From Dawn to Dusk: Flutist Itai Kriss Chronicles a Single Day on Daybreak, out June 27, 2025 via Jojo Records Jojo Records announces the June 27, 2025 release of Daybreak, the latest album from New York-based flutist Itai Kriss. This new collection showcases Kriss’s distinctive approach to the instrument, blending jazz, gospel, and Brazilian influences … Read More
The 70th Annual Downbeat Critics Poll is out now, highlighting several albums and artists repped from May 2021-April 2022 at Lydia Liebman Promotions. See the full list below! Rising Star Large Ensemble 1. Ulysses Owens Jr. Big Band Rising Star Soprano Sax 1. Roxy Coss Jazz Artist of the Year 17. Dave Liebman Jazz Album … Read More
by Dee Dee McNeil, Musical Memoirs “Asaf Yuria’s project is both beautifully played, smoothly arranged and offers us memorable compositions that highlight Yuria’s full range of musical talents.” Read the complete reviews of Asaf Yuria’s Exorcisms, Henry Cole’s Buscando La Vida and Itai Kriss’ Supermoon here.
by Raul Da Gama, Latin Jazz Net “Mr Kriss has always been regarded as a fine virtuoso flutist who was making his way into the wide world of music outside his native Middle Eastern ethos. But with Supermoon he takes on task of telling the story of the cosmic unity of humanity and manages to bring that … Read More
Itai Kriss & Telavana present an offering to humanity and the universe with new release Supermoon, due out on October 8, 2021 “Kriss has matured into a musician who bestrides the two musical worlds of the Middle East and Latin America like a Colossus” – Raul da Gama / Latin Jazz Network New York Based … Read More
Lorens Chuno, Doing Jazz Podcast Itai Kriss‘s new album, Telavana, beautifully combines latin and middle eastern rhythms and melodies in the most uncontrived way possible, highlighting the excellent musicianship of all the players involved. Telavana features Itai Kriss on flute, Michael Rodriguez on trumpet, Cesar Orozco on piano, Or Bareketon bass, Marcos Lopez on percussion, Dan Aran on drums, Yosvanny Terry on shekere, and Tamer Pinarbasi on qanun. Join me … Read More
Lorens Chuno, Doing Jazz Podcast ITAI KRISS’s new album, TELAVANA, beautifully combines latin and middle eastern rhythms and melodies in the most uncontrived way possible, highlighting the excellent musicianship of all the players involved. Join Itai and Lorens as they talk the album and many other things.(Song credit: ‘Sahadi’s Serenade’, ’Shabazi’, ‘Buttered Scones and Tea’, … Read More
George Harris, Jazz Weekly The mix of flutist Itai Kriss and the band Telavana (Michael Rodriguez/tp, Cesar Orozco/p, Or Bareket/b, Marcos Lopez/perc and Dan Aran/dr) create a rich salsa mix of sounds and grooves on this alluring album. Kriss’ warm woodwind floats over the simmering percussion on pieces such as “Havana Sp ecial,” “Sahadi’s Serenade,” … Read More
Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz A good seven thousand miles separate the Middle East and the Caribbean, but are they truly that far apart? With flutist Itai Kriss and his band, Telavana, spanning the two, that distance seems to vanish. Kriss, a native Israeli, has spent the past fifteen years immersed in the scene in his adopted home of … Read More
