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Alon Nechushtan

Alon Nechushtan’s music adventures has brought him to various far corners of the globe such as the Yokohama ‘Rejoicing Sounds’ Festival in Japan with his contemporary orchestral compositions, The Manila Cultural Center of the Arts, with his Clarinet Concerto for the Philippines Philharmonic Orchestra, The Sao-Paolo Brazil Jewish Music Festival with his groove based Quintet Talat, Toronto and Montreal with his words beyond Jazz Trio and Tel Aviv New Music Biannale with his Compositions for Large Ensemble.

Resident of New York City, Alon has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Jazz @ Lincoln Center, Central Park Summer Stage, The Blue Note Jazz Club and the Kennedy Center with his projects as a band leader of various groups or as an in demand sideman. in October 2015 the kennedy Center has comissioned from Alon Nechushtan a new piece for Billy Strayhorn Centennial Celebration, following by a Far East tour in China and Phillipines, along with Jazz Festivals in Belo Horizonte-Brazil, Israel. In 2017 the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C has commissioned from Alon Nechushtan a new program of Thelonious Monk’s less known compositions.

All About Jazz called him “A fantastic pianist-composer with abundant chemistry and boundless eclectisism”, while DownBeat Magazine  recognizes “A talent to watch, with a surfeit of ideas, an unbridled spirit and bold,two-fisted sense of Architecture”.


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Album Review

Alon Nechushtan: Venture Bound

Read "Venture Bound" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Dopo il suo interessante Ritual Fire, del 2013, il pianista israeliano Alon Nechushtan presenta adesso questo nuovo lavoro, in realtà registrato nell'aprile del 2012 e sostanzialmente più convenzionale, ancorché venato da elementi che gli donano una personalità propria. La formazione è un classico quartetto con sax tenore--i due sassofonisti Donny McCaslin e John Ellis si alternano di traccia in traccia--al quale solo in alcune tracce si aggiunge un ospite. Il clima generale è quello di un dinamico ...

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Alon Nechushtan: Ritual Fire

Read "Ritual Fire" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Nato in Israele nel 1974 e dal 2003 negli USA, il pianista Alon Nechushtan vanta tra i propri mentori anche Paul Bley e Bob Brookmeyer, i quali evidentemente gli hanno trasmesso quelle tracce del magistero di Jimmy Giuffre che caratterizzano questo eccellente lavoro d'improvvisazione--idealmente ispirato alla creatività pittorica istantanea di Jackson Pollock--e che vengono a più riprese richiamate sia nelle forme musicali, sia nei titoli ("Psalmonody," “Free Falling"). Nechushtan è autore delle composizioni, in realtà mere tracce ...

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Alon Nechushtan: Dark Forces

Read "Dark Forces" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


The idea of placing a variety of daring instrumental personalities within different electronic-based sound collage nightmares is bold but, ultimately, hard to classify or grab onto. Dark Forces can't truly be called electronic music since the whole point of the music surrounds the integration of electronic and human elements, and it's hard to view it as free improvisation, since Alon Nechustan has painstakingly painted each musical canvas. Some might call it ambient music, but that tag usually describes a more ...

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Alon Nechushtan: Words Beyond

Read "Words Beyond" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Pianist Alon Nechushtan is in the thick of things, amid a vibrant New York City jazz culture that often spawns deviating tangents and inventive ideologies. Indeed, the pianist reveals astounding technical faculties and a far-reaching approach to composition. Nechushtan's jazz-klezmer band TALAT, amid numerous forays into modern jazz and unconventional settings, intermittently gels to the beat of a markedly different drummer The program conveys Nechushtan's unbounded vision, as he overhauls the tried and true. With the musicians' pristine ...

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Alon Nechushtan: Words Beyond

Read "Words Beyond" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Playing jazz can be like driving a car. Sometimes you can sit back, rely on cruise control, and simply revel in a straightforward journey, but more precise maneuvering is often required. Lightning quick reflexes, an ability to comfortably navigate hairpin turns, and a strong directional sense are equally important, and pianist Alon Nechushtan exhibits all of these traits from behind the driver's seat on Words Beyond. The left-leaning klezmer jazz that Nechushtan delivered with his Talat band ...

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Alon Nechushtan: The Growl

Read "The Growl" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


There are many reasons to be suspicious about the sudden--if not superficial--revival of Eastern European Jewish folk music, ie. klezmer, in the States, especially when examining the catalogue of the Radical Jewish Culture series of John Zorn's Tzadik imprint. Many young outfits which emerge from New York's Downtown scene or innovative music academies, stating that they are influenced by some of the main active players of that scenes--such as reed players Marty Ehrlich and Daniel Carter, in the case of ...

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Alon Nechushtan: The Growl

Read "The Growl" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes


There are more than a few welcome surprises on The Growl. Where one would expect jazz-inflected variations on Jewish sounds, the result is bigger and grander than that. This quintet brings something unexpected to every track, playing blues, funk and even mellower styles. The nine-minute opening title track begins with what at first seems an incoherent blend of sounds, but it soon evolves into a Middle Eastern-inspired groove that showcases saxophonist Marc Mommaas and trumpeter Matt Shulman, ...

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Alon Nechushtan -- Words Beyond (Buckyball Records, 2011) ****

Alon Nechushtan -- Words Beyond (Buckyball Records, 2011) ****

Source: Free Jazz by Stef Gijssels

By Paul Acquaro I seem to like a piano trio that is well marinated in rhythm. No matter how lush—both hands on the keyboard and the sustain pedal pressed—or how spare, if served with that extra dash of flavor, I'm hooked. Alon Nechushtan's 'Words Beyond' hits the spot. From the opening moments of the jaunty 'Muppet Shock,' the bass, drum and piano are perfectly immersed and proportioned. Nechushtan works with the klezmer influenced group Talat, but the straight ahead “Words ...

Alon Nechushtan is a talent to watch, with a surfeit of ideas, an unbridled spirit and bold, two fisted sense of architecture - Michael Jackson - DownBeat Magazine

Exceptional camaraderie and engaging performances make Alon Nechushtan's Words Beyond a trio recording worthy of the most discerning listener. ” John Vincent Barron - Jazz Review

This is a superb, often hard-swinging and inventive piano trio with its own distinctive sound. The music is tight, spirited and filled with life, a more perfect piano Trio would be hard to imagine”Bruce Gallanter, DownTown Music Gallery

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Primary Instrument

Piano

Location

New York City

Willing to teach

Advanced only

Credentials/Background

Piano at all levels. Music Composition at all levels.

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

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Naxos Records
2023

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Venture Bound

Enja Records
2015

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Ritual Fire

Buckyball Records
2013

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Dark Forces

Creative Sources Recordings
2011

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Words Beyond

Buckyball Records
2011

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Excerpt from Cosmic Canticles

From: For Those Who Cross The Seas
By Alon Nechushtan

Alon Nechushtan Frost & Fire

From: Chasms-Omens-Shards-Spells
By Alon Nechushtan

Haunted Blues

From: Venture Bound
By Alon Nechushtan

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