Jazz Articles about Nori Jacoby / Yoni Kretzmer / Haggai Fershtman

Nori Jacoby / Yoni Kretzmer / Haggai Fershtman: One Afternoon

by Nic Jones
May 13, 2011

One of the points of interest of free improvisation is its autonomy. Given the lack of prearrangement, the potential for both triumph and disaster is there in equal measure, especially if the music is being recorded for posterity. One Afternoon is one of those occasions when the recording happened at just the right moment. Any trio consisting of viola, tenor sax and drums hardly runs the risk of sounding stale, but it's the extent to which these ...