Omer Avital / Asking No Permission

[lkaven]

Since I've been getting asked about this record so much -- some critics even putting it up for record of the year before its release date -- I put it up for sale in advance of its release date at CD Baby. You can read the liner notes and audition tracks there.

It was ten years ago when I made these recordings (along with a number of others of Avital, Jason Lindner, Across 7 Street, and Frank Hewitt). Then I thought this group was one of the only groups I knew that had something really happening. Now, ten years later, after having all of our careers messed up some by Impulse Records in one way or another, these recordings seem to have a special urgency to people. I try to characterize in my notes, which again have to do with a critique of what I call mere eclecticism -- that is, an eclectic approach to music, but without further synthesis: it is the mere sum of its parts. This I contrast with the idea of synthesis, and I use Avital as an examplar, as one who can put a range of musical influences (and instrumental talent) to the job of telling a musical story. Most surprising is how little music has come our way in the intervening years that qualifies in that way. The interest in this record seems to say something, once again, about where the jazz world took a wrong turn...or two. I'll be interested in any comments from listeners.

Luke

Edited January 17, 2006 by lkaven

[gnhrtg]

The link doesn't work for me and neither can I find the album by searching for Avital at cdbaby.

Edited January 17, 2006 by gnhrtg

[lkaven]

  gnhrtg said:

The link doesn't work for me and neither can I find the album by searching for Avital at cdbaby.

Fixed, thank you. The page is there and the link now works, but CD Baby's search is behind.