Dan Pugach

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Dan Pugach (born August 10, 1983 in Raʿanana ) is an Israeli musician ( drums , composition , arrangement ) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Pugach began playing drums at the age of twelve; he first played in rock bands. He did his military service as a drummer in the Israeli Air Force Band ; at the same time he became interested in jazz and attended the Rimon School of Jazz . In 2006 he moved to Boston, where he received his bachelor's degree from Berklee College of Music , where he studied with Terri Lyne Carrington , Hal Crook and Joe Lovano . He received his Masters in Music from City College of New York, where he studied with Mike Holober and Scott Reeves . After first recordings with Andrei Matorin ( Opus , 2009) and Terri Lyne Carrington ( More to Say… - Real Life Story: Nextgen , 2009), he leads the Dan Pugach Nonet , an ensemble with which he plays his own compositions and arrangements. With the ensemble is regularly on tour and performed a. a. in the Birds Eye Basel, the Zone in Tel Aviv, in New York in the Blue Note , the 55 Bar and in the Smalls .

In 2011 Pugach received the Young Jazz Composer Award from the ASCAP Foundation for his nonet piece “Discourse This!” . That same year he was selected for the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Residency program at the Kennedy Center , where he worked with Curtis Fuller , Nathan Davis and George Cables . In 2013 he received another ASCAP Jazz Composer Award for his nonet piece "Brooklyn Blues". His debut album “Plus One” entered the top 20 of the jazz radio charts in 2018; it includes Pugach's arrangement of the song "Jolene" by Dolly Parton , for which he and the singer Nicole Zuraitis were nominated for the Grammy for the best arrangement for instruments with vocals. In 2019 he won the Charlie Parker Composition Prize of the Manny Albam Commission at the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop . In 2017 he continued to play in the orchestra of Juan Andres Ospina, to be heard on the album Tramontana .

According to New York Music Daily, Pugach cultivates a retro style with his nonet that goes back to the 1960s and the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ jimmyglassjazz.net
  2. ↑ francemusique.fr
  3. ↑ Dan Pugach Nonet Opens Branford Jazz Series
  4. ↑ a b c Dan Pugach, Composer, Drums, Leader. Smalls, December 1, 2019, accessed December 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 3, 2019)
  6. ^ Lush, Kinetic, Imaginatively Purist New Big Band Jazz From Dan Pugach's Nonet Plus One. New York Music Daily, May 18, 2018, accessed December 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pugach, Dan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli jazz musician (drums)
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Raʿanana