Yonathan Avishai – Retrouvailles (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 48:03 minutes | 779 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paradis Improvisé
Retrouvailles’ est le premier album en piano solo, une nouvelle merveille de Yonathan Avishaï. – – Le piano solo semble particulièrement fait pour Yonathan, lui qui ne redoute en rien les silences et qui bien au contraire sait les rendre intenses et essentiels, vitaux. Il en joue comme des notes, comme un peintre pourrait ajouter des touches de couleurs en partant d’une toile noire ou comme un créateur de vitraux. Chaque note sonne. La musique de Yonathan est d’une poésie délicate, riche d’histoire et de sens, et…
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Yonathan Avishai – Joys And Solitudes (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:05 minutes | 966 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Israeli-French pianist Yonathan Avishai has made important contributions to the music of Avishai Cohen, as documented on Into The Silence and Cross My Palm With Silver. In parallel, over the last five years, he has been developing his own project with the trio heard here, with Paris-based Israeli bassist Yoni Zelnik and Donald Kontomanou, French drummer of Guinean and Greek heritage. Sometimes known as the Modern Times Trio, its programme here opens with Duke Ellington’s “Mood Indigo”: “Ellington is still a thoroughly modern pianist and composer,” Yonathan Avishai muses. In the original pieces that follow, Avishai makes references to a broad range of musics and experiences. “Les pianos de Brazzaville” recalls his journeys to the Republic of the Congo.
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Avishai Cohen, Yonathan Avishai – Playing The Room (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:56 minutes | 772 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ECM
Playing The Room bears testimony to the long musical friendship of Avishai Cohen and Yonathan Avishai. They began to explore jazz as teenagers in Tel Aviv, and have continued to play together over many years, with Yonathan making important contributions to Avishai’s group albums Into The Silence and Cross My Palm With Silver on ECM.
Their first duo album begins with music composed by the trumpeter and by the pianist and concludes with a touching interpretation of Israeli composer Alexander Argov’s cradle song “Shir Eres”. Along the way, Avishai and Yonathan improvise freely, playfully, soulfully on themes from jazz tradition. And, as the album titles implies, they also invite the recording space, the Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI in Lugano, to be part of the sound, making full use of its resonant acoustic properties in a performance with the intimacy and focus of chamber music.
Recorded in September 2018, and produced by Manfred Eicher, Playing The Room is available as both audiophile vinyl album and compact disc.
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