— Herbie Hancock
— Jazz Quad Magazine
Warping
for Jazz Ensemble (2024)
Hollywood Independent Music Awards
Winner 2025, "Best Jazz"
Weave, winner of the 2025 Hollywood Independent Music Award for Best Jazz, opens with shimmering harmonic layers that flow like interweaving threads. Built on Kobi Arad's signature language—where jazz improvisation meets multidimensional form—the trio creates a living fabric of sound. It utilizes Arad's "Anchor Lines" (a pioneering compositional-improvisational framework) in which unitary segments unfold into structured musical architecture, allowing spontaneous expression to crystallize into form.
Arad's piano, Plaxico's bass, and McNaught's drums weave movement and magic into a design that feels both spontaneous and inevitable, echoing jazz's timeless spirit while bending its possibilities forward.
Global Music Awards (Silver Medal, Best Experimental Jazz)
Elite Music Awards - Winner "Best Crossover Producer", Nominated - "Musician of The Year"
Select Tracks:
- 1. Weave
- 2. Shift
- 3. Warp
Sketches of Monk
for Piano Trio (2024)
Sketches of Monk has won a Global Music Award (Silver Medal)® and a Clouzine International Music Award®
Bemsha Swing - HMMA Winner "Best Jazz" 2021
— Chick Corea
— Cindy Blackman - Santana
— Yoni Rechter (Israeli National-treasure Composer)
— Gonzalo Rubalcaba, 64th Grammy Winner
Chick Corea's Impressions
of Kobi Arad's Music
— Chick Corea
Segments
for Jazz Ensemble (2019)
Segments won best "Jazz Instrumental Album" at the 17th annual Independent Music Awards® on June 22nd 2019.
— Emilio D. Miller (Latin Grammy Winner)
— Christopher Tin (2x Grammy Awards Winning Composer & Film Music for Crazy Rich Asians)
— Twenty Third Skiddo (59th Grammy Awards Winner)
— Wouter Kellerman (Multi Grammy Awards Winner & Nominee)
Select Tracks:
- Heirarchy
- Kommoshan
- Nostalgia
- Trains
- Direction
Freedom
for Jazz Ensemble (2018)
— Wouter Kellerman (Multi Grammy Awards Winner and Nominee)
— Chick (Armando) Corea
Select Tracks:
- Freedom
Ellington Upside Down
Musical Portrait
— New York Times Bestselling Author and Grammy Winning Composer, Kabir Sehgal
Select Tracks:
- Take The A Train/It Don't Mean a Thing
- Caravan
- In a Mellow Tone
- Mood Indigo
- Solitude
Forever
Grammy Awards Community's Tribute for Prince
'Forever' - Grammy Awards Community's Tribute for Prince. Winner of the Global Music Award.
— Ricky Kej (57th Grammy Winning Producer)
— Laura Sullivan (56th Grammy Winner)
Cubism - Hyper Dimensional Jazz
Jazz Ensemble
— Nouveaufluxmusic-wordpress online journal
— Emilio Sola, Latin Jazz Grammy Nominee
— Herbie Hancock
Select Tracks:
- All Blues
- Blue Monk
- Donna Lee
- Nardis
- Solar
Prayers
Spiritual Jazz Collection
— Wouter Kellerman, Multi-Grammy Winner and Nominee, 2015 & 2016
Select Tracks:
- Compassion
- Reaching
- Tevua
- Lonley Ness
- Happiness
The Experience Project
Produced by Robert Margouleff
— Robert Margouleff (Stevie Wonder's stellar associate producer from Innervisions, Talking Book, Fullfillingness First Finale and Music of My Mind)
— 56th Grammy Award Winner, Laura Sullivan
— Austin Wintory (Grammy Nominee from 55th season)
Select Tracks:
- Sensual Pleasures
- Clare
- I Aint Wanting Nothin
Webern Re-Visioned
Contemporary Classical Interpretation
— Chick Corea
SPACE
Ecstatic Electronic Meditations
Select Tracks:
- Open, Vast
- The Universe As We Know It
- Chant
MOMENTS
A Tribute
Select Tracks:
- Air
- Eternity / Song
- Seeing the Voices
- Étude
- Flow
- Again
- Bengal Bengal
- Drive
- Frenzy
- Floating
INNER HYMNS
Creative Exploration of Traditional
Select Tracks:
- Prayer (Traditional Yemenite Niggun)
- Rav Zaken (Traditional Moroccan Niggun)
- Seven Seventy (Kobi Arad Feat. Oran Etkin, Bass Clarinet)
- Secret Tradition (Composed by Kobi Arad)
- Journey (Kobi Arad piano solo - Composed by Kobi Arad)
- Lifdot Am Dal (Traditional Moroccan Niggun)
- Field's Harvest (Kobi Arad Band feat. Oran Etkin) (Composed by Kobi Arad)
- Binah's Horizons (Re-Composed by Kobi Arad, based on Havdallah Morrocan melody)
- Ozi Ve Zimrat Yah (Melodic Excerpt from Holidays Prayer Service)
- Yah Ribbon (Composed by Rabbi Khayim Nadjarah)
- Sulam Yaakov (N.Hirsch) - Israeli Folk Song
- Esmakh Bakh (Composed by the Baba Sali)
- An'eem Zemirot (Traditional Chassidic Niggun)
KOBI-STYLE: THIRD STREAM
Featuring Grammy Award Winner
Select Tracks:
- Counting On Your Love
- Being, Soft
- Sky
- Post Molto Ossessivo
- Journey
- Sunshine Upon Our Face
- Anger Dissipating
- The Park
- Up the Ladder
- Prayers From Our Hearts
- This Is Not Another Waltz For You
- Taken by Surprise
- Echoes
- High Urban Life
- Schoenbergian Love Affair
- Muon's Dance
- Turn Around
- And If You Want me to Love and Care About You Baby
Reviews
Sketches of Imaginary Landscapes:
Innovations!!!
Ancient Novice
Explores the secrets of music
Israel's Kobi Arad Band: - Live at The Blue Note
Inner Hymns
Articles
Books
About
A multi talented and multiple award-winning artist - Kobi Arad is one of the most prominent, prolific and versatile pianists-composers-producers emerging from Israel. A Grammy Award voting member, he is the first musician to ever receive Doctorate in field of 'Third Stream' from New England Conservatory of Music, Boston -- with 20+ self-titled CD's presently available on Amazon.
Having collaborated with many great artists such as Roy Ayers, Cindy Blackman and Jack DeJohnette, Arad also worked with Stevie Wonder (who shows interest in using one of Kobi's songs for his daughter Aisha's upcoming album). Kobi's Soulful style spans and brings together Classical Modern, Jazz and Neo-Soul. Kobi Lives, Composes and Performs in NYC.
In New York City, Arad has performed with 'Kobi Arad Band' in Blue Note NYC, Jazz Lincoln Center, Knitting Factory, Sugar Bar, Tonic, Cutting Room and additional leading venues. He is also the first musician to ever receive a Doctorate in the field of contemporary improvisation and Third Stream. His albums, which include 'Innovations,' 'Neun Kleine Stucke Fur Elektronische Orchester' and 'Ancient Novice' all exemplify diversity of style, deep musical integrity as well as notable musicianship.
— Roy Ayers
— Stevie Wonder to Ganda Boys regarding Kobi Arad Band's IMA Awards Win
Contact
For booking inquiries and musical collaborations:
Email: greenpath129@gmail.com