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Carl Petter Opsahl: Love, The Blues
by Eyal Hareuveni
Love, The Blues is the third part of Norwegian priest and clarinetist Carl Petter Opsahl's trilogy, and is dedicated by him to God. A deeply moving treatise on the blues, this is not blues in its traditional and well-trodden scales and rhythms--even though Opsahl began his professional career as a musician in New Orleans, and even ...
Jerusalem International Oud Festival
by Eyal Hareuveni
The Ninth Jerusalem International Oud Festival Jerusalem, Israel November 20--December 4, 2008 The ninth edition of the Jerusalem International Oud festival predated the current, painful Middle-Eastern round of hostilities in a month, but still offered a much better alternative to the local leaders' militant vision for this region. This festival over ...
Seasonal Greetings from Norway
by Eyal Hareuveni
Norwegian jazz musicians long enjoyed playing and recording seasonal and traditional songs. Think, for example, of the beautiful solo piano arrangements of Christmas songs by keyboard player Bugge Wesseltoft on It's Snowing On My Piano (ACT, 1997) or the trio of guitarist Frode Alnaes, bassist Arild Andersen and accordionist Stian Carstensen following the same vein on ...
Ulvo Ensemble: The Sound Of Rain Needs No Translation
by Eyal Hareuveni
Those fortunate people who have listened to Norwegian piano trio Eple Trio would not be surprised by this beautiful debut from pianist Andreas Ulvo. Just as his Eple Trio blurred the artificial distinctions within specific genres, his Ulvo Ensemble follows suit and combines elements from jazz, classical and traditional music in an impressive, organic manner. Ulvo ...
Satoko Fujii Orchestra Nagoya: Sanrei
by Eyal Hareuveni
There is no doubt that out of the four big bands that Japanese composer and pianist Satoko Fujii leads, Orchestra Nagoya is the wildest one. It is also the fastest and the loudest one. It may feel like being hit by a huge adrenalin shot while listening to Sanrei, the orchestra's third release; but rest assured ...
Mostly Other People Do The Killing: This Is Our Moosic
by Eyal Hareuveni
The cover of the third release by the avant-bop quartet Mostly Other People Do the Killing (MOPDtK) suggests the obvious for anyone who has listened to this excellent ensemble. They reference the classic 1960 Ornette Coleman Quartet Atlantic recording, This Is Our Music, not only by the precise, though humorous position of its members on the ...
Joelle Leandre: Basse continue
by Eyal Hareuveni
Joelle Leandre: Basse continue Hors Oeil Editions 2008 2008 was a good year for French bass master Joelle Leandre: a biographical book A voix basse, assembling her talks with journalist and producer Frank Medioni; excellent discs, with bass comrade Barre Phillips--A l'improviste (Kadima Collective), with reed player Akosh S.--KOR (Leo), ...
Shakers N' Bakers: YFZ (Yearning For Zion)
by Eyal Hareuveni
Sometimes odd matches promise the most perfect couplings. Such is the case with the second release of the New York-based improvising ensemble, Shakers N' Bakers. They succeed beautifully with inspired interpretations of 19th century spiritual vision songs by the radical Utopian religion community known as the Shakers. The ensemble transfers the original texts through the musical ...
Rob Mosher's Storytime: The Tortoise
by Eyal Hareuveni
The compelling debut of Canadian-born, New York-based reed man and self-taught composer Rob Mosher is a thematic composition for his 10-piece ensemble Storytime. Using Storytime, featuring young composers and reed men Sam Sadigursky and Peter Hess, Mosher succeeds in orchestrating vividly sophisticated, highly melodic suite-like musical stories. These cinematic narratives reflect Mosher's diverse influences, ranging from ...
Mark O'Leary: Flux and Shamanic Voices
by Eyal Hareuveni
These two releases by the exceptional Irish guitarist Mark O'Leary feature him at his best. On two undated sessions, O'Leary paired himself with singular yet highly collaborative musicians. The meetings which followed recalibrated O'Leary's playing away from its usual avant-fusion inclination and towards a new form of freer expressive articulation. Mark O'Leary/Dylan Van Der ...
