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This year’s Tel Aviv Jazz Festival will take place at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque between February 15 and February 18 with a lineup that offers a…

If you’re in the neighborhood of Netanya this Saturday night, be prepared to have a smile on your face – especially if you go along to the Young…

For fans of swing and big band music, Glenn Miller remains a legendary name. But thanks to the efforts of The Glenn Miller Orchestra for Europe, that…

With demons stirring within characters, love emerging between two people with conflicting intentions and separate paths to follow, and a passion for…

This decade was dominated by forgettable big-budget films with increasingly sophisticated special effects. People tended to turn to television…

Critics call him a poet of the bass, and he is considered by international musicians and fans as one of the most innovative and exceptional musicians…

AFTER ALL the speculation as to whether or not President Shimon Peres would receive an honorary knighthood from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II during…

This year's Hot Jazz series kicks off in style. First up in the six act series, which runs till next June, is acclaimed vocalist Kevin Mahogany who…

Sixty-two-year-old Mikhail Heybudin considers himself lucky. Employed full time as a handyman at the Hed College of Contemporary Music in Tel Aviv,…

Ask the ordinary Itzik or Ronit on the street to name the instrument they identify most with jazz, and the odds are they will go for the saxophone or…

They say artists are generally a sensitive bunch - at least the genuine ones. If sensitivity is anything to go by, then Hamid Drake is the real…

It all started decades ago when a young sabra, Yoni Shacham, set out to prepare himself for studies at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music. "I liked jazz,"…

Around 20 years ago, jazz vocalist Sheila Jordan delighted audiences at the Red Sea Jazz Festival in Eilat by saying how thrilled she was to be…

When Duke Ellington composed "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" in 1932, he couldn't have known that some 70 years later this jazz…

Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and…