Tamuz Nissim - While Birds Fly

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2023
Time: 41:50
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 96,7 MB
Art: Front

(1:34) 1. Prelude
(4:52) 2. Lonely River
(7:22) 3. While Birds Fly
(3:48) 4. Dream Bigger
(3:53) 5. Breathe
(1:57) 6. What Should This Song Be About
(3:10) 7. Here We Go Again
(5:00) 8. Touch Me
(4:53) 9. Poets
(5:16) 10. A Voice

Award-winning Israeli vocalist Tamuz Nissim has been living and performing in NYC for the last four years. She performs alongside with some of the city's most acclaimed musicians in clubs like the Blue Note, Jazz Forum, The Bar 55, Deer Head Inn, Cornelia Street and many more, gaining the love of music lovers and Jazz aficionados alike.

Born in Tel Aviv ,Tamuz grew up in an artistic family; her mother is a dancer and a choreographer and her father is a writer. Both of them play an instrument and have a great love for classical and jazz music.

She started playing classical piano at the age of 6 and started to sing when she was 14 and was accepted to the Jazz music department of the Ironi Alef High School of the Arts. Her high school band appeared twice at an open stage at the Tel Aviv Jazz Festival. At this time she was a recipient of the America-Israel Coltural Foundation Grant for young talents in the arts. By the age of 16 she was performing around the city regularly with some of Israel's best jazz players to accompany her. In 2005 she sang in the soundtrack of Ilan Heitner’s movie ‘Bruno in Love’

She moved to the Netherlands in 2007 to study at the prestigious Royal Conservatoire of Den Haag; from there she received a Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts, voice and side subject piano. In Holland besides many performances at the local Jazz clubs she also performed at the Amsterdam Israeli film Festival “Filmisreal” 2011 and her composition 'Shir' was featured in the Record “Love, Live ,Listen 2 - The Hague playlist” . In 2013 she performed at Holon Women's Festival in Israel, a common project with singer Martha Mavroidi. In 2015 was chosen as a finalist at "Riga Jazz Stage international vocal competition" and won to performed at "Riga Ritmis" International Jazz Festival in 2016. In 2015 Tamuz moved to New York City where she performs as a band leader and a guest singer for live shows and studio recordings.https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/tamuz-nissim/

The Tel Aviv vocalist Tamuz Nissim returns with 10 new tracks, where George Nazos (guitar), Trifon Dimitrov (bass) and Joe Abba (drums) help create much diversity and warmth.

Nissim’s warm keys start the listen with the pretty and soft “Prelude”, and “Lonely River” follows with Nissim’s expressive pipes amid Abba’s agile drumming for the timeless jazz climate.

“Breathe” arrives at the halfway point, and is a rich delivery of gorgeous singing that suits the atmospheric bass and Nazos’ fluid guitar, while “Here We Go Again” benefits much from the meticulous drumming and graceful piano.

“Poets” and “A Voice” exit the listen, where the former is an intimate exploration into rich and poetic song craft, and the latter finishes with a dreamy, mesmerizing delivery that builds into firm scatting and playful rhythm.

Nissim has been living and performing New York City for the last 5 years, and that experience certainly resonates across these heartfelt and gripping jazz songs that will be globally appreciated. https://takeeffectreviews.com/october-2024-2/2024/10/21/tamuz-nissim

Recorded live at Trading 8s Studios in NJ March 7 2023. 

While Birds Fly

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Tamuz Nissim - Echo Of A Heartbeat

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:43
Size: 97,6 MB
Art: Front

(5:52)  1. Time in a Bottle
(3:41)  2. Fried Bananas
(4:44)  3. My World
(5:16)  4. Just Squeeze Me
(5:19)  5. In the Melody's Shade
(4:14)  6. Groovin' High
(4:25)  7. Echo of a Heartbeat
(3:44)  8. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
(4:24)  9. Smile

Tamuz Nissim is not only a singer of boundless promise she is already a great, full-fledged artist. This disc Echo of a Heartbeat shows how versatile she is, not only with her impressions of Charlie Parker and bebop in her breathtaking rhythm on Dexter Gordon’s “Fried Bananas”, as well as Eddie Jefferson in her superb crafting and delivery of her very own vocalese lyric to the piece, but also with her achingly beautiful ballad, “My World”, an original creation, one may add. Both of which songs speak to the other dimension of her artistry: her ability to write a perfect song, then to turn it on its head and sing it. There are three of them on this disc but they are not only the perfect creations here. Her rendition of Duke Ellington’s “Just Squeeze Me” in which she re-fits the sexy inner pulse of the song with a playful one that is equally alluring. Here Miss Nissim also performs a breathtaking glissando at the end of the song which highlights not only her multi-octave voice, but her ability to use it with theatrical effect.  Again, in her interpretation of Dizzy Gillespie’s “Groovin’ High” Miss Nissim reveals herself here as an artist of the first order, broadening out from good old-fashioned swing which she seemingly can sing in her sleep to the vim and verve, and dizzying atmospherics of bebop and vocalese.

Miss Nissim’s instrument is gorgeous, lustrous, precise, high-sprung and light as a feather-light. Her musicianship is fierce as she digs into the expression of each word, brings ceaseless variety soft dynamics and gives every phrase a lustrous grace. Here she is accompanied and guided by the extraordinary bassist and producer, Harvie S, who brings deeply interiorised reading to the material (especially beautiful on “Groovin’ High”) The extraordinary blend of musicians also extends to inimitable pianist James Weideman, virtuoso guitarist George Nazos and the brilliant drummer Tony Jefferson. Everywhere there is a beautiful bombshell that explodes from the artists led by this amazing singer and the fizzing “What a Little Moonlight Can Do” is only one more song that spins delightfully. Her vocalese on “Smile” is just as breathtakingly beautiful. So…everywhere, throughout this disc, Tamuz Nissim and the other artists make this music say something entirely new, and with such power that it is not simply the echo of the heartbeat, but the real thing itself. And by any measure that’s great music-making.

Personnel – Tamuz Nissim: vocals; James Weidman: piano; George Nazos: guitar (7, 8); Harvie S: bass; Tony Jefferson: drums

Echo Of A Heartbeat

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Tamuz Nissim - The Music Stays In A Dream

Size: 117,4 MB
Time: 50:23
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. The Music Stays In A Dream (4:59)
02. Golden Earrings (7:33)
03. Shir (3:48)
04. Together (4:48)
05. By The Window (5:35)
06. Waltz For Winter (6:12)
07. Broken Promises (4:33)
08. Stretching The Blues (4:03)
09. Days Are Passing Slowly (5:23)
10. Part Of The Game (3:24)

After years of practicing, composing, and performing in Israel and Europe, Israeli singer Tamuz Nissim has now proven with her debut album that Jazz stars are still being born and are shining brighter than ever! With the assistance of acclaimed and talented musicians (Giorgos Nazos on the guitar, Francesca Tandoi on the piano, Vasilis Stefanopoulos on the double bass and George Polyhronakos on the drums) Tamuz has managed to express melodically her deep and rich feelings. Her voice can only be described as sensational. This is an album of true art, one that will accompany you over and over again in musical journeys of timelessness and imagination.

The Music Stays In A Dream

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