Yossi Piamenta

Yossi Piamenta is an Orthodox Jewish electric guitar player, often called the Hasidic Hendrix.

As a young secular Israeli prog-rock electric guitar player, he was brought to the United States by saxophone legend Stan Getz. Both he and his brother [Avi Piamenta] Avi Piamenta (flautist, composer) became Baal teshuvas (returning to Orthodox Jewish observance) and have affiliated with the Chabad Lubavitch movement in particular.Fact|date=January 2008

The Piamenta Band known in music circles as forever changing the face of popular religious Jewish music, injecting a wildly frenetic improvisational style of Oriental based spiritual music, to a scene usually associated with the traditional Klezmer sounds of Eastern European Jewery.

The Piamenta band has produced a steady stream of compact disc recordings popular with many Jews all over the world. The band remains in demand as star performers for Jewish weddings and Bar/Bat Mitzvah.

Heavenly Jams Band

In June 2004 Yosi and Oteil Burbridge, of the storied American rock icons The Allman Brothers Band, came together in NYC for a loose jam billed as the Heavenly Jams Band. A recording of the show was released as "Live in NYC 6/16/04".

The Heavenly Jam Band became a way of exposing new audiences to broad spectrums of music through like minded musicians sharing a passion for musical improvisation and exploration. HJB shows rely heavily on the Oriental based Hebrew and Arabic Piamenta sound, blended with an assortment of classic rock, blues, and jazz influenced music.

HJB lineups have included, Kofi Burbridge, Mike Mattison, Yonrico Scott, and Todd Smallie of the amazing Derek Trucks Band, Kenwwod Dennard, Tal Wilkenfeld, Pedro Arevalo, Barry Richman, David Stoltz, Matisyahu, DJ Logic, Mark Dann, Asaf Shor, Shai Bachar, Devon Allman, Jon Madof, and many other talented renowned musicians.

Discography:

Piamenta Band

*Mitzvah
*Let's Dance with the Piamentas
*The Piamenta Band
*Tismach
*1990
*Songs of the Rebbes
*The Way You Like It!
*Strings of My Heart
*Big Time
*Piamenta Live NYC Performance
*Sason V'Simcha
*Heavenly Jams Band
*Yehiyu L'ratzon (2007)

Heavenly Jams Band

*"Live in NYC 6/16/04" (with Oteil Burbridge)

*"Bridging The Gap...Live!" (with Kofi Burbridge, Yonrico Scott, Kenwwod Dennard, Shai Bachar, and others) Ditza Records 2008

References

External links

* [http://www.piamenta.com/ Piamenta official site]
*(http://www.myspace.com/piamenta)
* [http://www.shmoozenet.com/jsps/stories/0998Ben.shtml Piamenta snares Jimi Hendrix's producer]
* [http://www.levity.com/rubric/piamenta.html Yosi Piamenta, the Hasidic Hendrix]