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Nitzan Gavrieli

Pianist and composer Nitzan Gavrieli grew up in Ramat Gan, Israel. In 2007, he relocated to New York and shortly after he received several scholarships to attend the prestigious New School for Jazz and Contemporary music. While in school, he studied with Sam Yahel, Hal Galper and Reggie Workman among other leading figures in the New York jazz scene.

Since then, Nitzan has performed and recorded with some of the biggest names in contemporary jazz, including Mark Murphy, Dennis Chambers, Charlie Persip, Bob Moses, Jeff Hirshfield, Mike Stern, Frank Gambale, David Schnitter, Peter Bernstein, Cameron Brown, Melissa Aldana, Jonathan Blake, Francisco Mela and Steve Cardenas. He played in festivals across the U.S and Europe, including Sudtirol Jazz Festival, Bern Jazz Festival, Rochester Jazz Festival, Red Sea Jazz Festival, Tel Aviv Jazz Festival, Scranton Jazz Festival, Jazz & Colors Festival, and at such venues as Marians Jazz Room in Berne, Jazz Federation in Hamburg, Unterfahrt Jazz Club in Munich, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Blue Note Jazz Club, Town Hall and Smalls Jazz Club in New York. The Nitzan Gavrieli Trio recently released its debut album Departure, featuring Nitzan’s original compositions.

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Jeong Hwan Park: Sound of Bronze

Read "Sound of Bronze" reviewed by Troy Dostert


A debut recording which belies the youth of its leader, Sound of Bronze is the handiwork of Jeong Hwan Park, a bassist on the rise who has assembled some fine talent and terrific compositions on this promising quartet album. Bouyed by the presence of veteran tenor saxophonist Rich Perry, Park and his colleagues specialize in music which possesses a quiet sophistication and considerable emotional depth. Park penned all eight of the album's cuts, and they are remarkably well-conceived, ...

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Teymur Phell: Master Volume

Read "Master Volume" reviewed by Geno Thackara


This crackling debut from Teymur Phell is a hearty, eclectic and loud funk-fusion party. He sets the tone right away with “Zero to Sixty"--a title that's actually a bit misleading since it kicks off already at sixty mph—and shows that he knows his way around a bass, and also has plenty of use for one with six strings, thank you very much. This jaunt as leader follows years of live and session work; he has clearly taken a lot away ...

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Peter Slavov: Little Stories

Read "Little Stories" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


While these ten tracks recorded by bassist Peter Slavov's variable-sized outfit were all fleshed out in the studio between 2017 and 2019, this debut album actually covers a wider span of time. Collecting music penned over the past 20 years, and attaching attendant stories for background and bridging purposes, Slavov essentially looks back over his entire professional career and beyond. Fantasy, family, literature and life as we know it all play a part in the telling of these ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Bianca

Outside in Music
2024

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Master Volume

Self Produced
2020

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CACHAI

Self Produced
2020

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Little Stories

Slavov Music
2019

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Sound of Bronze

JPbassandmusic
2019

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In Defense of the Minotaur

From: Little Stories
By Nitzan Gavrieli

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