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Drummer Daniel Freedman Leads An All-Star Quintet On Imagine That, With Rhythmically Infectious Originals, A Radiohead Cover And Guest Vocal On "Baby Aya" By World Music Star Angélique Kidjo
Drummer Daniel Freedman Leads an All-Star Quintet on Imagine That, with Rhythmically Infectious Originals, a Radiohead Cover and Guest Vocal on “Baby Aya" by World Music Star Angélique Kidjo The album—to be released in the U.S. by Anzic Records on April 15, 2016—finds Freedman in league with a group of kindred spirits: guitarist Lionel Loueke, keyboardist ...
New Song
By Omer Avital
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2015
Track listing: Hafla; New Song; Tsafdina; Avishkes; Sabah el-kheir (Good Morning); New Middle East; Maroc; Ballad for a Friend; Bedouin Roots; Yemen Suite; Small Time Shit.
Omer Avital: New Song
by Neri Pollastri
Non a tutti noto in Italia, Omer Avital è uno di quei musicisti che, oltre vent'anni fa, avviarono l'onda di jazzisti israeliani nel jazz statunitense, assieme tra gli altri all'oggi affermatissimo contrabbassista Avishai Cohen. In questo lasso di tempo Avital ha collaborato con molti musicisti di primo piano e ha messo a punto una sua poetica ...
Amos Hoffman: Back To The City
by Dan Bilawsky
Amos Hoffman's story is one of departures and returns. This guitarist-oudist cut his teeth in his native Israel, made his way to Amsterdam, and finally ended up in New York in the '90s as part of what could be considered the first wave of Israeli jazz talent to really make an impact on the Big Apple. ...
Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival 2015
by R.J. DeLuke
Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival 2015 Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs, NY June 27-28, 2015 While jazz is closely associated with horns (even though there are few instruments now employed at some point across the genre) it was a couple of guitar slingers that helped light up the skies at Freihofer's ...
Peter Bernstein Quartet al Teatro Franco Parenti di Milano
by Claudio Bonomi
Peter Bernstein Quartet Rassegna “Jazz al Parenti" Teatro Franco Parenti Milano 22.03.2015 Il secondo appuntamento di Jazz al Parenti, nuova rassegna milanese dedicata al jazz curata da Gianni Morelenbaum Gualberto (direttore artistico anche di Aperitivo in Concerto, manifestazione che si tiene invece al Teatro Manzoni da ...
Ali Jackson Jr.: Amalgamations
by Angelo Leonardi
Stretto collaboratore di Wynton Marsalis, il trentottenne Ali Jackson è l'attuale batterista della Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Nato a Detroit, laureato in composizione alla New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, è stato allievo di Elvin Jones, Max Roach e ha operato in vari contesti assieme a Joshua Redman, Kurt Rosenwinkel, George Benson, James Carter, Marcus ...
Ferenc Nemeth/Attila Laszlo: Bridges Of Souls
by Dan Bilawsky
Drummer Ferenc Nemeth's work has always been about building bridges and making connections with a diverse assortment of artists. He's connected styles and cultures through his extensive work with West African guitar phenom Lionel Loueke, supported Israeli bassist Omer Avital, Cuban pianist Elio Villafranca, and other top-shelf artists on record at different times, and built up ...
Bassist/Composer Omer Avital Delves Into The Culture Of His Homeland Through Jazz On His New Recording, "New Song," Available On Motema Music
NYC CD Release Celebration! January 13 & 14, 2015 @ The Jazz Standard “One of the most exciting musicians to come onto the jazz scene in the last 20 years" —DownBeat Magazine “Duke Ellington made Far East Suite in 1966. Omer Avital's Suite of the East was recorded in 2006 but not released until now. The ...
Bassist/Composer Omer Avital Delves Into The Culture Of His Homeland Through Jazz On His New Recording, New Song, Available On Motema Music - November 4, 2014
NYC CD Release Celebration! January 13 & 14, 2015 @ The Jazz Standard Omer Avital went on to cast a wide net of influence in NYC and beyond with a consistently creative and prolific output (releasing nine albums of original music since 2001, and at least eight others as a co-leader), and a steady stream of ...
