Michael Attias
The product of migrations spanning North Africa, the Middle East, Western Europe and the American Midwest, Michael Attias has been active in New York City as leader, sideman, composer, and improvisor since 1994.
Concerts in clubs and festivals throughout the US, Europe, the Middle East and Japan have brought him together with such musicians as Anthony Braxton, Paul Motian, Oliver Lake, Butch Morris and Anthony Coleman. He has released two albums as leader in the last three years, Renku and Credo, for Playscape and Clean Feed respectively. Both were warmly received by critics and featured on several end-of-the-year lists of Top Releases. He's currently enjoying rich activity both as sideman and leader in multiple overlapping projects often featuring Tony Malaby, Nasheet Waits, Russ Lossing, John Hebert, Sean Conly, and many others.
In recent news, Attias could be heard on the Sony Music Fall 2007 release of the Hino/Kikuchi Quintet: Counter Current, with Paul Motian and Thomas Morgan. His trio Renku, with John Hebert and Satoshi Takeishi, completed its first European tour in January 08, and in May 08, he made his debut at the Village Vanguard in Paul Motian's Trio 2000+2. In June, both Renku and his Quintet recorded live albums at the Coimbra Jazz Festival to be released on Clean Feed in 2009. Other upcoming releases Volume 5 of Paul Motian’s On Broadway for Winter&Winter, John Hebert's Byzantine Monkey for Firehouse 12, and Taylor Ho Bynum’s Positive Catastrophe for Cuneiform.
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- Resilience by Jerome Wilson
- Resilience by Mike Jurkovic
- échos la nuit by Karl Ackermann
- Nerve Dance by John Sharpe
- Nerve Dance by Dan Bilawsky
- Live In Greenwich Village by John Sharpe
- Spun Tree by Glenn Astarita
- Renku In Coimbra by Martin Longley
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Album Review
- Credo by Francis Lo Kee
January 19, 2017
Michaël Attias Presents "Nerve Dance" Featuring Aruán Ortiz, John...
March 02, 2010
Michael Attias - Renku in Coimbra (Clean Feed)
April 29, 2009
Firehouse 12 to Present the Michael Attias Quintet May 1st
September 02, 2005
Michael Attias' Renku Entertaining Science, Amram & Co & More This...
August 02, 2005
.... one of downtown's best saxists and composers. Bruce Lee Gallanter DMG NEWSLETTER
knottily vibrant compositions -K. Leander Williams TIME OUT
perpetually shifting tunes, richness of timbre, and a singular personality. You can almost see this music expanding and contracting. -Jim Macnie VILLAGE VOICE
plays with great authority and passion. David Adler ALL ABOUT
„ ... a significant new voice on the alto saxophone. Michael McCaw ALL ABOUT JAZZ