This Monday, July 25, bassist Or Bareket is celebrating at The Jazz Gallery. It’s his birthday, and the New York release party for his latest album, Sahar (Enja). The album’s title has multiple meanings in semitic languages, reflecting Bareket’s mixed lineage and upbringing across multiple continents. In Arabic, sahar means “just before dawn,” while in Hebrew, it means “crescent.” Bareket’s take on the word is loose and poetic, a meaning that Bareket descripes as “the dream-like state one arrives in after staying up all night ruminating and yearning; an encounter that feels suspended in infinity, outside the waking experience of the passage of time.”

Much of the material on this record was written during the height of the pandemic, evoking that dreamlike, unreal existence when so much of the world was shut down. Before celebrating with Bareket and company at the Gallery, check out the band’s performance of the title track, below.

Or Bareket celebrates the release of Sahar at The Jazz Gallery on Monday, July 25, 2022. Mr. Bareket, bass, will be joined by Godwin Louis on alto saxophone, Morgan Guerin on tenor sax/EWI, Jeremy Corren on piano, and Savannah Harris on drums. Sets are at 7:30 and 9:30 P.M. E.D.T. $15 general admission ($10 for members, FREE for SUMMERPASS holders). $25 reserved table seating ($20 for members, $10 for SUMMERPASS holders). Purchase tickets here.