The Wizard of Oz. Noy. There’s no man behind the curtain. He’s the real deal. A working musician since the age of 13, a session musician no less, he took his native Israel by a rock/pop/jazz storm, a recognized part of their hit talk show house band by his early 20s. He’s been killing it worldwide since.

No drinks, no drugs, fastidious practice, make the man, and the musician.

With 10 albums of his own, Oz has played with just about everybody. Including his heroes. Getting to play rhythm guitar on Walk This Way with Steve Tyler and Joe Perry, one highlight. I saw him kill Get Out Of My Life Woman with Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top two weeks ago, https://bit.ly/2CHkDu3

We talked his yellow brick road, and how he’s found his way home, doing what he loves, and loving it.

Jazz may be one of his things, but he loves pop, rock and the blues and has mastered and is in demand cross-genre. Playing an Elton John tune with Sting another highlight, and with Cyndi Lauper for the Dalai Lama- does that story have a punchline. There’s also been Chris Botti, Harry Belafonte, Clay Aiken, Toni Braxton, Phoebe Snow, Nile Rogers,The Allman Brothers, Allen Toussaint, Eric Johnson, Don Was, Nelly Furtado, Jennifer Hudson, Don Henley, Michael Buble, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Sting, Steve Perry, Allison Krauss, and Foreigner, for Chrissakes!

Almost all of our guests are friends; I was a bit trepidatious having barely met Oz recently. What a great pleasure to find him warm, easy, affable, generous, thoughtful, helpful, humble, and fun. The only drag was not having an amp so we could sample his gifts. We can here: http://www.oznoy.com/discography/ Loving his band Ozone Squeeze.

I was schooled, edu-tained, and happy. What’s better than that? Well, besides that…

Oz Noy on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson

Wed, 1/23/19, 7 pm PT/ 10 pm ET

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