Also him and his Group are here insulting the American National Anthem...which is NO surprise coming from a committed Jew and America Hater.Even though he was born in Israel his hate is overseeing that Birth.Being born in Israel or any country doesn't mean you will Not betray it.The history of treason goes as far back as all written history.
Gilad is a Huge Jew Hater and Pro-Islamic Jihadist..and Communist.His Socialist writings and Anti-Jew hate was a main factor in BBC giving him the 2003 jazz Album of there Year.He is an insult to 98% of all jazz Musicians...and epecially John Coltrane .His Free -Form Playing is an example of no Soul...just sounds and anger.His audiance is 100% Pro-Hamas.Yes he has great chops.....But Music isn't about Chops..Not jazz or any music.I will continue boycottingt the hateful man...
Music is music.Should be played and you either like it or you don't, right.Like any art form.
With time any audience should be able to deal with the esoteric thing.Music can have different functions but using it as a tool to make political statements I have no time for. Whether you agree with the politics or not.
Atzmon's "The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics." It's out. READ IT. Let's get together after to discuss and debate it. All else (the name calling and so on) is pointless drivel. Let's engage the text and let reason and debate carrying the day.
je connaissais Gilat à travers ses opinions et ne m'intérressais pas du tout au jazz, faisant chemin j'ai voulu écouter ses talents de musicien, et vous savez quoi? je trouve ça super. Thank you to support the Palestinians. Murat from France. Peace in the world
EISE MESHUGA ATA...GILAD...HOW CAN YOU SAY SUCH A FALSE STATEMENTS...INVENT MISINFORM AND BLAIM THE STATE OF ISRAEL...YOUR COUNTRY AND MOLEDET...AND KEEP CALLING YOURSELF A PATRIOT OR A JEW...SHAME ON YOU...ANTI-SIONIST AND ANTI-SEMITIC AS HITLER WAS...YOU ARE MENTALLY DISTURB AND NOT ISRAEL , HIS HEROIC ARMY OR HIS SUFFERING PEOPLE...AND THE PALESTINIANS THAT YOU DEFEND ARE A BUNCH OF TERRORISTS CALLED HAMAS...HISBALLAH...YIAD ISLAMI...NAZERALLAH AND AJMEDIN-EJAD SOLDIERS OF GENOCIDAL IRANIANS
I am in total support of brother Gilad who is an outstanding musician and a very brave human right activist. I truly admire his courage in exposing Israel and zionism and I must say that I am also an ex israeli and a musician and a share many things with Gilad.
Atzmon is a disgusting antisemitic cretin, his beliefs include: * The Jews first declared war on Nazi Germany * Burning down a synagogue is a rational act * The Protocols of the Elders of Zion accurately and prophetically represent a Jewish world conspiracy * Jews are driving our planet into a catastrophe * Jews caused the credit crunch * Israel is worse than the Nazis * Holocaust deniers are engaged in a praiseworthy enterprise
Atzmon is a disgusting antisemitic cretin, his beliefs include: * The Jews first declared war on Nazi Germany * Burning down a synagogue is a rational act * The Protocols of the Elders of Zion accurately and prophetically represent a Jewish world conspiracy * Jews are driving our planet into a catastrophe * Jews caused the credit crunch * Israel is worse than the Nazis * Holocaust deniers are engaged in a praiseworthy enterprise
He plays really awful.For playing free jazz need talent like Ornette Coleman or Adams George.In music you can't fool people with nazi style hate speech "as a Jew",anybody who loves jazz see that his music sucks and that he's bad musician.Great musicians play on jazz-fests,not for Socialist Workers Party.
@Vandoren333 Can you point me to the music rule book that says "Great musicians play on jazz-fests,not for Socialist Workers Party"? I'm must have missed that somewhere.
"Brainwashed us in Washington Westminster in London Brainwashed by the military Brainwashed under duress Brainwashed by the media You're brainwashed by the press Brainwashed to the bone A voice cries in the wilderness Someone turned out the spiritual light Nothing's worse than ignorance Down on Bullshit Avenue God God God If we can only stop the rot God God God Wish that you'd brainwash us too"-George Harrison THANK YOU brother Gilad for being a LIGHT with such sweet music! xoxe
A true renaissance man. I can't imagine any of the thumbs down not being politically based - the music is superb. The performance has power and honesty. And there are few truly honest men in this world. Gilad is one of them and I love him for it. He, like Norm Finkelstein, had the objectivity to see that zionism is merely political judaism - and then rejected both as such. Few men, even so-called anti-zionists, have the courage to call it that bluntly.
This little piece of anti semitic anti british anti western pig vomit should move to Saudi Arabia and revel in his political views with his cohorts. He and the Taliban deserve each other.
@iincorrect For your information the only people to look like pigs are britons, westerners and Jews. Btw, Ashkenazi Jews are not Semites neither in the ethnic nor biological sense. Ashkenazi Jews belong in europe. If westerners like Jews so much, let them give a bit of the EU or Germany as Israel.
