“this intimacy of expression, the realization of emotions, beauty, romance, of paintings that can appear in the mind, based on melodies, and an additional letting go when the improvisations are allowed to run free”
Musikansich (DE)
“a pensive quality to much of the album, with some gorgeous moments”
All About Jazz (USA)
“a collection of chambered beauties”
Jazz Weekly (USA)
“a fascinating improvisational album”
Mainly Piano (USA)
The Guardian 10 best jazz albums of 2023 “young Israeli pianist Uriel Herman’s Different Eyes proved an especially heartfelt rebuttal. His lingeringly haunting personal journey united the songs and sounds of his Jerusalem childhood with the musics of the wider Middle East, alongside American-songbook and Latin-jazz classics, Chopin glimpses and jazz-pop reinventions.”
John Fordham, The Guardian (UK)
***** ”We are immersed in both classical and oriental traditions. The piano of Uriel H. all in sensitivity carries the magnificent volutes that the trumpet of Itamar sends towards the sky breathing the warmth of its melodious sounds….Magnificent!”
Martine Omiécinski, Action Jazz Magazine (FR)
**** ”Final consolation: a world tour must follow, which includes France!”
Dominique Boulay Paris-Move & Blues Magazine (Fr)
“Different Eyes is a remarkable, diverse, and beautiful album that blends jazz with a strong tradition of classical romantic music and genre shifts into the realms of rock, exoticism, and Israeli traditional music. The instrumental performances are excellent, and the hallmark of the ‘singing’ instruments of Herman’s quartet is an incredibly strong sense for melodic lines, lyrically gentle and melancholic immersion into the depth of music, coupled with a robust and unrestrained dynamic charge.”
Peter Katina Hudobny Zivot Magazine (SK)
“at times exhibition the heavy rhythmic left hand of Cecil Taylor alongside the harmonically adventurous right hand of McCoy Tyner. Evenings at Ronnie’s don’t get much better than this”
Tom Sparo Jazzwise Magazine (UK)
**** “If there are any racing certs for the 2023 pollwinner’s lists so far Different Eyes sounds like one of the front runners” John Fordham Jazzwise Magazine, Editor’s Choice
John Fordham Jazzwise Magazine, Editor’s Choice
