Results for "Gilad Hekselman"

Gilad Hekselman

Born: 1983

Gilad Hekselman has been developing a reputation as one of the most promising guitarists in New York since his arrival in 2004. After only a few years this native Israeli has shared the stage with some of the greatest artists in the New York City jazz scene including Chris Potter, Mark Turner, John Scofield, Anat Cohen, Ari Hoenig, Esperanza Spalding, Sam Yahel, Jeff Ballard, Gretchen Parlato, Avishai Cohen, Jeff 'Tain' Watts, Tigran Hamasyan, Aaron Parks and Greg Hutchinson.

Gilad has played all major jazz clubs in New York City including the Blue Note, The Jazz Standard, Dizzy's Club and Smalls. He is constantly touring world-wide and has played most noteworthy jazz festivals including Montreux (Sui), North Sea (Ned), Montreal (Can) & San Francisco (USA).

Don't Forget Your Guitar

By Joel Harrison

Label: AGS Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: I Know Now I Meant It Even Then - Emmanuel Michael and Tim Watson; Liebeslied - Wolfgang Muthspiel and Gilad Hekselman; E.Tennessee Blues - Grant Gordy and Ben Garnett; Waiting for the Raptor - Wendy Eisenberg and Anthony Pirog; Libreville - David Gilmore and Cecil Alexander; In My Life - Bill Frisell and Emmanuel Michael; The Ship Set Sail - Joel Harrison and Cindy Cashdollar; Don't Forget Your Guitar - Ben Monder and David Tronzo; Montana - Max Light and Greg Belisle-Chi; Lawns - Grant Gordy and Ben Garnett.

Make A Sound

By Oded Tzur

Label: Sky River Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Radial Artery; Make A Sound; An Empty Boat; Mist; Soul Bird; Here And Here And Here; Sundrop Flower; Moon River (For Shai); Solve For Love.

Jazzkaar Interviews: Jason Hunter

by Martin Longley
April 30, 2026

Miles At 100 is now all-pervasive, as we celebrate the centenary of that shooting star pioneer of jazz trumpet. The currently-running Jazzkaar festival in Tallinn, Estonia, is also contributing to the retrospective rush, presenting a specially-conceived gig on Friday May 1st, assembled by the Stateside trumpeter Jason Hunter. Hunter was raised in Los Angeles, ...

Oded Tzur: Make A Sound

by David Bruggink
March 29, 2026

Make A Sound marks the first full release from saxophonist and composer Oded Tzúr's fledgling label, Sky River Music. After a pair of fiery albums for Enja Records and a string of esteemed releases on ECM Records, Tzúr sets out in a new direction with a set of tracks channeling deeply personal expression through his Indian-influenced jazz. He is accompanied ...

Inside Trio Grande's Genre-Defying Sound

by Steven Roby
February 10, 2026

What happens when you combine a London-born saxophonist, an Israeli guitarist, and a drummer who also plays bass? You get Trio Grande--a modern jazz supergroup rewriting the rules of the trio format. In this episode of Backstage Bay Area, host Steve Roby sits down with Will Vinson to explore the band's evolution from a ...

Ben Wendel With Gilad Hekselman: October

by Mike Jacobs
February 4, 2026

Ben Wendel's 2015 The Seasons was initially a video-only project featuring the saxophonist in a different duet for each month of the year. The project was so successful, it later spawned a tour and a studio album [The Seasons (Motéma Music, 2018)] that featured  Aaron Parks, Gilad Hekselman, Matt Brewer and Eric Harland. “October," with guitarist Hekselman, was ...

Mir Zaynen Do

By Albert Marquès

Label: La Casa Rosa
Released: 2025
Track listing: Mir Zaynen Do 1/3; Mir Zaynen Do 2/3; Mir Zaynen Do 3/3.

Saha Gnawa

By Saha Gnawa

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Soudani Manayou (feat. Nels Cline); Baba Mimoun; Bacha Hamou (feat. Nels Cline); Aicha (feat. Gilad Hekselman); Hamdouchia; Tbal; Sandiya; Negshah (feat. Donny McCaslin).

Yosef Gutman Levitt: Shir Yedidot

by Mike Jurkovic
August 5, 2025

There is a restive, Christmas-time sound of new hope and expectations running throughout Shir Yedidot that is hard to fathom at first, given that the repertoire moves effortlessly from Chabad nigunim (Hasidic wordless melodies) into original compositions.  It is as if the gifted trio--leader/bassist Yosef Gutman Levitt, pianist and ECM recording artist Yonathan Avishai  (Joys and ...