Jaffa Road

Name:  Jaffa Road Country: Canada Genre: Nu-Jazz, Roots Music Website: Click Here    Follow The Band:

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About Jaffa Road

Juno-nominated  Jaffa Road is much more than a pleasing collision of world music; it’s a rich aural sound-scape that grants the listener an escape to places familiar, yet unknown. The Middle East? India, North America? Difficult to place because it’s a true fusion of Diaspora Roots music & Middle Eastern and Jewish folk music descended from its original Hebrew, following its cultural displacement to Europe, America, Asia and all points beyond.

This award winning group Lead vocalist Aviva Chernick enchants with spellbinding vocal explorations, as founder and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Lightstone, Chris Gartner, Sundar Viswanathan and Jeff Wilson blend guitar, oud, sax, flute, bansuri,  bass ,driving percussion and electrifying improvisations to arrive at an other-worldly destination that embraces the music of many countries, as it courts dub reggae, funk and electronica along its path.

Traditional sounds meet free-form, if not the avant-garde as ancient and original Hebrew, Spanish and English poetry marries to core elements of jazz, and global folk styles, to create a true world fusion on a virtuosic scale