Results for "Amos Hoffman"

Amos Hoffman

Born: April 19, 1970

Tel Aviv based guitarist and oudist Amos Hoffman started playing guitar at the age of 6, and oud a few years later. He studied guitar privately, and attended the prestigious Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. His search for new musical experiences led him first to Amsterdam, and then to New York City, where he played jazz with both established musicians like Dennis Charles, Evelyn Blakey and Juma Santos and up and coming talents like Jason Lindler, Omer Avital, Sam Newsome, Jay Collins, bassist Avishai Cohen, Jorge Rossi and Duane Eubanks. He also began a more formal study of Middle Eastern music with Lebanese oud and ney player, Bassam Saba.

Avishai Cohen: Nu Nu

by Mike Jacobs
August 22, 2024

Itai Kriss & Telavana At The Jazz Room

by Mark Sullivan
October 24, 2022

Itai Kriss & Telavana The Jazz Room Charlotte, NC October 14, 2022 Flutist/composer Itai Kriss brought his world music fusion to the Jazz Room to inaugurate its 17th concert season. The set opened with a new, unrecorded tune with the Cuban groove that characterizes most of Kriss' music. Kriss and trumpeter ...

Home at Last

By Amit Friedman

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Home at Last; Mal-Mal; Name Droppin’; Unconditional Love; Rill-Root; Blues for Jackito; Alma; Sunset; Stride by Stride; Junk.

Amit Friedman: Home at Last

by Jack Bowers
April 13, 2021

Once upon a time, jazz, an American creation, was confined for the most part within its borders. But that was once upon a time. Today, any barriers that once kept jazz within a prescribed realm have long since vanished, and the music Americans once embraced as their own has flourished around the world, performed with increasing ...

Chabad Al Hazman

By Yosef Gutman Levitt

Label: Soul Song Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Blessing of the Cohanim; Melody of Gathering; Melody of Mind; Melody of Shabbat I; Melody of Shabbat II; Melody of the Heart; Melody of Nobility; Azamer Bishvachin; Medley of Joy; Melody of Devotion; Melody 400.

Amos Hoffman & Noam Lemish: Pardes

by Rob Rosenblum
December 10, 2018

Amos Hoffman and Noam Lemish are among a wave of jazz musicians that has emerged from Israel in the last ten years. The success of bassist Avishai Cohen and his sister, clarinetist Anat Cohen and guitarist Gilad Heckselman has caught the attention of jazz fans around the world. Hoffman, now a resident of Columbia, ...

Pianist Roy Mor To Tour Israel During March 2016

March 23, 2016

Critically acclaimed New York based pianist/composer Roy Mor will perform a series of concerts in his native Israel during March 2016. He will be leading a trio featuring Ehud Ettun on bass (Fred Hersch, Danilo Perez, George Garzone) and Noam David on drums (Avishai Cohen, Omri Mor) along with special guests announced for each of the ...

Edwin G. Hamilton: The Whole World Must Change

by Dan Bilawsky
March 13, 2016

Edwin G. Hamilton plays drums, sings, covers organ, adds strings, writes, supplies percussion, provides piano, and includes some vibraphone work on this album. To say he's a musical jack-of-all-trades would be an understatement. But let us leave out the second part of the phrase, because he's actually quite accomplished in most of those categories.

Back To The City

By Amos Hoffman

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Track listing: Easy Going; After Lazy Noon; I'm Getting Sentimental Over You; Back To The City; Alone In South Carolina; Pannonica; Mr. X; Darn That Dream; Little Pigs; Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.