Omer Avital Discography (1999 - 2009)
5 LOSSLESS CD'S + 16 CD'S Of Mp3 160-320 KBPS
Jazz, Post Bop, World Fusion | 1999-2009 |
3.7 GB @ RS | Labels: Smalls Records / Fresh Sound
5 LOSSLESS CD'S + 16 CD'S Of Mp3 160-320 KBPS
Jazz, Post Bop, World Fusion | 1999-2009 |
3.7 GB @ RS | Labels: Smalls Records / Fresh Sound
| “ | BIOGRAPHY Omer Avital was born in Israel in the town of Givataim. He excelled in music studies early on, entering the Givataim Conservatory at age 11 to study classical guitar, and going on to Talma Yalin, Israel’s leading high school for the arts where his interests turned to jazz and the acoustic bass. After a brief period in the national service, Omer moved to New York to be in the heart of the international jazz scene. He quickly achieved recognition as a bassist of rarest talent and musicality, and became one of the most in-demand bassists on the scene, steadily performing, recording and touring with such jazz legends as Roy Haynes, Jimmy Cobb, Nat Adderley, Walter Bishop, Al Foster, Kenny Garrett, Steve Grossman, Frank Hewitt, Jimmy Lovelace, Rashied Ali, and more, as well as some of the great jazz artists of his generation including Mark Turner, Aaron Goldberg, Joshua Redman, Jason Lindner, Jeff Ballard, Brad Mehldau, Antonio Hart, Claudia Acuña, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Peter Bernstein, Greg Tardy, Myron Walden, Larry Goldings, and Ali Jackson among others. The development of the Omer Avital group is tied closely with the history of Smalls. Avital was in fact on the first gig ever at Smalls, with the then-unknown Peter Bernstein and Brad Mehldau. Avital was a permanent member of the pivotal Jason Lindner Big Band, which developed over years into a weekly Monday night institution at Smalls. Lindner has played host to a generation of bright new talents, and has made quite a mark. The genesis of the classic Avital sextet captured here is partly to be found in Lindner’s band, which at various times in its early days also included Turner, Tardy, Walden, and Owens. The Lindner band always featured gifted and impassioned soloists playing on material with wide dynamics. Its unique qualities were due in part to the special character of the band’s rhythm section. As a rhythm section, Lindner on piano, Avital on bass, and Daniel Freedman on drums were fluid, able to seamlessly modulate together through unusual meters, moods, and stylistic changeups. These qualities carried over into the Omer Avital group. An expectant air preceded the debut of this group. In the back of Smalls, in what used to be a kitchen, you could see things musical were being cooked up. Freshly penciled sheet music was strewn around, signs of the composer at work. Nascent riffs could be heard escaping from the decommissioned walk-in cooler where Omer would spend long sessions on the rehearsal piano inside. In the doorway at Smalls hung the band’s poster showing Avital’s intent gaze (reproduced here on the back cover). A serious look but natural, with no trace of self-conscious fashion sneer. In its beginnings, Avital’s group was featured on weekly late-nights at Smalls on Tuesdays at 2 am--after the bewitching hour, when it is more the music that is the prime mover, and less the dates and drinks. Here, over a period of a few months, Omer issued forth a stunning array of new tunes and arrangements for everything from duo to sextet. The group quickly caught on among musicians around town, and drew raves from critics. Peter Watrous in The New York Times (1/31/96) wrote: “The bassist Omer Avital's exceptional set at Smalls on Thursday night was cause for optimism for two reasons. The first is that the handful of young musicians in the band who were good improvisers a year ago have become more than that. Expressive, powerful and well informed, the sextet doesn't have a weak link….[Avital] and the drummer Ali Jackson have led the jam-session band, which plays from 2 to 8 in the morning, every Friday for nearly two years, and the communication they’ve developed is extraordinary.” As its notoriety grew, the group was brought on as an evening feature, frequently playing to packed houses on Thursday nights. One of those Thursdays is captured here. Here Avital reveals himself to be a consummate musical dramatist and storyteller. His compositions are episodic, often having the ring of epic stories and folk legends set to music. Their dramatic force and poetic weight help drive the music. The ensemble chemistry is key to the success of the music. And the Omer Avital Group in its various instantiations had chemistry rare enough to make it memorable among jazz groups in history. Omer chooses his musical ensemble with the kind of care a