Monday, October 30, 2006
Desert JazzA favorite of the audience at Umeå Jazz Festival was Avishai Cohen trio. Three master instrumentalists (here two of them, Avishai and Mark Guiliana), playing so tight you could see the treads between them. They were the most generous group appearing at the festival, even having the surprised jazz audience sing along like it were a rock concert.
They played two evenings in a row, treating us with a newly written song both days, one of which was a beduins' chant.
Why was this music taken to the heart by the Swedes, in a way similar to the Norrland music I described earlier this month? Maybe because it is tied to the love of a landscape, the Israeli desert, like Johan's and Jonas' is to the northern rivers, forests and mountains.
They will now play in Uppsala, Lund and Stockholm - hurry and buy tickets!
Photo from http://www.avishaimusic.com/
// posted by The beaver @ 11:40 PM 