We need to encourage more people of the Judaean faith to come forth and expose the terrible crimes of the ruling Zionist elite...The Zionist regime is the greatest threat humanity has to face... Muslims, Christians, Non zionist Jews and all varying degrees of faith and spirituality must come together to toplle the Zionist elite...All roads lead to the house of Rothschild
His music is good, his selling out of his Jewish people stinks. Tell him to study Jerusalem's history back 3,000 years with the Historyscoper and find out why the Jewish people have a right to a homeland based there, see my profile for the url.
@historyscoper No one has the right to kill or punish others on the basis of their belief, be it school bully, common thief, government, or religious authority.
@historyscoper you go back 3000 years to justify the Jewish homeland!!!!!!!!!!! And you wonder why people find that astonishing & unacceptable!!!???
Don't get me wrong. Israel is there now. The task for everyone is to find ways to support the security of the Israelis AND the Palestinians. Stop meddling from the provocateurs in the background - Amerika & some Arab nations as well as the extremists on both sides.
>>He is continuing a long tradition of jazz as a music of resistance.
It must be a resistance against freedom then; otherwise, I look forward to his first concert in Gaza at (nothing grand, say) a wedding or an unsegregated audience. Yeah maaan, men and women. Like..uh, together? Now THAT'S radical.
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Gilad Atzmon needs to sell his music and make money. He presents his views to assist help him to dodge the political problems usually associated with being an Israeli.
Ironically, by being a Jew and selling his people for money, he has actually become the same antisemitic stereotype Jew he was trying to avoid becoming.
Fine fine we understand now you disagree with Israel. But we are yet to see a Palestinian who disagrees with Palestine (huge corruption, nepotism) and survibes over 24 hours. Mabrook. Oh, and how about playing some shtetel music.
i dont think you are going to find a palestinian against palestina because how someone is going to be friend of the assassins of their own family(IDF).
Your hypothesis show you shallow knowledge on the subject.
In the 1960s in inner cities when I heard black musicians making music that sounded like this, derived from their personal & social & cultural heritage, the music had emotional/spiritual meaning.
now to hear others perfectly mimic the sounds in a different context decades later, what meaning does it have, except that sound can not always be trusted to communicate truth
As a jazz trumpet player, a physicist, and Naturopathic Doctor, who was raised Jewish, (no longer follow this "Abrahamic Babylonian Talmudic) religion (now more of a Taoist/Buddhist as are so many former Jews),,,I can only speak words of Praise for Gilad. He is not only a brilliant, exciting and compassionate musician (with little to no tolerance for BS), but this carries over to his First class Scholarship. He is a rare and urgently important human being who speaks the Truth in The Age of Lies.
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The man is a well known anti semitic self loathing Jew - just google his name to find the most vile antisemitism imaginable. The only role model he's good for is that of a Nazi monster!
Mainly because combination of his comprehensive sensitive compassionate spirit and amazing mastery of saxophone skills as well. Simply great guy, just so passionate about music with profoundness and extreme sense of humor!
Hey!!! I play the sax im 15 n im on grade 4 just to let u no so u no i ave experience lol To get the bends you have to let your lips n mouth go loose n then kinda move your mouth down the reed like eating eat lol i don't really know how to describe it lol really hope this helps, GOOD LUCK!!!!
I'm 18; did my grade 8 last year - it's difficult to describe, you've just got to change the shape of your jaw and adjust the pressure on the reed. My first teacher was a jazz man so I picked up those sorts of things quite early which helped cos it's all about practice really; the more practice you have the more control you'll have over the pitch bends.
And do I know him? Well, yes, actually. He played in my fathers band for over 10 years (ironically enough, it was a Jewish-music-only band, playing concerts all over the UK with the biggest Jewish artists of the time). My dad was also his manager for a while and I believe they lived together in Israel for quite a while. I actually remember him coming round to my house all the time when I was a child.
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Gilad is a brilliant musician but an absolute scumbag. Would you (Americans) speak out against America? Go to anti-America rallys and generally be as anti-your-own-country as possible? It's a horrible thought.
so disagreeing with the notion of nationalism makes you a scumbag? what is wrong with disagreeing with aspects of the way your country is? his qualms are with the way the government acts, and a lot of israeli culture. what is wrong with disagreeing with those things? i think we know who the scumbag is here...
effing brilliant...love this guy .....man of conscience...at least there are a still a few around....and the usual zionist label of an anti semite is a joke.
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not all the "anti zionist" are anti Semite, but most of them. the only ppl that care about this issue are jews and those who hate jews, and most of the jews are Zionists. and this guy grow up and learn to play in israel, so i have to say that Atzmon is a good sax player, but his full of shit.
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And what about yourself? Where did you grow up? In the Musk - listening to hate and racism? If you want to judge people stick to the facts! Jews, regradless of their minor numbers brought/contributed to humanity more then any other group of people - learn the facts. Now Europe who jenoside 6 million people get the Arabs immigrating to the "fat" countries... lets see what happaens to Europe in 10-15 years from now...
