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Yaron Herman

Yaron Herman was born on 12th July 1981 in Tel Aviv. He started out on a promising career as a basketball player on the Israeli national junior team but that was cut short by a serious knee injury which quashed his sporting ambitions. He only decided to take up playing the piano, at the age of 16. His teacher was the renowned Opher Brayer, famous for his methods based on philosophy, mathematics and psychology. Yaron was soon giving his first performances in the most prestigious concert halls in Israel.

At 16, Yaron left for Boston where he planned to enroll at the Berklee College School of Music. He found it didn't satisfy his craving for knowledge and discovery and decided to return to Tel Aviv. On the way back he stopped over in Paris, that evening he met some musicians during a jam session and was given a contract the very next day. He never left Paris from then on. It was a period of musical exchanges and getting to know people while he started to make a name for himself on the parisien musical scene.

His enthusiasm and talent, surprising in someone so young, meant that he quickly became the pianist that everyone was talking about with admiration and stupefaction. He was awarded the Sunside « New Talents » Trophy by unanimous vote. At 21, he recorded his first album « Takes 2 to know 1 »on the Sketch Label alongside Sylvain Ghio. He developed a theory of musical improvisation called « Real Time Composition » which earned him the chance to give a series of lectures at the Sorbonne.

In October 2005 he recorded his first piano solo album « Variations » on the brand new LaBorie Jazz Label on which he presents his « Themes and Variations » concept. Thus each tune, each theme in our collective memory can serve as an excuse for playful, creative innovation, improvisation and invention. Amazingly original and lyrical.

The album received particularly good reviews and Yaron started to give his first solo performances in Europe, in South America, in the United States and in China where he was the first Jazz pianist to play in the Forbidden City in Beijing.

In 2007 he was elected Adami Jazz Talent by the French artistic community. There is the same astonishment each time he plays, his charisma, his enthusiasm and his lyricism leave the audience deeply moved. After more than a hundred solo concerts around the world, Yaron recorded his first album as a trio « A Time for Everything » (launched in October 2007 on the LaBorie Jazz Label) along with Matt Brewer (Gonzalo Rubalcapa's renowned double bass player) and Gerald Cleaver (drummer for Miroslav Vitous and Jacky Terrasson) a subtle blend of jazz , pop and his own personal compositions. His very original version of « Toxic » by Britney Spears and his cover of Police's « Message in a Bottle » brought his music to a wider audience and rapidly won them over. The album received critical acclaim winning « Choc Jazzman » of the year and « Disque d'émoi Jazz Magazine ».

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Yaron Herman: Everyday

Read "Everyday" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


È tutt'altro che noioso, e questo è un bel biglietto da visita per un duo piano/batteria. Non è un omaggio a chicchessia né la solita passerella di standard più o meno noti, a meno che si vogliano considerare tali “Retrograde" di James Blake e “Prelude n° 4, Opus 74" di Alexander Scriabin. E non rivela nessun filo conduttore che accomuni i tredici brani, talmente differenti sono le atmosfere, le sonorità, le forme. Ma Everyday non è disco ...

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Yaron Herman: Follow The White Rabbit

Read "Follow The White Rabbit" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Follow The White Rabbit is Israeli pianist Yaron Herman's fifth album--his first on the ACT label and his first with the rhythm section of bassist Chris Tordini and drummer Tommy Crane. Continuing the format of his past trio albums A Time For Everything (Laborie Records, 2007) and Muse (Laborie Records, 2009), Herman mixes original tunes and covers, including one or two unusual and not altogether successful choices. Radiohead's “No Surprises" keeps close to the sound of the ...

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Yaron Herman Trio: Muse

Read "Muse" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


If music could exist outside of time--not as in rhythm, but as in the time-space continuum--then it might sound like the glassy, ice-hot pianism of Yaron Herman. How did he get to inhabit this spare soundscape in almost suspended animation? Perhaps it is because he is powered by the magic of an uninhibited soul--that and the happy accident of the finiteness of mathematics. Add the mysterious trickery of melding of the two, and the result is music that sways, mirage-like ...

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Yaron Herman: An Urgent Need to Play

Read "Yaron Herman: An Urgent Need to Play" reviewed by Jean-Marc Gelin


Pianist Yaron Herman, an Israeli now living in Paris, is one of the most talented artists of the Parisian jazz musical scene. He was a promising basketball player on the Israeli national junior team when he was cut short by a knee injury. He then decided to take up playing the piano at age 16. His teacher, the renowned Opher Brayer--famous for his methods based on philosophy and mathematics--taught him the craving for self-knowledge and discovery.

At 19, Yaron left ...

