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Daniel Ori

Originally from Kfar Saba, Israel, bassist and composer Daniel Ori's first exposures to music were piano recitals at his grandmother's apartment in Tel-Aviv. Her attempts to teach Daniel traditional piano lessons were disrupted by his interest with contemporary music. At age 14, Daniel took his older brother's electric bass, which was lying around the house into his own hands. The connection with the instrument came immediately and Daniel's musical voyage had begun. His growing interest in Jazz music brought him to Rimon School of Music, where he studied Jazz performance for three years. Daniel has since collaborated with some of Israel's top Jazz prospects and has played at the Red Sea Jazz Festival and Tel Aviv Jazz Festival to name a few. In 2006, Daniel decided to take on studies again, as a scholarship student at the Berklee School of Music. There he studied with World class Musicians Matthew Garrison, Dave Samuels, Alain Mallet, John Lockwood and many more as he earned his degree in composition. Since his move to New York in Winter 2008, Daniel has been a prominent young voice in the contemporary jazz scene both as a sideman and band leader. He has performed Internationally in Europe and Asia and can be heard regularly at New York clubs like Smalls, Blue Note, Fat Cat and Cornelia Street Cafe. A 2009 ASCAP Jazz Composers Award winner, Daniel has released his solo debut album, So It Goes, on the Art of Life Records label. With Uri Gurvich on sax, Gabriel Guerrero on piano, Eric Doob on drums, Marcelo Woloski on percussion and Jeff Miles on guitar, "So It Goes" features eight of Daniel's original compositions. The music is fresh and communicative, lyrical and rhythmic, mixing modern jazz with Middle Eastern, African and Latin influences. Daniel has recently finished recording his second album, Emuna, featuring Mark Turner (sax), Oz Noy (guitar), Sam Barsh (piano) and Ziv Ravitz (drums), soon to be released.

Awards

2009 Ascap Young Jazz Composers award


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Daniel Ori: Emuna

Read "Emuna" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Since moving to New York in 2008, Israeli-born bassist Daniel Ori has labored hard to forge for himself a reputation as one of today's up-and-coming jazz musicians. While certainly an excellent bassist, this winner of the 2009 ASCAP Jazz Composers Award is slowly cementing a reputation as a dynamic composer. His debut as a leader, So It Goes (Art of Life Records, 2010), is a testament to his skills as a writer, which he also confirms in another bold statement, ...

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Daniel Ori: Emuna

Read "Emuna" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Bassist Daniel Ori's early upbringing has colored his work as a musician. Exposed first to classical music by his grandmother, he was later influenced by rock music. But these were just two posts on a journey that now finds Ori firmly established on the New York contemporary jazz scene. A winner of the 2009 ASCAP Jazz Composers Award, Ori has gone on to incorporate Middle Eastern, African and Latin influences in his compositions.Ori has a striking range. He ...

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Daniel Ori: So It Goes

Read "So It Goes" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


There exists a triple point where adult contemporary, modern, and acoustic improvisatory jazz meet and exist together in an equilibrium where none of the three schools dominate the other two. While real, this creative point remains oddly elusive. Enter Israeli bassist Daniel Ori, whose second recording, So It Goes edges ever closer to the desirable goal of modern jazz parity--the perfect meeting of style and substance. Bassist/composer Daniel Ori is successfully divining his way to this constantly moving creative point. ...

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Daniel Ori: So It Goes

Read "So It Goes" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Fate deals its own cards. The first instrument of choice for bassist Daniel Ori was the piano which he began playing at his grandmother's house. When he was 14, Ori noticed his brother's electric bass and picked it up. From then on he began his musical journey getting involved with jazz which he began studying in Israel. He later continued his studies at the Berklee College of Music.

Ori recorded his first album, Money (Fourward Quartet, 2005), in Israel with ...

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"Daniel Ori's music is imaginative, crisp, solid, and highly harmonic." JazzReview.com

"Have one hand on your equalizer and the other on your heart. Daniel’s music will move you, you will feel this music. In your soul and in your gut..." Jazzreview.com

"Ori's music slips naturally through Middle Eastern world sounds and urban rhythms with a pronounced tendency for the melody." All About Jazz Italy

Primary Instrument

Bass, acoustic

Willing to teach

Intermediate to advanced

Credentials/Background

Contact [email protected]

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Serenity Now

Self Produced
2023

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Emuna

Blujazz
2013

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Emuna

Blujazz
2012

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So It Goes

Art of Life Records
2010

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Salt

From: Serenity Now
By Daniel Ori

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