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Record Label: Enja Records Werner Aldinger [email protected]
Booking in Europe: Live Jazz Booking Tommy Høeg [email protected]
Oded Tzur, Tenor Saxophone Nitai Hershkovits, Piano Petros Klampanis, Bass Johnathan Blake, Drums
Videos: Single Mother: youtu.be/ZtHzOicisY8 Tzurkauns: youtu.be/IYUCXfLp2Vk www.odedtzur.com
★★★★★ “One of the jazz world’s premier storytellers” Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz #1 Apple Music "The A-List: Jazz” #1 Spotify "State of Jazz" playlist
“The Coltrane Quartet of the 21st century”
CD Journal (Japan)
“Masterpiece!” Bernhard Jugel, German National
Radio
“If a curtain were to be drawn in front of him, no one could tell
which instrument was being played”
Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia (India)
“Album of the Year” Karl Ackermann, All About Jazz
“#3 Best Album of 2017” Jazz Thing Magazine Critics
Poll (DE)
“Oded Tzur is one of the great musical thinkers of our time”
Wolf Kampmann (DE)
“A new type of swing” Rinus van der Heijden (NL)
“We feel it even more than we hear it”
Louis-Julien Nicolaou, Les Inrockuptibles (FR)
“A Discovery” Alex Dutilh, Radio France
“We arrived at this album by chance. We leave it profoundly
changed.” David Koperhant, Jazz News (FR)
Urgency coexists with Zen-like calm on the darkly brilliant sophomore album by tenor saxophonist Oded Tzur. The dynamics of his fearless quartet mirror its ever-shifting storytelling intent. A student of Indian classical music, Tzur is an architect of stealth, meticulously building his tunes from the ground up. At times, his very quietude seems to roar; the way he starts and ends “Single Mother” suggests a volcano on the ocean floor. An explorer of the microtonal and a player of such restraint and patience that his explosions are particularly startling, Tzur delivers a unique sound, giving his instrument pioneering dimension and depth. —Carlo Wolff, Downbeat Magazine