Omer Avital - Live at Nice Jazz Festival / director, Samuel Thiebaut ; Daniel Freedman, Avishai Cohen, Omer Avital, Yonathan Avishai, Joel Frahm.

[Place of publication not identified] : OLEO Films, 2013.

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"This concert by Israeli-American Omer Avital and his group at the 2013 Nice Jazz Festival is concerned with two levels: the smaller detail and the bigger picture. The film opens with a low shot of a child running through the audience before Josselin Carre's camera zooms out to reveal the crowd in its entirety. Then we focus on the stage, listening to the group's sound: the steady, funk-inflected bassline and the meandering beat, the keys and horns roaming freely on top. Before long the camera moves in on individual musicians: we see a close-up of a cymbal being struck, of Avital's double-bass plucking, of the pianoman's dancing fingers or of the trumpeter's eyes, closed shut in concentration. The show continues in this fashion, paying close attention to the parts before zooming out to appreciate the whole. As the groove gets tighter and the colors grow softer, we can feel the warmth of early-evening Nice, the last of the light reflected in the lacquer finish of a double bass, in the saxophone's golden glint and in the classy sheen of a grand piano. Avital, along with Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Joel Frahm (saxophone), Yonathan Avishai (piano) and Daniel Freedman (drums) continues playing until the crowd are on their feet, smiles growing wider as the beguiling rhythms and soothing melodies flutter out into the evening. **Rowan Standish-Hayes**".

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June 05, 2023

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