Assif Tsahar

 ( Avant-garde Jazz Musicians ) 

Assif Tsahar (; born Israel, June 11, 1969) is an Israeli Tenor saxophone and . He has lived in New York City since 1990.

He has performed with Cecil Taylor, Butch Morris, William Parker, Mat Maneri, Hamid Drake, Peter Kowald, Susie Ibarra, Rashied Ali, Warren Smith, Wilbur Morris, Le Quan Ninh, John Tchicai, Fred Anderson, Rob Brown, Roy Campbell, Gerald Cleaver, Agusti Fernandez, Ken Vandermark, Kent Kessler, Joe Daley, Herb Robertson, Cuong Vu, Chris Jonas, Ori Kaplan, Oscar Noriega, Roman Stolyar, Alex Harding, Steve Swell, Cooper-Moore, and Tom Abbs

He founded the label Hopscotch Records in 1999. In 2006 he opened the music club Levontin7 with Daniel Sarid in Tel Aviv.

• Shekhina (Eremite, 1996)
• Ein Sof (Silkheart, 1997)
• Home Cookin (Hopscotch, 1998)
• The Hollow World (Hopscotch, 1999)
• Open Systems (Marge, 2001)
• Soul Bodies, vol. 1 (Ayler Records, 2001)
• Ma: Live at the Fundacio Juan Miro (Hopscotch, 2002)
• Come Sunday (Hopscotch, 2003)
• America (Hopscotch, 2003)
• JAM (Hopscotch, 2003)
• Lost Brother (Hopscotch, 2005)
• Code Re(a)d (Hopscotch, 2011)

• Digital Primitives (Hopscotch, 2007)
• Hum Crackle & Pop (Hopscotch, 2009)

• Deals, Ideas & Ideals (Hopscotch, 2001)

• Scratching the Surface (CIMP, 1998)

• Resemblance (Fuller Street Music, 2008)
• Starfish (Fuller Street Music, 2003)

• Sunrise in the Tone World (AUM Fidelity, 1995)
• Mass for the Healing of the World (Black Saint, 1998 2003)

• ''Feel the Sunshine (Justin Time, 2002)
• Revelation (Justin Time, 2004)

• Hopscotch Records website