Jazz Articles about Reuben Hoch
Reuben Hoch and Time: Of Recent Time
by Eyal Hareuveni
Reuben Hoch's musical career has been a long and winding one. Reared as an orthodox Jew in Brooklyn, the drummer's interest in music was sparked by Chassidic songs, but soon he discovered Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and the greater jazz discography. He relocated to Tel Aviv, Israel as a medical student, where he was a member of the seminal free jazz quartet Zaviot. When he returned to the States, he recorded two discs with his own RH Factor, and in ...
read moreReuben Hoch and The Chassidic Jazz Project: Live at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts
by Elliott Simon
Jewish music and jazz get along well together; they have been doing so for years and are perhaps now closer than ever. Jazz musicians use cantorial modes to further their own improvisational explorations, and musicians playing within a klezmer or Sephardic secular tradition include jazz stylings as part of their overall arrangements. Given all this, it is somewhat surprising that few musicians, with David Chevan's Afro-Semitic Experience being the most notable exception, have attempted serious jazz interpretations of Jewish liturgical ...
read moreReuben Hoch and the Chassidic Jazz Project: Live at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts
by Alexander M. Stern
There is no doubt that Jews have contributed as much to the evolution of jazz as any ethnic group. A short list of great Jewish jazz musicians would include Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Stan Getz, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, and Paul Desmond. Jews have made some great contributions to jazz in other ways as well. Blue Note founders Alfred Lion and Frank Wolff were both Jewish, just like Leonard Feather and Nat Hentoff. And then, of course, there’s yours truly. ...
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