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Alon Farber Hagiga: Reflecting on Freedom

Read "Reflecting on Freedom" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Israeli saxophonist Alon Farber's Hagiga (in Yiddish, “celebration") is exactly that--a warm tribute to contemporary jazz from the Middle East to South America and beyond, ably performed on the group's fourth album, Reflecting on Freedom, by half a dozen well-schooled Israeli musicians and--on several of the album's nine tracks--special guest percussionist Rony Iwyrn and vocalist Sarai Zak-Levi. Hagiga has been in the forefront of Israel's burgeoning jazz scene for more than two decades, thanks for the most part to bright ...

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Ari Erev: Close to Home

Read "Close to Home" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Pianist and composer Ari Erev here delivers an intimate musical portrait containing a selection of light jazz music intended to convey a warm personal story. As the Israeli pianist states, the album “tells my story of family members, close friends and familiar places, to whom I relate and feel deep emotions towards." Along with eight original compositions, Erev adds reimagined songs by Paul Simon, Keith Jarrett and fellow Israeli artist Efraim Shamir. He also touches on bossa nova with the ...

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Assaf Hakimi: Some Other Day

Read "Some Other Day" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Bassist Assaf Hakimi recorded Some Other Day at the end of a seven-year stint in New York, just prior to his return to Israel. During that time he studied at the New School with such esteemed teachers as Junior Mance, Doug Weiss, Jane Ira Bloom and Billy Harper. For his debut, Hakimi summons some of his elite Israeli jazz comrades who split their time between New York and Israel--saxophonist Eli Degibri, trombonist Jonathan Voltzok and pianist Alon Yavnai.

Hakimi, who ...

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

The Magician: Live in...

Origin Records
2024

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Close to Home

Self Produced
2021

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Reflecting on Freedom

Origin Records
2021

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Some Other Day

Self Produced
2010

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Two Views

Jazzis Records
2010

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Persistence of Memory

From: The Magician: Live in Jerusalem
By Assaf Hakimi

Israeli Song

From: Reflecting on Freedom
By Assaf Hakimi

Falling in Place

From: Close to Home
By Assaf Hakimi

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