Inventive guitarist Dan Adler explores a mixture of standards and originals with the top jazz organist of the past 20 years, Joey DeFrancesco, in Back To The Bridge. … Continue readingMy New CD; Back To The Bridge; (Featuring Joey DeFrancesco)
Dan Adler’s Debut Album: “All Things Familiar”
On this new CD besides Dan Adler’s glittering tone and precision, there are some wonderful solos and great rapport and interplay with the other members of this top-notch group: Grant Stewart, Richard Samuels, Dmitri Kolesnik and Phil Stewart. … Continue readingDan Adler’s Debut Album: “All Things Familiar”
New Interview at Jazz Guitar Life
In this interview with Jazz Guitar Life, Dan Adler shares his ability to juggle two careers, his thoughts on the growth of Jazz Guitar coming out of Israel, and much more. A great read ! … Continue readingNew Interview at Jazz Guitar Life
Dan Adler – Solo Jazz Guitar Hanukkah Song (Ner Li, Ner Li – נר לי, נר לי)
Dan Adler – Solo Jazz Guitar Hanukkah Song (Ner Li, Ner Li – נר לי, נר לי) … Continue readingDan Adler – Solo Jazz Guitar Hanukkah Song (Ner Li, Ner Li – נר לי, נר לי)
Dan Adler playing along with Joe Pass “You and Me” from “Simplicity”
The early Joe Pass album “Simplicity” is one of my favorites. Everything on it is “simple”, but very deep and concentrated with intelligence, logic and passion. I love to sitContinue readingDan Adler playing along with Joe Pass “You and Me” from “Simplicity”
Talmud and Modern Economics
In the following series of video lectures, Robert John Aumann makes some very interesting connections between the Talmud and modern economic theory. … Continue readingTalmud and Modern Economics
Hanukkah At The White House
I have to predict that they could not have imagined that in 2014 there would be a Female Asian-American Rabbi lighting the menorah at the White House for an African-American president…” … Continue readingHanukkah At The White House
The Real Historical Balaam
This week’s Torah portion is Balak, which tells the story of a mythical non-Israelite prophet called Balaam … Continue readingThe Real Historical Balaam
WW I, Balfour and San Remo
Today is June 28, 2014 which marks the 100 year anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, a global war centered in Europe that began in 1914 and lastedContinue readingWW I, Balfour and San Remo
Passover in Egypt in 419 BCE
[This article was inspired by a brilliant online course by Prof. Jacob L. Wright, www.coursera.org/learn/bible-history] At what point during the first millennium BCE can we find hard evidence that matches the Biblical narrative on the formation of the Israelites and Judahites as a people and as a religion whose center of gravity is in Jerusalem? … Continue readingPassover in Egypt in 419 BCE