This is a rare Bay Area performance by New York-based multi-instrumentalist Avram Fefer and the rhythm team of Vijay Anderson and
Dan Seamans. Avram's explosive trio work with Chad Taylor and Eric Revis has been well documented over the years with critically acclaimed albums and international tours. Drawing from the musical worlds of Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, Ethiopiques, and Charles Mingus, he has forged a highly original sound within a modern jazz context. “I think of my music as 21st century street-jazz,” says Fefer, “Organic music that can be appreciated on several different levels.”
Saxophonist Avram Fefer spent his formative years in the company of musicians like Roy Hargrove, John Medeski, and Jeff Parker in Boston, made his professional debut with Archie Shepp, the Last Poets, Sonny Murray, and Tony Allen in Paris, and has since played with David Murray, William Parker, Marc Ribot, and Vernon Reid, among many others in New York. He has performed in over twenty countries and released eleven albums as a leader, including two recent trio outings with Eric Revis and Chad Taylor. Lately he has also been presenting his multi-disciplinary solo work -- the Resonant Sculpture Project – which features his musical interactions with the sculptures of Richard Serra. His latest album, Big Picture Holiday: Shimmer and Melt, is a six-piece electric groove project reflecting an original and seductive mix of funk, fusion, and afrobeat.
"It's a relatively rare occurrence when an ensemble or individual rises to the top with something to say or a way of saying it that stands definitively apart. To my ears the Avram Fefer Trio belongs in this category."
"True surprises in jazz may be rare these days, but the Avram Fefer Trio's ability to upset the status quo seems like a sure thing."
---Derek Taylor (One Final Note.com)---
"Possessed of an undeniably spiritual feel for the music, Avram Fefer understands the importance of percussion for connecting with the human pulse, as well as the use of horn lines to express what the heart, in all of its complexity, feels.”
“.....has been in the center of several important jazz scenes."
By Don Williamson ALLABOUTJAZZ.COM
“The music is direct, authentic, somehow both rich & simple. There's emotional power and expressivity of free-jazz, rhythm sensibility and spirituality associated with AACM and its Great Black Music tradition and yet it's much more mainstream than you'd expect.” “Avram Fefer's way of playing is emotional and intense, introducing expressivity of fire free music to tonal modes and catchy melodies (think Archie Shepp, David Murray, Rahsaan Roland Kirk).”
http://jazzalchemist.blogspot.com/2011/05/avram-fefer-eric-revis-chad-taylor.html
“You will hear lots of soul, African rhythms, blues --- and all this on a solid, often hypnotic rhythmic foundation with the leader sharing warmth and sympathy and musical joy and the love of life itself…. he really manages to get that feeling across: the love of life, even in times of sadness. Fefer's tone is like magic, it is round, clear, precise, and deeply emotional. Apart - or maybe as part of - from his lyricism, he also has an incredible sense of rhythm and pace in his improvisations, emphasizing, pausing, building tension, or blowing away, accompanied with an incredible sense of focus on the original theme”
http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com/2011/04/avram-fefer-trio-eliyahu-not-two-2011.html
“Although there are hundreds of fine sax players who live and play in the NYC area, there are just a few that blow me away each & every time I hear them play. Avram Fefer is one of them.”
Bruce Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
http://www.avramfefer.com/discography.html
https://www.youtube.com/user/LudlowLowdown
http://www.resonantsculptureproject.com/
http://www.ropeadope.com/artists/featured/big_picture_holiday/
https://www.facebook.com/Avram-Fefer-Music-140308165113/
Cost: $10-$20