Last updated September 10, 2026
Cover art of *Alef Melody* (2017), Noam David's debut album as leader. No CC-licensed or public-domain photograph of David could be found; this cover is used as the only available image connected to him, per the site's disclosed album-cover fallback convention. Saved locally as `portrait.jpg`. Album cover art (not a CC-licensed artist photo). Photography credited to Dan Balilty per the album's own Bandcamp credits. This is an honestly disclosed editorial stand-in, not a free-licensed image. — Retrieved from his own Bandcamp page, https://noamdavid1.bandcamp.com/album/alef-melody, image asset hosted at https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1635722085_10.jpg.
Noam David was born in Jerusalem in 1971. He has built a career largely as a sideman, most significantly across multiple recordings with bassist Avishai Cohen: a credit on the 2017 film soundtrack Le Sens de la Fête, the 2019 album Arvoles, and the 2024 album Brightlight, on which he appears among the additional/guest musicians rather than as the regular touring-trio drummer, a chair more recently held by Roni Kaspi. His own biography describes him as a member of Cohen's international trio, a framing that most likely reflects an earlier period of that relationship rather than his current standing.
His debut album as leader, Alef Melody, was self-produced and released March 29, 2017, recorded at Kicha Studios in Tel Aviv with Avishai Cohen on bass, Omri Mor on piano and oriental keyboard, and Avri Borochov on bass, with photography by Dan Balilty. The Jerusalem Post covered the album's release, quoting David: "I feel I can fly with this music. You know, improvising with music, and with life, are really just the same." He has also recorded with Jo Kaïat, on her 2020 album Come to My World, alongside Cohen, Gilad Abro and Ilan Katchka, and appears on earlier releases including the 2007 White Night Festival compilation on the Kadima Collective label.
David's recorded output centers on a stable circle of collaborators — Avishai Cohen, Omri Mor and Avri Borochov chief among them — working in a post-bop idiom with Middle Eastern coloring, most visible on his own leader session. His career reads as that of a working sideman drummer whose most significant standing credential is a long, if not currently regular, relationship with one of Israeli jazz's most internationally established bassists.
Verified against the live Discogs API. Discogs artist ID 3760152. No catalog numbers were populated in Discogs' data for any of his releases — a genuine data gap on Discogs' end, not an extraction omission.
| Year | Title | Personnel | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Alef Melody | Avishai Cohen (bass), Omri Mor (piano/oriental keyboard), Avri Borochov (bass) | Self-produced, recorded at Kicha Studios, Tel Aviv (engineer Uri "MoMo" Barak); mastered at Hook & High. Photography by Dan Balilty. |
| Year | Title (Artist) | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | White Night Festival (Various) | Kadima Collective | Appearance. |
| 2009 | Intro (Krzysztof Kobyliński) | Not On Label | Appearance. |
| 2017 | Le Sens de la Fête (film soundtrack, Avishai Cohen) | Sony Music / Masterworks | Appearance. |
| 2019 | Arvoles (Avishai Cohen) | — | Drums, alongside Elchin Shirinov. |
| 2020 | Come to My World (Jo Kaïat) | Imago Records | Drums, recorded Tel Aviv; also features Avishai Cohen (bass), Gilad Abro (double bass), Ilan Katchka (percussion). |
| 2024 | Brightlight (Avishai Cohen) | — | Drums, credited among additional/guest musicians rather than the regular touring-trio drummer (a chair more recently held by Roni Kaspi). |
An artist page under the name "Noam David" exists, and a track credit ("Ya'ala") matches a title referenced in the Alef Melody production credits, offering some corroboration — but the ID could not be fully independently confirmed as belonging to this specific artist rather than a namesake in this research pass.