- courtesy of the artist
- Omer Avital
The 2015 edition of the Israeli Jazz & World Music Festival kicked off last night at Constellation with a performance by Tammy Scheffer’s Morning Bound, a bland pop-jazz project based in New York. The program steps up tonight when bassist Omer Avital presents his quintet for a two-evening stint at the Green Mill. The bassist, composer, and bandleader is one of the most prolific, imaginative, and active figures in the bustling community of Israeli expats working in the New York jazz scene—he leads his own strong groups and works as a propulsive sideman in many others. On last year’s New Song (Motema) he made his boldest attempt to fold the folkloric sounds of his homeland within a postbop setting, with mixed results.
Today’s playlist:
