Results for "Assaf Hakimi"

Reflecting on Freedom

By Alon Farber

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Israeli Song; Reflecting on Freedom & Freedom Jazz Dance; Theme for Michal; Ima; Fresh Start; More Monkeys, Please; You'll See the Way; Hammouda; Farbalak.

Alon Farber Hagiga: Reflecting on Freedom

by Jack Bowers
October 6, 2021

Israeli saxophonist Alon Farber's Hagiga (in Yiddish, “celebration") is exactly that--a warm tribute to contemporary jazz from the Middle East to South America and beyond, ably performed on the group's fourth album, Reflecting on Freedom, by half a dozen well-schooled Israeli musicians and--on several of the album's nine tracks--special guest percussionist Rony Iwyrn and vocalist Sarai ...

Ari Erev: Close to Home

by Edward Blanco
September 16, 2021

Pianist and composer Ari Erev here delivers an intimate musical portrait containing a selection of light jazz music intended to convey a warm personal story. As the Israeli pianist states, the album “tells my story of family members, close friends and familiar places, to whom I relate and feel deep emotions towards." Along with eight original ...

Israeli Song

August 26, 2021

Album: Reflecting on Freedom
By Alon Farber
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 05:15

Falling in Place

July 7, 2021

Album: Close to Home
By Ari Erev
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Duration: 03:59

Assaf Hakimi

Jazz Quanta April – Five Women III: Erica Papillion-Posey, Meli’sa Morgan, Daphna Levy, Gabriela Martin, Sofia Ribeiro

by C. Michael Bailey
April 19, 2016

We are enjoying a rich period of jazz vocals creation, the story continues... Erica Papillion-Posey The Standard Reimagined: When Jazz... Self Produced 2016 Vocalist Erica Papillion-Posey recently published a book entitled Musings From the Mind of a Mezzo, Poetry & Prose of Passion, Pain & ...

Albert Beger Trio: The Way To Go

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 14, 2014

Israeli sax hero Albert Beger's new album presents this restless composer and ambitious improviser in two, schizophrenic forms. On one hand, The Way to Go features some of Beger's most impressive compositions, mostly written after his beloved mother's death, showing Beger as a restless musician who seeks to expand his compositional ideas and vocabulary as an ...

Ido Bukelman's Cracked Song: Ido Bukelman’s Cracked Song

by Eyal Hareuveni
February 16, 2012

Looking back at gifted Israeli guitarist Ido Bukelman's discography-- his improvised solo album, The Door (Kadima) and Solo (OutNow, 2011) and his experimental electronic trio EFT (OutNow Recordings, 2012)-- his Cracked Song quartet is clearly more straight-ahead. Bukelman navigates this quartet in a musical journey after a song structure, within the framework and freedom of improvised ...

Steven Bernstein and Nicole Mitchell: Tel Aviv Jazz Festival, February 15-16, 2011

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 5, 2011

Steven Bernstein's Diaspora Soul & Nicole Mitchell's Indigo Trio Tel Aviv Jazz Festival Cinemateque Tel Aviv, Israel February 15-16, 2011 The 2011 edition of the Tel Aviv Jazz Festival did not feature big names but, instead, focused on musicians who have solidified their unique way of bridging the past with ...