Gregory Golub is an Israeli composer, jazz pianist, arranger, songwriter, and independent producer whose work stands at the crossroads of jazz, contemporary instrumental music, and genre-crossing composition. His 2025 album African and Other Jazz Passions, released on his own label Gregory Golub Music Concept, reached #1 on JAZZIZ Discovery’s Inside Track chart in the United States and was accepted into the Recorded Sound Collection of the Library of Congress. Born in the former USSR and based in Israel since 1990, Golub has built an independent body of work shaped by improvisation, stylistic openness, and artistic self-direction.
Gregory Golub began playing piano at the age of 12 and later received formal musical education in Russia and Ukraine. Early in his artistic path, he took part in a jazz festival in Russia, where he received an excellence prize for best original jazz compositions.
Since moving to Israel in 1990, Golub has created a substantial body of work spanning jazz,multi -gente instrumental music, original songs, and poetic texts. Over the years, he has developed a personal musical language rooted in improvisation, melodic character, and a freedom of form that allows his work to move naturally between styles without losing its identity.
In 2004, he released his first album, Idioms, a collection of original instrumental jazz compositions that also included piano and vocal jazz improvisations. In the years that followed, he created and performed six solo programs based on his own music, songs, and poems, while also appearing on television and radio.
His 2019 album Jazz Aftertaste brought together 12 original jazz compositions ranging from blues and boogie to Latin-inflected and electronically colored pieces. The album revealed both the stylistic breadth of his writing and the artistic continuity behind it: a long-standing devotion to jazz, the spirit of improvisation, and a deeply independent creative vision.
Golub continued to develop his solo concert format in Tel Aviv, including the premiere of From Jazz to Classics and Back on October 1, 2021, and the presentation of his solo program Jazz Aftertaste on May 20, 2023.
Alongside his work as a composer and performer, Gregory Golub has also earned attention for his writing on jazz and musicians. His commentaries and artist portraits have resonated with jazz listeners, professional musicians, critics, and journalists, especially in the American jazz community.
On November 30, 2025, Golub released his third original jazz album, African and Other Jazz Passions, under his newly founded label Gregory Golub Music Concept, also known as G.G. Music Concept. The 12-track album presents a broad contemporary jazz landscape enriched by African, Latin, Spanish, and Middle Eastern colors, while remaining firmly centered on Golub’s own pianistic voice and compositional imagination.
The album became his most internationally visible release to date. In December 2025, African and Other Jazz Passions reached #1 on JAZZIZ Discovery’s Inside Track chart (USA). It also received international critical attention, with coverage in All About Jazz, B!Ritmos, JazzMania, and Jazz Journal, and gained airplay and support from jazz radio hosts and programs in both the United States and Europe.
A particularly meaningful milestone followed when African and Other Jazz Passions was accepted into the Recorded Sound Collection of the Library of Congress (USA), marking an important recognition of Gregory Golub’s work as an independent jazz artist and composer.
Golub’s recent publications have also appeared in All About Jazz and were included in the Manhattan School of Music Library’s Music Headlines feed alongside major international music coverage. Among them are the interview-portrait Nicole Zuraitis and Dan Pugach: When Jazz Is Like Love, devoted to the Grammy-winning duo’s musical and personal partnership, and the feature A New Label in Two Faces — Gregory Golub: From Jazz to Classics and Back, which introduced the launch of his independent label and surveyed the breadth of his work as a composer, jazz pianist, and songwriter.
Today, Gregory Golub continues to work independently across jazz, instrumental music, and song, creating projects marked by formal freedom, stylistic range, and a distinct personal voice.
