Itamar Borochov feat. Rob Clearfield, Rick Rosato, Jay Sawyer – Arba (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Itamar Borochov feat. Rob Clearfield, Rick Rosato, Jay Sawyer – Arba (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:20 minutes | 900 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Greenleaf Music

Arba – Borochov’s fourth album as leader, was recorded in 2022 with his quartet of in-demand New York musicians and Grammy award-winning producer Matt Pierson, and is due for release on 8th September 2023 on Greenleaf Music. The nine original compositions celebrate an emergence from a time of hopelessness and loss to a recognition of faith in the radiant life-force. Borochov performs on a custom-made Monette 4-valve quarter-tone trumpet which he uses to incorporate Maqams into his playing (the middle-eastern microtonal modes that are the musical language of his traditional upbringing).

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Itamar Borochov – Boomerang (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Itamar Borochov – Boomerang (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 52:14 minutes | 999 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Laborie Jazz

If he wanted to, trumpeter Itamar Borochov could awe the audiences by showing his virtuosity on his instrument. But at the age of 32, this Israeli-born but Brooklyn-based musician since 2007, a student of Junior Mance, Charles Tolliver or Cecil Bridgewater, has chosen to go further: telling a story that connects Lower Manhattan to North Africa, modern Israel and ancient Bukhara, a story we find in his album “Boomerang”.

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Itamar Borochov – Blue Nights (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Itamar Borochov – Blue Nights (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:33 minutes | 506 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Laborie Jazz

After the excellent “Boomerang” album released in 2016, critically acclaimed in France and around the world, Itamar Borochov once more exhibits what he can do best: putting forward his talents as an experienced melodist and a musician inhabited by a dominant spirit.

Though his hard bop past may come out at times in the structure of his compositions, this new journey proposed by Itamar Borochov (trumpet), his brother Avri (contrabass), Rob Clearfield (piano) and Jay Sawyer (drums) transports us into a space so deep and so dense that we find ourselves sucked up by all these calls from the tradition and this so modern music.

As a deep believer, Borochov also throws his authenticity into his search for “the Divine” even in the music he offers. He catches glimpses of it in various settings, both sacred and profane.

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