All About Jazz - The Whistle Blower (review)
There's a soulful crying to much of this music that makes it so convincing, so enjoyable. It's blues music from someplace other than the Deep South. Starting with the first track, "Gaza Mon Amour," veteran multi-instrumentalist Gilad Atzmon somehow manages to invoke the spirit of John Coltrane (think "A Love Supreme"), along with a kind of tantalizing ethnic, Israeli vibe that conjoins East with West. The Whistle Blower is an intoxicating blend of romanticism with an edge that somehow bespeaks the current unrest we all live in. It swings like crazy and seems to owe some of its inspiration from that classic Coltrane quartet from the 1960s, but without being a retread of old ideas.
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