Rockfour established a new sound in the Israeli rock scene of the 90's. This is the band's 1996 tribute to Arik Einstein's albums from the 70's-Poozy, Shablool and Plastelina, best of Einstein works from that era and representing the Israeli pop-rock-prog scene. songs: Shablool, Avshalom, Lama li lakahat lalev, Al tavatri alay, Kach lecha isha, Ani shar, Prague, Tov li, Kama Ham, ma Sheyoter amok yoter kachol, ma iti, Hayo haya.

The band was formed in 1993 in Tel Aviv, by Yahaly Sobol as vocalist and guitarist, Peter Rott as guitarist, Eldad Guetta on the organ, Yossi Hamami on bass, and Shachar Even-Tzur as drummer and vocalist. It was named after a famous female bass player, who performed some of their and Sobol's former band "Pag"'s songs.
Sobol, the leader and main artist of the group, wrote a few songs, and shortly the band began to record Wounds and Kisses. The album was released in 1995, but got little success. Yet, with their song Makka Aphora as the tittle songs of the cult series Florentin, the band became a new sensation. Since their soft rock and mainstream style, three more songs from the albums received massive airplay on the radio.

“Ha’Keves Ha’Shisha Asar” (Hebrew: הכבש השישה עשר) is a name of a children’s book, a show and a music album.
The song book “Ha’Keves Ha’Shisha Asar” was written by Jonathan Geffen when he lived in Paris. In 1978 the music album based on the song book Geffen wrote was produced with a participate of famous singers in Israel. The album had a great success, especially the songs “Gan Sagur” (Hebrew: גן סגור) and “Ha’Yalda Ha’chi Yafa Ba’Gan” (Hebrew: הילדה הכי יפה בגן).

This is the Second Album by Girafot, After six years since the "talking with a chair" album.
("Remy is accused of possession of soft drugs", "Wow," He's got girls like water ").
the Band, during the six years since the first album came out, never stopped Preforming and the crowd would not stop flowing.
Performances of the band's has been made widely known for Gilad Kahana's Spirit and enthusiasm.
the Band positions itself as one of the major bands, estimated in popularity.
Radio stations also have internalized the potential hit "roof" (the first single released) and put the song onto the charts and Playlists (Galgalatz, network G. regional radio stations).

The Witches from Israel is a very influencing group that was active in the years 1992-1997.
They were fronted by Inbal Perlmutter(ענבל פרלמוטר). Perlmutter founded the band, along with Ifat Netz and Yael Cohen.
The band began to perform in clubs around Israel, and got public notice on a TV show called “Songs of the Sea of Galilee”, hosted by Naomi Shemer. The Witches performed a sensual version of Shemer’s song Kesem ‘Al Yam Kinneret (“Magic on the Sea of Galilee”) which astounded both the audience and the host. This version was recorded in April 1993, and was released as a DJ record with cover art by Perlmutter...
This is a double Collection summarizes the band's work period. The first disc contains studio recordings. the entire second disc is a live concert recordings. The album also containsTwo songs that was'nt appeared on any album.

Genre crossing guitarist and oudist Amos Hoffman’s newest release Carving (RazDaz 2010), makes his musical statement in two languages – guitar and oud. From the up tempo, almost danceable oud featured on Brown Sugar, to the scat influenced guitar on Ras, the tracks on Carving weave between instruments and moods, continuing to explore the boundaries of Jazz. Hoffman describes it as “a bunch of different parts that come together in a way that feels right to me. It's not always straight forward or easy to define, but that’s what makes life interesting”.

Yair Dalal, born in 1955; composer, violinist, oud player and singer; is probably the most prolific Israeli ethnic musician and plays an important role in shaping the global world music scene. Over the last decade he has put 11 albums, covering wide and varied cultural territory, and authentically representing Israel’s cultures and fusing them through music as whole.
"The oud is the most beautiful and important musical instrument in the middle east. It is the most beloved and shared instrument for Arabs and Jews. With the oud, as in the desert, time resonates in its own unique, boundless form, a type of Taqsim. Peace, too, takes its time”.

