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Dan Adler
All Things Familiar
Genre: Jazz

Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
1. If I Were A Jazz Man
2. Star Eyes
3. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
4. Talia's Waltz
5. All Things Familiar
6. Sivan's Samba
7. Emily
8. Blues For Keren
9. I Love You
10. Bird's Idea

CD Details

All Artists: Dan Adler
Title: All Things Familiar
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Emdan Music
Release Date: 1/29/2009
Genre: Jazz
Style: Bebop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 820360136023, 634479931864

Synopsis

Product Description

All Things Familiar is guitarist Dan Adler s first CD as a leader. Born and raised in Israel, Dan Adler studied music and composition privately while learning the craft of Jazz by playing with some of Israel s best known musicians while he was still a teenager. After moving to the US in 1986, Dan Adler has made New York City his home base. He has studied and played with guitarists Peter Sprague, Jack Wilkins, Vic Juris, Rick Stone, Joshua Breakstone, Satoshi Inoue, Peter Bernstein, Richard Boukas, Rodney Jones, Paul Bollenback, Joe Giglio as well as saxophone legends Bob Berg and Steve Grossman. For this recording, Dan Adler has assembled a group of top-notch New York musicians. Grant Stewart, widely recognized to be one of the freshest tenor saxophone voices in the mainstream jazz world. Richard Samuels on piano, Dmitri Kolesnik on Bass and Phil Stewart on drums form a cohesive and imaginative rhythm section. All great soloists and recording artists in their own right, their interaction on this recording is magical.

CD Reviews

More and Much More - Please

D. B. Glenn | Muswell Hill. North London. U.K. | 02/06/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Listen to this album and you will hear some of the best jazz on current offer.

Grant Stewart has for a decade been busily convincing us that that he's THE tenor sax man carrying the torch into the new millenium with his urgent yet so cogent and exciting lines stemming from Rollins,Trane, Dexter at al.

Dan Adler ? Never heard him before this - but I wish I had ! So flowing and lucid - lyrical too.

On this album the ensemble sound is great. Cutting and accurate like a knife . Their lines are clean and are a great jumping -off point for some really attention- grabbing solos.

Lots of originals ( including a great take based on " All things you are " ) and a wonderfully wistful jazz Waltz.

Full of both technical prowess and passionate playing this album , back in the day , with a Lion / Wolff cover and Ira Gitler sleeve notes , would have got 5 stars from Downbeat and become a Blue note legend.

I urge you to hear this - it"s what Jazz is all about. And no. I'm not their press agent."

Straight ahead bebop guitar

S. Gallagher | concord, ca United States | 08/26/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I heard a cut off this CD on the local jazz station. Couldn't figure out who it was, but I could tell he knew his stuff. Probably Joe Cohn, Doug Raney, or one of those guys you know are out there but don't hear that much. No, the DJ says it's Dan Adler. WTF, who's that?

Anyway, the CD is roughly half standards and half originals. The originals all mesh nicely with the standards. This CD is remarkably consistent; there's not a weak cut on it. I played it through five times in my car and never hit the 'Skip Track' button once. Did I mention the band sounds great? Very nice sax and piano.

I highly recommend this CD and that goes double for jazz guitar afficianados.

So, bravo Dan Adler, whoever you are."