Michael Raynor Quartet Featuring Yoav Eshed

Thu, Jun 15

Noah Simpson, Trumpet Yoav Eshed, Guitar Garrett Baxter, Bass Michael Raynor, Drums Yoav Eshed is an award-winning guitarist and composer born in Israel, based in Brooklyn, NY. Yoav started to play the piano at the age of 3 and displayed prodigious abilities playing Haydn, Bach and Mendelssohn. He picked up the guitar at the age of 13 and found his unique way to play the guitar with a pianist approach. Since then he has been performing around the world with top Israeli jazz musicians. He has annually received the America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarships for Jazz since 2008. Received scholarships from the ‘NY New School for Jazz’ and won the ‘Prestigious Dean Award’ from Berklee as well as the ​Guitar Achievement Award from for outstanding musicianship. Winner of ​Lee Ritenour jazz competition ‘​Six String Theory’, winner of the annual jazz competition in Israel ‘T​he Jazz Player’​ and prize winner of the ​Montreux Jazz Festival ​Guitar Competition in Switzerland, Won Best Solo Instrumental prize of ‘Made in New York’ jazz international competition. Drummer Michael Raynor splits his time between Portland and Chicago, where he spent more than twenty years playing with tenor sax icon and NEA Jazz Master, Von Freeman. Raynor also toured with vocalist Kurt Elling and can be heard on two of his Grammy nominated recordings, including "Live in Chicago," featuring Jon Hendricks. He has worked with Freddie Hubbard, Eric Alexander, Tia Fuller, Steve Coleman, Gary Bartz, Johnny Griffin, Ira Sullivan, Jon Faddis, Bob Sheppard, Bobby Broom, Fareed Haque, Howard Levy, Arturo Sandoval, Chuck Israels, Nancy King, and Bob Dorough among others. In addition to playing festivals throughout Europe, North America, and Australia, Raynor has co-led tours in both Asia and Africa as a United States Jazz Ambassador. Photo: Michael Jackson