director takes in casting the leading roles for a dramatic ensemble, and it makes a difference. Avital and drummer Ali Jackson dance around the beat with effortless grace, setting the tone and pace with nuanced dynamics that range from a whisper to a gunshot. Jackson really uses his drums to speak, and he’s fleet and articulate. He first emerged full-blown on the New York scene around this time, as natural a drummer as there ever was. Music runs in his family, as he comes from a line of great jazz musicians that includes the McKinneys of fame. The four horns play the dramatis personae for Avital’s works. Mark Turner has proven to be one of the most influential tenor saxophonists of our time, and here he is a catalyst who infuses the group with energy and contributes a truly beautiful sound throughout. Gregory Tardy, soulful, sincere, and from St. Louis, had recently come off two years with the Elvin Jones group when this was recorded. He’s a powerful tenor player with an impeccable sound who’s a source of energy for any group that has him. Walden is a virtuosic lead alto player with a commanding tone that never wavers. His features, among them duets with Mark Turner, one of which is included here on 12 Tribes, made for some of the group’s greatest moments. Completing the front line is Charles Owens, a longtime musical associate of Avital’s. Owens was featured on the weekly Friday late night at Smalls for nearly eight years running, and his group was critically lauded for its appearance on the popular Impulse CD Jazz Underground: Live at Smalls, which also featured Avital in accompaniment. Avital’s bass playing encompasses the full expressive range of the instrument. His grasp of music history is remarkable, drawing on Bach’s crystalline counterpoint, Israeli and Middle Eastern folk music, Yemenite Synagogue music, and early Spanish classical music. His command of jazz history is just as impressive. His influences on bass, among them Jimmy Blanton, Oscar Pettiford, Ray Brown, Paul Chambers, Charles Mingus, Jimmy Garrison, Charlie Haden, and Jaco Pastorius, are paid just tribute in his music. As a composer and bandleader, Avital has clearly learned much from Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus, both ingenious musical dramatists. At the time of these recordings, now ten years ago, the merits of the group were clear, both in terms of the strength of the individual musicians, and in terms of the strength of the group as a whole. The music has withstood the test of time. Many groups since, by contrast, displayed novelty and promised much, but ended up being little over the mere sums of their parts. Outward novelty alone does not make for innovation. An element of synthesis is needed, and the knowledgeable insight required for that requires a grasp of history, unless one is to be content with reinventing the non-starter. When music is pressed, as it is here, into the service of a talented dramatist and storyteller drawing on a rich musical and cultural history, it becomes something more meaningful. And that I think will be its lasting legacy. Written By Luke Kaven Small Records | ” |
The Omer Avital Group - Think with Your Heart (2001)
Blue Moon
Track listing
1. Think With Your Heart 9:35
2.Stella By Starlight 7:14
3. Make Believe 10:03
4. Andaluz 2:27
5. Marrakesh 7:20
6. Tune In D 10:52
7. The Journey Home 2:42
8. Let It Grow 7:51
9. Redemption Song 4:45
10. Flow 7:07
Personnel:
Omer Avital: Basses; Greg Tardy: Tenor Saxophone & Bass Clarinet; Jay Collins: Flute, Tenor Saxophone, Bamboo Flutes & Soprano Saxophone; Myron Walden: Alto Saxophone; Joel Frahm: Tenor Saxophone; Jimmy Greene: Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone; Joshua Levitt: Nay Flute; Daniel Freedman: Drums, Bells & Cymbals, Percussion, Claps & Vocals; Marlon Browden: Drums
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The Omer Avital Group - Asking No permission (2005)
Smalls Records
1. Think With Your Heart 9:35
2.Stella By Starlight 7:14
3. Make Believe 10:03
4. Andaluz 2:27
5. Marrakesh 7:20
6. Tune In D 10:52
7. The Journey Home 2:42
8. Let It Grow 7:51
9. Redemption Song 4:45
10. Flow 7:07
Personnel:
Omer Avital: Basses; Greg Tardy: Tenor Saxophone & Bass Clarinet; Jay Collins: Flute, Tenor Saxophone, Bamboo Flutes & Soprano Saxophone; Myron Walden: Alto Saxophone; Joel Frahm: Tenor Saxophone; Jimmy Greene: Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone; Joshua Levitt: Nay Flute; Daniel Freedman: Drums, Bells & Cymbals, Percussion, Claps & Vocals; Marlon Browden: Drums
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The Omer Avital Group - Asking No permission (2005)
Smalls Records
Track listing
Know What I Mean?!
