Photo: Carola Schmidt
Photo: Carola Schmidt
Photo: Carola Schmidt
Photo: Carola Schmidt
Photo: Carola Schmidt
Photo: Carola Schmidt
Photo: Carola Schmidt
Photo: Simeon Morales- Fuess
Photo: Simeon Morales- Fuess
Photo: Simeon Morales- Fuess
Photo: Carola Schmidt
Photo: Simeon Morales- Fuess
Photo: Deutscher-Jazzpreis
Photo: Carola Schmidt

in complete devestation 

with the hope that this song could bring some SOLACE and LIGHT into the absolute darkness - all my thoughts are with friends and family, with all the people who have lost loved ones. Can we get through this? WE HAVE TO GET THROUGH THIS!

08.10.2023

Interview on DLF Kultur "Tonart"

as a little appetiser for the "Hollywood isn't Calling" concert tonight ( at the A-Trane) I received a lovely invitation from the Radio show "Tonart" on DLF Kultur- it will be an interview with a short Duo live performance with guitarist Frank Wingold.

01.10.2020

concerts cancellation!

I hope this finds you healthy and in good spirits, despite the very saddening corona outbreak. 

18.03.2020

websites relaunch

It was a LONG time coming--- My website became so full- even I couldn't make heads or tails of it.

20.04.2019

A little sneak-peek

from the new CD recording (a Swiss radio co-production) -of my "Handel-Fast Forward" project . Recording at the wonderful HardStudio in Winterthur with Andy Neresheimer on the mixingboard - what a pleasure!

29.11.2017

I was so caught up

in the new album recording, that i completely cocooned myself from the very bitter german-election-results

10.10.2017

A new release,

of a great project. My first time singing in german. Lyrics in baroque style, written especially for a festival in Basel, which combines Jazz and Baroque music.

15.01.2017

A short video

from Alony/Leicht/Wingold concert at the Jazz festival in Bonn.

05.04.2016

Pure Joy,

a real treat- an african-israeli mash, of sounds, songs and rhythms.

23.11.2015

In case you're around,

i'd like to invite you to very special concerts with the WONDERFUL bassist Childo Tomás.

05.11.2014

I am an atheist jew, yet devout.

(it's very conflicted and VERY jewish…) I believe in something that i can not prove exists- I believe in music, its power, the inspiration it beholds.

11.05.2014

A friend, who i haven't seen for a while now,

asked me if everything was ok- He had noticed that i haven't written anything on my blog for a while….at first i had to smile, but i guess he is right. In this day and age if you don't constantly report what you do it's almost as if you weren't doing anything. What did people do "back in the days" (ha ha ha) - the pre- internet days- pre- self-promo-days? they were artist around that were busy being creative and productive. I like to indulge in the illusion that they could concentrate on the "doing" and less on the "spreading the word" part of things- wow! that sounds GREAT!!! Information is great but sooooo much information is, well- too much! so i guess i'm definitely not a Y generation :-)

29.04.2014

I've been so tied up

with writing music, traveling, playing and teaching as well as planning new projects that I have completely lost track of time- and it's June again. Life is moving fast, new doors open, and as things go, sometimes everything seems to happen at the same time- which is right about now....

17.06.2013

A kit for mending thoughts

will be released on 9.11.2012 and I couldn't be happier about the music and the inspiration. I am full of gratitude for the support from Radio Barlin-Brandenburg (Ulf Drechsel), from ENJA records (Werner Aldinger) and especially from the people surrounding me, who support my crazy idees investing incredible amount of thought, time and energy into making this music happen. ( while many others have been writing

21.09.2012

Finally,

the mix of the new CD with my new trio is ready!!! With Oliver Leichton Clarinets and electronics, Frank Wingold on guitar and Myself- singing, writing, playing keyboards and having my share of electronics-fun ( working with loops, with effects, playing around with my sounds...:-))- it is GREAT fun and very inspiring.

19.03.2012

Great News from Bern!

The concert at the Jazzwerstatt Festival was so much fun- there is a little video: www.jazzwerkstatt.ch/ and as things momentarily stand, I will be spending more time in Bern- I have been teaching at the Jazz department of the HKB College of music and arts for a while now- but as of September the wonderful singer Andreas Schaerer and I will be leading the vocal department. I am very excited about it. New places, new people, new encounters, new luck-

21.03.2011

Back from a very rewarding ALONY tour,

I find it mesmerizing to experience the reactions of people in the audience, who somehow, maybe even by chance, found their way to one of our concerts or of people who happen to hear us live for the first time. Some concerts are obviously more intense than others but the new faces seem always surprised, pensive, very concentrated, happy-sad and touched. It is very special and very hard to describe. On occasion, someone may leave the concert, but I feel that if i manage to bring about some sort of an emotion , even if it is not a positive one, I moved something- I was heard. I have little regard for music that leaves you indifferent!

