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Ziv Taubenfeld

Born in the Galil region, Northern Israel, Ziv Taubenfeld started playing the clarinet as part of his primary school orchestra and continued with classical studies guided by Ilya Schwartz at the local conservatory of Karmiel. During that period, following the attraction to low sounds, the bass clarinet was added as a second instrument that soon became Ziv's main focus. His interest in improvised music (fooling around with the orchestras charts or diggin into jazz records) grew bigger after meeting the influential saxophone player Albert Beger who opened up a road that eventually led to further studies of the bass clarinet with Michael Moore in the Netherlands.

Ziv Taubenfeld / Helena Espvall / João Sousa: You, Full Of Sources And Night

by Mark Corroto
February 25, 2026

Allow me to quote the interstellar traveler Sun Ra: “They speak of cosmic rays of sound / Wavelength infinity / Always touching planets / In opposition outward bound." He may or may not have been speaking of Eric Dolphy's 1960 Prestige recording of the same name. What we do know is that Dolphy, an accomplished and ...

You, Full Of Sources And Night

By Ziv Taubenfeld / Helena Espvall / João Sousa

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Oluyemi; You, Full of Sources and Night; In the Ether, In a Light; Come Back Evaporated Chess; They Are Fragments of the Sun; Nuvem de Superfície Variável; Of the Angel In You, Oh Tigers and Lions; Where the River is More Blue?.

Ziv Taubenfeld Full Sun - Nomads

By Ziv Taubenfeld

Label: Full Sun Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Keep Walking (dedicated to Jimmy Lyons) 17:52, Rozemarie's Flying Carpet 04:39, Nomads 10:30, Balbalus 10:12

Thomas Strønen, Gard Nillsen, Things Of This Nature & Atlas Maior

by Maurice Hogue
December 29, 2025

Norway is a country that punches way above its weight when it comes to producing excellent jazz musicians, and two of the best drummers from that country have released excellent recordings of late: Thomas Strønen & Time Is A Blind Guide's Off Stillness and Gard Nilssen with an expanded Acoustic Unity, celebrating their tenth anniversary. The ...

Cosmic Waves

By Albert Beger

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: A Question of Universality; Into The Horizon; The Steamer; Astral Visit.

A Tale Unfolds

By João Madeira

Label: Creative Sources Recordings
Released: 2024

Matt Mitchell, Anti-Rubber Brain Factory & Nite Bjuti

by Maurice Hogue
May 1, 2023

Not much to say about Matt Mitchell, a true force in creative music. He continues to astound. He's returned to two earlier albums with different drummers on Oblong Aplomb, out on Out Of Your Head Records. It's a double, with Mitchell and Kate Gentile on one and Ches Smith on the second. French ensemble, Anti-Rubber Brain ...

Thumbscrew, Mali Obomsawin and John Escreet

by Maurice Hogue
October 3, 2022

A few new releases by trios to contemplate and explore in this episode, highlighted by the latest from Thumbscrew, that stellar threesome of Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek and Tomas Fujiwara. Multi-colored Midnight is one of their best to date. Also on the bill, pianist John Escreet, The Bad Plus's latest with new members Ben Monder and ...

Idris Ackamoor, Jasper Hoiby, Die Hochstapler & Monder/Malaby/Rainey

by Maurice Hogue
September 12, 2022

A band that has endured since the 70s when they were one of the first American bands to tour Africa, Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids, have just re-released some of that early music, and we dig into that, plus new music from Germany's Die Hochstapler, Toronto's Luis Deniz, bassist Nicolas Ojeda from Buenos Aires & Jasper ...