Perfect Traveler, the new album from Yosef Gutman, continues his illuminating exploration of the human spirit and his invocation of hope, gratitude, peace, and resolve.
Yosef Gutman Settles and Opens the Heart
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Avishai Cohen’s Quartet Addresses Dark Times on ‘Ashes to Gold’ and at the Outpost on March 21
The latest release from Avishai Cohen’s quartet, Ashes to Gold, eloquently expresses the breadth and depth of raw emotions provoked by the atrocities of October 7, 2023, and the tragedies of the ensuing war. Its heart-piercing five-part title suite gives voice to anger, horror, grief, tenderness, and a glimmer of determined hope, driven home by virtuosic performances. On March 21, Albuquerque will have the opportunity to hear the quartet—with Cohen (trumpet, flugelhorn, flute), Yonathan Avishai (piano), Barak Mori (bass), and Ziv Ravitz (drums)—live at the Outpost, part of the quartet’s first U.S. tour in five years.
Altered States: the Music of Yosef Gutman & Peter Broderick, and of Scanner & Neil Leonard
Music, like love, has the capacity for altering your consciousness, your brain chemistry. These two releases—River of Eden, from Yosef Gutman and Peter Broderick, and The Berklee Sessions, from Scanner and Neil Leonard, each of which got past me in 2024, have the capacity to do just that, and they do it in completely different fashions, acoustically and electronically, respectively.