Inbal Segev Discography of CDs

Inbal Segev discography Usually, when jazz and electronica get together, it's the former that ends up taking a back seat to the latter -- a string bass sample lopes along underneath laid-back synth chords, or a saxophone tries to honk its way through a thicket of over-produced keyboards. Either way, the strategy is to take easy listening pap and give it a superficial gloss of hipness. The sixth album by saxophonist and composer Patrick Zimmerli takes just the opposite tack, and succeeds brilliantly. Instead of using disconnected jazz elements to spice up electronic Muzak, Zimmerli writes complex and beautiful jazz charts and spices them up with tasteful incursions of jittery, jungly breakbeats (courtesy of percussionist and programmer Satoshi Takeishi). His approach might sound gimmicky if it weren't for the strength of his compositions, which manage to balance challenging formal complexity with intuitive, completely approachable beauty. He incorporates a string quartet into his arrangements in a way that brings to mind the more successful moments of Gunther Schuller's third stream experimentation of the 1960s; his setting of the Jobim standard "How Insensitive" is one of the most intriguing and lovely ever recorded, and his own "Gnosis Crisis" combines cool strings with hot beats ...

Inbal Segev CD discography Recording information: Legacy Studios, New York (04/2008-07/2008). Photographers: Luciano Antinori; Gonzalo Pujal Laplagne. Arranger: Fernando Otero. Personnel: Fernando Otero (piano); Eduardo Percossi (classical guitar); Nick Danielson (violin); Patricio Villarejo, Inbal Segev (cello); Hector del Curto (bandoneon); Luis Nacht (tenor saxophone); Jonathan Powell (trumpet); Ryan Keberle, Jeff Bush (trombone); Pedro Giraudo (acoustic bass); Norberto Di Bella (drums). Audio Mixer: Tom Swift.

Inbal Segev albums  

Inbal Segev music CDs On his 2008 Nonesuch Records debut, Argentine pianist/composer Fernando Otero deftly blends elements of jazz and classical music into a foundation of tango, making for a highly inventive and engaging sound. Many of Otero's pieces feature emotive violin and cello lines, bringing to mind the Kronos Quartet (see the tense "De Ahora En Mas"), yet his subtle piano work ...

Inbal Segev songs Live Recording Track Listing of songs: Sonata for cello & piano No. 3 in A major, Op. 69: Allegro ma non tanto; Sonata for cello & piano No. 3 in A major, Op. 69: Scherzo, Allegro molto; Sonata for cello & piano No. 3 in A major, Op. 69: Adagio cantabile; Sonata for cello & piano No. 4 in C major, ...

Inbal Segev CD discography Personnel: Fernando Otero (piano); Nicolas Danielson (violin); Inbal Segev (cello); Hector Del Curto (bandoneon); Pedro Giraudo (double bass). This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

Inbal Segev albums Live Recording Track Listing of songs: Esquisses en désarroi, rhapsody for cello, french horn & orchestra; Recherche pour la Vision au delà, for orchestra; Cyrèniäde, for voice & orchestra;

Inbal Segev music CDs Personnel: Fernando Otero (piano); Nicolas Danielson (violin); Inbal Segev (cello); Hector Del Curto (bandoneon); Pedro Giraudo (double bass). This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.