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Nir Felder (born December 30, 1982 ) is an American jazz guitarist .

Live and act

Felder grew up in Katonah, NY and studied at Berklee College of Music ; he won the 2005 Jimi Hendrix Award from the Berklee Guitar Department.

In mid-2005 he moved to New York City. Since then he has worked a. a. with Greg Osby ( Nine Levels , 2008), Meshell Ndegeocello , Chuck Mangione , Jack DeJohnette , John Scofield , Cindy Blackman , Terri Lyne Carrington ( Money Jungle: Provocative In Blue 2008), Mark Turner , Jason Moran , Dave Douglas , Brian Landrus , Ken Thomson , Roberto Gatto , Stanley Clarke , George Duke and Keyon Harrold . In addition to collaborations with the Philip Seymour Hoffman's LABrynth Theater Company , Matisyahu , the hip-hop duo Black Sheep , he leads his own formations such as Nir Felder 4 and Big Heat . In the field of jazz, he was involved in 37 recording sessions between 2005 and 2019.

Discographic notes

solo

• Golden Age (Okeh 2014)
• II (2020), with Matt Penman Jimmy Macbride

As a guest musician

• Greg Osby, 9 Levels (2008)
• Rob Mosher , Rob Mosher's Storytime: The Tortoise (2008)
• David Weiss & Point of Departure, Snuck In (2010)
• Alper Yılmaz, Over the Clouds (2010)
• Sylent Running, Empathy Chip (2010)
• Bobby Selvaggio , Grass Roots Movement (2011)
• Le Bœuf Brothers, In Praise of Shadows (2011)
• Terri Lyne Carrington , Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue (2013)
• Tony Gray , Elevation (2013)
• The Brian Landrus Kaleidoscope, Mirage (2013)
• Ken Thomson & Slow / Fast - Settle (2014)
• David Weiss & Point of Departure, Wake Up Call (2017)
• Ziv Ravitz , No Man Is An Island (2019)

Web links

• Own web presence
• Portrait and audio samples (2011) on National Public Radio
• Nir Felder at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ murikultur.ch: Nir Felder “Golden Age” ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography ( online, accessed June 1, 2020)
3. ↑ Jazz CD of the week. In: NDR Info. July 31, 2020, accessed August 1, 2020 .