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Omer Avital Group: Room To Grow
by J Hunter
In 1996, the Omer Avital Group was in transition. Due to their increasing workload outside the band, Avital was forced to replace original members Ali Jackson and Mark Turner. Losing musicians of that quality would have crippled other groups; but if Room To Grow (recorded live at Smalls the following year) is any indication, the band ...
Omer Avital Group: Room to Grow
by Tom Greenland
Opening with the soul-full call of the acoustic bass, Omer Avital's Room to Grow speaks from and to the heart with the very first note. Recorded live in early 1997, the album is the second in a series on Smalls Records documenting the bassist's growth as an instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. Like its predecessor, Asking ...
Omer Avital
by AAJ Italy Staff
Kalesa - Palermo - 12.04.2007 Una serata da dimenticare, a causa anche di una formazione senza anima, che si è languidamente adagiata su un mainstream amorfo ancorché risaputo. Una musica che si trascinava meccanicamente senza colpi d’ala, con disposizioni degli assoli a dir poco ripetitivi, al servizio di una formula sciatta. In compenso buono il fraseggio ...
Omer Avital Group: Room to Grow
by Jim Santella
Recorded 1997 at Smalls in New York, this session maintains the growth that was spawned by the late John Coltrane thirty to forty years earlier. Along with the traditional elements that made their way into jazz from European classical music, Omer Avital's ensembles add Middle Eastern ties that broaden the harmonic horizon and create fresh new ...
The Ancient Art of Giving
By Omer Avital
Label: Smalls Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Homeland; Night Song; Ras Abu-Galum; Arrival; Shimi
Asking No Permission
By Omer Avital
Label: Smalls Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Know What I Mean?!; Lullaby of the Leaves; Ballad; Devil Head; 12 Tribes; Kentucky Girl; The Field.
Omer Avital: The Ancient Art of Giving
by Tom Greenland
In a (re)return of the prodigious prodigal son, the Israeli-born and New York City-seasoned Omer Avital is back on the block after extended musical fieldwork in his native land. The Ancient Art of Giving presents the vibrant and eclectic bassist with a host of jazz adepts: Mark Turner (tenor), Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Aaron Goldberg (piano) and ...
Omer Avital: The Ancient Art of Giving
by Jim Santella
In a live appearance at Fat Cat in New York, Omer Avital's quintet interprets seven of the bassist's compositions with emotions bared and a collective sigh for the program's connection to tradition. Echoes of Israel combine with a hard bop New York feeling to marry modern jazz with the past. Trumpeter Avishai Cohen and ...
The Omer Avital Group: Asking No Permission
by Brian P. Lonergan
The Omer Avital Group was a mainstay at New York's Smalls club in the mid '90s. An unfortunate turn of events with record companies suppressed the bassist/composer's major label debut, and in recent years Avital has spent more time working and studying in his native Israel. But with the release of Asking No Permission and a ...
Omer Avital Group: Asking No Permission
by Paul Olson
Omer Avital's new release, Asking No Permission, isn't actually new at all. Rather, it's the first of the projected four-disc series The Smalls Years, presenting live performances of bassist/composer Omer Avital's group at the West Village Smalls nightclub in 1996-97. It's not unheard of for a label to release archival live performances simply because, well, they've ...
