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Yoni Kretzmer 2 Bass Quartet: Book II

Read "Book II" reviewed 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, ...

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This Is Our Very First Album Together

Label: OutNow Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: This; Is; Our; Very; First; Album; Together.

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Graceless

Label: OutNow Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: Basement Song; New Dilemma; Leaving It To The End; One One; The Day After Yesterday.

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Yoni Kretzmer: This Is Our Very First Album Together

Read "This Is Our Very First Album Together" reviewed 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 ...

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Yoni Kretzmer 66 Boxes: Graceless

Read "Graceless" reviewed 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 ...

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Take Five With Yoni Kretzmer

Read "Take Five  With Yoni Kretzmer" reviewed by Yoni Kretzmer


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 ...

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Label: OutNow Recordings
Released: 0
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Yoni Kretzmer: Overlook

Read "Overlook" reviewed 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. ...

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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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Ehran Elisha launches new Israeli label

Read "Ehran Elisha launches new Israeli  label" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Two releases by New York-based drummer Ehran Elisha are the first ones from a new Israeli creative label, OutNow Recordings, run by three musicians--saxophonist Yoni Kretzmer and guitarists Yair Yona and Ido Bukelman--with a noble mission: “search within yourself for the sound you never stop hearing." These albums present the ever creative Elisha in two different ...


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