New Jazz Releases for the Week of 2/7/2011

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Arturo O'Farrill, Herb Alpert, Jazz, Kurt Elling, Marc Cary, Yaron Herman

The Week of February 7, 2011

Greeting’s jazz enthusiasts, as always it’s a pleasure to return with more new music releases. With each visit, you’ll discover a montage of new jazz recordings featured at Amazon.com that encompasses a generous diet of nuances which includes a wealth of complex and distinctive styles, textures, melodies, and rhythms exalted by a host of definitive and creative voices in the world of jazz.

For more details, please visit Amazon.com for a complete list of this week latest jazz releases!

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Pianist Yaron Herman Covers Nirvana (“Heart-Shaped Box”), Radiohead (“No Surprises”) & Frank Churchill’s “Baby Mine” on ACT Debut, “Follow The White Rabbit” Feb 15th, 2011

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Chris Tordini, Jazz, Tommy Crane, Yaron Herman

Israeli-Born, Paris-Based Israeli Pianist Yaron Herman Releases
“Follow The White Rabbit”
Feb 15th, 2011

Featuring Bassist Chris Tordini and Drummer Tommy Crane

YARON HERMAN TRIO (Photo credits: Arne Reimer)

With Follow the white Rabbit, Yaron Herman’s exuberant ACT debut, the 29-year old Israeli pianist takes a cue from Lewis Carroll, bringing his penchant for mischief to an array of genre- bending original compositions and covers, leading the listener down the rabbit hole of his unique sound world. Featuring bassist Chris Tordini and drummer Tommy Crane, the trio blends keen group improvisation, a pop sensibility, and classical counterpoint with an inexhaustible energy that leavens fearless experimentation with a strong foundation in jazz tradition.

Yaron Herman Trio -][- Follow The White Rabbit [ACT Music]

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Jazz, Piano, Yaron Herman

Yaron Herman Trio - Follow The White Rabbit

Yaron Herman Trio -][- Follow The White Rabbit – [ACT Music, 2011]

There’s magic in the amazing history of Israeli pianist Yaron Herman…

Yaron Herman was born in Tel Aviv on 12th July 1981. He started out on a promising career as a basketball player on the Israeli national junior team but a serious knee injury cut short his sporting ambitions. He only decided to take up playing the piano at the age of 16, with a method based on philosophy, mathematics and psychology. Totally unknown 5 years ago, Yaron Herman is now considered as one of the best young pianists of his generation. Both the media and his audience are very enthusiastic about him, not just in Europe but also further afield in Asia and North America. His popularity and his dazzling career to date confirm that he is an exceptional phenomenon, unique in the history of piano playing.

“Follow the white Rabbit” is Yaron’s invitation to his first album on ACT, a reference to the mischievous character from Lewis Carrol’s story, who leads Alice on an amazing journey down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. Yaron’s Wonderland is all about music and piano. Without conceding to any particular facility, he knows how to abolish the conventions of musical genres, blurring the tracks and the boundaries of jazz improvisation, pop and classical counterpoint, all with an impish glee. Yaron’s wonderland is an uninhibited novelty world, full of freshness, which seems to flow with an inexhaustible energy.`