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Ziv Ravitz

Ziv was born in Beer-Sheva, Israel to a family of musicians, he was drawn to music at an early age, playing the guitar, keyboard and drum. When he was 9 years old he started focusing on drums and by the age of 13 begun his professional career, playing the drums at various clubs in Beer-Sheva and Tel Aviv and acquiring experience in a variety of musical styles, such as Jazz, rock and avant-garde. In 1999 Ziv was chosen as a reserved drummer for guest performers from Europe and the United States at the Camelot Jazz Club in Tel Aviv. Ziv moved to the US in the summer of 2000 to expand his musical experience and to grow as a Jazz composer. Since then he has been performing and recording with numerous ensembles in the Boston area, both as a freelancer and as an artist using his own compositions, which reflect his individual and unique sound. Ziv had the opportunity to perform with musicians such as Hal Crook, Greg Hopkins, Joe Lovano, Lee Konitz, Eugene Friesen, Mick Goodrick, Eli Dejibri, James Genus, George Garzone, Ben Monder, Avishai Cohen and more. In the winter of 2003, Ziv has become an official recording artist of Huber Music Management and Recording label of Cologne, Germany. In June 2003 Ziv won the Zildjian Scholarship Award. Since then Ziv had toured extensively all across Europe with various groups such as TAQ, Minsarah, Sin, Nicolas Simon Group, Iasi Romanian Philharmonic Orchestra. At Dec 2004 Ziv graduated from Berklee School of Music with a Jazz Composition Degree. Ziv is currently sign to ENJA as recording artist.

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Album Review

Petros Klampanis: Tora Collective

Read "Tora Collective" reviewed by John Chacona


Some ideas work better on paper than on record. Take the attempts to fuse jazz and Greek popular music. There is, to be sure, a certain logic to the notion. Both traditions share an emphasis on virtuosic improvisation and a foundation in dance rhythms. Rebetika, the mournful songs of heartache, alienation and drug use brought to Greece in the population exchanges of a century ago, is, with some reason, called “the Greek blues."

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Dominic Miller: Vagabond

Read "Vagabond" reviewed by Cary Tenenbaum


The third album by guitarist Dominic Miller echoes the melodic, moody, romantic sounds of a Sting album without lyrics or singing. What we hear is the instrumental interplay of Miller with pianist Jacob Karlzon, bassist Nicolas Fiszman and drummer Ziv Ravitz. The comparison is not surprising as Miller has played with Sting for the last 30 years. He co-wrote one of Sting's hits, 1993's “Shape Of My Heart." Maybe, in fact, Sting's albums are really Dominic Miller records with lyrics ...

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Vincent Peirani: Jokers

Read "Jokers" reviewed by Jim Worsley


In the early 1970s, jazz and rock intersected, and fusion was spawned. In the new millennium, fusion and progressive rock are sometimes bopping down the same road. Music can easily get slotted into one category or another, and of consequence can just as easily be missed. Vincent Peirani's dynamic new recording Jokers, is a fine example of that quandary. Peirani has several records to his credit. Here he plays Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson on accordion. Yes, you read ...

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Ziv Ravitz Trio Live At BIMHUIS Amsterdam

Read "Ziv Ravitz Trio Live At BIMHUIS Amsterdam" reviewed by BIMHUIS


Ziv Ravitz has established himself as a reference young drummer thanks to successful collaborations with the likes of Avishai Cohen, Mark Turner and Lee Konitz. For years the Israeli Brooklyn-based musician has performed in the trio of saxophonist Will Vinson, who on this tour hands over the reins to him. In early 2019, Ziv Ravitz will release of No Man Is an Island. He recently turned 40 quite--time to offer his own vision, based on his experiences as ...

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Lefteris Kordis: Mediterrana

Read "Mediterrana" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Da tempo residente negli Stati Uniti e oggi professore al Berklee College, il pianista e compositore Lefteris Kordis è però originario di Atene e mostra di non aver dimenticato la musica ascoltata in giovane età e le tradizioni musicali delle sue terre, studiate nel corso della sua formazione artistica. Questo disco, basato su formazioni variabili di traccia in traccia, è dedicato alla Grecia e ne riprende, rielaborandoli, temi e atmosfere. Tre dei brani sono in trio (uno è ...

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Performance / Tour

Trio Taq: Marcin Masecki, Garth Stevenson, Ziv Ravitz U.S. Tour

Trio Taq: Marcin Masecki, Garth Stevenson, Ziv Ravitz U.S. Tour

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

Marcin Masecki, the celebrated young jazz pianist who took the contemporary jazz world by storm when he won the 2005 Moscow International Jazz Piano Competition (its jury chaired by legendary Martial Solal), is being brought back by The Polish Cultural Institute on a U.S. tour with his long-time partners in Trio TAQ - Canadian bassist Garth Stevenson and Israeli drummer Ziv Ravitz - with concerts at the Lily Pad in Boston on Monday, December 17 at 7:30 PM; New York's ...

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Vagabond

ECM Records
2023

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Tora Collective

Enja Records
2023

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Jokers

ACT Music
2022

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Open City

Intakt Records
2020

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Mediterrana

Inner Circle Music
2016

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SOLE VOYAGE

PK Petros Klampanis Records
2015

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Cruel But Fair

From: Vagabond
By Ziv Ravitz

Open City

From: Open City
By Ziv Ravitz

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