Had a great time at the Cutting Room in the Heart of NYC, with some of the coolest musicians premierring my new Big-Band composition. Here is Addiyo (‘fairwell’) inspired by a Ladino Traditional Jewish tune, I first heard sung by the great Flory Jagoda. here goes:
Excited to head to a tour with my group Venture-Bound:
I’m excited to be featured in a concert of World premieres of compositions for Big Band happening March 3rd Cutting Room NYC. Don’t sleet on this one !! My featured soloists are : John Clark (French Horn), Joe Abba (Drums), Jonathan Finlayson (Trumpet), Livio Almeida & Gerson Galante (Alto Sax), Jason Jackson (Trombone)
Excited to play with Colombian drummer Victor Bastidas, playing his originals! La Nacinal 11/30 8pm Air Train Festival 12/1 5pm
Featuring the trio w/ Tamir Shmerling – Bass Shareef Taher – Drums Chicago School of Folk (U.S.A) October 26th School of Folk Chicago Citlalin Theatre (U.S.A) October 27th Citlalin Theatre Edmonton Yard-Bird Suite (CANADA) October 28th YardBird
Our tour went well, glad to be back. Here is a clip of one of our performances in Israel’s – The Tel Aviv Museum
Excited to tour Israel with a fantastic band with Robin and Duane Eubanks. Simon Starr and Gasper Bertonej complete the group :
Our European Tour went well, The music (John Zorn’s Book of Angels) was interesting all around. playing in Serbia, Germany, Netherlands, Austria was a fun experience!
I had good time speaking with Barry Davis, from the Jerusalem post about writing for Orchestra, particularly for my comissioned piece for the Tel Aviv Soloist Orchestra. Link here
Comissioned by Adele and John Gray Endowment fund and performed by Tel Aviv Soloist Orchestra under direction of Barak Tal. Nice Writeups in the Jerusalem Post – Interview with me about writing for Orchestra. CLICK FOR READING Nice Writeup (In Hebrew…) in the Ha’aretz Journal. CLICK FOR READING
On Purim, I’ll present with Composers Concordance and various other composers a program of Purim Inpired new music. My main inspiration came from reading the great writing of Primo Levi, Particularly his poems and biographical notes: I’ve set the music to his concentration camp number in the Auschwitz concentratino campe : 174-517. I’ve noticed this […]
Great time in Hartford Baby Grand Piano series. Thanks for WNPR, Harford Courant and Owen McNally for a wonderful writeup on our tour: Click for details:
Free download at : www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/videos/?id=M6498
Happy to be mentioned among other greats in the CapitolBop Article about Billy Strayhorn Centennial: http://www.capitalbop.com/portrait-of-a-stray-thread-east-river-jazz-celebrates-the-legend-of-billy-strayhorn/ As Samora Pinderhuges gazed up from his piano, he let the final cadence of Billy Strayhorn’s signature arrangement of the jazz standard “Flamingo” reverberate throughout the Kennedy Center’s cathedral-like Grand Atrium. Taking in the packed crowd that had showed […]
