Assif Tsahar is an Israel

Israel

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i tenor saxophonist

Tenor saxophone

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 and bass clarinet

Bass clarinet

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ist. He has lived in New York City

New York City

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 since 1990.

He has performed with Cecil Taylor

Cecil Taylor

Cecil Percival Taylor is an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and...

, Butch Morris

Butch Morris

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, William Parker

William Parker (musician)

William Parker is an American free jazz double bassist, poet and composer.-Biography:Parker was not formally trained as a classical player, though he did study with Jimmy Garrison, Richard Davis, and Wilbur Ware and learned the tradition. Parker is one of few jazz bassists who regularly plays arco...

, Mat Maneri

Mat Maneri

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, Hamid Drake

Hamid Drake

Hamid Drake is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. He lives in Chicago, IL but spends much of his time traveling around the world for concerts and studio dates....

, Peter Kowald

Peter Kowald

Peter Kowald was a German free jazz musician.A member of the Globe Unity Orchestra, and a touring double-bass player, Kowald collaborated with a large number of European free jazz and American free-jazz players during his career, including Peter Brötzmann, Irène Schweizer, Karl Berger, Fred...

, Susie Ibarra

Susie Ibarra

Susie Ibarra is a Contemporary Composer and Percussionist who has worked and recorded with jazz, classical, world, and Indigenous musicians. She is known for her work as a performer in avant-garde, jazz, world and new music...

, Rashied Ali

Rashied Ali

Rashied Ali, born Robert Patterson was an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz drummer best known for playing with John Coltrane in the last years of Coltrane's life.-Biography:...

, Warren Smith

Warren Smith

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, Wilbur Morris, Le Quan Ninh

Lê Quan Ninh

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, John Tchicai

John Tchicai

John Martin Tchicai is a Danish jazz saxophonist. He was one of the earliest European free jazz musicians. He is of Danish and Congolese descent....

, Fred Anderson

Fred Anderson

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, Rob Brown

Rob Brown

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, Roy Campbell

Roy Campbell, Jr.

Roy Campbell, Jr. is versatile trumpeter frequently linked to free jazz, though he has also performed rhythm and blues, bebop and funk at times during his career. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1952, Campbell was raised in New York. At age fifteen Campbell began learning to play trumpet and...

, Gerald Cleaver

Gerald Cleaver (musician)

Gerald Cleaver is an African-American jazz drummer from Detroit, Michigan. He joined the jazz faculty at the University of Michigan in 1995...

, Agusti Fernandez, Ken Vandermark

Ken Vandermark

Ken Vandermark is an American jazz composer and saxophone and clarinet player.A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered compositions, which typically balance intricate orchestration with passionate...

, Kent Kessler

Kent Kessler

Kent Kessler is an American jazz double-bassist, best known for his work in the Chicago jazz and avant garde music scene.Kessler, born in Crawfordsville, IN, grew up on Cape Cod and began playing trombone at age ten. He and his family moved to Chicago when he was 13, and a few years later Kessler...

, Joe Daley

Joe Daley

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, Herb Robertson

Herb Robertson

Clarence “Herb” Robertson is a jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist. He was born in New Jersey and attended the Berklee School of Music...

, Cuong Vu

Cuong Vu

is a jazz trumpeter and vocalist.Born in Saigon, he left Vietnam with his family at the age of five in 1975, settling in Bellevue, Washington...

, Chris Jonas, Ori Kaplan

Ori Kaplan

Ori Kaplan is a jazz saxophonist from Israel. He moved to the United States in 1991. He has worked with Tom Abbs and the Balkan Beat Box.-Career:...

, Oscar Noriega, Alex Harding, Steve Swell

Steve Swell

Steve Swell is an American free jazz trombonist and composer.Swell studied at Jersey City State College before moving to New York City in 1975 where he began his musical life, playing in top 40 bands, salsa bands, big bands and performed on Broadway in Bob Fosse's "Dancin""...

, Cooper-Moore

Cooper-Moore

Cooper-Moore is an American jazz pianist, composer and instrument builder/designer based in New York City. He began performing church music in the Piedmont region of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In 1970, he formed a collective trio, Apogee, with saxophonist David S. Ware and drummer Marc...

, and Tom Abbs

Tom Abbs

Tom Abbs is an American multi-instrumentalist and filmmaker. He works primarily in the fields of jazz, free jazz, and free improvisation, and plays double bass, tuba, cello, violin, didgeridoo, and wooden flute, often playing several of these instruments simultaneously.Originally from Washington...

In 1999 he founded Hopscotch Records. He has recorded there as a solo musician and with Jim Black and Mat Maneri.

External links

• Hopscotch Records website