Gilad certainly gets people going up here... that's his main function as a reactionary subversive, humorous and musical talent... more of people like him please.
Beautiful and intoxicating music from an antizionist Israeli who represents the principled and beautiful humanity of his country and religion, and continues to relentlessly promote justice for the Palestinians and a genuine peace in the Holy Lands, for the benefit of Jews, Muslims and Christians.We need more people like Gilad Atzmon in this world of greed, deceit and fraudulent self righteousness.
first off, hes not an israeli. hes an anti zionist, thus israel is not his country. secondly,, we have many many zionists here, who, thank god-fight for a pali state and yet they are zionists. he opposses the actual state thus will recieve no respect from lefty zionists.
you know I had an email saga with this tool (Gilad Atzmon) about politics. His replies were vague and unimpressive and by the 3rd one he just replied "Go speak to your rabbi. what do you want from me?" when I was discussing the Israeli/arab conflict and barely even mentioned religion. What a tool and a simpleton. He's a complete lie. He bitches about Israel and Judaism so much but seems to barely know the facts beyond the extreme basics.
I'm sure your emails were all lucid and cogent. Why post this except to smear him with some one-sided nonsense? Your comment reveals more about you and nothing about Atzmon.
why one-sided nonsense? He writes constant articles attacking Israel and attacks it at many oppertunities, yet when faced with a honest attempt at debate on it and he went down to childish simpleton responses.
If to you that says nothing about him thats your opinion, I think it says a lot.
He is constantly vilified as an antisemite and a hater of the Jewish people. See below. So why should he engage someone he does not know in an email debate? Think about it. Are you going to change your position? No. Neither is he. But instead of accepting a person who holds a different opinion, you call him names in a comment to one of his videos. Is that the behavior of an "honest" interlocutor? I'd call that grad school baiting.
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well you don't know how I wrote the letter so you know nothing about me yet you judge as well. My opening letter was more an attempt to understand his opinions and ask him why he came to these conclusions and why I disagree but the reply was the same.
Maybe he is "vilified" because he said things like "Jews have no culture". Not exactly objective reasoning. And if he is going to spend his life attacking Israel then he should be willing to defend his position not be so childish.
Since he is Jewish it should make you wonder what he means exactly. Self-criticism is part of any culture. Vilification simply shuts down conversation.
There are heated intra-cultural debates within African-American communities over rap and hip hop, hard bop and free jazz, etc. Those debates get heated and impassioned but I've never seen the word "racist" thrown around by one black man to another. Flinging the word antiSemite around too loosely does everyone involved a disservice.
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maybe. But I tried to communicate with him and he rebuffed my attempts (at first very cordial attempts to understand why he views what he views) in a very unpleasant and in my view unjustified manner. factoring in all his articles, it is very different from the hip hop debate. He advocates the destruction of Israel and displacement of it's 5.6 -million- Jews worldwide. Thats a far in the extreme and since he is childish to those wishing to clarify what/why, I can only judge him on his own words.
I made no analogy between hip hop debates and his position regarding Israel. The point concerns, very simply, the use of racial slurs "within" a cultural community. Atzmon is an Israeli born Jew with what a lot of people believe are very radical views regarding that nation of Israel. He has been vilified and name-called by you and others. The term antiSmitism does not apply to him. I believe vilification is never an acceptable response even when you believe someone is guilty of it themselves.
Regarding your remark that he is childish because he refused to engage in an email debate with someone he does not know, who then resorted to namecalling on a public forum where jazz fans have come to see his video. Well, that speaks volumes in my book.
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I can say what impression he left me with and what I
People can enjoy his jazz all the want, I never said he should be silenced from making music. As such I have an opinion of him - formed from a lot he has said in public and in private - and I think I am allowed to voice it. He spends a lot of time attacking Israel and Jews and Jewish culture, so I mention it. It's as much a part of him as the music he plays so it belongs on the forums concerning him.
You called him a tool, a simpleton and a liar. You posted your agreement with a previous post that called him a racist and an AntiSemite. Why? Because he wouldn't engage you in an email debate. You don't like his views, fine. The comment box reads "Post a comment on this video" not on some email snub. He is an Israeli born Jew who is outraged at what he perceives are systemic atrocities by the nation of Israel.
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I said he's a lie. figure of speech. I did not say he's a liar.
I think he said more than his perception of atrocities. people have criticised certain Israeli actions they may have disagreed with. Thats not what he said. Between his rabbi comment when i'm not religious, his writings on "Jewish culture" and his views on Israel there is a case. Perhaps I'm wrong, perhaps not.
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It's what I gathered after reading many of his writings, not just flinged to see what sticks. You don't have 2 agree. What one is born as is not what one becomes.
