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Jazz Near You in Israel!
Jazz Near You has added Jerusalem as its second Israeli website. If you live in Israel and use Jazz Near You, please spread the word to the musician and presenter community about our free event listing and distribution service. Thanks much! Jerusalem jerusalem.jazznearyou.com Tel Aviv telaviv.jazznearyou.com With the addition of Jerusalem, Jazz ...
Israel Celebrates International Jazz Day
By Nathalie Freson Quoted as the “Ambassador of jazz in Israel" by i24 news channel, Israeli jazz pianist Gilad Chatsav was selected to organise and coordinate events throughout Israel for the International Jazz Day. In 2012, the UNESCO, in conjunction with the Thelonious Monk Institute, declared April 30 as the official day to celebrate jazz worldwide. ...
Yosi Levy: The Yosi Levy Acoustic Project
by James Nadal
Beyond the element of surprise found in the music of exotic lands, there is the alluring mystery which emanates from the ancestral origins of the culture itself. Guitarist Yosi Levy, with The Acoustic Project, has produced an amazing fusion of traditional Middle Eastern and Indian music injected with improvisational jazz textures and nuances, offering an amalgamation ...
Albert Beger Trio: The Way To Go
by Eyal Hareuveni
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 ...
EFT: Spatial Awareness
by Eyal Hareuveni
The third album of the Israeli Electro Free Trio--EFT--marks the constant evolution of this working band. This powerful outfit always searched for ways to blend on-the-spot free improvisation strategies with live electronics, noise and metal but now has reached a balanced interplay that stresses the original, constant-evolving voices of each of the musicians--guitarist Ido Bukelman, in ...
Avishai Cohen: Family Bonds and Music from the Heart
by Urszula Orczyk
Avishai Cohen is a talented trumpeter, composer, band leader, co-leader and active sideman featured on over 50 records to date. Voted a Rising Star in the 2012 DownBeat Critics Poll, Cohen is also a musician with an individual sound, combining the best of traditional jazz with a modern compositional style. As a player, he demonstrates flexibility, ...
Ayelet Lerman / Wade Matthews / Carmel Raz: Growing Carrots in a Concrete Floor
by Eyal Hareuveni
Operating for four years, the em>Wire Tapping series of experimental improvised meetings at the Barbur Gallery in Jerusalem has hosted many ad-hoc initial meetings between left-of-center musicians. The Series organized collaborations in the past with American drummer Gerry Hemingway, German double bass player Alexander Frangenheim and New York-based and Israeli ex-pat guitarist Eyal Maoz. ...
Farthest South: Neurim
by Eyal Hareuveni
The Israeli improvisational trio Farthest South explored distant musical universes in its previous albums--free jazz with local sax hero Albert Beger on Omens & Talismans (2013) and ambient-space rock on Spheres & Constellations (2013). Only on its third release, Neurim (youth in Hebrew} the trio dares to tackle one of the sore aspects of the Israeli ...
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb: Betzidei Drachim [Roadsides]
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by Eyal Hareuveni
Israeli, Canada-based vocalist Ayelet Rose Gottlieb attempts in her fourth solo album to portray a possible peaceful vision of the Middle-East through a wise arrangement of Israeli and Palestinian poetry. These poems, all sung in Hebrew (and all translated to English) suggest that behind the conflict, contrasting historical, political and even cultural narratives live people who ...
Mark Dresser / Gerry Hemingway / Assif Tsahar: Code Re(a)d
by Eyal Hareuveni
Code Re(a)d documents the live, free improvised meeting of Israeli saxophonist Assif Tsahar with the massive rhythm section of double bass master Mark Dresser and powerful drummer Gerry Hemingway, recorded at Tshar's home base, the Levontin 7 club in Tel Aviv in May 2011. Dresser and Hemingway began to play together in the legendary Anthony Braxton ...
