collaborators, pianist Robert Boston, who fulfilled a leading role on Swell's accomplished Brain In A Dish (NoBusiness, ...


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