As for the comment, perhaps. But he played this at a political event (socialist party) and I left here a message concerning my view of his politics.
Maybe it was misplaced, maybe not. I shared my experience of dealing with the man.
Well I for one have spoken to him at length and found him to be *extremely* willing and he even offered his phone number. I had been introduced to him before but I certainly did not 'know' him at that point.
he wrote that quite a few years back (my discussions with him were I think possibly 5 years ago). I don't know how many of his articles he's removed since then but it was in one of them that I read. Obviously it left a particular mark in my memory.
He's Jewish!!! A Jew cannot be antiSemitic. You just don't like his views so you slap that label on him. As an Israeli born Jew is he not entitled to hold an opinion that differs from yours? Can someone honestly condemn what they believe are atrocities committed by the state of Israel and not be accused of hating Jewish people? You write like a hateful ideologue.
One of the greatest jazz musicians in the world. I've seen Gilad many times and he surprises me every time on all his horns (soprano, alto, tenor and clarinet). I never know what he's going to do next which is what jazz is all about. The sound of surprise.
sounds very middle eastern, arabic/persian
baghali222 2 weeks ago
Also him and his Group are here insulting the American National Anthem...which is NO surprise coming from a committed Jew and America Hater.Even though he was born in Israel his hate is overseeing that Birth.Being born in Israel or any country doesn't mean you will Not betray it.The history of treason goes as far back as all written history.
MrSaxman50 1 month ago
Gilad is a Huge Jew Hater and Pro-Islamic Jihadist..and Communist.His Socialist writings and Anti-Jew hate was a main factor in BBC giving him the 2003 jazz Album of there Year.He is an insult to 98% of all jazz Musicians...and epecially John Coltrane .His Free -Form Playing is an example of no Soul...just sounds and anger.His audiance is 100% Pro-Hamas.Yes he has great chops.....But Music isn't about Chops..Not jazz or any music.I will continue boycottingt the hateful man...
MrSaxman50 1 month ago
@MrSaxman50 You are amazingly ignorant of politics, political philosophy and jazz all at the same time.
pine829 1 month ago
Music is music.Should be played and you either like it or you don't, right.Like any art form.
With time any audience should be able to deal with the esoteric thing.Music can have different functions but using it as a tool to make political statements I have no time for. Whether you agree with the politics or not.
sopwithcamels266 1 month ago
This is for the American SWP or the British one? They are two significantly different groups.
rakovskii 3 months ago
I just ordered my copy of The Wondering Who? Can't wait to sink my teeth into it!
You sound awesome Gilad. Thank you.
magprob 3 months ago
Atzmon's "The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics." It's out. READ IT. Let's get together after to discuss and debate it. All else (the name calling and so on) is pointless drivel. Let's engage the text and let reason and debate carrying the day.
DrippingwithIrony 3 months ago
Gilad Atzmon is right about Jews.
MegaChairmanMao 3 months ago 2
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Poor man, perhaps one day the Jews will discover a medicine to cure cowardly self hating mentality. Hang in their Gilad.
ZionistIDF 3 months ago
Liberating the world from scumbags and looser 'intellectual' terrorists such as Gilad Atzmon is over due!
triplecheck4 3 months ago
Is it ironic that the Socialist Workers Party is holding a fundraiser?
littlerabbitbite91 4 months ago
je connaissais Gilat à travers ses opinions et ne m'intérressais pas du tout au jazz, faisant chemin j'ai voulu écouter ses talents de musicien, et vous savez quoi? je trouve ça super. Thank you to support the Palestinians. Murat from France. Peace in the world
buchmanification 5 months ago
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EISE MESHUGA ATA...GILAD...HOW CAN YOU SAY SUCH A FALSE STATEMENTS...INVENT MISINFORM AND BLAIM THE STATE OF ISRAEL...YOUR COUNTRY AND MOLEDET...AND KEEP CALLING YOURSELF A PATRIOT OR A JEW...SHAME ON YOU...ANTI-SIONIST AND ANTI-SEMITIC AS HITLER WAS...YOU ARE MENTALLY DISTURB AND NOT ISRAEL , HIS HEROIC ARMY OR HIS SUFFERING PEOPLE...AND THE PALESTINIANS THAT YOU DEFEND ARE A BUNCH OF TERRORISTS CALLED HAMAS...HISBALLAH...YIAD ISLAMI...NAZERALLAH AND AJMEDIN-EJAD SOLDIERS OF GENOCIDAL IRANIANS
alfonsoebennez 7 months ago
Супер! Super!
serjikyk 7 months ago
NICE....thanks for posting this...FANTASTIC
tonyfreejazz20 9 months ago
I am in total support of brother Gilad who is an outstanding musician and a very brave human right activist. I truly admire his courage in exposing Israel and zionism and I must say that I am also an ex israeli and a musician and a share many things with Gilad.
