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Gregory Golub
Gregory Golub is Israeli composer, jazz pianist and songwriter, born in the USSR.
About Me
Gregory Golub is Israeli composer, jazz pianist and songwriter, born in the USSR.
Gregory is a self-taught pianist from the age of 12. He received a formal musical education in Russia and Ukraine,
participated in a Jazz Festival in Russia and received an excellence prize for the best original jazz compositions.
Gregory lives in Israel since 1990, where he has written and composed numerous multi-genre musical
compositions, songs and philosophic and poetic texts.
In 2004 his album “Idioms” was released comprising original instrumental jazz compositions, including piano and
vocal jazz improvisations.
Over the years, Gregory has assembled and performed 6 solo programs based on his original instrumental and jazz
compositions, songs and poems, as well as appearing on various TV and radio programs.
The “Jazz Aftertaste” album released in 2019 includes 12 original jazz compositions in various genres, from blues
and boogies to electronic music and Latin music, composed and recorded over the years by the Israeli composer,
jazz pianist and keyboard player Gregory Golub. The main theme uniting all that is represented in this album is the
author’s long-standing and unchanging love of jazz, the charm of improvisation and devotion to creativity.
1.10.21 performed in Tel Aviv with the premiere of a new solo program “From Jazz to Classics and Back”
On May 20, 2023, Gregory Golub presented his new solo program “Jazz Aftertaste”.
My Jazz Story
About Erroll Garner
"You can never confuse him with anyone. You don't need to compare him with anyone. Because he is Erroll Garner!"
(Gregory Golub)
Samara Joy.
She is a very talented jazz singer, and as it turned out, a very charming and friendly young woman, completely not spoiled by the fame that suddenly fell on her. (Here I am a little
cunning. Without a doubt, professionals in recent years have carefully kept an eye on her ascent to the musical Olympus).
Of course, this is Samara Joy, the winner of 2 awards at the last Grammy: Grammy Award for Best New Artist and Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. In 2019 junior
Samara McLendon (Joy) from Bronx won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, which was the starting point of her tumultuous career.
I was lucky to see, and most importantly to listen to her, (and even talk a little with her) at the jazz festival in Molde, in Norway, where she had a solo concert on July 18 of this
year.
Samara Joy has demonstrated all the bright palette of her voice, either languidly enveloping in the lower register, or rapidly climbing up - from velvet contralto to soprano. She is
still looking for herself in improvisation, but she will definitely find her unique place. Samara manages the audience pretty well, although she still learns how to do it. (I understand
her very well, knowing how difficult it is). I compared her vocal and her still not fully formed style of singing (she is so young yet) with other masters of jazz singing, trying to find
similarities, and as a result I came to the conclusion that she is similar to herself, which is especially great! She is only 23. She is still studying to become a real jazz diva in the
future, like famous jazz singers whom she had looked up to in her early youth - Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald. And she has all the prerequisites for this purpose. And most
importantly, she is ready to stubbornly seek herself to become "that special", but different. And I'm sure that she will succeed.
Good luck Samara Joy! May as many of the brightest stars as possible light up for you on that hectic, insanely exciting life path that every great artist must go through.
You're cool! You are Samara Joy.
Gregory Golub - composer, jazz pianist
Molde Jazz Festival, Norway July,18 2023
