Itamar Borochov

What Itamar Borochov makes

Topics jazz, trumpet, music, live-performance, sephardic-music

One of the most prominent and unique trumpeters of his generation, Itamar Borochov brings his deep and ever-expanding love for the jazz tradition to the sacred sounds of his upbringing. Borochov first heard Sephardic music in his local synagogue and absorbed these ‘maqams’ (modes) of the greater Middle East and North Africa alongside a range of other musical influences. He began playing trumpet at the age of eleven and immersed himself in the discovery of jazz, inspired by the jazz trumpet lineage of Louis Armstrong, Clark Terry, Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham, Lee Morgan, and Booker Little through to Wynton Marsalis. In 2007 Borochov relocated to New York and has since released three albums as a leader. He returned to the studio in 2022 with his quartet and Grammy award-winning producer Matt Pierson to record his fourth album 'Arba', due for release on 8th September 2023 on Greenleaf Music. Borochov won the 2020/21 Rising Stars Jazz Award and has toured across four continents.

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