10.03.2011

On the Bass2010

last weekend, I had the great pleasure and the honour to get to know and to play with the WONDERFUL bassist and composer Riccardo Del Fra. Some players have the amazing quality of sounding like an entire band just by playing their own instrument- with such beauty and depth- wow!

12.10.2010

I just came back

from a wonderful vacation in Greece (on the island of Corfu), with lots of sun and sea, free time, no train rides, no flights- a hotel- but the same one for 3 weeks straight- basically the opposite of my life in the past 2 years :-)

15.09.2010

The Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra's

recording is finally finished and will be released in the begining of next year, with a little tour attached. To get a little taste of it you could listen to:

01.09.2010

With much joy,

Oliver Leicht and I , finally recorded some tracks for our nameless Duo- we got to try out some of the new songs during our concert at the Gedächtniskirche in Berlin. It was at least 40 degrees in the church- it was madness but great fun. It is most inspiring, fun and extremly uncomplicated to work with Oli! what a treat!

19.07.2010

The live broadcast

of the Duo concert with Julie Sassoon last weekend was exciting. We tried to capture what is the "Jewish spice" in our music- if there is such a thing. You could listen to one of the songs, which somehow summerizes it for me:

03.06.2010

After being away for a long time,

I will be visiting Israel again, and will be giving a concert on 17.3.2010 with a very good friend of mine and a wonderful guitarist, Yaniv Kerem and his band. We will be playing at the "Hasimta theater" in old Jaffa- so in case you happend to be in town- be sure to come.

09.03.2010

The BMW World Jazz Award

has started. Our concert date is set for March 7th, at the BMW Welt in Munich. The competition in going to be hard-

23.02.2010

A new year has rushed in,

yet I still find myself thinking and writing "2009"- as if I am still in a different time zone- which, I guess, is not so far off... :-)

27.01.2010

I have been a lot

on the road lately, experiencing pretty amazing things musically as well as personally.

20.10.2009

I have started teaching

at the wonderful HKB College of Music and Arts in Bern, Switzerland. This college is the oldest Jazz college in Europe, with wonderful musicians- teachers as well as students- a great experience for me- guiding jazz-interested souls in the sometimes jazz-uninterested world......:-) so we agreed on the term „FREEDOM“ instead of „Jazz“ - and who is not interested in that....:-) Some teachers, including yours truly, will be giving a concert on the 23.11.09 in Bern- so feel free to stop by in case you are in town.

02.10.2009

Back home in Berlin,


after a wonderful ALONY CD Release Tour in Germany and Austria. The surprise "star of the evening" was the "Lights On/Off" video. It was especially exciting to watch it on the big cinema screen in the gorgeous "Babylon-Mitte" venue in Berlin; a definite night to remember!

30.05.2009

Finally,



we are off to our CD Release Tour!!!

01.05.2009

CD: Alony, Dismantling Dreams

It's crazy to try and capture

the work of almost a year in to a few sentences, so maybe i'll begin with the end, which is also a beginning- our new CD “Dismantling Dreams”. It will be released on April 17th on ENJA RECORDS. We will be going on a CD Release Tour during April and May 09 and we will be delighted to see you there.

22.02.2009

A wonderful thing coming up

is a project I will be doing in May with the Radio Big-Band Frankfurt (HR Big-Band). we will be recording a CD with Israeli songs that I chose, arranged and conducted by the wonderful composer and a dear friend Ed Partyka. We will be playing one concert in Frankfurt on May 20th 09. Ed had me featured on his wonderful CD called “Overcast” played by the “Sunday Night Orchestra” released Jun. 2008 on Mons Records. We enjoyed working together so much that he has asked me to take part in the recording of his new CD recording, set for Sep.09, which will be a Co-produced by the Berlin-Brandenburg Radio.

20.02.2009

My Shorthand Modes of PerceptionEfrat AlonyHollywood isn't Calling00:06:11

El ha-Or (Towards the Light)Efrat AlonyHollywood isn't Calling00:04:07

Hear MeAlonyDismantling Dreams00:05:21

Ani/ E.AlonyEfrat AlonyA kit for mending thoughts00:04:48

Silent SeekersAlonyUnarmed and Dazed00:06:37