Lullaby of the Leaves
Ballad
Devil Head
12 Tribes
Kentucky Girl
The Field
Personnel:
Omer Avital: bass; Ali Jackson: drums; Mark Turner: tenor saxophone; Gregory Tardy: tenor saxophone, flute; Myron Walden: alto saxophone; Charles Owens: tenor saxophone.
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Omer Avital - The Ancient Art of Giving (2006)
Smalls Records
Track listing
Homeland
Night Song
Ras Abu-Galum (for Elvin Jones)
Arrival
Shimi's Tune
Bass Introduction
Yes!
Personnel:
Omer Avital: bass; Mark Turner: tenor sax; Avishai Cohen: trumpet; Aaron Goldberg: piano; Ali Jackson: drums.
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Omer Avital - Arrival (2007)
Fresh Sound New Talent
Track listing:
Song for Amos
Big Time
Third World Love Story
Sea and Sand
Arrival
Faith
Cypresses
Vincent
Song of Thanks
Middle Eastern Sunset
Lilian in the Big Blue
Personnel:
Omer Avital: bass, oud, vocals; Jason Lindner: piano, Fender rhodes, vocals; Jonathan Blake: drums, tambourine, vocals; Joel Frahm: saxophones, vocals; Avi Lebovitch: trombone, vocals; Avishai Cohen: trumpet, vocals.
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RECORDINGS AS CO-LEADER
OAM TRIO
O A M Trio - Trilingual (1999)
Freshsound
Track listing:
1. The Loneliest Marc
2. Bismillah
3. 26-2
4. Never Let Me Go
5. Woody ’n You
6. Sea Shantey
7. Devil Head
8. Cheryl
Musicians:
Omer Avital (b),
Aaron Goldberg (p),
Marc Miralta (d)
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O A M Trio - Flow (2001)
Freshsound
Tracklisting:
1. Equinox (Coltrane) - 7:45
2. Mao's Blues (Goldberg) - 5:17
3. Shimi's Tune (Avital) - 7:11
4. The Shadow of Your Smile (Mandel) - 5:33
5. Sad and Bright (Miralta) - 3:54
6. Puff, The Magic Dragon (Lipton/Yarrow) - 5:54
7. Flow (Avital) - 5:17
8. Con Alma (Gillespie) - 6:50
Recorded in Hoboken, New Jersey, 2000
Musicians:
Omer Avital (b),
Aaron Goldberg (p),
Marc Miralta (d)
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OAM trio and Mark Turner - Live in Seville (2003)
Lola
Tracklist
* Taurus
* Fantasy in D
* Sad and Bright
* Flow
* Equinox
* MAO's blues
* Song for Amos
Musicians:
Omer Avital (b)
Aaron Goldberg (p)
Marc Miralta (d)
Mark Turner (sax)
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Third World Love
Third World Love - third world love songs (2002)
Fresh Sound Records
Tracklist
1 Bina 12:10
2 Musicians without Boundaries 10:00
3 Flamingo/Brown and Green 14:37
4 Third World Love Story 7:24
5 Assal 11:10
6 Sketch of Barcelona 3:31
Musicians:
AVISHAI COHEN (trumpet)
YONATAN AVISHAI (piano)
OMER AVITAL (bass)
DANIEL FREEDMAN (drums)
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Third World Love - Avanim (2004)
Assal Records/NMC
Tracklist
1. La Suite Africain
2. Ein Karem
