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Jonathan Reisin

Jonathan Reisin is a Brooklyn-based saxophonist, composer, and improviser born in Israel. His artistic vision revolves around crafting original music deeply influenced by Contemporary music, Jazz, and the Avant-Garde. Throughout his career, Jonathan has collaborated with notable artists such as Francisco Mela, Kris Davis, Anat Fort, Val Jeanty, Cooper Moore, and many more, with appearances at the Vermont Jazz Festival, Forward Festival (Brooklyn), M3 Festival (NY), Yearot Menache Festival (ISR), Gangneung International Art Festival (South Korea), and venues around the world. His debut album Option B (2022, Habitable Records) and Earthquake (2023, 577 Records), a collaboration with mentor Francisco Mela, both received strong reviews from critics and listeners. His upcoming release, Too Good X Unreality(2025, Boomslang Records), created alongside pianist Shinya Lin and drummer Jarred Chase, expands his sonic language through raw improvisation and compositional depth, offering an immersive and emotionally charged listening experience

Jonathan Reisin: Too Good X Unreality

Read "Too Good X Unreality" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
May 10, 2025

Saxophonist Jonathan Reisin says of the tunes presented on his Too Good X Unreality: “These pieces are especially fragile." They are. They are like butterflies in their fragility, vignettes of space and delicacy possessed of an underlying tensile strength. A complexity/simplicity dynamic is there.His trio consists of his tenor and soprano saxophones, Shinya Lin's piano and prepared piano and Jarred Chase's drums.There is a sense of the musicians sitting down without any preplanning and slipping into ...

Album Review

Jonathan Reisin: Option B

Read "Option B" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
June 8, 2022

Although Option B is Israeli saxophonist Jonathan Reisin's debut album, its music suggests a much more seasoned artist at work. With lapidary instincts for crafting smart compositions and a beguiling tone on his instrument, Reisin has a convincing sense of purpose, not to mention first-rate colleagues who help him convey his musical message. Reisin is credited with six compositions here, along with a couple of freely-improvised tracks, the first of which, “One," captures Reisin's aesthetic nicely. With a ...

“The willingness to let the pieces unfold of their own accord, without having to over-dill the sound with constant activity, is one of the ways in which the maturity of Reisin’s approach reveals itself."

- All About Jazz

“Reisin picks out possible sonorities that, creating intentional ambiguity and surprise, complement each other. Option B, which is dedicated to the saxophonist’s late grandfather, is a most welcome debut.

- Jazz Trail Magazine

“…their duet album Earthquake shows how they share a sense of tonal openness and spontaneous composition”