GILAD ATZMON: WANDERING JAZZ PLAYER

Jazz musician Gilad Atzmon may write articles such as IsraHell and Holocaust Exploited but as Theo Panayides of the Cyprus Mail discovers, there is also a deep intertwining between Atzmon’s musical persona (involving fluidity, fearlessness and perfectionism) and his life in general.
“It’s very easy to regard me as a charming, entertaining and witty boy,” says Gilad Atzmon, putting an ironic twinkle on the word ‘boy’ (he’s almost 47, after all). “But if you get on the wrong side of me, it can be a devastating experience!”
On paper, that might read slightly arrogant; in the flesh, Gilad gets away with it, partly because he is very charming, entertaining and witty. Still, there’s clearly a darker side. At one point, he describes himself as a “radical”.
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