This is a matrix in the original sense of "source". It is a "small-world" network, meaning that the nodes (people) inside it are — mirroring human society — within a few steps of everybody else inside it. The matrix was built to allow regional Brazilian musicians to be discoverable steps away from everybody else in the arts world, and by logical necessity this m.o. requires not only that the great Brazilians be matrixed, but so far as possible, all working artists in our time. Ergo:
THIS MATRIX, THOUGH BRAZIL-BORN, IS UNIVERSAL
This Tom Oren matrix node is steps away from the entire planet by the well-known small-world ("6 degrees") phenomenon dictating that in human society you yourself are within several degrees of Tom Oren.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Tom Oren (node) ROUTES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
Are these Tom Oren's personal recommendations?
CURATION STATUS
- → Routes by The Matrix via ↴
Who & Where
- Name: Tom Oren
- City/Place: Tel Aviv
- Country: Israel
Current News
- What's Up? My debut album ‘Dorly’s Song’ is out, released via Concord Jazz!
Life & Work
-
Bio:
Tom Oren is the celebrated winner of the 2018 Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Piano Competition (currently the Herbie Hancock Institute). He was judged by a jury of piano giants: Herbie Hancock, Monty Alexander, Joanne Brackeen, Cyrus Chestnut, Jason Moran, Danilo Perez and Rene Rosnes.
Oren was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and began his music training at age six. An honors graduate of the Israeli Conservatory of Music Classical Department, as well as the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts Jazz Department; he studied at the renowned Rimon Jazz Institute and attended Berklee College of Music on a full scholarship. In December of 2019, he graduated from Berklee with honors.
Oren's achievements include winning first prize in Rimon’s annual Jazz Musician Contest and numerous America-Israel Cultural Foundation Excellency Scholarships. As a pianist, an arranger and a composer, he has performed and recorded with a host of leading Israeli jazz musicians, most recently as a core member of the Eli Degibri Quartet.
Oren has appeared on world-class stages including the JazzAhead! Festival in Bremen, the Jazz à Juan Festival in Antibes, Jarasum Jazz Festival in Korea, the International Jazz Day celebration in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the Newport Jazz Festival and the Red Sea Jazz Festival, just to name a few.
Tom has just finished recording his debut record for Concord Records which is scheduled for 2020 release.
Contact Information
- Contact by Webpage: http://www.tomoren.com/contact-1
- Record Company: Concord Jazz
Media & Markets
- ▶ Buy My Music (downloads/CDs/DVDs): http://found.ee/TomOrenDorlysSong
- ▶ Twitter: tomorenmusic
- ▶ Instagram: tomoren.music
- ▶ Website: http://www.tomoren.com
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjX_bLPdfT05YgI_oEZNDUg
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UC1Tjv4TBBvv2oEXsQKtwm-g
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/5VLQ2inXkEkxBAt5Eul1Hp?si=8841a21bf17d43cf
- ▶ Articles: http://www.tomoren.com/press
THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone... The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum...it sings!
Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word
Limned in prosody and cadenced song
brəˈzɪl / from "brasa" / Latin for "ember"
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics/"creative people" are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specializes in.
MUCH MORE on all of this in the window below (which, if you are logged in, will instead contain instructions on recommending), and in the window within that window (which includes a "radio" called by The Guardian one of "10 of the best music radio stations around the world"):
