Thursday, February 6, 2014

Red Sea Jazz Festival takes on the world

The forthcoming fourth annual Red Sea Jazz Festival will take place in Eilat February 6-8. Perennial artistic director Dubi Lenz has put a decidedly cross-cultural world music slant on the three-day program.

One of the big names from overseas is 70-year-old guitarist Larry Coryell who, as a young musician on the New York jazz scene of the late Sixties and early Seventies, made his mark on the jazz fusion scene. The audience in Eilat will see Coryell team up with five flamenco-oriented musicians, including two guitarists, a flutist, a double bass player and a percussionist.

The ethnically inclined spread is maintained by the Leszek Mozdzer Trio, which features the Polish leader on piano, who mixes jazz with classical music, Swedish jazz bassist Lars Danielsson and stellar Israeli ethnic percussionist Zohar Fresco.
The Jerusalem Post