{"id":35626,"date":"2016-11-23T00:59:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T07:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=35626"},"modified":"2017-05-05T00:33:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T07:33:23","slug":"tel-aviv-jazz-festival-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=35626","title":{"rendered":"Tel Aviv Jazz Festival 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35423\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_7764-584x383.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35423\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_7764-584x383.jpg\" alt=\"Quarter to Africa\/Photo: MUPERPHOTO\" width=\"584\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_7764-584x383.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_7764-584x383-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quarter to Africa\/Photo: MUPERPHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Tel Aviv Jazz Festival will take place from December 7 \u2013 9, 2016, with a terrific lineup of musicians, original productions and cool collaborations. <!--more-->Performances will take place at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, and Zappa Tel Aviv, Herzliya, Jerusalem and Haifa. Free outdoor performances in the festival tent will take place every night at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, in addition to the ticketed concerts. On Friday afternoon, there will be an outdoor jam \u2013 free and open to all. Festival Artistic Directors are Barak Weiss, Gilad Emilio Shenkar and Avi Yosef. The festival is produced by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality Performing Arts Department in collaboration with Zappa.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets may be purchased online via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zappa-club.co.il\/%D7%AA%D7%92%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA\/%D7%A4%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%99%D7%91%D7%9C-%D7%94%D7%92%D7%90%D7%96-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zappa<\/a>, or call *9080.<\/p>\n<p>Some festival highlights:<\/p>\n<p>The Sama Trio \u2013 Hamid Drake (drums &amp; percussion), Ari Brown (saxophone), Joshua Abrams (double bass, guimbri &#8211; three string North African bass lute) \u2013 will be performing on Friday, December 9<sup>th<\/sup> at 13:00. Hamid Drake is a mesmerizing performer of amazing intensity, hearing him perform at the Tel Aviv Jazz Festival in 2011 with Albert Beger was a memorable and moving experience. In Drake&#8217;s words, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=10302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">from that concert<\/a>: \u00a0\u201cthe stage is really an illusion\u2026we discovered there is a circle of energy that creates this whole thing. Where does it begin, does it begin with us or with you?\u2026I feel the energy just is, and we are lucky enough to tap into it, to be a vessel that it can flow through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guitarist Al Di Meola will be performing songs from his latest album <em>Elysium<\/em> on Wednesday, December 7<sup>th<\/sup> at 22:30.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TmYou1b0SAo?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nJane Monheit will be performing songs from her latest album <em>Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald<\/em>, with new arrangements by acclaimed trumpet player Nicholas Payton, on Friday, December 9<sup>th<\/sup> at 13:00. The album is a tribute to Fitzgerald&#8217;s series recorded between 1956 \u2013 1964, dedicated to the great composers Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington and more. Enjoy Monheit singing Payton&#8217;s arrangement for Johnny Mercer&#8217;s song Something&#8217;s Gotta Give:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y0dgXPF3KAE?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An exciting Israeli collaboration at the festival will be Quarter to Africa hosting Ester Rada \u2013 an evening of musical fusion on December 8<sup>th<\/sup> at 22:30. The instrumental ensemble has an intoxicating groove fusing traditional Arabic maqam scales and African rhythms with jazz and funk \u2013 all this and the powerful vocals of Ester Rada!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FYsndqsSXR8?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Links: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/telavivjazzfest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tel Aviv Jazz Festival on facebook\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tel Aviv Jazz Festival will take place from December 7 \u2013 9, 2016, with a terrific lineup of musicians, original productions and cool collaborations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}