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Yaron Herman Trio: Muse

Read "Muse" reviewed by Chris May


Muse is Yaron Herman's fourth album and with it the Israeli-born/French-based pianist continues his steady progress towards a mature post-Keith Jarrett, post-Brad Mehldau style and the certainty of world ranking. Still in his late twenties, Herman set out his stall with the piano/drums duo album Takes 2 To Know 1 (Sketch, 2005), which was followed by a solo set, Variations (Laborie Records, 2006), and most recently a trio plus electronica album, A Time For Everything (Laborie Records, 2007). The new ...

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Yaron Herman Trio: A Time for Everything

Read "A Time for Everything" reviewed by John Kelman


Sometimes the power of a back story can eclipse the music it supports. For Israeli-born pianist Yaron Herman it's a close call, but A Time for Everything is such a refreshing and multifaceted album that a little background is necessary.

Herman, still in his mid-twenties, began playing piano at sixteen, a shift in focus resulting from an unexpected basketball accident that put an end to his sporting aspirations. The sports world's loss became the music world's ...

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Yaron Herman: Variations

Read "Variations" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger


Variations is Israeli-born pianist Yaron Herman's first solo release. Now 25, he didn't start studying piano until he was sixteen. At nineteen he moved to Boston to attend Berklee, but was turned off by its competitive climate; a return stopover in Paris and a spontaneous jam session led to a recording contract and a new home. His first recording was a well-received duo with drummer Sylvain Ghio called Takes 2 to Know (Sketch, 2005).

Variations is an intriguing disc that's ...

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Event

Jazz at Chateau Palmer with Michel Portal and Yaron Herman on March 25

Jazz at Chateau Palmer with Michel Portal and Yaron Herman on March 25

Source: Ananbelle Grellier

Listen to Château Palmer, a Margaux great growth, and its Alter Ego: the 2010 vintage interpreted by Michel Portal and Yaron Herman performing at a concert given at Château Palmer on Friday, 25 March 2011, broadcasted live on France Musique and on the Web A première and a preview during En Primeur week! In March 2010, Château Palmer invited the jazz pianist Jacky Terrasson to improvise on the theme of the 2009 vintage at a private concert. This was simply ...

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Recording

Yaron Herman Trio - Follow the White Rabbit (Act, 2011)

Yaron Herman Trio - Follow the White Rabbit (Act, 2011)

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland

The amount of young jazz talent flowing for Israel to Europe and America in the past few years has been amazing, and you can add pianist and composer Yaron Herman's name to that growing list of superb cross-cultural composers and improvisers. On this album, he performs in a trio setting with Chris Tordini on bass and Tommy Crane on drums. The group works together very well as an organic unit, performing as a solid trio, nearing the EST aesthetic of ...

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Performance / Tour

Tomorrow Night! The Ambrose Akinmusire & Yaron Herman Project

Tomorrow Night! The Ambrose Akinmusire & Yaron Herman Project

Source: Two for the Show Media

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem @ The Rubin Museum of Art 150 West 17th Street, New York City All tickets $18 in advance / $20 day of; $7 student standby Fridays at 7:00 p.m. Box Office: 212.620.5000 ext. 344 Online tickets: rmanyc.org/calendar Ambrose Akinmusire & Yaron Herman Project Friday March 19, 2010 @ 7:00 PM Ambrose Akinmusire, trumpet Yaron Hermann, piano Joe Saunders, bass

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Interview

Pianist Yaron Herman Interviewed at AAJ

Pianist Yaron Herman Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz

Pianist Yaron Herman, an Israeli now living in Paris, is one of the most talented artists of the Parisian jazz musical scene. He was a promising basketball player on the Israeli national junior team when he was cut short by a knee injury. He then decided to take up playing the piano at age 16. His teacher, the renowned Opher Brayer--famous for his methods based on philosophy and mathematics--taught him the craving for self-knowledge and discovery.

At 19, Yaron left ...

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Performance / Tour

Yaron Herman Trio + Hiromi + Tineke Postma Quartet Featuring Geri Allen and Terri Lyne Carrington

Yaron Herman Trio + Hiromi + Tineke Postma Quartet Featuring Geri Allen and Terri Lyne Carrington

Source: All About Jazz

Friday 10 July 7.30pm Yaron Herman Trio + Hiromi + Tineke Postma Quartet featuring Geri Allen and Terri Lyne Carrington Tickets 10/15 Produced by the Barbican in association with Serious Part of Blaze Barbican Jazz plays host to three rapidly rising jazz stars, all making their London concert debut following impressive club shows over the past year. Tineka Postma has emerged as a leading light in a new generation of Dutch jazz players, a massively gifted saxophonist and composer who ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Everyday

Blue Note Records
2015

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Alter Ego

ACT Music
2013

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Alter Ego

The ACT Company
2012

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Muse

Sunnyside Records
2009

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