Oded Tzur

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Oded Tzur (* 1984 in Kirjat Ono , Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli jazz musician ( tenor saxophone , composition ).

Live and act

Tzur began his career in the Tel Aviv music scene . His mentor was the saxophonist Gersh Geller. From 2007 he studied at the Rotterdam Conservatory ; he dealt with microtonality and Indian music with the flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia , the artistic director of the department for classical north Indian music. With his method of playing classical North Indian music on the saxophone (called Middle Path ), he performed among others. a. 2011 at the British Saxophone Congress at Trinity College of Music , the Copenhagen Conservatory of Music, the Royal Academy of Music Aarhus and the Rotterdam Jazz Academy .

He has been working on the New York jazz scene since 2011. In 2015 he presented his debut album Like a Great River ( enja , with Petros Klampanis , Shai Maestro , Ziv Ravitz ), which received positive reviews; All About Jazz praised his flair for “telling stories”. In 2016 he was nominated for the BMW Welt Jazz Award . The album Translator's Note (Yellowbird) followed in 2017 with the same line-up . In 2020 his album Here Be Dragons was released by ECM in a quartet with Nitai Hershkovits , Petros Klampanis and Johnathan Blake .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Event information (2015) at Sundet Sunside
  2. ↑ Oded Tzur, Naren Budhakar - Ragas Live Festival # 19 (Podcast 42) on NYC radio
  3. ↑ Jonathan Scheiner: The Tel Aviv saxophonist Oded Tzur presents his debut album with "Like a Great River". Jüdische Allgemeine , July 9, 2015, accessed January 1, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Dan McClemaghan: Oded Tzur: Translator's note. All About Jazz , July 28, 2017, accessed January 1, 2018 .
  5. ^ Gert Filtgen: Review of the album Like a Great River . Jazz thing , June 29, 2015, accessed January 1, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Here Be Dragons at Allmusic (English)
personal data
SURNAME Tzur, Oded
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli jazz musician (tenor saxophone, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirjat Ono , Tel Aviv