Yoron Dael Israel (born November 24, 1963, Chicago) is an American
jazz
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drummer.
Israel learned to play organ and trumpet as a child, then switched to drums. As a high school student, he played in an R&B group led by his uncle. He took his bachelor's degree at
Roosevelt University
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The unive ...
and his master's degree at
Rutgers
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Von Freeman
Earle Lavon "Von" Freeman Sr. (October 3, 1923 – August 11, 2012) was an American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist.
Biography
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Freeman as a young child was exposed to jazz. His father, George, a city policeman, was a ...
, and Ira Sullivan. He relocated to New York City in 1989 and played that year with
Henry Threadgill
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,
Kenny Burrell
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, and
Jay Hoggard
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Biography
Jay Hoggard was raised in a religious family. He was born in Washington, D.C., but grew up in Mount Vernon, New York. His mother taught him how to play piano at ...
. In the 1990s he worked with
Charles Fambrough
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Fambrough was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers during the early 1980s.
Suffering from kidney failure, conges ...
Tom Harrell
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Abbey Lincoln
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,
Joe Lovano
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Vanessa Rubin
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Biography
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, to parents from Trinidad and Louisiana, Rubin grew up in a musical household. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Ohio S ...
,
Horace Silver
Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver (September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s.
After playing tenor saxophone and piano at sc ...
,
Ronald Muldrow
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As an emerging jazz guitarist in the early 1970s, Muldrow connected with soul-jazz saxophonist Eddie Harris and contrib ...
Tony Bennett
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Kenny Burrell
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Monk, Trane, Miles & Me
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* '' Inner Urge'' (HighNote, 2001)
With
David "Fathead" Newman
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Cityscape
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'' (HighNote, 2006)
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Life
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