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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 ...
Chris Byars: Photos in Black, White and Gray
by Ken Dryden
Saxophonist Chris Byars has made a name for himself as one of many promising neo-bop musicians who perform on a regular basis at Smalls in New York City, while also appearing on a number of CDs (as either a sideman or leader) issued by the Smalls label. He has played since the age of seven and ...
Frank Hewitt: Fresh from the Cooler
by Christopher Shoe
There are few things in this world that the jazz lover can compare to that of hearing a live performance. There is a type of audience participation that is lacking when he sits at home and listens to the album. Perhaps he even finds himself wondering what it would be like to be left alone with ...
Smalls Records: Sound Stewardship For US Treasures
by Derek Taylor
From trumpeter Bunk Johnson waxing reverential about Buddy Bolden to saxophonist Michael Brecker bowing at the altar of John Coltrane, a strong sense of nostalgia is woven through the history of jazz. The phrase “when giants walked the earth is frequently invoked or implied, and the feeling that the best is already behind us bothers musicians ...
Ned Goold: March of the Malcontents
by Jim Santella
Ned Goold communicates easily with his audience. Maybe it's the experience that he's gained while coming up as a key member of the Harry Connick, Jr. Big Band. Or maybe it's just the pleasant opportunities that he's had in New York, enjoying mainstream trio and quartet work for audiences that truly appreciate straight-ahead jazz and its ...
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 ...
Third World Love: Sketch of Tel Aviv
by Mark F. Turner
A celebration of life flows through Sketch of Tel Aviv. Third World Love, based in New York, is a quartet of three Israeli-born players (trumpeter Avishai Cohen, bassist Omer Avital, pianist Yonatan Avishai) and a New York native, drummer Daniel Freedman. Since their debut, Third World Love Songs (Fresh Sound World Jazz, 2002), their music has ...
Night Owls
By Chris Byars
Label: Smalls Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: All or Nothing at All; The Inevitable; Gnid; Manhattan Valley; In da Funhouse; Blue Gardenia; Night Owls; The Way You Look Tonight; Nancy; Conception; Village Beauty; Let's Kiss and Make Up.
The Ancient Art of Giving
By Omer Avital
Label: Smalls Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Homeland; Night Song; Ras Abu-Galum; Arrival; Shimi
Sketches from a Bassist's Album
By Ari Roland
Label: Smalls Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Lion of Yerevan; Most's Paradise; Replaceable Me; Swamp Thing Goes to the Indy 500; Mensch Blues; Ah, Transcarpathicus; Thou Swell; Byars-a-Maki; Mo's On; I'll Walk Alone.
