Jazzing up the Red Sea - 21 August 2011

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Jazzing up the Red Sea For the 25th year, the Red Sea Jazz Festival brings top talent to Eilat for a late August event that’s hot on the music scene. (By Rivka Borochov ) Eddie Palmieri Jazz is Paris and Paris is jazz, as the song goes, but so is Montreux, Switzerland, and Montreal, Canada. Israel, too, rocks its own international jazz event every year, on the sunny shores of Eilat. For jazz lovers, the Red Sea Jazz Festival  marks an auspicious time to be in southern Israel in August, despite the heat. Now celebrating its 25th run, this year’s festival, from August 21 to 24, is likely to prove once again to be a colorful and exciting musical event.