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Film: Chico & Rita (2010)

Hard to put ‘Chico & Rita’ is an a category and this is a testimony of the fact that animated movies, even those that are created in the ‘classical’ 2-D format like this one transcend nowadays genres and express more … Continue reading

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Cuban Night at ‘Hot Jazz’

  The Hot Jazz series at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art continue their exploration in the contemporary international jazz landscape, and the diversity of the artists and sounds brought up to the Israeli scene of jazz is one of … Continue reading

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McCoy Tyner in Israel

    Some of my finest and dearest memories are of having seen live a few of the jazz giants I had the chance to be contemporary with. Among them Thelonius Monk, Lionel Hampton, Dave Brubeck, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, … Continue reading

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An Evening with the Brubecks

I spent last night an evening with the Brubecks. The host was the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the art film festival Epos now at its third edition. Unfortunately I knew too little about the event in the past … Continue reading

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Jazz: Jesse Davis and Victor Lewis in Tel Aviv

The 4th concert of the Hot Jazz series at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art played on much more traditional ground than the previous concerts, bringing on stage a couple of well known and experienced American instrumentalists – saxophonist Jesse … Continue reading

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Simone Kopmajer in Tel Aviv

The value of a cycle like the Hot Jazz series at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art is measured also in discovering and revealing to audiences less explored territories on the jazz planet. Austria is certainly a place appreciated for … Continue reading

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Sanda Weigl in Tel Aviv

How comes it that I did not know at least her name before? Sanda Weigl is a superb musician, with a deep and moving voice, whose art has its roots in the Gypsy and Romanian traditional music which she processed … Continue reading

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Johnny Raducanu (1931 – 2011)

Johny Raducanu was one of the best jazz-men of Romania, maybe the best ever. He was a complex artist, descendent of a dinasty of musicians, he played the piano and the bass, he taught and inspired for decades many generations … Continue reading

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Jazz: Ramon Valle and Denise Jannah in Tel Aviv

The new season of the Hot Jazz series at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art started started this year earlier than usual. A new and better Web site, a Facebook group and video presentations by the series organizer Ziv Ben … Continue reading

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Jazz: Ceumar in Tel Aviv

I hesitated on the title of this note about the concert last night, the last of the season in the Hot Jazz series at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, a season about I already wrote that it was one … Continue reading

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