Yoron Israel

Yoron Israel is an American jazz drummer, born in Chicago in 1963, who teaches at Berklee College of Music. He worked in Chicago's jazz scene with Hank Crawford, Von Freeman and Ira Sullivan before moving to New York in 1989, where he played with Henry Threadgill and Kenny Burrell. In the 1990s he worked with Roy Hargrove, Sonny Rollins and Horace Silver, and he has recorded with Ahmad Jamal.