VA - Jazz In Jerusalem Project - Birth Of The Local Standard
ARTIST.....: VA
TITLE......: Jazz In Jerusalem Project - Birth Of The Local Standard
LABEL......: The8Note
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RIP DATE...: Jan-16-2008
STORE DATE.: Nov-11-2006
GENRE......: Jazz
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 91,1 MB
Track Listing:
01 - julia feldman ensemble - ze kore 04:06
02 - rats quartet - shir ahava tari 06:29
03 - hagai bilitzky quintet - perach ha lilach 05:07
04 - ayelet rose gottlieb feat. alon yavnai - 04:37
sha'ashuei kehilu
05 - nadav haber quartet - yerushalaim 05:04
06 - ro'i raz with ziv yechezkel - perach 04:33
chinani
07 - yitzhak yedid - k'she or dolek be 05:44
chalonech
08 - zohar kahila quartet - waltz le haganat 05:27
ha'tzomeach
09 - ezequiel jait octet - shirim ad kan 05:31
10 - ilia siltsoff quartet - yamim levanim 04:38
11 - guy meir with wasim odeh - kshe'elohim 04:21
amar
12 - gil assayas with ohad eilam - yeme 03:36
batzoret
13 - zohar kahila quintet - basdot 06:35
14 - sabrina lastman quintet - dindi 07:11
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72:59 min
Release Notes:
Outstanding recent Jerusalem jazz albums
By Ben Shalev
- The Nadav Haber Quartet, "Addis Mist." Haber and his colleagues
returned last week from Addis Ababa, where they were invited to
play at the city's annual music festival. This is a big honor that
few Western musicians earn, and Haber won it, with great
justification, thanks to his wonderful debut album, which presents
a sensitive and profound encounter between Ethiopian music and
expressive jazz. The is the best Jerusalem jazz album of 2006, and
is also the year's most exciting Israeli jazz album.
- Various artists, "Jazz in Jerusalem." The cover is somewhat
anemic, the subtitle ("The Birth of the Local Standard") is too
bombastic, and the second half of the album is not nearly as good
as the first half. Despite these flaws, the collection, which
contains renditions of songs by Matti Caspi, Shlomo Gronich, Naomi
Shemer, Nahum Heiman, Nurit Hirsch and Avihu Medina, is an
important and enjoyable album. It presents a contemporary portrait
of the Jerusalem jazz scene and reflects young jazz musicians'
profound need to address the Israeli classics.
- The Julia Feldman Ensemble, "Words are Worlds." Compared to the
plethora of standard, boring homages to jazz greats, Julia
Feldman's homage to Billie Holiday is an extraordinary work that
tries to meet the spirit of the original, not to imitate it. "It's
really a fantasy," says Feldman. "If we were to take Holiday's
amazing development and roll it forward in time, what would
happen?" Feldman does not yet have the presence of a great singer,
but she is worthy of praise for her courageous approach and her
success in diving into Holiday's deepest pain.
- The Chameleon Trio, "In Between." This new album by flautist
Dvir Katz, clarinetist Nitai Levi and bassist Ora Boasson-Horev
illuminates an important aspect of what is happening in
Jerusalem's jazz scene: the contribution of Music Academy
graduates, especially those from its jazz department. The
Chameleon Trio's complex music can be categorized as "third
stream," a combination of jazz and classical music, and as might
be expected, it has a serious, even ponderous element.
Fortunately, this is well-balanced by captivating demonstrations
of humor, playfulness and joy.
- The Rats, "Afternoon High." They have the name of a punk group,
and the cover of their debut album shows a very non-Jerusalemite
seashore, but The Rats is definitely a Jerusalem jazz ensemble.
They are characterized by sophisticated melodic thinking, relative
rhythmic freedom and a sound deeply influenced by the ECM record
company. This is searching, deliberating, unstuffy music, the way
a young ensemble should sound.
- Jean Claude Jones, "Hosting Myself." Tomorrow, the ensemble
Kadima will celebrate its second anniversary in the living room of
bass player Jean Clude Jones. Jones will also toast his new album,
an entirely improvised bass solo (with a bit of electronics, also
improvised). On the cover of the disc, Jones writes that when a
musician friend of his heard about his intention to record a bass
solo album, he jokingly asked: "Will it cause blindness?" But
"Hosting Myself" is not masturbation, but rather art at its best.
- Judy Lewis and Orr Didi, "Two on the Horizon." Judy Lewis has
never been afraid to do things her own way. When she was 20, she
became religiously observant, immigrated to Israel and cut short a
promising career as a classical pianist. After having four
children, she left her husband and religion and rediscovered
herself as quite a wild jazz pianist. Recently she began to play
with Didi, a 17-year-old guitarist, and their joint album is a
calm, harmonious and very beautiful acoustic work. Not long ago
the two returned from an appearance at the Kathmandu Jazz
Festival.
- Ariel Lani, "31 Bars." When Ariel Lani turns 17, eight years
from now, he will no doubt listen to the album he made at age 9
and turn up his nose. But as a summary of the achievements of a
third-grader who discovered jazz only a year and a half ago and
has attacked it with the totality of a super-curious child, "31
bars" is an astonishing album, nearly unbelievable. It is scary to
think what he will accomplish by his bar mitzvah. (Ben Shalev)
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