Early Afternoons by Inbar Fridman, Shlomi Mantsur

EARLY AFTERNOONS is a collaboration between Jazz guitarist Inbar Fridman, and bass player Shlomi Mantsur, exploring their favorite Jazz standards. Both Shlomi and Inbar are Israeli born and raised musicians. It was only natural they ended up meeting each other outside of where they spent most of their lives: William Paterson University, NJ, USA. During school days, their intense relationshipconsisted of daily binges of chocolate chip cookies and OJ, sharing a “General Tsao” dish at the local Chinese fast food restaurant, and practicing jazz standards for hours every day. After college they both went their separate ways, and fell out of touch. Twenty some years have gone by before they bumped into each other on the street one day. Playing together again felt like the most natural thing. They started meeting regularly in Shlomi's studio in Tel Aviv. Spending early
afternoons together, making new- old music again.

Inbar Fridman is an Israeli jazz guitarist. Inbar performed alongside renowned musicians such as Billy Cobham, Aaron Goldberg, Steve Cardenas, Will Vinson, Myron Walden and Harry Whitaker.
After studying in Rimon school of music, Inbar moved to the US to pursue a BM degree at William Paterson University in NJ.
Moving back to Israel in 2005, she tours regularly throughout Europe and Israel.