Noam David: Beat & Rhythms

Noam David, born 1971 in Jerusalem, is a drummer and a composer. Performing with his Trio (Omri Mor/Shai Bachar-Piano, Oriental keyboards and Avri Borochov -Bass and Oud) and with the International AVISHAI COHEN'S TRIO.

Recognised by his creative playing style and his distinctive, rich, complex polyrhythmic rhythms. Noam's…

"Jazz music dissembles the brainwashing of bigotry and racism for a period of time…but like a rubber band stretched...the programming snaps back into place over time..."

Knoel Scott: The Sound of Spirit …

"My hope is that people will start making more music with instruments and not machines and that good creative music will continue to be cherished & supported. My fear is that we will no longer own music and uses cd players etc and that everything will be controlled on a cloud type system."

David…

"Mark Twain was at the font of the American vernacular style the blues and jazz gave Impetus to, and we can put Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, Jack London, a few others there, too. Then read the fiction of Dasheill Hammett, Enest Hemingway, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Ishmael Reed, Chester Himes – "hear" the rhythms and snap of their language, the sounds of people meeting in the streets and taverns of modern cities –…

"The more we know about music and other cultural forms, the more we get to understand the beauty there is in diversity by learning another culture, whether its music, language or art....we learn to appreciate understand and respect all …"

Deepak Ram: The Beauty…

"This music has influenced people all over the world because you have the freedom of self-expression through improvisation. This allows the performer to delve deep into their souls to bring out their upmost feeling which enables them to touch someone. No words are needed. As the world change, so does the music."…

"I associate the blues with life. I think the blues represents every facet of life out there, whether it be good, sad, or bad, or anything else. In other words, I think the blues is the soundtrack to life." 

Alicia Marie Venchuk: The Future…

George Trantalidis is the living history of the Greek jazz: one of the major figures of the European jazz scene.

George Trantalidis: Global Jazz

George Trantalidis is the living history of…

"Music has a very special way to get directly in peoples’ hearts. In the racial, political and social areas though, there is still much work to be done, that goes over the impact that music can have on our lives."

Eva Atmatzidou: No Limits, One Music…

"Jazz has always been political and I feel that it needs to continue to be a platform for artists to express their beliefs and their support for the kinds of political policies they believe in."

Allan Harris: A Protean Jazzman…

"Jazz is an African-based music. You don't have to be African to play it but you must understand the "African" aspects of the music in order to play it the right way. What is great is that Jazz is America's only original art form."

Larry Coryell: The Jazz Vision of…

"Language knows more than you do, how can you and language inform each other. Imagination can be contagious. This isn’t about you. Ask not what you can do with language but what can language do with you."

Dan Raphael: Music in Poetland…

"Its known that Blues as an African American expression transcended the colors and us, white, Latin, Asian, and all kinds started loving it just as much. If anything, like before, art transcends everything else. And we are all one again, fighting the same fight, sharing the same pain, needing the same love."…

"Jazz and Blues have both changed the culture and in turn have been changed by it. The way musicians view society and culture affects the way they present their music and sometimes this is an expression of political ideas."

Rich Halley: The Nature of Expression…

"It (Blues & Jazz) is a shared interest among those dedicated to the art—we respect one another—honor the music above all. This transcends race and politics."

Kay Andreas Kostopoulos: Exotica

Black Olive…

"Music is supposed to be beautiful, it should move your heart and it shoul move the hearts of the listeners."

Kinga Głyk: The Rising Star

Kinga Głyk is 19 years old, and she has played more than 100…

"The Blues is very similar to literary elegy and satire, it is the expression of longing and loss."

Stanley Fefferman: Wonderful World

Canadian Stanley Fefferman is professor emeritus at York University,…

"The social-cultural implications of jazz could be seen as a melting pot of black and white on both the stage and in the audiences of the 50s and 60s, at a time when racial discrimination was rife. Jazz musicians played from their hearts, which might be seen as being spiritual."

David…

"Cannot imagine something like to hope or to fear about music. She does well!"

Tonia Ainot (aka τώ.ρά.): Jazz In Art

The Greek visual artist Tonia Ainot (aka τώ.ρά.), exhibits a series of portraits of…

"I’d like to change dramatically the music from the 80% of TV channels and radio stations."

Alexandru Cismaru: Blues Soul, Jazz Heart

Romanian blues-rock,…