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| 1. | Yellow Moon
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| 2. | Elisheva Doll
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| 3. | Tuesday's Blues
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| 4. | Adon Haselichot
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| 5. | The Peacocks
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| 6. | Ha Lachma
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| 7. | Lamidbar
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Jazz
Recorded May 12th and 13th, 2008 at Panhandle Studios, Denton, TX
IDIT SHNER saxophone
STEFAN KARLSSON piano
MIKE LEAGUE bass
STEVE PRUITT drums
Saxophonist Idit Shner is the embodiment of a modern jazz musician: both forward looking and steeped in tradition; simultaneously international, local and personal. Her new recording Tuesday's Blues displays all those qualities and more. Five of the compositions here derive from music (ancient, modern, sacred, secular) that Shner heard growing up in Israel. All have personal meaning for her, and all have been melodically, rhythmically and harmonically transformed by her, in the best tradition of jazz. Featuring pianist Stefan Karlsson, bassist Mike League, and drummer Steve Pruitt.
Produced by Idit Shner
Recording Engineer: Erik Herbst
Mastered by Charlie Pilzer at Airshow Mastering, Springfield, VA
Original artwork by Valisa Higman, www.valisahigman.com
Cover design by John Bishop
Born and raised in Israel, Idit Shner earned her Doctoral degree at North Texas State and in 2005, somehow landed at the University of Oregon as instructor of saxophone performance. on this album, she leads a quartet on mostly original tunes.
--- Jazzscene, October 2008 (George Fendel)
An outstanding debut from Israeli-cum-Texan-cum-Oregonian sax player Idit Shner, Tuesday's Blues showcases her take on jazz as a catalyst for innovation on beloved pieces. The majority of the compositions are traditional Israeli works of various stripes, all reworked heavily to embrace the post-bop aesthetic with modern touches -- given enough room to grow their own grooves, as it were. Shner takes seeming inspiration from Coltrane and Parker (of course) but there's something else in her sound -- a strong devotion to a simple groove, a bump and shake hailing from the old R&B circuits that reworks even her self-penned "blues" number into a shimmying, funky outlet for the band to let loose. The pieces all have the feel of an excellent group of players jamming, meshing together fluidly, and the energy is consistently high. In her sentimental renditions of childhood lullabies ("Elisheva Doll") and even devotional pieces ("Adon Haselichot," a Yom Kippur prayer), there's an intensity and a speed in the instruments' delivery. The quartet never misses a beat, and fills each composition with a full dose of power. It's the solos that really make up the record, though -- Stefan Karlsson's extended piano solo in the title track shimmers through the scales like few can pull off without becoming stale, while Shner's solos can twinkle and extend like Coltrane (in "Elisheva Doll") or honk and squawk like (a more reserved) Big Jay McNeely (in "Ha Lachma"). There's a lot to like here, from the masterful arranging of traditional pieces that barely lets on that the pieces have a more restrained history of their own, to the sheer force and skill of the players involved. An excellent outing all around.
---Adam Greenberg, All Music Guide |
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