Omer Avital - Live at Nice Jazz Festival.

Format:

Video

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz.

Concerts.

Jazz music.

Musical performances.

Local Subjects:

Jazz.

Concerts.

Jazz music.

Musical performances.

Genre:

Performance

Physical Description:

1 online resource (72 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

This concert by Israeli-American Omer Avital and his group at the 2013 Nice Jazz Festival is concerned with two levels: the smaller detail and the bigger picture. The film opens with a low shot of a child running through the audience before Josselin Carre’s camera zooms out to reveal the crowd in its entirety. Then we focus on the stage, listening to the group’s sound: the steady, funk-inflected bassline and the meandering beat, the keys and horns roaming freely on top. Before long the camera moves in on individual musicians: we see a close-up of a cymbal being struck, of Avital’s double-bass plucking, of the pianoman’s dancing fingers or of the trumpeter’s eyes, closed shut in concentration. The show continues in this fashion, paying close attention to the parts before zooming out to appreciate the whole. As the groove gets tighter and the colors grow softer, we can feel the warmth of early-evening Nice, the last of the light reflected in the lacquer finish of a double bass, in the saxophone’s golden glint and in the classy sheen of a grand piano. Avital, along with Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Joel Frahm (saxophone), Yonathan Avishai (piano) and Daniel Freedman (drums) continues playing until the crowd are on their feet, smiles growing wider as the beguiling rhythms and soothing melodies flutter out into the evening. Rowan Standish-Hayes

Notes:

Performed 2013 Nice Jazz Festival

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