Home » Search Center » Results: Matt Brewer

Results for "Matt Brewer"

235

Article: Album Review

Yaron Herman Trio: Muse

Read "Muse" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
September 8, 2009

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 ...

966

Article: Interview

Yaron Herman: An Urgent Need to Play

by Jean-Marc Gelin
August 26, 2009

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 ...

345

Article: Album Review

Le Boeuf Brothers: House Without A Door

Read "House Without A Door" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
July 21, 2009

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 ...

253

Article: Album Review

Samo Salamon & Aljosa Jeric Quartet: Mamasaal feat. Mark Turner

Read "Mamasaal feat. Mark Turner" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
June 1, 2009

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 ...