Israeli Marsh Dondurma is a kind of New Orleans-ean/Balkan/fifteen-player jubilant marching band named after a favorite Turkish ice-cream. The combo adds Klezmer, Turkish and other Middle-Eastern and even Brazilian batucada-based spices to this percolating stew, all baked through an Ellingtonian framework. A much more sober version of Goran Bregovi''s Music for Weddings and Funerals (2002) or Emir Kusturica's No Smoking Orchestra, and certainly more disciplined than the Japanese Shibusashirazu Orchestra, but still delivering the sane joie de vivre. This second recording was released just after band returned from successful performances at the 2007 Montreal Jazz Festival.

Sam Barsh is one of those delightful free spirits, one who agrees to pose naked on the back cover of his debut CD save for a strategically placed melodica covering his butt. His music is cheeky as well, which seems to be dedicated to his rigid but well-meaning music teachers. A former member of the Avishai Cohen Trio, Barsh has created a quirky-but-endearing pop-jazz CD with many pleasing moments perfect Sunday morning with a cup of Joe. “Plans Change” and “This Is The Song” are simple and enjoyable, but the real fun begin with songs like “Wake Up and Smile”, Barsh's melodica answering Tim Collin's videos work.
Throw in some dub (“George Dub”), easy sway (“nuTrance”) and the mesmerizing loop of “Jew Hefner”, and you have one fine contemporary jazz CD, lean and so fun to listen to. Don't know if his jazz teachers would approve, but I Forgot What You Taught Me is a hell of a sweet listen. Holding down the bottom admirably are Ari Folman-Cohen on bass and Jaimeo Brown on drums...

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Critically acclaimed tenor saxophonist Jimmy Greene will release a new CD, Mission Statement, on April 7 on Sunnyside/Razdaz Recordz, home to such eclectic artists as Sam Barsh and Amos Hoffman. Razdaz founder, bassist Avishai Cohen, in whose band Greene played during the nineties, says, “Jimmy is one of the most exciting and innovative musicians in the scene today. He continues the legacy of such greats as John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. I’m a fan.” Mission Statement features Greene’s working band of Xavier Davis (keyboards), Reuben Rogers (bass) and Eric Harland (drums) – a stellar quartet who have performed together since 2002, and who first recorded with Greene on his 2006 Criss Cross release, True Life Stories. Guitarist Lage Lund is featured throughout, and vibraphonist Stefon Harris guests on one track, the spirited “Revelation.” “Playing with Stefon is a joy. His creative energy, attention to detail, and soulfulness are inspirational, to say the least. He sounds great in any context,” enthused Greene.

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Avishai playing an amazing Gig with his Trio, at Leverkusen Jazz Festival - Doing most of the songs from 'Gently Disturbed' Album.

In recent years, due to our numerous performances with the great Solis String Quartet from Naples (with whom we also recorded and album and DVD at a live concert in Holon) we learnt many Neapolitan songs and made a special project of these songs as a type of gesture in gratitude to our Italian audience that has for years been accepting and embracing our music and ourselves with much love.

Pianist and composer Vagif Mustafazade (1940-1979) was the creator of the jazz mugham movement in Azerbaijan in the 1960s. By merging two musical genres - Western jazz and Eastern mugham, a type of traditional improvisational modal music - he created "mugham jazz", a new sound that was uniquely Azerbaijani. Familiar Eastern melodies found new expression in Mustafazade's free-spirited piano stylistics...

"People like Vagif are heroes," says Javanshir. "They struggled against their environs-against people who didn't understand them. They had to be so strong just to keep doing their own work and not betray their own artistic integrity."
"Censorship was everywhere. Music was not exempt. Anything that was not in conformity with the Soviet ideology was disapproved and banned. If, in the opinion of some high official, a work was not in tune with the Soviet ideology, the doors were slammed shut.
Alternatively, they would suggest that an artist create something that would glorify the Soviet system. They would openly say: 'If you do so-and-so, your job will be much easier.' So musicians and composers had to become very clever to accomplish their own personal goals."
Eybat Mammadbeyli, a member of the vocal group called "Sevil" that Vagif created to perform on TV, recalls such compromises. Vagif was severely restricted. "They didn't let us play jazz on TV so we played Vagif's pieces after work. Unfortunately, our audience was limited. Only after we resigned from the TV post were we able to spend our time performing concerts and were less restricted."
"It was only because of Vagif's determination that he continued with jazz..."

This collection of 6 CD's features 80 of his works, many of them from Vinyl LPs released during his lifetime; others are rare, unreleased selections from the 1960s and 1970s recorded at baku's Radio and television Studios, or preserved at Azerbaijan's National Voice Recording Archive.