Gilad Atzmon
On tour
You get an awful lot of music with the Israeli virtuoso Gilad Atzmon - quotes from jazz standards, torch songs, ideas playfully purloined from Mediterranean or Middle East sources, sultry Paris cabaret smooches, New Orleans clarinet swing, or bebop in hyperdrive. Atzmon is acclaimed as one of the most original of world-jazz specialists, but his impromptu alto sax recital on dancer Will Gaines' birthday bash at the Spitz a couple of years ago set two veterans of the 1950s Harlem jazz scene in the audience that night waxing lyrical about the similarities to hearing Charlie Bird Parker live. Idiosyncratic personal politics and a desire to extend his audience led Atzmon to world music - so this CD-launch tour unites jazz, electronica, Arabic music and urban sounds.
· Colchester Arts Centre, Sun 7; Rhythm Station, Rawtenstall, Tue 9; Five Lamps, Derby, Wed 10; Wakefield Jazz, Fri 12
