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Sephardic Tinge: Avshalom Farjun's Toy Vivo Duo and Itamar Erez Adama Ensemble
by Eyal Hareuveni
A decade ago, downtown New Yorker Anthony Coleman coined the term Sephardic Tinge as the name for his new piano trio. In doing so he was referencing Jelly Rolly Morton's Spanish Tinge, which Morton had believed to be the element that gave jazz much of its original character. Coleman wanted to reflect the rich musical heritage ...
A New Edition of the World Saxophone Quartet at the Israel Festival
by Eyal Hareuveni
World Saxophone Quartet Israel Festival Henry Crown Symphony Hall Jerusalem, Israel May 27, 2006 The Israel Festival is the country's biggest such event--but festival coordinators have not tried to introduce relevant jazz performances in recent years, so a concert by such a well-established outfit as the World ...
Lina Nyberg: Tellus
by Eyal Hareuveni
Swedish vocalist Lina Nyberg, like other Scandinavian jazz singers such as Jeanette Lindström, Solveig Slettahjell and Torun Eriksen, brings a rare quality to the music that has become harder to find on the other side of the Atlantic: sensual maturity, candidness, and an admirable insistence not to comply with market rules which tend to target conservative ...
Anouar Brahem: Innovative Weaver of Musical Heritages
by Eyal Hareuveni
Tunisian oud player Anouar Brahem's eighth solo release, Voyage de Sahar (ECM, 2006), is another testimony to the magnificent way that he manages to weave influences and references from the rich and beautiful heritage of Arabic world with elements of Andalusian music and modern jazz, and to the innovative way in which Brahem suggests the oud ...
Two Sides Of The Oud: Dhafer Youssef & Amos Hoffman
by Eyal Hareuveni
Over the last decade the oud, the Middle Eastern lute, has become a beguiling and familiar sound on culturally outward-looking jazz recordings. Tunisian player Anouar Brahem has expanded the vocabulary of the instrument with every new recording, and Lebanese player Rabih Abou-Khalil has presented it as a frontline voice in modern settings. On Divine Shadows, his ...
Ken Vandermark, Paal Nilssen-Love, Kjetil M
by Eyal Hareuveni
Two young Norwegians, drummer Paal Nilssen-Love and saxophonist Kjetil Møster, 32 and 30 respectively, have crossed each others' musical paths several times in recent years. Nilssen-Love is associated with many of Ken Vandermark's projects--their ongoing duo releases, FME, Territory Band, Atomic/School Days, Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet and the newly formed, yet-to-record Fire Room and Powerhouse Sound--and ...
Slava Ganelin and Ned Rothenberg: Falling Into Place: Live in Jaffa
by Eyal Hareuveni
New York-based reed master Ned Rothenberg managed to perform twice during his last family trip to Israel two years ago, and in both instances he collaborated for the first time with Israeli musicians. Two duets from Rothenberg concert in Jerusalem with free-improv bassist JC Jones were documented on Jones' second release (Duos II, Kadima Collective, 2005), ...
Ferenc Snetberger: Nomad
by Eyal Hareuveni
Nomad is the seventh release by Hungarian-born, Berlin-based acoustic guitarist Ferenc Snétberger, but in many ways this collaborative effort may be the culmination of experiences by his collaborator, Norwegian bassist Arild Andersen, with small ensembles that feature acoustic guitarists. Andersen recorded Karta (ECM, 1999) with two of Snétberger's musical partners--German trumpeter Markus Stockhausen and French drummer/percussionist ...
William Parker: Long Hidden: The Olmec Series
by Eyal Hareuveni
On Long Hidden: The Olmec Series, bass giant William Parker suggests a new cosmology that unearths common threads between the ancient, indigenous cultures of West African Manding and Middle American Olmec people--who lived in the east lowlands of Mexico from 1300 to 400 BC--and modern jazz in one of its more daring manifestations, the solo bass ...
Nada Records: New Releases by Tizmoret and Nagwa
by Eyal Hareuveni
Nada Records is one of the more established Israeli labels documenting the fertile local world music scene, including prominent Israeli outfits as the already disbanded Bustan Abraham (including collaborations with Indian masters Hariprasad Chaurasia and Zakir Hussain and the Irish nomad master Ross Daly), Eyal Sela and his Dharma Ensemble, Isfahan Ensemble, the Black Velvet and ...
