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By: Abigail Klein Leichman - March 9, 2021
Israeli trumpeter Itamar Borochov and Immanuel Wilkins of Philadelphia recently won 2020’s two LetterOne Rising Stars Jazz Awards, besting more than 700 candidates and winning the services of a professional team to arrange their appearances at seven leading international jazz festivals.
That is, when jazz festivals resume. The Covid-19 pandemic temporarily silenced these popular events and led to Borochov’s return to Israel after 14 years honing his talent in New York.
Now 37, he has created a hybrid between the Mideast-North African sounds of his Jaffa childhood and the classic jazz exemplified by Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and John Coltrane.
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