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Oded Tzur: My Prophet
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London Jazz News
ByPeter Baconon
Oded Tzur – Here Be Dragons (ECM CD review by Peter Bacon)Oded Tzur makes an extraordinary sound with his tenor saxophone. I suppose the last time I was quite so struck – entranced might be a better word – with the sound of a specific instrument played by a specific musician was when I first became aware of Arve Henriksen. Just as the Norwegian can sometimes make his trumpet sound closer to the shakuhachi, the ancient Far Eastern bamboo flute, so the Tel Aviv-born, New York-based Tzur gives his tenor a distinctly flute-like timbre, thoughin his case it is the Indian bansuri which is suggested. All becomes clearer when one reads Steve Lake’s essay in the CD booklet: Tzur has studied with bansuri master Hariprasad Chaurasia, and the influence of Indian music extends beyond the sound of his saxophone to the inspirations behind and structures of individual pieces on this quartet disc. Four of the eight tracks have raga influences and one uses an Indian scale, Lake tells us. On piano is fellow Israeli/New Yorker Nitai Hershkovits (he will be remembered from bassist Avishai Cohen’s band), on double bass is the Greek Petros Klampanis, and the drummer is Johnathan Blake, from Philadelphia. It’s a marvellous band, e•
Oded Tzur: Cutback Prophet
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