Jerusalem of soul
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- Jerusalem of soul
- Music Review | Winter Jazzfest
- The Vortex
- Music Review | Michael Franks
- Fundraising gives Jazz Fest boost
- Jazz fest makes electrifying start
Jerusalem of soul
Ha'aretz – Ha'aretz – Jan 23, 2007
We to generalize grossly again are closer to European jazz. Music that has a heavier mood and is less attentive to technique and more attentive to the color of the sound. ” Haber whose music is in fact closer to African-American jazz than European jazz points out an interesting fact: There are no jazz trumpeters in Jerusalem. “The trumpet is an instrument that isn’t suited to small spaces like bars and cafes and perhaps it is also not suited to the Jerusalem atmosphere” he says. ne of the symbols of Tel Aviv jazz is the jam session held every Monday at the club Shablul. Kretzmer is speaking for Jerusalem when he says there is nothing he hates more than a jam session. “We’ve given up a bit on being the ultimate instrumentalists” he says… Haber notes an additional surprising reason behind Jerusalem’s jazz renaissance. “The difficult national situation the intifada and the political and economic pressure make artists need to express themselves. This is especially obvious in jazz which is the music of direct expression. I don’t know about other musicians but I feel this about myself. I left jazz quite a few years ago and until 2002 I wasn’t thinking about returning. Why should I play in front of five people again? Argue with club proprietors about NIS 50? But all of a sudden in the middle of the catastrophe here I felt a tremendous need to play jazz. All of a sudden it just burst out of me.
Music Review | Winter Jazzfest
New York Times – Jan 23, 2007
The jazz educators’ conference mostly draws students and educators. The arts presenters’ draws more people who hand out gigs and checks. Saturday’s bill showed just how shifting jazz has become stretching into funk and soul and old-time country music big-band blare and quiet duets free improvisation and precise harmonic science. The strongest sets were by bands who went the furthest afield of a recognizable jazz tradition no doubt because eclecticism is so crucial to the nonprofit performing arts circuit. Consider for instance the two northern California violinists: Jenny Scheinman (whose roots are there though she now lives in Brooklyn) and Carla Kihlstedt (who lives in akland). Scheinman played her finely wrought music with a quintet; it was folk-influenced with a little humor and a strong flavor of Bill Frisell’s through-the-looking-glass Americana.
The Vortex
Times nline – Jan 23, 2007
Jo Combes’s production is occasionally clumsily staged and it has anover-effortful quality; it needs to convey a stronger sense both of thevirtuoso social brilliance of Nicky and Florence and of their privateagonies — vital if we are to peer into the frightening void that separatestheir reality from glossy appearance. Young’s Nicky is very youthful very camp and rather prissy virtuallyskipping onto the stage in huge baggy tweed trousers. That the character’sarrested emotional development caused by lack of parental and specificallymaternal input has kept him childlike is valid. But Young never shows usthe rage that drives Nicky to violent confrontation with Florence.
Music Review | Michael Franks
New York Times – Jan 23, 2007
This is headphone music that casts a spell when he whispers in your ear. Although the fortification of a backup singer (Veronica Nunn) doubling the melodies helped redress the balance it was still not enough. The best possible musical environment for Mr. Franks would be flexible jazz chamber music with cello or viola (not the cheesy electric keyboard used on Saturday) brushed with discreet Brazilian percussion. A sensibility as refined as Mr. Franks’s requires nothing less than musical textures measured out in quarter-teaspoons.
Fundraising gives Jazz Fest boost
SU The Daily range – SU The Daily range (subscription) – Jan 23, 2007
Since then it has produced more than 50 jazz events in the area. “I think it brings a lot of good jazz to Central New York” said Joseph Riposo part-time professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and performer at former festivals. The Jazz Fest prides itself at being free of cost which is a benefit for everyone who just wants to sample jazz music. Malfitano hopes to attract a wide range of people to the festival. In the past he said the audience has ranged from 18 to 80 years of age. “It’s big because the lineup is great and it’s free” Malfitano said. Riposo said the festival does not scare away people who are new to jazz because it doesn’t cost them anything to come.
Jazz fest makes electrifying start
Jamaica Gleaner – Jan 23, 2007
jpg” > Latin band Yerba Buena of Cuba on stage Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival kick off held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel. In the art of music ‘Latin Funk Jazz and Blues’ move the people and at Sunday’s start of the Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival at the Jamaica Pegasus patrons moved to the electrifying and eclectic beats at the only Kingston staging of the festival. A packed audience sat in the comfort of the beautifully decorated lawns of the Jamaica Pegasus watching the small stage as performers such as guitarist Maurice Gordon ACANTHA and Yuerba Buena wowed them with expert command. Patrons moved receptively to the music as Gordon and ACANTHA took the stage in the earlier part of the night and as emcee Paula Ann Porter commented “you can’t help but move to the music”. Anticipating the main event. jpg” > It is pure enjoyment for these patrons at the Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival kick off held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel New Kingston on Sunday January 21.