Shay Hazan

Shay Hazan, composer, producer, bassist & bandleader, having cemented a key role in the electric Tel Aviv scene, is poised to share his multiple talents with the world, a unique synthesis of jazz, hip hop, and Moroccan Gnawa music. Not content with leading a world class jazz quintet, performing on Europe’s most prestigious festival stages, with a vinyl release on Jazzman Records and support on cutting edge radio stations such as NTS. Hazan’s solo work, signed to Batov Records, see him constructing soulful and sophisticated hip hop leaning beats & soundscapes, with a jazz musician’s’ ear and flair, around an hypnotic and uplifting sound centered on Hazan’s individual playing of the guimbri, the traditional three stringed skin-covered bass lute heard found in Moroccan Gnawa music.