Ohad Talmor

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Ohad Talmor (* 1970 in Lyon ) is an Israeli jazz saxophonist , composer and arranger.

Life

Talmor grew up in Geneva and began taking piano lessons at the local conservatory when he was five . As an exchange student in Florida, he discovered the saxophone in 1987. Back in Switzerland he devoted himself to this instrument and studied musicology in Geneva and directed his own quartet or quintet, to which Glenn Ferris belonged; He also played with Ed Neumeister in the Zounds group and with Carlos Baumann in the Zounds Collective , which won first prize in a competition organized by the Communauté des Radios Publiques de Langue Française the following year . In 1994 and 1995 he toured with Lee Konitz and various ensembles (including a string quartet ), whose music he arranged. In 1995 he was also on tour with Steve Swallow and Mike Sarin with MuSeS . In the same year he moved to New York, where he studied composition at the Manhattan School of Music until 1997 .

He subsequently stayed in New York and worked there with Joe Lovano , Joshua Redman , Kurt Rosenwinkel and Carla Bley . Together with Matt Wilson and Bob Bowen he formed The MOB Trio . In Europe he performed with the Lausanne Big Band (with guest Ray Anderson ) as well as with Joachim Kühn , Matthieu Michel and Sunna Gunnlaugs . Together with Lee Konitz, he led his own big band, which emerged from the Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos and presented the album Portology (2006). With its own projects such as NewsReel and Mass Transformation , Talmor wants to cross continental and stylistic boundaries. In 2010 he performed his piano concerto, which he had written for the pianist Jason Moran and the Porto Symphony Orchestra. Just as in 2009, based on Bruckner's Mass No. 3 in F minor, he reassembled its themes and arranged them for a mixed ensemble, in 2011 he arranged the 8th Symphony for the Bruckner Festival . He has also been running the Seeds jazz club in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn since 2007 .

Talmor also composes for radio plays and teaches as a teacher at the Conservatoire Populaire de Genève . As a musician, he can be heard on more than 50 CD recordings. In 2012 he was awarded the Jazz Prize of the SUISA Foundation for Music for his "innovative and creative jazz work".

Discographic notes

  • MOB Trio Loose (with Matt Wilson, Bob Bowen) (OmniTone, 1999)
  • Lee Konitz, Ohad Talmor & Axis Quartet Plays French Impressionist Music of the 20th Century (Palmetto, 2000)
  • Lee Konitz, Ohad Talmor String Project Inventions (Spring String 4tet) (OmniTone, 2004)
  • Lee Konitz New Nonet (Directed by Ohad Talmor) (OmniTone, 2005)
  • Newsreel (with Shane Endsley, Miles Okazaki , Jacob Sacks , Matt Pavolka , Dan Weiss ; Auand Records, 2008/9)
  • Steve Swallow / Ohad Talmor / Adam Nussbaum Singular Curves (Auand Records, 2013)
  • Adam Nussbaum: The Lead Belly Project (Sunnyside, 2018), with Steve Cardenas
  • Lee Konitz Nonet: Old Songs New (2019)
  • 8 Deja Vu (2020), with Lee Konitz

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review of Lee Konitz-Ohad Talmor Big Band: Portology (AllAboutJazz)
  2. ↑ All That Brooklyn Jazz The borough is where it's at , Village Voice, January 23, 2013, accessed December 6, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Talmor, Ohad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon