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Live Review

Third World Love at Le Poisson Rouge, NYC

Read "Third World Love at Le Poisson Rouge, NYC" reviewed by David Miller


Third World LoveLe Poisson RougeNew York, New YorkMay 1, 2009“Fusion" is oft considered a four-letter word in jazz circles. But critics would do well to understand that jazz is itself a fusion, and is today more than ever moving forward by fusing different musics and cultures together. Case and point: Third World Love's performance at Le Poisson Rouge on May 1.More a collective than a quartet, the group comprises Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Yonatan ...

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Album Review

Third World Love: New Blues

Read "New Blues" reviewed by Joel Roberts


Third World Love is comprised of three Israelis (trumpeter Avishai Cohen, pianist Yonathan Avishai and bassist Omer Avital) and a native New Yorker (drummer Daniel Freedman). The band has been promoted as a “world-fusion" group and its press clippings hail its appeal to young non-jazz audiences. But make no mistake: Third World Love is a group of serious jazz musicians, with the chops and the resumes to prove it. And while their music incorporates a multitude of Middle Eastern, African ...

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Album Review

Third World Love: New Blues

Read "New Blues" reviewed by Greg Camphire


International collective Third World Love drops its fourth release in the form of New Blues, and it's a refreshing take on the trend of incorporating a global outlook into the stream of African-American music. The band members--featuring 3 Israeli expatriates and a bona-fide New Yorker--have all absorbed the blues language and applied it to various planet-spanning ethnic styles, referencing swing, Dixieland and post-bop as well as flamenco, salsa, samba, klezmer and various Middle Eastern strains. The album is truly a ...

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Album Review

Third World Love: Sketch of Tel Aviv

Read "Sketch of Tel Aviv" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


A celebration of life flows through Sketch of Tel Aviv. Third World Love, based in New York, is a quartet of three Israeli-born players (trumpeter Avishai Cohen, bassist Omer Avital, pianist Yonatan Avishai) and a New York native, drummer Daniel Freedman. Since their debut, Third World Love Songs (Fresh Sound World Jazz, 2002), their music has been labeled world fusion, embracing ideas from the Middle East, Africa and American jazz. Each musician is active as either a leader of his ...

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Performance / Tour

Third World Love CD Release Celebrations This Week!

Third World Love CD Release Celebrations This Week!

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity

Third World Love - CD Release Celebrations: This Thursday, April 26 @ 8PM - The Checkout Live at 92Y Tribeca, NYC, on a double bill with Jason Lindner's Now Vs. Now Saturday, April 28 @ 8PM - SF Jazz Spring Season - Israeli Jazz Fest, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. Third World Love Returns To Its Jazz Roots With Stellar New Album, Songs and Portraits OUT TODAY on Anzic Records, April 24, 2012 Third World Love is Avishai Cohen ...

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Recording

Third World Love Returns To Its Jazz Roots With Stellar New Album, "Songs And Portraits" (anzic Records)

Third World Love Returns To Its Jazz Roots With Stellar New Album, "Songs And Portraits" (anzic Records)

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity

Third World Love is Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Yonatan Avishai (piano), Omer Avital (bass), Daniel Freedman (drums) CD Release Concerts/Celebrations The Checkout Live at 92Y Tribeca, NYC on April 26, 8:00 PM, on a double bill with Jason Lindner's Now Vs. Now, 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street, NYC SF Jazz Spring Season—Israeli Jazz Fest on April 28, 8:00 PM Jewish Community Center of San Francisco Almost ten years ago in Barcelona, a unique brotherhood was formed that we now know as ...

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Performance / Tour

Third World Love on Tour! In Support + Celebration of New Blues (Anzic Records)

Third World Love on Tour! In Support + Celebration of New Blues (Anzic Records)

Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity

THIRD WORLD LOVE ON TOUR! In Support + Celebration of NEW BLUES (Anzic Records) Third World Love is: AVISHAI COHEN (trumpet), YONATAN AVISHAI (piano), OMER AVITAL (bass), DANIEL FREEDMAN (drums) CD Release Concerts/Celebrations: SF Jazz, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum on March 9, Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, CA on March 10, The Regatta Bar in Cambridge, MA on March 12 Drom in NYC on March 14 Third World Love with The Revolutionary Orchestra in ...

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Event

Third World Love at Joe's Pub Wednesday April 14

Third World Love at Joe's Pub Wednesday April 14

Source: All About Jazz


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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

New Blues

Anzic Records
2008

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Sketch of Tel Aviv

Smalls Records
2007

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