Alon Farber Hagiga - Dreams I Dream - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Various Artists - Best of Louisiana Music / Various [COMPACT DISCS] Digipack Packaging date 01/03/2006

... a fantastic find! Such is Farber's brilliance as a songwriter and arranger-he takes the best from each of the traditions he calls upon, uniting a wide array of colors towards the common end of an exciting, celebratory music. - All About Jazz. Now entering it's third decade as an ensemble, Hagiga's founder, saxophonist Alon Farber looked to Eddie Harris's InchFreedom Jazz DanceInch as inspiration and a theme for their 4th recording, InchReflecting on Freedom.Inch Hagiga revels in the diversity of musical flavors and colors that make up the InchIsraeli soundtrack.Inch With an exciting three horn frontline - reminiscent of some Dave Douglas or Booker Little ensembles - they draw liberally from Swing, Moroccan, Funk and Brazilian musics in creating their wide-ranging, highly personal sound. Farber's bold compositions reflect his years at the forefront of Israel's jazz scene - including co-founding the Israeli Jazz Orchestra & receiving the Prime Minister's Award for Jazz Composers - and his time in America while studying at Berklee, where he won the Wayne Shorter Award for Composers. InchHagiga has been at the forefront of the miraculous envelope-pushing curve of Israeli jazz for some years now.Inch - Barry Davis

For his fifth recording as a leader, San Francisco Bay-Area saxophonist Dann Zinn presents his stellar quartet in a performance of nine new original compositions along with a moving version of the classic ballad, InchBlame It On My Youth.Inch With Taylor Eigsti on piano, bassist Zach Ostroff and Mark Ferber on drums, Zinn's playing is energetic, virtuosic, and passionate. Recorded in the final weeks of the legendary Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA, the band captured the sounds and clarity of the studio along with the passionate energy the group brings to a live gig, creating a listening experience that Inchexemplifies Zinn's gift for marrying eminently memorable themes to entrancing rhythms.Inch InchDann Zinn is a game changer who is taking jazz in new directions.Inch - Stanford Jazz.