- Carsten Fleck
- Reut Regev
The second Israeli Jazz & World Music Festival kicked off on Tuesday, but some of the best shows take place in the coming week. In this week’s paper I wrote a preview of Sunday’s concert by the trio led by trumpeter Avishai Cohen—arguably the most exciting Israeli jazz musician in the world—but another terrific New York-based expat will take the stage on Tuesday at the Chicago Cultural Center. Avishai’s better-known sister Anat will lead her terrific quartet next weekend at the Green Mill. Since relocating to New York from Tel Aviv over a decade ago, trombonist Reut Regev has been a steady presence in a number of stylistically disparate bands—various Anthony Braxton ensembles, experimental Latin-jazz band Positive Catastrophe, and other projects led by folks including Michael Attias, fellow Israeli Assif Tsahar, and Adam Lane.
Ellery Eskelin, Susan Alcorn, and Michael Formanek, Mirage (Clean Feed)Marc Moulin, Placebo Years, 1971-1974 (Blue Note)Joe Morris & Barre Phillips, Elm City Duets 2006 (Clean Feed)Samba Touré, Songhai Blues: Homage to Ali Farka Toure (Riverboat)Jackie Lee, The Mirwood Masters (Kent)
