New album - July 7th 2023 with Ubuntu Music
Uriel Herman, jazz pianist and composer, has been performing worldwide both with his quartet and as a soloist. His sound draws from his classical piano upbringing with a mastery of complex Middle Eastern rhythms and melodies.
In July 2023, Uriel will be releasing his third solo album, Different Eyes, with the British label Ubuntu Music.
"We all have one pair of eyes but there are countless layers of seeing. We can see or choose to look. Our memories and dreams are painted in different colours every time we visit them and therefore each moment gives a singular meaning to looking in and out. ‘Different Eyes’ is an intimate portrait that begins in my childhood streets of Jerusalem and goes all the way to a lullaby that I sing to my son.” During the year Uriel will launch the album touring on a worldwide basis with his quartet, in duets with the trumpeter Itamar Borochov and performing solo piano.
In 2019, Uriel released Face to Face with French label Laborie Jazz. The album includes Uriel’s original music and arrangements to songs by David Bowie and Mordechai Zeira. It received praise throughout the world. The Uriel Herman Quartet was created following the recording of Awake, Herman’s first album in 2014, which was named one of Israel’s’ Top Five Albums of The Year by Haaretz national newspaper. Since then, they performed in major festivals and venues including The Forbidden City Concert Hall (Beijing, China), Festival Jazz Sous Les Pommiers (Coutances, FR), Centro Cultural, Kirchner (Argentina), Stanford University (CA, USA), Jarasum Jazz Festival (South-Korea), Taichung Jazz Festival (Taiwan), Festival Eclats d’Email Jazz (Limoges, FR), Duc de Lombards (Paris, FR), Bumhuis (Amsterdam, NL), Kas Jazz Festival (Kas, TK), Red Sea Jazz Festival (Eilat, IL), and many others.
