Artist: Omer Avital Group
Title Of Album: Asking No Permission
Year Of Release: February 14, 2006
Label: Smalls Records
Genre: Jazz, World Fusion, Contemporary Jazz Featuring Bass
Quality: MP3 / Joint Stereo
Bitrate: VBR kbit/s / 44.1 Khz
Total Time: 74:15 min
Total Size: 107,0 MB
WebSite: www.omeravital.com

Omer Avital was born in Israel in the town of Givataim. He excelled in music studies early on, entering the Givataim Conservatory at age 11 to study classical guitar, and going on to Talma Yalin, Israel’s leading high school for the arts where his interests turned to jazz and the acoustic bass. After a brief period in the national service, Omer moved to New York to be in the heart of the international jazz scene. He quickly achieved recognition as a bassist of rarest talent and musicality, and became one of the most in-demand bassists on the scene, steadily performing, recording and touring with such jazz legends as Roy Haynes, Jimmy Cobb, Nat Adderley, Walter Bishop, Al Foster, Kenny Garrett, Steve Grossman, Frank Hewitt, Jimmy Lovelace, Rashied Ali, and more, as well as some of the great jazz artists of his generation including Mark Turner, Aaron Goldberg, Joshua Redman, Jason Lindner, Jeff Ballard, Brad Mehldau, Antonio Hart, Claudia Acuña, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Peter Bernstein, Greg Tardy, Myron Walden, Larry Goldings, and Ali Jackson among others.


The development of the Omer Avital group is tied closely with the history of Smalls. Avital was in fact on the first gig ever at Smalls, with the then-unknown Peter Bernstein and Brad Mehldau. Avital was a permanent member of the pivotal Jason Lindner Big Band, which developed over years into a weekly Monday night institution at Smalls. Lindner has played host to a generation of bright new talents, and has made quite a mark. The genesis of the classic Avital sextet captured here is partly to be found in Lindner’s band, which at various times in its early days also included Turner, Tardy, Walden, and Owens. The Lindner band always featured gifted and impassioned soloists playing on material with wide dynamics. Its unique qualities were due in part to the special character of the band’s rhythm section. As a rhythm section, Lindner on piano, Avital on bass, and Daniel Freedman on drums were fluid, able to seamlessly modulate together through unusual meters, moods, and stylistic changeups. These qualities carried over into the Omer Avital group... / Read More /

TrackListing
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1. Know What I Mean?! - 11:26
2. Lullaby Of The Leaves (Petekere/Young) - 08:42
3. Ballad - 02:57
4. Devil Head - 08:51
5. 12 Tribes - 15:22
6. Kentucky Girl - 14:55
7. The Field - 12:02

All compositions by Omer Avital (Abutbul Music/ASCAP), except where otherwise indicated.

Recorded April 18th 1996 live at Smalls, New York City.

Omer Avital (bass)
Ali Jackson (drums)
Mark Turner (tenor sax)
Gregory Tardy (tenor sax, flute)
Myron Walden (alto sax)
Charles Owens (tenor sax)