ITAMAR BOROCHOV, has
received serious critical acclaim for both his first album Outset and his
recent one Boomerang in Europe. Released on the prestigious Laborie Jazz Label,
Boomerang features original compositions by Itamar Borochov and unorthodox
arrangements of traditional folk-melodies. It’s no wonder why Borochov has been
lighting up the stages of the most important Jazz festivals and venues around
the world.
This much-anticipated release in the US market goes with the
new wave of blending Jazz with other cultures and fashion. Itamar Borochov is
no stranger to this tradition as he melts his Jazz compositions with Middle
Eastern musical traditions, and recently starred in the new Stella Artois
commercial (https://youtu.be/NRKnc4Bz7pg).
Itamar Borochov brings a unique sound with him wherever he
goes. Deeply immersed in the jazz tradition, Borochovʼs search for his personal roots resulted in an
ever-expanding love for Arab and Pan African musical sensibilities – a natural palette for a
trumpeter-composer raised in Jaffa, an integrated Muslim-Jewish-Christian city.
After working with such legendary artists as Curtis Fuller
and Candido Camero, and having served as arranger and co-producer for acclaimed
world music sensation Yemen Blues, Borochov set out on his own path. His
critically acclaimed recording Outset was included in the New York City Jazz
Record’s Best of 2014 List, and his latest album Boomerang, has already
received serious critical acclaim, and peaked at #5 on iTunes’ Jazz Download
chart, and #6 on Amazon’s Jazz Download Chart, and was chosen as
“revelation" on Jazz Magazine. Audiences worldwide are falling for his
enchanting sound and virtuosic expression.
Borochov has performed internationally at such prestigious
venues and festivals as Lincoln Center (NY), The Kennedy Center, (Washington
DC), Montreal Jazz Festival, and the Moscow Jazz Festival, to name just a few.
Boomerang, was completed in Paris in December 2015, mixed in
New York by award-winning engineer Brian Montgomery (Paul McCartney, Esperanza
Spaulding, Donald Fagen, Herbie Hancock), and is his label debut for acclaimed
French label Laborie Jazz. Boomerang features his extraordinarily quartet of
pianist Michael King, bassist Avri Borochov, and drummer Jay Sawyer. The four
have toured widely and frequently, resulting in a telepathic cohesiveness and
devotion, and many inspired performances the world over. Guesting on the
record, on jumbush and vocals, is Itamar’s father, and acclaimed Israeli
composer, Yisrael Borochov.
Itamar Borochov, quickly gaining international recognition
as a jazz innovator, continues his musical quest, offering on Boomerang a music
that reflects a rich global landscape seen firsthand, through the jazz
tradition.
“Borochov is extending the jazz tradition out of the
resources of the tradition itself. Around the turn of the 20th century, Jelly
Roll Morton was talking about the "Latin tinge," and in the late 40's
Dizzy Gillespie joined forces with Chano Pozo to make the Afro-Cuban classic,
"Manteca." In the 1960's Horace Silver got in touch with his Cape
Verdean roots in "Song for My Father," and so on. As Borochov notes,
"Bebop was the highest of musical art forms, the first 'world music' ─ integrated, tribal,
sophisticated, and down home soulful. What I'm doing now, bringing my sound to
the jazz idiom isn't so different from what Dizzy did. I'm progressing by
reconnecting to the roots and taking it to the now and to the future.” –
Boomerang by Dr. Aryeh Tepper.
Listen to the BOMMERANG album:
Listen to Itamar Borochov's first album OUTSET:
Who is ITAMAR BOROCHOV?
Israeli-born, Brooklyn-based trumpeter & composer Itamar
Borochov connects lower Manhattan to North Africa, modern Israel and ancient
Bukhara, celebrating traces of the divine that he finds in elegant
sophistication, Middle Eastern tradition and downhome blues. Borochov brings a
unique sound with him wherever he goes. Deeply immersed in the jazz tradition,
Borochovʼs search for his
personal roots resulted in an ever-expanding love for Arab and Pan-African
musical sensibilities –
a natural palette for a trumpeter-composer raised in Jaffa, an integrated
Muslim-Jewish-Christian city.
After working with such legendary artists as Curtis Fuller
and Candido Camero, and having served as arranger and co-producer for acclaimed
world music sensation Yemen Blues, Borochov set out on his own path. His
critically acclaimed recording Outset was included in the New York City Jazz
Record’s Best of 2014 List, and his latest album Boomerang, has already
received serious critical acclaim, and peaked at #5 on iTunes’ Jazz Download
chart, and #6 on Amazon’s Jazz Download Chart, and was chosen as
“revelation" on Jazz Magazine. Audiences worldwide are falling for his
enchanting sound and virtuosic expression.
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