Written by Jim Eigo: jim@jazzpromoservices.com

Israeli Pianist Alon Nechushtan
Cd Release Party For
Words Beyond
(Buckyball Records BR024)

at Cornelia Street Cafe, New York City

with special guests:
Donny McCaslin, tenor sax
Michael Bates, bass
Owen Howard, drums

Sunday, August 7, 2011
at 8:30 PM

The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street (between Bleecker and West 4th Streets), NYC
phone 212.989.9319
$10 cover
Public transportation: A, B, C, D, E, F, and M trains to West 4th Street, or 1 train to Christopher Street-Sheridan Square
http://corneliastreetcafe.com/

Downbeat Magazine affirms: "Alon Nechustan is a talent to watch, with a surfeit of ideas, an unbridled spirit and a bold, two fisted sense of architecture".

JazzTimes Magazine says about "Words Beyond": "This stellar threesome blends daring instincts and dazzling virtuosity into organic expression".

Since moving to New York City in early 2003, Alon has played piano and collaborated with jazz greats including William Parker, Daniel Carter, Roy Campbel, Sam Ford, Bob Moses, Ben Allison, and many more. He has been a guest of Kenny Wollesen's Himalayas, Nick Gianni's Evolution, Root Valdez and QB3. Alon founded his quintet TALAT in 2002, and the ensemble recorded "The Growl" on John Zorn's Tzadik Records. The group has played and toured throughout the U.S., U.K., Canada, Israel and Europe, and performed in NYC venues such as The Blue Note and Joe's Pub.

Alon's first solo CD is a joyful immersion into his original compositions, inspired sometimes by Mendelssohn, sometimes Thelonius Monk or Keith Jarrett.