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Patrick Zimmerli: Phoenix
by Eyal Hareuveni
On his sixth release, New York-based composer and saxophonist Patrick Zimmerli hybridizes the sounds of a jazz quartet with a string quartet, adding a gentle dose of samples and electronics and spicing it all up with popular and ethnic elements. Phoenix, Zimmerli's fourth release for the Vancouver based Songlines label, attempts to integrate these styles into ...
Rova: John Coltrane's Ascension & Electric Ascension
by Eyal Hareuveni
“There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine: new feelings to get at. And always, there is a need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we've discovered in its pure state. So that we can see more clearly what we are. In that way, ...
Cato Salsa Experience and The Thing with Joe McPhee: Sounds Like A Sandwich
by Eyal Hareuveni
Sometimes you can't help bursting out laughing while listening to a record. Sounds like a Sandwich, a twenty-minute EP with a most appropriate title, is one of those releases. It features a Norwegian psychedelic rock band, Cato Salsa Experience, together with a jazz power trio, The Thing, and reed man Joe McPhee--or as they call themselves, ...
Hafarot Seder Festival 2005
by Eyal Hareuveni
Hagada Ha'Smalit Tel Aviv July 16, 2005 In the Israeli discourse the term Hafarot Seder, disorders in Hebrew, is associated with state spokesmen during the first Palestinian uprising, the Intifadah. These spokesmen used this term in their newspeak in order to de-legitimize the Palestinian right to oppose the brutal Israeli Occupation, the ...
The Volcanic Guitar of Yasuhiro Usui
by Eyal Hareuveni
Japanese guitarist Yasuhiro Usui is the man behind the Nagoya Version of the Satoko Fujii Orchestra, the wildest version of this Orchestra. Last year, Usui produced and released, on his own label, the Orchestra's first release (Nagoyanian, Bakamo, 2004), and managed to charge it with tons of eccentric and manic energy. Usui is also a frequent ...
Hamid Drake/Albert Beger/William Parker: Evolving Silence, Vol. 1
by Eyal Hareuveni
When Israeli saxophonist Albert Beger joined Roy Campbell's Pyramid Trio for the group's final piece at the 2005 Tel Aviv Jazz Festival five months ago, I was doubtful that he would be able to cope with the rhythm section of bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake. They excelled that night, taking Campbell's music so far ...
San featuring Zim Ngqawana: San Song
by Eyal Hareuveni
San Song represents the first appearance on record by one of South Africa's greatest musical treasures, saxophonist Zim Ngqawana. The disc, which presented Ngqawana's soulful vision to the jazz world, was recorded in Oslo in May of 1996 with Norwegian saxophonist Bjørn Ole Solberg and a young and rising Norwegian rhythm section. Ngqawana was 37 years ...
Jane Ira Bloom: Like Silver, Like Song
by Eyal Hareuveni
Jane Ira Bloom has a visual approach to sound. She is inspired by visual textures like the action paintings of Jackson Pollock (Chasing Paint, Arabesque, 2003); she adds her abstract black and white photography to her new release; but she describes Like Silver, Like Song as a continuous visual dream. A melodic dream, to be sure, ...
Tel Aviv Free Jazz White Night
by Eyal Hareuveni
Events covered in this article: Tel Aviv's White Night Music Marathon, Enav Culture Center, Tel Aviv, June 23, 2005 Jemeel Moondoc Quartet, The Israeli Opera Hall, Tel Aviv, June 24, 2005 It was a gathering of the tribe. The local flock of forward-thinking jazz worshippers and musicians, including the tribe's eldermen, magicians ...
Ikue Mori: Mysterious Soundscapes
by Eyal Hareuveni
Laptop computer pioneer Ikue Mori is a musician with a vision. Mori began her career as an untutored drummer in the seminal no wave group DNA, than transformed herself into an improviser who juggles an array of interconnected drum-machines and samplers, and again into a laptop computer player who no longer bases her musical language on ...