gildoron789 9 months ago
Atzmon is a disgusting antisemitic cretin, his beliefs include: * The Jews first declared war on Nazi Germany * Burning down a synagogue is a rational act * The Protocols of the Elders of Zion accurately and prophetically represent a Jewish world conspiracy * Jews are driving our planet into a catastrophe * Jews caused the credit crunch * Israel is worse than the Nazis * Holocaust deniers are engaged in a praiseworthy enterprise
Do you really want to praise scum?
iincorrect 11 months ago
Atzmon is a disgusting antisemitic cretin, his beliefs include: * The Jews first declared war on Nazi Germany * Burning down a synagogue is a rational act * The Protocols of the Elders of Zion accurately and prophetically represent a Jewish world conspiracy * Jews are driving our planet into a catastrophe * Jews caused the credit crunch * Israel is worse than the Nazis * Holocaust deniers are engaged in a praiseworthy enterprise
Do you really want to praise scum?
iincorrect 11 months ago
He plays really awful.For playing free jazz need talent like Ornette Coleman or Adams George.In music you can't fool people with nazi style hate speech "as a Jew",anybody who loves jazz see that his music sucks and that he's bad musician.Great musicians play on jazz-fests,not for Socialist Workers Party.
Vandoren333 1 year ago
Gunt68 1 year ago
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@Vandoren333 Can you point me to the music rule book that says "Great musicians play on jazz-fests,not for Socialist Workers Party"? I'm must have missed that somewhere.
FENNYMAN 10 months ago
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The bad news is, there will be a huge civil war in Iraq and millions of "Anti-Zionists" will kill each other.
The good news is, Gilad will write a best selling book, blaming the whole thing on Jewish Republicans.
The bad news is, it won't matter. The dead will still be dead.
rachelgolem 1 year ago
eileenfleming 1 year ago
A true renaissance man. I can't imagine any of the thumbs down not being politically based - the music is superb. The performance has power and honesty. And there are few truly honest men in this world. Gilad is one of them and I love him for it. He, like Norm Finkelstein, had the objectivity to see that zionism is merely political judaism - and then rejected both as such. Few men, even so-called anti-zionists, have the courage to call it that bluntly.
abe2517 1 year ago
Only just came across him via a recommendation to look up Sarah Gillespie. They are coming to our village Arts Centre soon.
This bloke (and this band) are quite superb!
FENNYMAN 1 year ago
I am Glad that I have discovered Gilad.
Invesigator 1 year ago 4
This little piece of anti semitic anti british anti western pig vomit should move to Saudi Arabia and revel in his political views with his cohorts. He and the Taliban deserve each other.
iincorrect 1 year ago
@iincorrect
Sad !! Just the attitude that Gilad is trying to change !! Twat !!
malvu65 1 year ago
@iincorrect For your information the only people to look like pigs are britons, westerners and Jews. Btw, Ashkenazi Jews are not Semites neither in the ethnic nor biological sense. Ashkenazi Jews belong in europe. If westerners like Jews so much, let them give a bit of the EU or Germany as Israel.
Invesigator 1 year ago
Great musician and great person!
giorgio7473 1 year ago
We need to encourage more people of the Judaean faith to come forth and expose the terrible crimes of the ruling Zionist elite...The Zionist regime is the greatest threat humanity has to face... Muslims, Christians, Non zionist Jews and all varying degrees of faith and spirituality must come together to toplle the Zionist elite...All roads lead to the house of Rothschild
ValukaX 1 year ago 2
His music is good, his selling out of his Jewish people stinks. Tell him to study Jerusalem's history back 3,000 years with the Historyscoper and find out why the Jewish people have a right to a homeland based there, see my profile for the url.
historyscoper 1 year ago
@historyscoper No one has the right to kill or punish others on the basis of their belief, be it school bully, common thief, government, or religious authority.
Spacebrake 1 year ago 4
@historyscoper The kikes were ONLY "there" for a period of 70-100 years, as opposed to the thousands that the TRUE Semitic peoples were there.
TequilaJoeID 1 year ago
@historyscoper you go back 3000 years to justify the Jewish homeland!!!!!!!!!!! And you wonder why people find that astonishing & unacceptable!!!???
Don't get me wrong. Israel is there now. The task for everyone is to find ways to support the security of the Israelis AND the Palestinians. Stop meddling from the provocateurs in the background - Amerika & some Arab nations as well as the extremists on both sides.
FENNYMAN 1 year ago
@FENNYMAN It's America, asshole.
ChainsawSpartan1 10 months ago
@ChainsawSpartan1 ah! Gratuitous abuse ... don't you just love it!
FENNYMAN 10 months ago
"you mother fucker" hahaha thats my gilad!
MrSpasse 1 year ago
>>He is continuing a long tradition of jazz as a music of resistance.
It must be a resistance against freedom then; otherwise, I look forward to his first concert in Gaza at (nothing grand, say) a wedding or an unsegregated audience. Yeah maaan, men and women. Like..uh, together? Now THAT'S radical.
pierstheoneandonly 1 year ago
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Gilad Atzmon needs to sell his music and make money. He presents his views to assist help him to dodge the political problems usually associated with being an Israeli.
