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Harlem in the Himalayas
Sam Yahel 3
December 16, 2011

A distinctive voice among the new breed of Hammond B-3 organ players on the jazz scene post-Larry Young, Sam Yahel earned the top spot in Downbeat's annual International Critics Poll as a "Talent Deserving of Recognition" for four consecutive years.

Since moving to New York in 1990, he’s worked with a string of notable jazz artists including tenor saxophonists Joshua Redman and Eric Alexander, former James Brown sideman and alto sax great, Maceo Parker, guitarists Peter Bernstein and Bill Frisell, trumpeters Ryan Kisor and Jim Rotondi. Yahel also played on Norah Jones' Grammy-winning Come Away With Me as well as on recordings by vocalists Lizz Wright and Madeleine Peyroux. But it has been as a solo artist and leader in his own right that Yahel has made his most personal statements as both composer and player. Come experience one of the most exciting jazz organists of his generation.

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