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Assif Tsahar: Dissonance is Consonance
by Eyal Hareuveni
Israeli saxophonist Assif Tsahar is preparing for his return to New York, where has resided for the last fifteen years. Tsahar spent the last year touring in Europe and Israel with his musical partner Cooper-Moore, celebrating the release of their second collaboration as a duo, Tells Untold, and recording a new disc together.In his ...
Michael Galasso: High Lines
by Eyal Hareuveni
Violin virtuoso player and composer Michael Galasso has released only one album (Scenes, ECM) and that was 22 years ago, but he is still one of the busiest behind-the-scenes musicians around the globe. He composes music to the plays of dramatist Robert Wilson (The Cabinet of Doktor Caligary, the CIVIL warS, Peer Gynt) to films (Korean ...
Richard Crandell: Mbira Magic
by Eyal Hareuveni
The mbira, or thumb piano, is the classic instrument of Zimbabwe. It consists of approximately 20 to 24 flattened metal prongs which are fastened at one end to a wooden resonator body and has a chiming, cyclical sound. Many jazz musicians have explored the possibilities of the mbira, from bassist William Parker to Israeli saxophonist Assif ...
Cooper-Moore/Assif Tsahar: Tells Untold
by Eyal Hareuveni
On Tells Untold, homemade-instrument inventor Cooper-Moore and Israeli reed man Assif Tsahar keep refining their unique, hard-to-classify musical language. The narrative evolves around stories that Cooper-Moore and Tsahar told each other during the recording about an ancient tribal mutiny against the tribe's king, and it has a more meditative atmosphere than their previous collaboration, America (Hopscotch, ...
Steve Lacy/Jo: One More Time
by Eyal Hareuveni
Just before the late soprano sax master Steve Lacy decided to say farewell to Europe and relocate to the States, he conducted a series of farewell solo and duets concerts in Belgium, organized by his loyal fans. Lacy invited some old-time friends to these events, such as a fellow Parisian, master improviser, and double-bassist, Joëllle Léandre, ...
The Klezmatics: Brother Moses Smote The Water
by Eyal Hareuveni
On its first live disc this alt-klezmer band chooses to celebrate the theme of liberation from bondage, but not only in the strict Jewish context or heritage, usually focused around the Passover and the story of Exodus, the liberation from slavery in Egypt. The Klezmatics, together with black Jewish gospel singer Joshua Nelson, find inspiration in ...
Marc Copland/John Abercrombie/Kenny Wheeler: Brand New
by Eyal Hareuveni
Pianist Marc Copland, guitarist John Abercrombie, and trumpeter Kenny Wheeler need no introduction. Each is a truly original improviser with an individual voice, and all three are established leaders in their own right. They have collaborated through the years in various formations, most recently as a trio on That's for Sure, recorded by the same Dutch ...
Kolbein Falkeid/Ketil Bj: Solskinnsdypet (Sun Shines Deep)
by Eyal Hareuveni
Some of the best ECM discs are being conceived, played, and produced outside the prestigious Munich-based label, whose productions are trademarked by creative, well-crafted, and beautifully executed chamber jazz. Norwegian pianist and composer Ketil Bjørnstad, who has recorded five discs for ECM in the last decade, uses veteran ECM recording musicians; ECM's chief sound ...
Charles Lloyd: Jumping the Creek
by Eyal Hareuveni
When it comes to saxophonist Charles Lloyd, you always know that with every new release you will marvel at his melodic and serene playing, his spiritual vision, and his relaxed and flexible manner of leading his ensemble. With his new quartet--featuring pianist Geri Allen, who collaborated with Lloyd on Lift Every Voice (ECM, 2002), bassist Bob ...
William Parker: Luc's Lantern
by Eyal Hareuveni
Bassist William Parker has been a key figure in different piano trios in the past, including Cecil Taylor's Feel Trio (Looking: Berlin Version, FMP, 1990 and Celebrated Blazons, FMP, 1994), his longtime partner Matthew Shipp's Trio (The Multiplication Table, Hatology, 1998) and most recently in Dave Burrell's Full Blown Trio (High Two, 2004). But none of ...
