Berklee College of Music

Over the last couple of decades, 40-year-old British-born Canadian saxophonist Seamus Blake has made a name for himself as one of the most…

For over 20 years many of our budding jazz musicians have been relocating to New York as soon as they can. Considering the Big Apple has been the…

The next installment of this year’s Hot Jazz series offers a breath of foreign fresh air in the shape of Korean-born vocalist Malo and her compatriot…

It was akin to Charlie Buckets pulling the golden ticket out of the chocolate bar, when Kostas Karamitroudis received a phone call last year asking…

‘I love chamber music and I never miss an opportunity to play it,” says 30-year-old Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival participant,…

They do say, don’t they, that it is generally a folly to try to relive your past. You can’t go back, right? Try telling Chick Corea that. On…

The biggest jazz event of the year is once again upon us, and there will be no less than 32 shows on three stages spread out over the fourday Red Sea…

It’s a long way from a bedroom in Beersheba to a recording studio in Los Angeles and concert stages around the world. But Guy Erez can clearly trace…

Can you imagine the kind of dinner conversations that Diana Krall and her husband Elvis Costello must have been having the last couple months? “You…

If you really want to hear Esperanza Spalding get excited talking about jazz, ask her about its effect on 5- year-olds. Speaking by phone from her…

It’s the equivalent of an aspiring attorney getting accepted to Harvard Law School. For most young jazz musicians, attending the Berklee College of…

Holon saxophonist and Berklee College of Music student Eyal Shmuel Hai has been chosen as an inaugural member for the Berklee Global Jazz Institute…

With Omar Farouk Tekbilek you can always bank on getting a lot more than just top-grade musical entertainment. You don't need to hear more than a…

Waif-like thin with spiky jet-black hair and a sassy look, Hiromi isn't your standard jazz pianist. And like Sting, Pink, Bono or Slash, she even…

"Ask him about his sixth finger," a friend advised when he heard I was going to talk to hard rock guitar legend Steve Vai. The friend had just…

As the Tel Aviv centenary bandwagon rolls on, the celebratory entertainment spread seems to be leaving practically no cultural stone unturned. Idan…

Adrian Iaies is living proof that is doesn't matter from where you hail - it's what you do when you get to money time that matters. The 48-year-old…

SECURITY PERSONNEL at Beit Hanassi were somewhat taken aback last week when the attractive woman accompanying Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, the President…

BOSTON - Gili Hirsch has a passion for singing Stephen Sondheim. But before this summer, the musical theater devotee did not know how to swing. For…

In pure marketing terms, Esperanza Spalding has at least a couple of things going for her - her gender and her instrument. Not that bassist-vocalist…