Cover art for the Eden Bareket Trio's "Night" (Fresh Sound Records), used as a stand-in — no free-licensed photo of Bareket could be located after a genuine search. Standard copyright, all rights reserved — held by Eden Bareket / Fresh Sound Records. This is not a Creative Commons–licensed image; it is used here as an honestly-disclosed editorial stand-in for a real photo. — Downloaded directly from Eden Bareket's press page (https://lydialiebman.com/index.php/project/eden-bareket/), hosted at https://lydialiebman.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Eden-Baraket-Cover.jpg. Saved locally as portrait.jpg in this folder.
Eden Bareket was born in Argentina and raised in Israel, starting on alto sax at 9 before deciding at 15 to specialize in baritone. He trained at the Israeli Conservatory for Music in Tel Aviv on scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Fund and the Ran Baron Memorial, studying with Erez Bar-Noy, Yuval Cohen, Amit Golan, and Avishai Cohen. In 2010, he was selected to perform an original composition at Carnegie Hall as part of a Weill Institute Young Artists Workshop directed by Dave Douglas.
He moved to New York in 2013 and quickly became an in-demand sideman, ranging from the traditionalist Eyal Vilner Big Band to drummer Ari Hoenig's adventurous nonet to the Anbessa Orchestra's Ethiopian jazz grooves. He has performed at Carnegie Hall and Jazz at Lincoln Center, and recorded with Ari Hoenig and saxophonist Chad Lefkowitz-Brown.
As a leader, he has released three trio albums on Fresh Sound New Talent: Choice (2016), Night (2019), and Day Dream (2021).
Bareket's core identity is built around the baritone saxophone as a lead voice, a less common choice in contemporary jazz, drawing on both a straight-ahead post-bop trio format on his own records and a wide range of ensemble contexts as a sideman, from big band charts to Ethiopian-jazz grooves.
Identity confirmed via Discogs artist IDs 4320381 ("Eden Bareket") and 8360511 ("Eden Bareket Trio," the same person's trio credit). A third search result, "Or Bareket," is a different Israeli bassist (also profiled in this system, O-output/28) sharing a surname; not a collision, and the two have a track-appearance credit together (see below).
| Album | Year | Label | Notes | Listen | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Choice | 2016 | Fresh Sound New Talent | Trio debut. | Bandcamp | not found |
| Night | 2019 | (self-released) | Discogs lists 2019; some secondary press dates it 2018. | Bandcamp | not found |
| Day Dream | 2021 | Fresh Sound New Talent | Most recent trio album. | Bandcamp | not found |
| Year | Release | Artist | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | I Decided! | The Amit Golan Quintet | Minton's Records | Early credit under his own teacher, Amit Golan. |
| 2019 | Upwards | Joe McCarthy / New York Afro Bop Alliance Big Band | ZOHO | |
| 2019 | 33 (track appearance) | Or Bareket | Enja Records / Yellowbird | Or Bareket profiled at O-output/28-or-bareket-spotlight; shared surname, not confirmed as a family connection. |
| 2020 | War Chant | Ajoyo | (self-released) | |
| 2024-2025 | Above Ground / Notes, Of Time | Underground Spiritual Game | Vibromonk Records | |
| 2025 | Add a Zero | Chris McCarthy Quintet | Fresh Sound New Talent |