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Alon Nechushtan’s Venture-bound is based in New York City. The group has opened for Jazz legend Tonny Bennet and played at every major stage in New York City and the U.S including Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Blue Note Jazz Club, Kennedy Center, Merkin Hall, The Central Park Bandshell, Brooklyn Bandshell, showcasing “compelling chemistry in abundance” (Downbeat)
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VENTURE BOUND has released its debut album on the European label Enja and has since then been reviewed by all the major jazz publications in Europe and America.
Touring includes frequent appearances in Red Hook Jazz Festival, Chicago World music days, Los Angeles’, San Francisco and Baltimore, along with the prestigious Kennedy Center in Washington D.C that commissioned Alon and his group a special tribute to Billy Strayhorn 100th birthday.
“Alon Nechushtan’s sparkling technical prowess allows him to swiftly navigate through multitude of styles and the results are revelatory” (Jazziz)
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JAZZ TIMES writes: “The single most salient fact about current jazz is its ongoing globalization. Jazz is an open-ended, self-renewing art form that draws strength from sources far outside itself. Example: Venture Bound. It is hardcore, up-to-the-minute small-ensemble jazz with a unique sonic signature.
Alon Nechushtan was born in Tel Aviv. On “The Gratitude Suite,” the formal chiming of his piano introduction is overtaken by wheeling klezmer rhythms when the band kicks in. On “Dark Damsel,” Brahim Brigbane’s fidgeting oud, old and exotic and Middle Eastern, creates sinuous counterpoint with Nechushtan’s freeform 21st-century piano. “Pome(grenades)” starts as a headlong thrust, but then it careens back on itself, like a Balkan circle dance.
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Nechushtan now lives in New York and has internalized its unforgiving energy. He characterizes his album as “a continuous journey through a New York night seeking adventure.”
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Two of the city’s most steadfast saxophonists, Donny McCaslin and John Ellis, play on alternate tracks. Nechushtan’s nine original compositions are angular, meticulous and engaging.
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Venture Bound truly feels like a “continuous journey” because it veers down many city streets. Everyone-including bassist Chris Lightcap and drummer Adam Cruz-takes turns leading the adventure, their edgy New York solos emerging from Nechushtan’s colorful ethnic context. Both McCaslin and Ellis take their time and sweat the details.
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Nechushtan himself is so embedded in the album concept that you are less aware of him as a soloist than as an intelligence that ties everything together. But in fact his individual piano statements are varied, concise and complete, sometimes twisting long, fine strands (“F.A.Q.”), sometimes digging in and grooving (“Serpentrails”)..
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In the new millennium, many compelling jazz voices have come from Israel: Anat Cohen. The two Avishai Cohens (trumpeter and bassist). Omer Avital. Gilad Hekselman. Add Alon Nechushtan to the list. (Thomas Conrad, Jazz Times)
TO SEE Venture-bound Live from New York 
TO SEE Venture-bound Live from New York
1. L’avventura
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2. Perrils
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3. Middle-Eastern-Suite
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4. Muppet Shock
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5. SoulfulFire (live from Kennedy Center)
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QUOTES
QUOTES
Alon Nechushtan is a talent to watch, with a surfeit of ideas, an unbridled spirit and bold, two fisted sense of architecture
DownBeat Magazine
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Exceptional camaraderie and engaging performances make Alon Nechushtan’s trio recording worthy of the most discerning listener.
Jazz Review
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This is a superb, often hard-swinging and inventive piano trio with its own distinctive sound. The music is tight, spirited and filled with life, a more perfect piano Trio would be hard to imagine”
DownTown Music Gallery
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Alon Nechushtan’s Words Beyond is worlds beyond where most jazz musicians are willing and able to travel, making this album a worthwhile listening journey. All About Jazz New York
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“overall this is a great album, immensely enjoyable and deeply moving emotionally”
Jazzis
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“Alon Nechushtan’s melodies and chord voicings retain traces of blues and gospel, though the phrases and forms push the music towards the future” The New York Jazz Record
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“Alon Nechushtan’s sparkling technical prowess allows him to swiftly navigate through multitude of styles and the results are revelatory”
Jazziz
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Alon Nechushtan keeps his notes on their toes as he creates tightly-rung arabesques and vivacious pirouettes with his keys. He has an instinct for organizing purely improvised energy that requires the audiences’ undivided attention. NY Jazz Review
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A New York resident since 2003, his potent partnership with Weiss and Mouton places a premium on group interplay at the same time it encourages individual solo expression Bill Milkowski – Jazz inside
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MEET THE PRESS (Click a review)
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DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE
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JAZZ TIMES
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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EL INTRUSO
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ALL ABOUT JAZZ
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JAZZ INSIDE
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UNITED MUTATIONS
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THE BIG CITY 
THE AMERICAN JEWISH
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THE JERUSALEM POST
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BLU-FAT
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THE STEP TEMPEST
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THE JEWISH JOURNAL
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THE JEWISH WEEK
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THE VERTICAL SPIN
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BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES
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BALTIMORE JAZZ
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LEARN JAZZ STANDARDS
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RHYTHM PLANET
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DOWN TOWN MUSIC GALLERY
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JAZZWRAP
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NEW YORK TIMES
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HARTFORD JAZZ SOCIETY
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THE DAILY NEWS
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THE HARTFORD COURANT
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JAZZ THING (GERMANY)
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YEDIOT (ISRAEL)
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YEDIOT2 (ISRAEL)
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EDMONTON GAZETTE (CANADA)
EASTBAY EXPRESS (SAN FRANCISCO)
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