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Koby Hayon: Gemini
by Dan Bilawsky
While Israeli-born guitarist Koby Hayon has been Stateside since 2001, he still proudly displays his roots in his musical projects. His position as the director of a Westchester, NY-based Jewish music festival--Nigunim: A Festival of New Improvised Jewish Music--and his work with fellow Israeli's Nadav Snir-Zelniker and Assaf Glizner in Trio Shalva are overt expressions of his background, and plenty of the pieces on Gemini also look out toward the Middle East. For this outing, Hayon is ...
read moreTake Five With Koby Hayon
by AAJ Staff
Meet Koby Hayon:Koby Hayon was born and raised in Jerusalem, Israel. While studying at the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in Tel Aviv, Hayon gathered experience as a guitarist with the DGK Trio and other notable groups.
In 2001, Koby moved to the United States, where he would earn his BM in jazz studies at SUNY, Purchase. There, as a recipient of the Ullendorff Memorial Foundation scholarship, Westchester Art Council, New York ...
read moreKoby Hayon Trio - Gemini (Kobyhahonmusic, 2010)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Guitarist Koby Hayon is another of the many excellent musicians to emerge from Israel over the past decade. This album shows him in a modern jazz guitar trio setting, performing with Kermit Driscoll on bass and Jerome Morris on drums. Although Driscoll is one of Bill Frisell's regular collaborators, Hayon has developed his own sound that shows knowledge of past masters while developing his own voice on both electric and acoustic guitars. The trio plays together with great cohesion, with ...
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Koby Hayon Trio New Release - "Gemini" with Kermit Driscoll & Jerome Morris
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Michael Ricci
Israeli Guitarist and composer Koby Hayon releases debut CD Gemini"
Koby Hayon was born and raised in Jerusalem, Israel. In 1999, Koby moved to Tel-Aviv to pursue his musical career, and played as a jazz guitar player in many different groups in venues throughout Israel . In 2001, Hayon moved to the United States, where he earned his BM in Jazz Studies at SUNY Purchase.
In Hayon's compositions, he fuses his heritage with his vast musical training by writing materials ...
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Jerusalem-born guitarist Koby Hayon is a remarkable artist whose music is an aural manifestation of what he feels. In this production-obsessed age of the tail wagging the dog” musicians and producers who seem more interested in the technique of how music is played and packaged than in the emotional honesty of what is played” it’s a pleasant change to hear one whose music is unfiltered by a superficial scrim of gratuitous tricks. That’s not to say Koby Hayon hasn’t worked hard to build a formidable ability at the guitar” it’s clear he has, during his years of study in Israel and since his move to New York in 2001, when he came to study in the renowned Jazz Studies program at the Purchase College Conservatory of Music.
Primary Instrument
Guitar
Location
New York City
Willing to teach
Advanced only
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