Dr. Arnon Palty

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Member Since: 3/14/2007
Band Members: Dr. Arnon Palty ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------Composer,Arranger,Teacher and a Bass Player.Arnon is one Of Israel's and the U.S.A most veteran Jazz musicians, being both an American and Israeli citizen. Following classical studies of the string-bass,guitar and Piano at his youth, Arnon joined "The Israeli Navy Band" where he had commited mandatory military service for 3 years. Right after that, Dr. Palty has entered the Israeli Jazz scenes. During that period Dr. Palty also got involved in performing and recording in Israel with top popular music artists. to name a few-the list includes Yoni Rechter, Gidi Gov,Yehudith Ravitz, Shlomo Artsi, Arik Einstein, Prog Rock "Duvdevan" (Cherry) Band,Yossi Banai, Shimeon Israeli, Shlomo Yidov, and the "Sixteen Lamb". ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------While living in the U.S.A. for 12 years,Arnon has accomplished his B.M degree at "Berklee School Of Music", Boston,Ma and his M.M degree in "manhattan School Of Music, Ny,Ny.plus additional studies with Mark Levine ,Hal Galper and Mike Gibbs and Bass studies with Joseph Lang, Shmulik Aroch,Greg Mooter, Richard Appleman, Bruce Gertz and Jeff Andrews.In the states he also played and recorded with Norbert Stachell (Tower of Power) , Mike Hyman, Graham Bruce, & Gary Fischer . At the Blues/Rock venue Arnon has performed in Danny Kalb's super- group which combined by two legendary bands:The greatful dead and the Blues-Project.The show was televised by San-Francisco's major Cable tv station. ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------- For the last nine years, Dr. Arnon Palty is the Chairman of the Bass department at the famous israeli "Rimon" School of Music", were he also teaches traditional harmony, arranging, Frank Zappa and "The Beatles" survey classes, and is the producer/conductor of the School's prestigious "Blood Sweat &Tears" ensemble, with a joint cooperation with the "Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance" where Arnon is teaching Jazz ear-training, Jazz history class and a Frank Zappa survey seminar.==================================================== == Dr.Arnon Palty performed in live concerts with Jazz legends such as Benny Golson,Lee Konitz , Didier Lockwood, Jeremy Davenport ,Dave Liebman, Aierto Murera and Terry Lyn Carrington and many more In 1988 Arnon has Toured India with Danny Gottfried's "ISRAELI JAZZ ALLSTARS", featuring the great Zakir Hussein on Tabla and Indian Percussion. Arnon has led numerous projects for the international "Red Sea Festival" with his 10 piece band "Plutonium" and with his Jazz Quintet .His Cd "Pocket Size Pocket" gained 5 stars in critic polls and is sold in Europe and the U.S.A. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Arnon Palty has recently won a price for exellence in composition for chamber ensemble for his "String Quartet Opus 500" by the international competition for composers of original composition, by the city of Tel Aviv and Israel's ministry of education, and recently gained his PHD dissertation (with distinction) about Jazz Harmony at the "Bar Ilan" University, and is active in the music scenes of New York City and San Francisco as well.
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Record Label: NMC ,CBS,HED ARTZI
Type of Label: Major