A Hammond B-3 specialist, keyboardist
Sam Yahel is a progressive musician with a bent toward mixing expansive post-bop and cerebral organ trio funk . Since moving to New York City in 1990,
Yahel has performed and recorded with a wide array of name musicians, including trumpeter
Ryan Kisor, trombonist
Wycliffe Gordon, guitarist
Bill Frisell, saxophonist
Joshua Redman, vocalist
Madeleine Peyroux, funk legend
Maceo Parker, and others. He has released a handful of albums under his own name, including 1998's Searchin' and
Truth and Beauty in 2007. ~ Matt Collar