Unknown Israeli wins top jazz contest

Unknown Israeli wins top jazz contest

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norman lebrecht

December 07, 2018

Tom Oren, 24, from Tel Aviv emerged winner of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Piano Competition in New York this week.

He gets $25,000 and a recording contract.

 

Comments

  • Fred says:
    December 7, 2018 at 4:02 pm

    Isn’t this a student competition? Thus, aren’t all the winners unknowns by default?

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    • Scotty says:
      December 9, 2018 at 12:37 am

      Not exactly. Competitors can’t be older than 30 at the time of the event. They don’t have to be students and I’ve recognized the names of some competitors in previous years.

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    • HM says:
      December 10, 2018 at 6:53 pm

      Jason Marsalis, Wynton and Branford’s younger brother, was a competitor back in the early 1990’s, the year it was held for drummers.

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  • Ben G. says:
    December 7, 2018 at 9:20 pm

    Outstanding and harmonically rich. He takes us on a trip through all sorts of hills and valleys around the chord changes.

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  • Robert Groeni says:
    December 9, 2018 at 8:53 pm

    Good luck to the youngster! He wouldn’t be Daniel Oren’s little boy, would he?

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