David Buchbinder

David Buchbinder & Odessa/Havana featuring Hilario Duran: Walk to the Sea

by Neri Pollastri
January 29, 2015

Dopo l'apprezzato album Odessa/Havana del 2007, il trombettista canadese David Buchbinder e il pianista cubano Hilario Duran tornano a registrare la loro originalmente eclettica proposta di musica “ebraico-cubana." La formazione che li accompagna è ampia e variegata, ovviamente ricca di percussionisti--mai però presenti tutti assieme--e in alcune tracce caratterizzata dalla presenza di cantanti--in particolare della brava Maryem Hassan Tollar. Il gruppo ha un dinamismo trascinante, che si fa forza dei ritmi cubani oltre che della espressività dei ...

David Buchbinder: Walk to the Sea

by Dave Wayne
January 30, 2014

Now that the exploration of the relationships between different ethnic musics and modern-day improvised music has reached the first of- hopefully-many crescendos, forward-looking artists such as the Canadian trumpeter David Buchbinder and pianist Hilario Duran have been looking at the many intersections of disparate-seeming ethnic musics through the same lens. Never mind the fact that a lot of Jewish musicians were directly involved in the Latin-dance and Exotica fads of the mid-20th Century. There's nary a trace of cheese or ...

David Buchbinder & Odessa/Havana featuring Hilario Duran: Walk To The Sea

by Glenn Astarita
November 11, 2013

Walk To The Sea is award-winning trumpeter David Buchbinder's sophomore album with the Odessa/Havana band, featuring Grammy-nominated pianist and musical director Hilario Duran. It's a spot-on world music venture that stylizes indigenous concepts and applications from Spain, amid Jewish folk, Arabic and Afro-Cuban structural components, woven into a majestic concoction of radiant jazz-centric fare. With triumphant and impacting horns, frothy percussion vamps, alternating pulses, and probing ballads, Buchbinder persuasively excites and entertains. The trumpeter links a festive outline ...

David Buchbinder: Odessa / Havana

by David Miller
June 30, 2008

How is it possible to create a fusion between Jewish and Cuban music? The two cultures seem to be at odds with each other--the laid back, relaxed syncopation of the Latin tradition and the spiritual urgency of the Jewish faith and its music. Canadian trumpeter David Buchbinder, however, successfully achieves just such a combination on his collaboration with pianist Hilario Durán, Odessa / Havana. The recording does not merely take certain elements from each tradition; rather, it encompasses, ...

David Buchbinder: Odessa/Havana

by Elliott Simon
June 4, 2008

Significant Jewish participation in the Latin dance craze of the 1950s resulted in several novelty fusion records that Latinized traditional Jewish melodies within a jazz context. By presenting the melody against a Latin rhythm, “Hava Nagilah" was thusly transformed into a cha-cha. In 2002, Cuban percussionist Roberto Rodriguez reinvented and dramatically advanced this sub-genre by beautifully blending danzon and klezmer into a new music. Trumpet player David Buchbinder of Canada's Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band has released Odessa/Havana and added yet ...

David Buchbinder: Odessa/Havana

by Eyal Hareuveni
January 16, 2008

A few years ago Tzadik's Radical Jewish Culture series explored a little-known mash-up of Jewish and Cuban musical traditions on two charming recordings by percussionist Roberto Juan Rodriguez--El Danzon de Moises (2002) and Baila! Gitano Baila! (2004). But as fascinating as those recordings were, they featured a musical perspective by an all-star cast of musicians who hardly exercised these great musical traditions.

Odessa/Havana, by the Canadian leader of the Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band, David Buchbinder, suggests ...

David Buchbinder: Odessa/Havana

by Dan McClenaghan
January 2, 2008

Two distinct and seemingly very different musical galaxies spin into each other on trumpeter David Buchbinder's Odessa/Havana, setting off a gravitational push-and-pull of musical momentums. It's a Cuban/Klezmer blend that stirs up the best of both musical styles--the churning, bubbling, rhythms of the mambo and the rubbery freewheeling exuberance of traditional Jewish sounds.Canadian trumpeter/composer/band leader David Buchbinder, who leads the Juno-nominated Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band, joins forces with pianist Hilario Duran, who did a nine year stint with ...