Jazz Articles about Yakir Arbib

About Yakir Arbib

Album Review

Yakir Arbib & Conti Bilong: Afro Baroque

Read "Afro Baroque" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
October 15, 2025

The fusion of jazz, baroque piano, vocals and traditional Central African and Middle Eastern rhythms might sound like an ambitious overreach, with too many influences competing for space. Yet Afro Baroque proves that what could have been a chaotic collision of styles instead shows how rhythm, melody and cultural expression can complement each other to produce an album of dynamic interplay that entertains throughout. The driving force behind this cross-genre synthesis is the combination of Israeli-Italian pianist Yakir ...

Album Review

Yakir Arbib: My Name Is Yakir

Read "My Name Is Yakir" reviewed by Don Phipps

by Don Phipps
December 30, 2019

Clever and entertaining, My Name is Yakir offers a diverse potpourri of jazz standards and original compositions performed by pianist Yakir Arbib. The music contrasts standards from the Dixieland, swing, bebop and hard bop eras with five originals that mix classical idioms with loose jazz structures. Arbib certainly has talent and his technical dexterity permits him to play within these various jazz styles and cross between them with ease. Arbib brings lots of energy to the covers and ...