Category: Reviews

Alon Farber: Hagiga

Playing mostly soprano sax, with a dash of alto and tenor, Alon Farber brings in the post bop combo of Katia Toobool/p, Assaf Hakimi/b and Yonatan Rosen/dr for help interpreting his own material and a couple other creative pieces. Toobool…

Bruno Elisabetsky: Alcance

Like the cover photo, guitarist Bruno Elisabetsky is outstanding in his field, bringing his suave strings into play with a lyrical team of Julian Lee/ts-ss-fl, Pedro Segundo/dr-perc, and Lex Warshawsky/b on a collection of impressively impressionistic originals. His touch on…

Kevin Fort: Everything I Love

Pianist Kevin Fort trios up with Joe Policastro/b and Jon Deitemyer/dr for a mix of originals and standards. His touch is in vintage post bop world, Monkish on the fun “Deceptive” and stately on the ebullient read of “Don’t Take…

Sasha Berliner: Fantome

Sasha Berliner plays vibes, congas and ohter percussions as she teams up with Harish Raghavan/b, Jongkuk Kim/dr and mixes and matches with Taylor Eigsti-Lex Korten/p-key, David Adewumi/tp-fh and Rico Jones/ts on this wide ranging collection. Excepter for the rapid bopping…

Daniel Garbin: Rising

Playing guitar and sitar, Daniel Garbin brings together Camila Cortina/p-key, Scott Litroff/as, Eddy Khaimovich/b and Brian Woodruff/dr for modern musings. His sitar adds color to pieces like the cascading “Rising” and his guitar is warm and mellow on the lyrical…