3. Judith
4. Avanim
5. Three Autumn Sketches: Clouds
6. Three Autumn Sketches: Forest
7. Three Autumn Sketches: Leaves
8. Marrakesh
Musicians:
AVISHAI COHEN (trumpet)
YONATAN AVISHAI (piano)
OMER AVITAL (bass)
DANIEL FREEDMAN (drums)
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Personnel:
Omer Avital: bass, oud
Avishai Cohen: trumpet
Yonatan Avishai:piano, fender rhodes
Daniel Freedman: drums, percussion;
Eviatar Banai: vocals (6)
Track listing:
1 A Touch of Tahini
2 Sketch of Tel Aviv
3 Suite African #2
4 Hareshut
5 S'ai N'wai
6 Horizon (Kav Haofek)
7 Suzanna (aka Rock Ballad)
8 Three Four (Not a Jazz Tune)
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Third World Love - New Blues (2008)
Anzic Records
Track listing:
1 Joy of Life Intro
2 Joy of Life
3 Homeland
4 Little Echo
5 La Camerona
6 Gigi et Amelie
7 Nature's Dance
8 Hamina
9 New Blues (Ain't No Thing);
10 So.
Personnel:
Avishai Cohen: trumpet and flugelhorn
Yonatan Avishai: piano
Omer Avital: bass
Daniel Freedman: drums
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The Omer Avital Marlon Browden Project (2005)
Featuring Avishai Cohen & Omri Mor
Fresh Sound
Track listing:
1. Marlonious (Browden) 5:44
2. Third World Love Story (Avital) 6:22
3. Browden’s Thing (Browden) 12:23
4. Song & Dance- A suite in three grooves-Part 1 & 2 (Avital) 8:01
5. Waiting (Cohen) 9:46
6. Me And You Tonite (Avital) 6:37
7. Asal (Dub version) (Cohen) 7:50
8. Song & Dance-A suite in three grooves-Part 2 & 3 (Avital) 7:54
Recorded live at the Yellow submarine, Jerusalem, July 13, 2003
Personnel:
Omer Avital (b)
Marlon Browden (d)
Avishai Cohen (tp)
Omri Mor (Fender Rhodes)
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Debka Fantasia - Debka Fantasia (2009)
A World Music fusion fantasy built on Bedouin roots
East West Music
Members:
Omer Avital
Chaya Samir
Ravid Kachlani
Itamar Doari
Eyal Sela
Itamar Borochov
The Israeli Contemporary String Quartet
Yisrael Borochov
Avri Borochov
Tracklist:
01. Eretz Zavat Halav U'Dvash 9:14
02. Alei Givah Sham Ba'Galil 5:37
03. Orha Ba'Midbar (Yamin Usmoll) 6:43
04. Bein Nahar Prat Unhar Khidekel 6:15
05. Al Givot Sheikh Abrek 5:12
06. Be'er Ba'Sadeh 6:06
07. Shtu Ha'Adarim 7:34
08. Ushe'avtem Mayim 4:19
09. Ballada Al Maayan Va'Yam 5:45
10. At Adama Be'lev Midbar 5:41
11. Shir Ha'Emek (Ba'ah Menuhah Layage'ah) 7:28
12. Lekh Lekh La Midbar 4:16
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Omer Avital, Omri Mor & Aviv Cohen - Live In Rimon School of Jazz (2004)
Tracklist:
4 TRACKS - UNKNOWN TITLES
Members:
omer Avital - Bass
Omri Mor - Piano
Aviv Cohen - Drums
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Daniel Freedman Trio (2003)
Fresh Sound/New Talent
Tracklist:
1. Fareed 6:38
2. Rise Up 6:04
