Described by Downbeat Magazine as "A Volcano on the Ocean Floor", Oded Tzur's music is a microcosm in which blues, Indian ragas, synagogue prayers and classical music form a distinctive universal language. The New York City-based, Israeli-born saxophonist, composer and bandleader explores fundamental connections between ancient and modern musical traditions and excels at using and developing microtonality on the saxophone. Together in the now established quartet with his compatriot Nitai Hershkovits on piano, Greek bassist Petros Klampanis and American drummer Johnathan Blake, Tzur creates music to meditate and melt away.