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David Chevan: The Days of Awe
by Elliott Simon
With the Afro-Semitic Experience, bassist David Chevan and pianist Warren Byrd use jazz to entice African American and Jewish spiritual music to meet as brothers. On Chevan's first solo effort, The Days of Awe , he instead chooses to filter Jewish High Holy Day melodies through a multifaceted jazz prism." The outcome is highly accessible music that retains its original dignity. Six of the nine pieces are from the repertoire of Cantor Yoselle Rosenblatt (1882-1933), arguably the most famous Jewish ...
read moreDavid Chevan and Warren Byrd: Let Us Break Bread Together
by AAJ Staff
The title of this disc--along with its subtitle, Further explorations of the Afro-Semitic experience"--may suggest difficult listening. (Ceremonial, restrictive, and heavy are a few words that may come to mind.) But rest assured, that's not at all the case. Let Us Break Bread Together is more a joyous celebration of diversity than it is any kind of solemn piece of gravity.
Pianist Warren Byrd and bassist David Chevan work together on these duo improvisations, melding a variety of approaches into ...
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All About Jazz
The Byrd/Chevan alliance becomes all the more provocative.... and essential. Reflecting the spirit of this ensemble, the music is an alchemist's brew of traditional Jewish songs, pieces by African and African- American artists, and Chevan compositions or arrangements . . . a recording rich with the spirit of shared experiences and true brotherhood in its execution, noble and thought provoking in its construction" --Willard Jenkins, from the liner notes
African-American pianist Warren Byrd and Jewish-American bassist David Chevan continue their ...
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Primary Instrument
Bass, acoustic
Willing to teach
Beginner to advanced