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Yoni Kretzmer: Five
by John Sharpe
NYC-based Israeli saxophonist Yoni Kretzmer has pulled together a dynamite cast for the debut of his quintet. Kretzmer's thoughtfully arranged compositions engender classic small group free jazz by what comes across as a little big band. It's the sort of session you might have found on the Black Saint label in its heyday, but given a ...
Yoni Kretzmer 2 Bass Quartet: Book II
by John Sharpe
One of the major innovations of the 1960s New Thing was to liberate the so called rhythm section from time keeping duties. The role of the bass in particular was transformed, allowing it leeway to sit alongside the front line. But there was still sometimes a need to impart momentum. One solution was to double up, ...
This Is Our Very First Album Together
Label: OutNow Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: This; Is; Our; Very; First; Album; Together.
Graceless
Label: OutNow Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: Basement Song; New Dilemma; Leaving It To The End; One One; The Day
After Yesterday.
Yoni Kretzmer: This Is Our Very First Album Together
by Glenn Astarita
Distinguished Israeli improvising, avant-jazz saxophonist Yoni Kretzmer has several albums to his credit with fellow countrymen and American notables, such as drummers Mike Pride, Andrew Drury and bassist Jason Ajemian. Since he's recently moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., the artist ingratiates his faculties into the region's intensely fertile improvising scene, where almost anything goes when the studio ...
Yoni Kretzmer 66 Boxes: Graceless
by Eyal Hareuveni
Israeli, New York-based tenor saxophonist Yoni Kretzmer returns on Graceless to an old passion of his--writing music that attempts to bridge the forward-thinking jazz from the school of sax heroes Tim Berne, Ellery Eskelin, and European jazz with elements from contemporary chamber music. Kretzmer's debut album as a leader, Yoni Kretzmer's New Dilemma (Earsay, 2009) focused ...
Take Five With Yoni Kretzmer
by AAJ Staff
Meet Yoni Kretzmer:Before moving to New York City in 2010, Jerusalem born tenor saxophonist and composer Yoni Kretzmer was an active member in the growing Tel Aviv nu-music scene leading various groups such as New Dilemma (chamber/free jazz string quintet) and Far From Home (free/folk quintet with two acoustic guitars). For the premier of ...
Smallone
Album: Weight
By Yoni Kretzmer
Label: OutNow Recordings
Released: 0
Duration: 02:51
Yoni Kretzmer: Overlook
by Eyal Hareuveni
The third solo release by Yoni Kretzmer, now based in New York, features the young Israeli saxophonist leading the recorded debut of a quartet of close friends who have been working together for few years now. As can be heard on his previous releases, Kretzmer is a highly skilled composer and arranger, and an excellent improviser. ...
Overlook
Label: OutNow Recordings
Released: 2011
Track listing: Left to right; Broken parts; Playsite; Game song; Eyes closed; Simple; Trauma; Mixing and mixing; Your morning.
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