Jazz Articles about Aaron Alexander

Aaron Alexander - Julian Priester: Conversational Music

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 7, 2012

Conversational Music, titolo appropriato per un CD intimo, rilassato e, nel contempo, dalle forme aperte, a tratti indecifrabile come un quadro astratto. I protagonisti sono anagraficamente divisi da due generazioni (Julian Priester va per i settantasette!) ma hanno più di un tratto in comune. Per esempio Aaron Alexander è stato per anni allievo di Julian Priester ed entrambi possono considerarsi musicisti meritevoli di maggior attenzione. Il trombonista di Chicago ha attraversato epoche e stili (Duke Ellington, Max Roach, John Coltrane, ...

Aaron Alexander: Midrash Mish Mosh

by Dan McClenaghan
June 7, 2005

The klezmer base is there, unmistakeable, on drummer Aaron Alexander's Midrash Mish Mosh, but a bunch of other influences wail into the sound, too. For example, guitarist Brad Shepik lends a punk rock feeling to the opener, “Kleyzmish Moshpit." The title alone gives a big hint of what to expect. A mosh pit with Jewish leanings? I can't say, never having experienced a mosh pit in any form; but to these ears it sounds like Jimi Hendrix in a yarmulke, ...

Aaron Alexander: Midrash Mish Mosh

by Jerry D'Souza
May 20, 2005

"Midrash" comes from the Hebrew word “darash," which means “to inquire." “Mis mosh mish" means “mixed-up" or “combination." That was easy; Aaron Alexander explains the terms in the liner notes. Definitions having been provided, this music, part of Tzadik's Radical Jewish Culture series, is indeed an exhilarating combination. To call it mixed-up would be denying it the power and the glory, the joy and the intensity that it creates.

One could well expect klezmer music to be at ...