The Magician: Live in Jerusalem Alon Farber & Hagiga

• 1 Persistence of Memory (Live) 07:53
• 2 The Magician (Live) 09:27
• 3 Minuet for Maya (Live) 07:56
• 4 Farbalak (Live) 07:07
• 5 Spring Ahead (Live) 05:19
• Total Runtime 37:42

Info for The Magician: Live in Jerusalem

Beginning with Dave Douglas' contributions to John Zorn's Masada, through his seminal albums of the '90s, Israeli saxophonist Alon Farber has been deeply inspired by the beauty and uniqueness of the trumpeter's expansive sonic output. Hoping to someday find the opportunity to cross musical paths, that day came in the summer of 2023 as Douglas joined Farber's accomplished group, Hagiga (meaning, appropriately, "celebration"), at the Jerusalem Jazz Festival. Providing the band with great inspiration, Alon dubbed Douglas "the magician," as he lifted the ensemble with his presence, his tunes offering stimulating landscapes for them to explore, while Hagiga's iridescent chemistry delivered their own magic.

"...a powerful, serious album..." (Distrito Jazz, Spain)

"The recordings of the album are taken from a live performance at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem on June 27, 2023. With "Persistence Of Memory" the sextet around woodwind player Alon Farber opens. The Ensemble Hagiga and guest Dave Douglas are characterized by an impressive brass power, consisting of a trumpeter, a trombonist, a soprano and alto saxop ..." (Jazz'halo-Belgium, Ferdinand Dupuis Panther)

"There's the familiar and the less familiar here - the familiar certainly for Dave Douglas fans the presence of the trumpeter's 'Spring Ahead,' which was on the Stargazer album back in the 1990s, and 'Persistence of Memory' recorded in such settings as 2009 big band album A Single Sky. The other tunes, less familiar but in keeping with what Douglas ..." (Marlbank-UK, Stephen Graham)

Dave Douglas, trumpet
Alon Farber, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone
Yehonatan Cohen, tenor saxophone, clarinet
Oded Meir, trombone
Katia Toobool, piano
Assaf Hakimi, bass
Roy Oliel, drums

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