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The Omer Avital Group: Asking No Permission

Read "Asking No Permission" reviewed by Jim Santella


In a live 1996 session at Smalls in New York, Omer Avital leads this stellar sextet through a program of six originals and one standard. Nothing is standard, however, about the way this double bassist interprets modern jazz. A “young lion on the New York jazz scene, Avital was born in Israel. He studied ...

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Think With Your Heart

Label: Blue Moon
Released: 2002
Track listing:

Redemption Song; Flow; Think With Your Heart; Stella By Starlight; Make Believe; Andaluz; Marrakesh; Tune In "D"; The Journey Home; Let It Grow. (Total Time: 36:50).

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The Omer Avital Group: Think With Your Heart

Read "Think With Your Heart" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Pure Post Bop. Avishai Cohen is not the only Israeli-born bassist flexing his muscles on the United States Jazz Scene. Omer Avital has provided an expansive debut recording in Think With Your Heart. Hyperintelligent and free, Think With Your Heart could be considered what happens to Post Bop as a genre when it is perfected. Add ...

Album

Think With Your Heart

Label: Blue Moon
Released: 2001
Track listing: 1.Redemption Song 2.Flow 3.Think With Your Heart 4.Stella By Starlight 6.Andaluz 7.Marrakesh 8.Tune In

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The Omer Avital Group: Think With Your Heart

Read "Think With Your Heart" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


These days, when a young bassist leads a horns-based band, the comparisons and correlations to the late Charles Mingus become inevitable. Israeli-born bassist/composer Omer Avital delivers the goods in prominent fashion while exhibiting star-like qualities on his debut solo offering, entitled Think With Your Heart ! The band launches into a zestful Afro-Cuban groove, featuring Jay ...

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The Omer Avital Group: Think With Your Heart

Read "Think With Your Heart" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


These days, when a young bassist leads a horns-based band, the comparisons and correlations to the late Charles Mingus become inevitable. Israeli-born bassist/composer Omer Avital delivers the goods in prominent fashion while exhibiting star-like qualities on his debut solo offering, entitled Think With Your Heart ! The band launches into a zestful Afro-Cuban groove, featuring Jay ...

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Waiting for the Rain

Label: Laughing Buddha
Released: 1999
Track listing: Pa'Cachao (Faulkner); Waiting for the Rain (Faulkner); Python (Faulkner); Those Left Behind (Faulkner); Elevator Man (Faulkner); I Cover the Waterfront (Green/Heyman); Black Water (Faulkner)


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