It's About Time! (2018)

"Jerusalem-born pianist Omri Mor is best known for being a member of the bassist Avishai Cohen's trio from 2011. As with his fellow Israeli employer, Mor takes an organic route to the fusing of the roots music of Semitic and related cultures with those of jazz. It's an infectiously cosmopolitan mix in which folk melodies and rhythms rub up close to the spirit of collective jazz improvisation. Yet Mor's collection of originals on It's About Time (there's also a rhapsodic solo piano version of ‘You and the Night and the Music’) are essentially bound to North African Chaabi and Andalusian folk music with the ex-Joe Zawinul Algerian drummer Karim Ziad, who's the artistic director on the session, partnering the piano and bass on four tracks. Mor, who is also schooled in classical music, is a breath-taking virtuoso; aligned with the combo of Cohen and Ziad, you're in for a pulsating ride." (jazzwise.com)