Jazz

Music, kabbalah, and time: Inside Eduard Shyfrin’s kabbalistic soundscape

In his latest album, Eduard Shyfrin weaves contemporary music with the spiritual depth of Jewish mysticism, creating a deeply reflective listening experience.

Shyfrin (center) at Abbey Road Studios with producer Mike Hedges (L) and arranger Fred Luzignant
The newly added lettering for US President Donald Trump's name is displayed at the facade of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, US, December 19, 2025

Veteran Jazz ensemble cancel New Year’s show over Trump Kennedy Center renaming

MOROCCAN ARTIST Hind Ennaira will perform at the World. Jazz. Music. Festival.

Open for business in Ra’anana: A new jazz festival spreads its musical options

LES HARICOTS Rouges brings New Orleans to Tel Aviv.

French jazz combo Les Haricots Rouges brings gaiety to New Orleans fest in Tel Aviv


Grapevine October 14 2022: The call of Bahrain

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef share a humorous moment in the rabbi’s sukkah.

‘I Am A Guitar’ international festival unveils the riches of Polish classical guitar music

Polish strings attached: Kowalski’s festival concert at Tzavta should be thoroughly entertaining, engaging, enlightening and pretty exciting, too.

 ACCLAIMED POLISH guitarist Mateusz Kowalski will be appearing in the I Am A Guitar festival, this month.

Legendary pop band Police get some Irish jazzy Jaffa joy

Cork, Ireland-based Dunlea is one of the stars at this year’s International Jaffa Jazz Festival, the seventh edition of which takes place at ZOA House in Tel Aviv October 13-15.

 IRELAND-BASED Paul Dunlea, one of the stars at this year’s International Jaffa Jazz Festival

Polish Jazz Festival returns to Israel for the third time

The third annual Polish Jazz Festival takes place this week at the Gray Club in Tel Aviv (September 13-15), under the artistic directorship of Barak Weiss.

 SAXOPHONIST Marta Wajdzik: There is a huge number of great musicians from Poland.

The Red Sea Jazz Festival returns

The three-day program, scheduled for the weekend of November 10-12, takes in a mix of stellar acts and younger kids on the musical block. 

 JACOB COLLIER

The Israeli jazz singer Daphna Levy performed at Bansko Jazz Festival

Last month, the Israeli singer Daphna Levy took over the stage of the famous Bansko Jazz Festival and fascinated the audience with her incredible performance together with her band.

 Jazz festival in Bansko

Mattan Klein sounds off at Serbian jazz festival


Israeli Music rocks the Roman Colosseum


Sing a song of URU with Daniel Sarid

The URU guys bided their time and worked through the material numerous times, in all sorts of situations, before they were ready to lay it down for posterity. Now it’s time to hear it live.

 DANIEL SARID: This music is so visceral and challenging that you need a human voice in there.

Rolf Eden, Germany’s leading playboy who fought for Israel, dies at 92

Eden settled in West Berlin in 1956, beginning a career in entertainment that gave him the reputation as an “eternal playboy” and “king of nightlife” in Berlin. 

 German Nightclub owner Rolf Eden with two unidentified girls pose on the red carpet before the German Film Prize (Lola) ceremony in Berlin April 27, 2012.