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Alon Yavnai

I was born & raised in Israel, in a multicultural household. My mother came from Argentina, and my father is from Israel. Although my parents were not professional musicians, my father played accordion, and my mother played the piano. There was always a piano at home, music was always present, and I had a strong support at home to immerse entirely in music. My exposure to music from all corners of the globe is something I have been cultivating since a very early age. I started taking piano lessons when I was 5, and graduated the Thelma Yalin high school for the arts, and the Gyvataim conservatory

Justin Salisbury: Evergreen

by Neil Duggan
April 17, 2024

Where do you start if you want to play at Carnegie Hall? Growing up in the small town of Clatskanie, Oregon, is probably not the obvious choice. Pianist Justin Salisbury has certainly put in the miles, playing in France, Egypt, China, Cambodia, Italy and North America as well as Carnegie Hall. He was aided in that ...

Itai Kriss & Telavana At The Jazz Room

by Mark Sullivan
October 24, 2022

Itai Kriss & Telavana The Jazz Room Charlotte, NC October 14, 2022 Flutist/composer Itai Kriss brought his world music fusion to the Jazz Room to inaugurate its 17th concert season. The set opened with a new, unrecorded tune with the Cuban groove that characterizes most of Kriss' music. Kriss and trumpeter ...

Reconnect

By Jesper Riis

Label: Gateway Music
Released: 2016
Track listing: Reconnect #1 (improvisation); Compete #2; Au Castagney -2nd Movement; Flowers; Itamar; Competa #3; Certain Standards; Face Love; Reconnect #2 (Improvisation); SOF.

Alon Yavnai - Jesper Riis: Reconnect

by Jakob Baekgaard
February 26, 2016

A first meeting can be something special. Perhaps, a certain chemistry is present. Perhaps, there is feeling of immediate communication. Sometimes these first meetings evolve into long-term friendships and relationships, but other times, people just drift apart again for no particular reason. In a way, being a jazz musician could be characterized as ...

Western Michigan University Jazz Orchestra: Travel Notes

by Jack Bowers
June 5, 2014

Travel Notes, the seventh album by the Western Michigan University Jazz Orchestra, is much like the first half-dozen: big-band jazz whose design and performance are as consistently strong and artistic as one can envision at any level. Tom Knific, WMU's director of Jazz Studies since 2000, has a keen ear for engaging songs, one of which ...

Darmstadter Big Band / Alon Yavnai–NDR Big Band / Red Bank Jazz Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
June 6, 2012

Dartstadter Big BandKentomaniaSelf Published2010 Of all the recorded tributes to the legendary Stan Kenton released during the centennial of his birth (2011), the Darmstadter Big Band's Kentomania (it's spelled that way on the jacket cover and disc) is unequaled for one reason alone: it has former Kenton ...

Alon Yavnai takes Big Band sound global with "Shir Ahava" CD + NY and Boston concert debuts

March 17, 2012

Jazz Pianist/Composer Takes Big Band Sound Global with Influences from North Africa, Cape Verde, Middle East and Peru Credits Include Grammy CDs with Paquito D'Rivera and Yo-Yo Ma NEW YORK CD Release Concert Sunday MARCH 25TH at BIRDLAND Special Guests: Paquito D'Rivera & Malika Zarra BOSTON CD Release Concert Thursday APRIL 19TH at Scullers Israel-born, Brooklyn-based ...

Panamericana Suite

By Paquito D'Rivera

Label: MCG Jazz
Released: 2010
Track listing: Waltz for Moe; Con Alma; Preludio No. 3; Tojo; Panamericana Suite; Fiddle Dreams; Serenade; Song for Peace.

Travel Notes

By Alon Yavnai

Label: ObliqSound
Released: 2009
Track listing: Bayit; Yonatan; Yoman; Numi Numi; Travel Notes; Shir Ahava Tari; Ilha B'nit; Yakinton; Zricha; Sof.