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Ayal Tsubery: Decisions

Read "Decisions" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
August 7, 2014

Ayal Tsubery is a Berklee-educated bassist and composer influenced, as he puts it, by ..." jazz, Israeli folk, African and Middle Eastern grooves and old-school gritty rock 'n' roll." On his debut album, Decisions, he brings most of those influences together to create a strong set of tunes--not so much of the gritty rock 'n' roll, ...

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Shauli Einav: Generations

Read "Generations" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
November 28, 2013

The title of saxophonist Shauli Einav's third album, Generations, hints at the breadth of source material the young Israeli-born musician has explored in assembling this collection. Einav contributes two original tunes, “Thermo Blues" and “Renewal," but the bulk of the set comes from the pens of some of the finest writers and players in the history ...

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The Shark

By Itai Kriss

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2011
Track listing: The Shark; Kamuvan; Gypsy; Four By Four; Chang Chang; Breeza; Danzon No. 1; Sketch For Toki; Booty Call.

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Itai Kriss: The Shark

Read "The Shark" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
July 13, 2011

Swimming through the ocean of jazz, navigating the currents of melodies and harmonies while avoiding the jaws of a shark, can be a blissful experience. There is one shark, though, that needn't be feared, masterfully created by Israeli-born flautist Itai Kriss. The Shark is an exercise in modern hard-bop and Caribbean/Latin rhythms that takes a big ...

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Itai Kriss: The Shark

Read "The Shark" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
June 19, 2011

New and/or notable flute voices in jazz don't seem to come around very often. While scores of saxophonists double on this instrument, very few players that enter the jazz trenches are pure flautists, through and through. When a musician makes the decision to focus solely on an instrument like the flute, they might be narrowing their ...

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News: Recording

Flutist/Composer Itai Kriss Releases New CD "The Shark" Featuring Aaron Goldberg, Omer Avital, Eric McPherson, Avashai Cohen, and John Ellis.

June 2, 2011

Flutist/Composer Itai Kriss releases new CD “The Shark" featuring Aaron Goldberg, Omer Avital, Eric McPherson, Avashai Cohen, & John Ellis. Backed by a hard-grooving rhythm section and stellar special guests Itai Kriss explores the junction of swinging Hard-bop, Caribbean rhythms and funky beats in the first record as a leader from the virtuoso flutist and composer. ...