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Dan Aran: Breathing
by Bridget A. Arnwine
When a CD is released, one of its most revealing aspects--and that of the artist's mindset during the recording process--is the title that has been assigned. With a title like Breathing, there are several things that can be presupposed: first, maybe the artist recorded the album in a stiflingly hot space and the title was chosen ...
Dan Aran: Breathing
by David Adler
Dan Aran's Breathing arrived with a short, dour note from Luke Kaven, head of Smalls Records, on the shaky future of indie-label jazz. That's not news and yet Breathing underscores the stakes involved for artists whose work is too fine to go undocumented. Aran, an Israeli-born drummer, is such an artist. Breathing is very ...
October 2009
by AAJ Staff
Gordon GrdinaBar 4Brooklyn, NY September 7, 2009There were other things in the music Gordon Grdina played at Bar 4, bits of McLaughlin, Santana, Sharrock, but for the first few minutes of his trio's Sep. 7th set it was hard to hear anything other than how together they were. From the ...
Yaron Herman Trio: Muse
by Raul d'Gama Rose
If music could exist outside of time--not as in rhythm, but as in the time-space continuum--then it might sound like the glassy, ice-hot pianism of Yaron Herman. How did he get to inhabit this spare soundscape in almost suspended animation? Perhaps it is because he is powered by the magic of an uninhibited soul--that and the ...
Yaron Herman: An Urgent Need to Play
by Jean-Marc Gelin
Pianist Yaron Herman, an Israeli now living in Paris, is one of the most talented artists of the Parisian jazz musical scene. He was a promising basketball player on the Israeli national junior team when he was cut short by a knee injury. He then decided to take up playing the piano at age 16. His ...
Le Boeuf Brothers: House Without A Door
by Bruce Lindsay
Remy and Pascal Le Boeuf, horn player and pianist respectively, are precociously talented identical twins who have already received awards for their composition and playing. House Without A Door is their second album and on this showing there are more awards to come. The New York-based brothers play well-crafted original tunes: all 12 ...
Samo Salamon & Aljosa Jeric Quartet: Mamasaal feat. Mark Turner
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
That bandleaders Samo Salamon and Aljosa Jeric are Slovenian doesn't appear to be of much musical relevance; jazz settings of East European folk songs are not the order of the day here. But it might have some metaphorical relevance; just as their tiny homeland has shot to the top of all social, economic and political rankings ...
