Alon Tayar Trio with Daniel Dor and Oren Hardy

Alon Tayar is a pianist with a unique reputation and a multi-faceted creator, who is also active in the local jazz scene. He received his musical education at the RMC Conservatory in Copenhagen, and from there continued to visual communication studies at Bezalel. Alongside a solo project as a singer and producer under his own name, Alon Tayar plays and participates as a pianist in various ensembles in Israel and New York.

To the Jerusalem Jazz Festival, Alon arrives with drummer Daniel Dor and double bass player Oren Hardy. Together, the three maintain a musical dialogue moving between original materials and American music written for the piano at the beginning of the twentieth century by Scott Joplin, James P. Johnson, and additional composers. From within the sounds of the past, the trio stretches a thread that reaches into our day, approaching the materials not as a period document, but rather seeking to dwell within them, to get to know them anew, and to play with them.

The ensemble has been active together for close to five years, during which they developed a shared language through continuous work and encounter with the old and new materials, while conducting a renewed and contemporary examination of archaic structures, texture, and swing. Thus, the music creates a connection between the past and the present, and functions as a bridge for the dialogue emerging between the three players, and between them and the great composers who shaped modern piano playing.