Press
Benny is generating an increasing amount of press worldwide. Here are a few examples.
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Jazziz
"Tenor saxophonist Benny Sharoni says that music saved him. When the 49-year-old Israeli native was doing his mandatory three-year stint in the Israeli Army in the early '80s, the horrors of battle were overwhelming."
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LA Jazz Scene
"I am pleased that I was able to come accross this 2009 CD, Eternal Elixir from tenor sxophonist, Benny Sharoni. His parents began sharing music with him at a very early age, giving him the gift of life to an early calling to jazz music during his teens. He has assembled a crackerjack crew of Boston-area musicians where he lives since his days attending Berklee Collage of Music some years back. His title of his CD come from feeling a spiritual side of the music, thus the title Eternal Elixir."
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Boston Globe
"'L'Chaim,' says Benny Sharoni, raising a pint glass one recent afternoon at Watch City Brewing Company [in Waltham], a few blocks from his home here. It's a simple Hebrew toast: 'to life.' But for the tenor saxaphonist, it has added resonance."
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Hartford Courant
"Benny Sharoni, an Israeli-born, Boston-based tenor saxaphonist, can energize even the largest, most lackluster venue with his big-toned sound and ebullient phrasing, packed with intense emotion and spirituality, a vibrant hybrid of the hip and the holy."
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All About Jazz
"Tenor saxophonist Benny Sharoni's debut as a leader, Eternal Elixir, mixes the vitality of a spiritual journey with the intelligence of an academic lesson, to come up with an intoxicating cocktail of brains and brawn."
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All About Jazz
"The Benny Sharoni at work on Eternal Elixir
shares two sides of his emerging voice and
therefore a true personality that is developing
deep within the soul of the tenor saxophonist.
One side of the artist is a brash young man,
who favors the language of modal music. And
he makes good this aspect of the artist by
kicking off the proceedings on “Bernstein,” his
reverential sketch of the legendary American
musician and conductor of various equally legendary orchestras of the
middle and late 20th Century. The rapid fire changes of Donald Byrd's
“French Spice” give further notice of Sharoni's intentions. In fact, here
the saxophonist conjures up the restless spirit of John Coltrane, and
even bewitches pianist Joe Barbato into recalling the presence of McCoy
Tyner."
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Jazz Police
"I am pleased that I was able to come across
this late 2009 CD, Eternal Elixir, from Israeli
native tenor saxophonist Benny Sharoni. His
parents began sharing music with him at a very
early age, giving him an early calling to jazz
music during his teens. A resident of Boston
since his days attending Berklee, he has
assembled a crackerjack crew of Boston-area
musicians, including Barry Ries (trumpet), Joe
Barbato and Kyle Aho (piano, each on several
tracks), Mike Mele (guitar), Todd Baker
(acoustic bass) and Steve Langone (drums). His titling of his CD comes from
feeling a spiritual side of the music, thus the title Eternal Elixir."
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Boston Phoenix
"..This was like some great lost hard bop album from 1962........Sharoni also has a taste for what Don Byron called "one of the great acts of jazz.."
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Sax Shed
"...he doesn’t sound like anyone else. He’s got his own sound - his own thing going on.........it is clear we are in for a treat on Eternal Elixir."
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