World-renowned Jazz trumpet player,
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:
About 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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