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Amir Gwirtzman
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About Me
This one-man band of more than 25 woodwinds and percussion instruments fuses jazz, world music, and Middle Eastern.
Amir Gwirtzman, world renowned Israeli multi-culti jazz artist, plays more than 20 different woodwinds, reeds, horns, pipes, flutes and percussion instruments as a one-man band called Inhale-Exhale. Gwirtzman infuses Inhale-Exhale with a combination of R&B, jazz and rhythms of Cuban jazz, along with Middle Eastern, Gypsy, Jewish klezmer, Armenian, Irish Celtic and Native American influences. Of the Presidential Featured Artist Concert Series, Gwirtzman has also performed and recorded with many artists, such as Philip Glass, Mino Cinelu, Johnny Almendra (Ray Barreto & Mongo Santamaria’s Big-Band), as well as some of Israel’s finest musicians, including Rita, Shlomo Artzi, Rami Kleinstein, Yehuda Poliker, Arik Einstein, Shalom Hanoch, Shlomi Shabbat, Gidi Gov and Ofra Haza. Amir's CD “Inhale Exhale” {Woods Talk} released through Virtual, has been chosen by Amazon as one of their 6 World Music Priority New Releases. ”From the music of incomprehensible languages, Gwirtzman breathes the universally understood melody of humanity...” – PBS, Alabama “Before leaving this earth it is imperative to experience the music and certainly a live performance of Amir Gwirtzman.” - Jewish Star ”One of Israel's leading jazz musicians...a kind of cultural ambassador for the Jewish state...” – The Jewish Week NY
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This page was last updated on 2012-05-03.