Ironically, by being a Jew and selling his people for money, he has actually become the same antisemitic stereotype Jew he was trying to avoid becoming.
oferet 1 year ago
Such a shame more people are not like this man! May God bless him always!
Nesnatae 1 year ago 2
Hailz from Brazil to Palestina!
mythicwarrior69 1 year ago
Quality
goatman257 2 years ago
Fine fine we understand now you disagree with Israel. But we are yet to see a Palestinian who disagrees with Palestine (huge corruption, nepotism) and survibes over 24 hours. Mabrook. Oh, and how about playing some shtetel music.
makpaz 2 years ago
i dont think you are going to find a palestinian against palestina because how someone is going to be friend of the assassins of their own family(IDF).
Your hypothesis show you shallow knowledge on the subject.
Anyway nice music
bananito2 1 year ago
שמאלני מניאק
abarlev 2 years ago
In the 1960s in inner cities when I heard black musicians making music that sounded like this, derived from their personal & social & cultural heritage, the music had emotional/spiritual meaning.
now to hear others perfectly mimic the sounds in a different context decades later, what meaning does it have, except that sound can not always be trusted to communicate truth
AstroElk 2 years ago
Bravo , Bravo
deathofisrael 2 years ago
He said that '' israel's barbarity is way beyond cruelty.. ''
haliluur 2 years ago 6
He 's jew against zionism, this was they away i meet him...Any jew against zionism is my friend :P
Amazing, zionist bastards, call him anti-semitic.
He's JEW f****** bastards.
And his music is great.
xRSCx 2 years ago 5
I love his music and the man is amazing. Feel privileged to have met him - What a fabulous talent he has. Anyone speaking bad of him is a moron!
enujllah 2 years ago 3
As a jazz trumpet player, a physicist, and Naturopathic Doctor, who was raised Jewish, (no longer follow this "Abrahamic Babylonian Talmudic) religion (now more of a Taoist/Buddhist as are so many former Jews),,,I can only speak words of Praise for Gilad. He is not only a brilliant, exciting and compassionate musician (with little to no tolerance for BS), but this carries over to his First class Scholarship. He is a rare and urgently important human being who speaks the Truth in The Age of Lies.
swellpropel 2 years ago 33
Gilad Atzmon is a great writer, musician and most of all, a fantastic human being. I'm happy to count him as a friend!
empressofpeace 2 years ago 24
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The man is a well known anti semitic self loathing Jew - just google his name to find the most vile antisemitism imaginable. The only role model he's good for is that of a Nazi monster!
iincorrect 2 years ago
This guy is a monster!
MrKdnas 2 years ago
@MrKdnas Gilad is Monster as an artist!!!
Mainly because combination of his comprehensive sensitive compassionate spirit and amazing mastery of saxophone skills as well. Simply great guy, just so passionate about music with profoundness and extreme sense of humor!
trueogre11 1 year ago
@trueogre11 absolutely agree! I hope no one interpretated my comment as a negative one. I saw him live last year, it was such a great performance
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trueogre11 1 year ago
I love this guy. I read his novel. he is an amazing soul.
FaisalLoco 2 years ago
Isn't the point about separating Judaism from Zionism?
How about music?
stillavril 2 years ago
Great :D
xRSCx 2 years ago 3
The "you motherf*cker!" part was among the coolest use of profanity in music.Lol...
:-)
weare7R 2 years ago 3
No kidding...I discovered the guy from the daily reads section of "Birdman" Bryant....the posthumous "white liberationist" writer.
Gilad's article "Exposing two notorious pro-Israel warmongers" was a welcome breathe of fresh air.
As for his music,well Jazz is like turkey to me,I only sample it occasionally.
He seems quite good.
weare7R 2 years ago 5
this guy is pretty good i like his blog too
samer721 3 years ago
I suppose I'm calling out to the dark, but if anyone at all knows how he does those bends in the intro, I NEED to know too. Thank you
rongstmj 3 years ago
Hey!!! I play the sax im 15 n im on grade 4 just to let u no so u no i ave experience lol To get the bends you have to let your lips n mouth go loose n then kinda move your mouth down the reed like eating eat lol i don't really know how to describe it lol really hope this helps, GOOD LUCK!!!!
khsscgal 3 years ago
I'm 18; did my grade 8 last year - it's difficult to describe, you've just got to change the shape of your jaw and adjust the pressure on the reed. My first teacher was a jazz man so I picked up those sorts of things quite early which helped cos it's all about practice really; the more practice you have the more control you'll have over the pitch bends.
alexrickets1 3 years ago
Yeah! I love this guy's Ideas, sound, totally new sounding to me. I love it.
rongstmj 3 years ago
And do I know him? Well, yes, actually. He played in my fathers band for over 10 years (ironically enough, it was a Jewish-music-only band, playing concerts all over the UK with the biggest Jewish artists of the time). My dad was also his manager for a while and I believe they lived together in Israel for quite a while. I actually remember him coming round to my house all the time when I was a child.
