Yaron Herman: Everyday | Album Review

Israeli pianist Yaron Herman released his first album a decade ago, but his debut for Blue Note feels like a new beginning. It's commonplace these days for young pianists (Herman is still only 34) to have dazzling technique, and he certainly has that, with echoes of titans like Tristano, Corea and Jarrett. It's not unusual for contemporary jazz musicians to have wide-ranging tastes, and Everyday displays an eclectic sensibility that runs from Scriabin to Björk. But how many pianists choose to make their big-label debut not solo, nor even in a trio, but in a duet with a drummer? His connection with fellow Israeli Ziv Ravitz is telepathic but loose, and there is an unusual openness and muscularity here that lifts Everyday far above the everyday. yaronherman.com