3. Open Hearts 5:39
4. freak Of Nature 7:14
5. Night Poem 4:41
6. Alach Ya Ghazali 6:24
7. You Are So Beautiful 5:34
8. Montuno Picasso 4:56
9. Cypresses 6:50
10. Yes 8:54
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RECORDINGS AS A SIDEMAN
Daniel Zamir - Amen (2006)
The 8th Note (Hatav Ha-shmini)
Omer Avital
Chaya Samir
Ravid Kachlani
Itamar Doari
Eyal Sela
Itamar Borochov
The Israeli Contemporary String Quartet
Yisrael Borochov
Avri Borochov
Tracklist:
01. Eretz Zavat Halav U'Dvash 9:14
02. Alei Givah Sham Ba'Galil 5:37
03. Orha Ba'Midbar (Yamin Usmoll) 6:43
04. Bein Nahar Prat Unhar Khidekel 6:15
05. Al Givot Sheikh Abrek 5:12
06. Be'er Ba'Sadeh 6:06
07. Shtu Ha'Adarim 7:34
08. Ushe'avtem Mayim 4:19
09. Ballada Al Maayan Va'Yam 5:45
10. At Adama Be'lev Midbar 5:41
11. Shir Ha'Emek (Ba'ah Menuhah Layage'ah) 7:28
12. Lekh Lekh La Midbar 4:16
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Omer Avital, Omri Mor & Aviv Cohen - Live In Rimon School of Jazz (2004)
Tracklist:
4 TRACKS - UNKNOWN TITLES
Members:
omer Avital - Bass
Omri Mor - Piano
Aviv Cohen - Drums
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Daniel Freedman Trio (2003)
Fresh Sound/New Talent
Tracklist:
1. Fareed 6:38
2. Rise Up 6:04
3. Open Hearts 5:39
4. freak Of Nature 7:14
5. Night Poem 4:41
6. Alach Ya Ghazali 6:24
7. You Are So Beautiful 5:34
8. Montuno Picasso 4:56
9. Cypresses 6:50
10. Yes 8:54
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RECORDINGS AS A SIDEMAN
Daniel Zamir - Amen (2006)
The 8th Note (Hatav Ha-shmini)
Personnel:
Daniel Zamir - soprano sax, voice
Omri Mor - piano
Omer Avital - bass
Daniel Fridman - drums
Guest - Avishai Cohen - trumpet
Track listing:
1 - Chamesh Eysrei (15)
2 - Shesh Eysrei (16)
3 - Shesh Shminiot (6/8)
4 - Chamesh Madregot Ba Neshama (5 SoulSteps)
5 - Tesha (9)
6 - Shva Eysrei (17)
7 - Pishluk
8 - Shir Ha Shomer
9 - Hasar Hamemuna
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Rea Bar-Ness - Remember & Forget (2006)
Self Released
Tracklist:
1. And if at all
2. Avazim hayinu
3. Intensity
4. Haj ahhmad
5. Shulka
6. Kineret
7. Tachlles
8. Linda
Artists:
Amos Hoffman - Guitar & Qud
Omri Mor - piano
Omer Avital - bass on tracks 1,4,5,8
Gilad Abro - bass on tracks 2,3,6,7
Avishai Cohen - trumpet
Asaf Yuria - tenor sax
Rea Bar-Ness - drums & percussion
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Tracks:
Third King
Takasim Nahawand
Samai Nahawand
Kiryat HaYovel
Na'ama
Takasim Higas
Takasim Rast
Samai Siga
Longa Abu Musa
Takasim Rayat
Shargia
Lonely Sands
Personnel:
Amos Hoffman: oud
Joshua Levit: ney
Ehab Nimer: violin
Omer Avital: bass
Avishai Cohen: bass (11)
Tomer Zur: percussion
Rea Bar Nes: percussion & marimba
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