JesseIWeisz 3 years ago
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Gilad is a brilliant musician but an absolute scumbag. Would you (Americans) speak out against America? Go to anti-America rallys and generally be as anti-your-own-country as possible? It's a horrible thought.
JesseIWeisz 3 years ago
so disagreeing with the notion of nationalism makes you a scumbag? what is wrong with disagreeing with aspects of the way your country is? his qualms are with the way the government acts, and a lot of israeli culture. what is wrong with disagreeing with those things? i think we know who the scumbag is here...
utviklingssang 3 years ago 2
I guess those "scumbags" who spoke out against the Nazi regime in Germany and lost their lives as a result got what they deserved, right?
jmoriarty 3 years ago
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@JesseIWeisz So do you really mean "my country right or wrong".
FENNYMAN 10 months ago
Great musician. I dig his sound. Great stuff.
tonyfreejazz20 4 years ago
effing brilliant...love this guy .....man of conscience...at least there are a still a few around....and the usual zionist label of an anti semite is a joke.
shah307 4 years ago 2
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not all the "anti zionist" are anti Semite, but most of them. the only ppl that care about this issue are jews and those who hate jews, and most of the jews are Zionists. and this guy grow up and learn to play in israel, so i have to say that Atzmon is a good sax player, but his full of shit.
bluesenight 4 years ago
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And what about yourself? Where did you grow up? In the Musk - listening to hate and racism? If you want to judge people stick to the facts! Jews, regradless of their minor numbers brought/contributed to humanity more then any other group of people - learn the facts. Now Europe who jenoside 6 million people get the Arabs immigrating to the "fat" countries... lets see what happaens to Europe in 10-15 years from now...
jazz054 3 years ago
1) i grow up, and still living in israel
2)your comment got somthing to do whit mine becouse????
3) תלמד ליקראו אנגלית, ורק אז דבר איתי
bluesenight 3 years ago
I saw him in Southport, Merseyside, UK last night. Loved it!
musik102 4 years ago
Gilad certainly gets people going up here... that's his main function as a reactionary subversive, humorous and musical talent... more of people like him please.
bongolicious 4 years ago
Beautiful and intoxicating music from an antizionist Israeli who represents the principled and beautiful humanity of his country and religion, and continues to relentlessly promote justice for the Palestinians and a genuine peace in the Holy Lands, for the benefit of Jews, Muslims and Christians.We need more people like Gilad Atzmon in this world of greed, deceit and fraudulent self righteousness.
jyuja 4 years ago
first off, hes not an israeli. hes an anti zionist, thus israel is not his country. secondly,, we have many many zionists here, who, thank god-fight for a pali state and yet they are zionists. he opposses the actual state thus will recieve no respect from lefty zionists.
daniitzhak 4 years ago
Unfortunately, Gilad Atzmon is a racist and an an anti-Semite.
His hatred of Israel and the Jewish people permeates everything he does.
He counts himself amongst Israel's most implacable enemies, who would see the Jewish people destroyed.
Peterlewin 4 years ago
he is what you said he is.
rulllar 4 years ago
you know I had an email saga with this tool (Gilad Atzmon) about politics. His replies were vague and unimpressive and by the 3rd one he just replied "Go speak to your rabbi. what do you want from me?" when I was discussing the Israeli/arab conflict and barely even mentioned religion. What a tool and a simpleton. He's a complete lie. He bitches about Israel and Judaism so much but seems to barely know the facts beyond the extreme basics.
rulllar 4 years ago
I'm sure your emails were all lucid and cogent. Why post this except to smear him with some one-sided nonsense? Your comment reveals more about you and nothing about Atzmon.
Kjreilly 4 years ago 2
why one-sided nonsense? He writes constant articles attacking Israel and attacks it at many oppertunities, yet when faced with a honest attempt at debate on it and he went down to childish simpleton responses.
If to you that says nothing about him thats your opinion, I think it says a lot.
rulllar 4 years ago
He is constantly vilified as an antisemite and a hater of the Jewish people. See below. So why should he engage someone he does not know in an email debate? Think about it. Are you going to change your position? No. Neither is he. But instead of accepting a person who holds a different opinion, you call him names in a comment to one of his videos. Is that the behavior of an "honest" interlocutor? I'd call that grad school baiting.
Kjreilly 4 years ago
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well you don't know how I wrote the letter so you know nothing about me yet you judge as well. My opening letter was more an attempt to understand his opinions and ask him why he came to these conclusions and why I disagree but the reply was the same.
Maybe he is "vilified" because he said things like "Jews have no culture". Not exactly objective reasoning. And if he is going to spend his life attacking Israel then he should be willing to defend his position not be so childish.
rulllar 4 years ago
Since he is Jewish it should make you wonder what he means exactly. Self-criticism is part of any culture. Vilification simply shuts down conversation.
