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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 ...
Adam Birnbaum: Travels
by Christopher Shoe
Travels is the long awaited debut album for one of the younger voices in jazz piano. The term debut, however, is ill suited for someone like Adam Birnbaum, who has spent his short career opening for, and performing with, some of the better-known names in the industry such as saxophonist Greg Osby and pianist Brad Mehldau. ...
Omer Klein: Heart Beats
by Jim Santella
Considering the rhythmic spark that freshens this program, it is fitting that Omer Klein's solo piano album begins with a drum solo. Sitting down at the drum set, he introduces his forte with hands on drums and a personalized muffle that contains the basic building blocks of life: Heart Beats. Elsewhere, he spends his time at ...
Fat Cat Big Band: Meditations On The War...
by Mark Corroto
What makes a great big band record? Is it the writing or the arranging? Or maybe it is the playing of the musicians, which of course is the product of both the writing and the arranging. Certainly a big band (like, say, a quartet) produces great music when it performs regularly as a working ...
Adam Birnbaum: Travels
by Marcia Hillman
Pianist Adam Birnbaum gets around a lot, both geographically and musically--touring West Africa, for example, as part of the Rhythm Road program. Here however, he and his traveling companions--Sharel Cassity (alto and soprano saxophone), Joe Sanders (bass) and Rodney Green (drums)--take a musical journey through material mostly composed by the pianist. Birnbaum's credentials ...
Omer Klein: Introducing Omer Klein
by Elliott Simon
New York's Smalls club has been the launching pad for an inordinate amount of jazz artists that belies its diminutive square footage. One segment of their territory is an Israeli-American jazz connection that has produced a culture of premier artists who have gone on to influence the broader jazz community. Pianist Omer Klein is part of ...
Fresh From the Cooler
By Frank Hewitt
Label: Smalls Records
Released: 2008
Track listing:
01. I Waited For You (Fuller-Gillespie) - 7:21;
02. Conception (Shearing) - 7:21;
03. I Can't Get Started (Duke) - 10:34;
04. Cherokee (Noble) - 5:43;
05. Monk's Mood (Monk) - 13:03;
06. Tenor Madness (Rollins) - 12:03;
07. Peace (Silver) - 8:58.
Introducing Omer Klein
By Omer Klein
Label: Smalls Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Abutbul; Malchut; Oud Song; Unerasable; Melody For Alon; 3/4 Mantra; Netanya; The Journey Home; Tiul Be 'Israel; Kavana.
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