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15 - 24 November 2024

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Itamar Borochov Quartet

Itamar Borochov Quartet

Mon 15 November 2021

Stage time / 9:15pm

Doors / 8:30pm

Location

Ronnie Scott’s,
47 Frith Street, Soho
W1D 4HT

Top Israeli trumpeter's headline debut at the club.

Raised in the cosmopolitan port city of Jaffa, now a significant presence on the international jazz scene, Borochov is creating a new musical hybrid - bringing the sacred sounds of his upbringing to a jazz quartet setting.

His latest release Blue Nights (Laborie Jazz 2019) is a nine-track multi- cultural joyride of enchanting lyricism, exotic motifs, anthemic builds and virtuosic expression.

Borochov first heard Sephardic music in his local synagogue and absorbed these ‘maqams’ (modes) of the greater Middle East and North Africa alongside a range of other musical influences, including the Mizrahi and Ashkenazi musical flavors that are his birthright. He began playing trumpet at the age of eleven and immersed himself in the discovery of jazz, inspired by the jazz trumpet lineage of Louis Armstrong, Clark Terry, Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham, Lee Morgan, and Booker Little through to Wynton Marsalis, and citing the influence of Ben Webster for his assured yet wistful warm airy tone. In 2007 Borochov relocated to New York to study at the New School and attend Barry Harris’s weekly workshops.

His deep knowledge of these various musical disciplines is incorporated organically into his original jazz writing, building a bridge between the near- East and the modal styles of Miles Davis, John Coltrane and others.

“This synergetic quest is accomplished with great integrity, demonstrating in-depth knowledge only possible from one who has experienced these traditions firsthand.” – Jazz Magazine

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