There are heated intra-cultural debates within African-American communities over rap and hip hop, hard bop and free jazz, etc. Those debates get heated and impassioned but I've never seen the word "racist" thrown around by one black man to another. Flinging the word antiSemite around too loosely does everyone involved a disservice.
Kjreilly 4 years ago 2
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maybe. But I tried to communicate with him and he rebuffed my attempts (at first very cordial attempts to understand why he views what he views) in a very unpleasant and in my view unjustified manner. factoring in all his articles, it is very different from the hip hop debate. He advocates the destruction of Israel and displacement of it's 5.6 -million- Jews worldwide. Thats a far in the extreme and since he is childish to those wishing to clarify what/why, I can only judge him on his own words.
rulllar 4 years ago
I made no analogy between hip hop debates and his position regarding Israel. The point concerns, very simply, the use of racial slurs "within" a cultural community. Atzmon is an Israeli born Jew with what a lot of people believe are very radical views regarding that nation of Israel. He has been vilified and name-called by you and others. The term antiSmitism does not apply to him. I believe vilification is never an acceptable response even when you believe someone is guilty of it themselves.
Kjreilly 4 years ago 4
Regarding your remark that he is childish because he refused to engage in an email debate with someone he does not know, who then resorted to namecalling on a public forum where jazz fans have come to see his video. Well, that speaks volumes in my book.
Kjreilly 4 years ago
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I can say what impression he left me with and what I
People can enjoy his jazz all the want, I never said he should be silenced from making music. As such I have an opinion of him - formed from a lot he has said in public and in private - and I think I am allowed to voice it. He spends a lot of time attacking Israel and Jews and Jewish culture, so I mention it. It's as much a part of him as the music he plays so it belongs on the forums concerning him.
rulllar 4 years ago
You called him a tool, a simpleton and a liar. You posted your agreement with a previous post that called him a racist and an AntiSemite. Why? Because he wouldn't engage you in an email debate. You don't like his views, fine. The comment box reads "Post a comment on this video" not on some email snub. He is an Israeli born Jew who is outraged at what he perceives are systemic atrocities by the nation of Israel.
Kjreilly 4 years ago 2
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I said he's a lie. figure of speech. I did not say he's a liar.
I think he said more than his perception of atrocities. people have criticised certain Israeli actions they may have disagreed with. Thats not what he said. Between his rabbi comment when i'm not religious, his writings on "Jewish culture" and his views on Israel there is a case. Perhaps I'm wrong, perhaps not.
rulllar 4 years ago
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It's what I gathered after reading many of his writings, not just flinged to see what sticks. You don't have 2 agree. What one is born as is not what one becomes.
As for the comment, perhaps. But he played this at a political event (socialist party) and I left here a message concerning my view of his politics.
Maybe it was misplaced, maybe not. I shared my experience of dealing with the man.
rulllar 4 years ago
Well I for one have spoken to him at length and found him to be *extremely* willing and he even offered his phone number. I had been introduced to him before but I certainly did not 'know' him at that point.
logosthedestroyer 3 years ago
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I agree with you. I think he's a stupid wimp who uses extreme and irrational statements to justify his own self-hatred.
22mushmush 2 years ago
he wrote that quite a few years back (my discussions with him were I think possibly 5 years ago). I don't know how many of his articles he's removed since then but it was in one of them that I read. Obviously it left a particular mark in my memory.
rulllar 4 years ago
He's Jewish!!! A Jew cannot be antiSemitic. You just don't like his views so you slap that label on him. As an Israeli born Jew is he not entitled to hold an opinion that differs from yours? Can someone honestly condemn what they believe are atrocities committed by the state of Israel and not be accused of hating Jewish people? You write like a hateful ideologue.
Kjreilly 4 years ago
Sounds a lot like like modern Lebanese jazz! I love those Eastern Mediterranean vibes.
bayspasture 5 years ago
Would you please recommend some of this Lebanese jazz? I would love to hear it :)
cornishguilt1 3 years ago
One of the greatest jazz musicians in the world. I've seen Gilad many times and he surprises me every time on all his horns (soprano, alto, tenor and clarinet). I never know what he's going to do next which is what jazz is all about. The sound of surprise.
donnythejazz 5 years ago
Fantastic !
chaamba 5 years ago
Nice on Gilad, brilliant brilliant stuff. Good luck with the music and everything else this New Year.
logosthedestroyer 5 years ago
on second hearing I like the energy
pyellin287 5 years ago
Good sax player nice tone a vituoso musically lacking in swing and content not jazz worthy in my opinion
pyellin287 5 years ago
Sorry? Is that a joke? Dear me
logosthedestroyer 3 years ago
very cool- but just a bit hypomanic for my tastes, like a lot of these sax virtuosos!
TharpaD 5 years ago
Bloody magician!
RedRej 5 years ago