![]() ![]() Le jeu du pianist est délicat, un peu pointu, à la limite de la fragilité. La sagesse des anciens que convoque le titre de’l album résonne comme une conscience de l’histoire dans une musique bigarrée Les 18 pièces qui font cet album sont un voyage où les questions de style et de genre sont abandonnées au profit d’un syncrétisme naturel et presque naïf qui réjouit doucement l’oreille. Foisonnant de couleurs et de timbres, cet album de Nitai Hershkovits est un pur ravissment.Ĭ’est avant tout un jeu funambule que propose le pianist Nitai Hershkovits ce pianist aux origins multiples s’échappe des évidences standardisées pour explorer des mondes qui se frôlent, celui du jazz, de la musique classique, de la creation contemporaine, du néo-classicisme et pas seulement. À la fois envoûtant et rafraîchissant, envirant et très groovy: le cinquiéme disque de Nitai Hershkovits, son deuxième en solo, confirme l’étendue du talent du pianiste israélien, la puissance de son inspiration, son sens de la composition aboutie. Hershkovits hits so many high points that the anticipation for the next album is already bubbling up. Each composition is itself but also a part of this whole project. Really, the flow both creates connection and singularity. From one piece to the next, the rhythmic and tonal shifts are never violent. here, the solo piano works its magic and fills the space with lovely, sad, joyous, melancholy and so many more emotions and colors. From the start of Hershkovits’ fifth studio album, the rippling runs mixed with more jagged or syncopated playing sets the style and overall tone The French Impressionist style runs through the whole album, giving it a warmth and a delicateness that more free form jazz doesn’t always contain. Instead, they have a fluidity to them that also encompasses memorable themes and motifs that also have a rather Claude Debussy sound to them. ![]() Further, it shows off his ability to craft careful and thoughtful compositions that don’t run away from melodic inclinations. ‘Call on the Old Wise’ is his ECM solo debut-though he has appeared on two of saxophonist Oded Tzur’s projects. An album that has been on repeat since its arrival for review, this is a more than worthy addition to the ECM solo piano catalogue and will delight followers of both the jazz-related releases and New Series recordings of the imprint. The music throughout is wide-ranging and leaves Hershkovits free to explore not just his interest in jazz but also his extensive knowledge of classical music. All are just the right length there are no static or dull spots, and even when at their briefest and done in little more than a minute, there is a sense of completeness and that playing anything more would destroy the mood and balance of the composition. In this mostly improvised set of eighteen pieces, none of which exceed four and a half minutes, each appears as a fully formed miniature. Previously heard on ‘Here Be Dragons’ and ‘Isabela’ with tenor saxophonist Oded Tzur, this is Hershkovits’s debut under his own name for the label in a beguiling and constantly shifting set of pieces that appear to explore multiple ideas and directions simultaneously. The ECM catalogue boasts a long line in solo piano recordings, and with ‘Call on the Old Wise,’ it has another impressive album to add to the library. ![]() ‘Call on the Old Wise’ leans more firmly on the pianist’s classical inclinations and soundworld these are exquisitely executed inventions, full of surprise, sensitivity and no small amount of romanticism, that emerge like spontaneous real-time compositions. Hershkovits, born to a Moroccan mother and a Polish father, is a fascinating and gifted player who has been a vital member of forward-thinking groups led by the bassist Avishai Cohen and the saxophonist Oded Tzur. On his debut album for the label, the 35-year-old Israeli pianist Nitai Hershkovits adopts, similar to Jarrett, a ‘largely improvised’ approach to the challenge of maintaining colour and momentum over the course of 50 minutes or more. This is the latest in the long and illustrious line of solo piano albums from estimable German label ECM – a tradition that stretches back to the astonishing 1970s recordings of Keith Jarrett, whose landmark triple LP, ‘Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne’, has recently been reissued on ‘audiophile vinyl’ to mark its 50th anniversary. The freshly released piano solo album Call On The Old Wise by Nitai Hershkovits is welcomed by international media ![]()
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