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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The clarinet chose me more than I chose the clarinet.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best part about living in New York is that you are able to play with different people in different styles in the same week. It's really part of who I am as a musical person. I try to incorporate everything that I encounter.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got into high school, clarinet was not really in fashion. Everybody had electric bands.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My younger brother Avishai was my first influence. He picked up the trumpet, and I listened to him. The way he played - with the half valves and the smears - made me want to play like him.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
The clarinet is not so dominant in Israeli music as it is in klezmer. I heard klezmer when I was growing up, but for some reason I avoided it. I listened to Louis Armstrong instead. But the sense of melody is the connection between jazz and klezmer.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely see myself as an international musician. When I play, I respect the source of the music, whether it's Cuban, Brazilian or Israeli. I try to bring that to all of the music I play. Music has no borders and no flags.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My everyday life is not just walking around on clouds. But you have to give the really special things in life importance and not let the temporary things roll you off the road.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents never said to me, 'Why don't you go and get a real profession?' And that really helped.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Influences at home, including classical music, were not all specifically jazz, but the family radio was always on... So there was always some connection to American culture, to American music.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had lived in the States in the 1960s for a while and came to love American Songbook material. Even today, he sometimes recognizes singers that I never even heard of, which is beautiful and inspiring.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boston was incredible. I had some of the best experiences of my life there at Berklee because I met a bunch of other people who were at the exact same stage in life and interest as me. There were American and international students all wrapped up in the Berklee environment, where you basically did nothing but music 24/7.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My initial training was on the keyboard - mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during the day, I was a classical clarinetist, but after school, I played New Orleans jazz and big-band music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I focused on the saxophone ever since high school. It wasn't until my album 'Poetica,' which I recorded in 2006, that I went back to the clarinet. It felt like it was waiting for me!
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer to solve conflict with kindness. That's my first approach. If that doesn't work, there's always the alternative. I'm from Israel. I can tell a person what I think if I have to!
- Helping People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm helping people think the clarinet is cool.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020