Edgy and consummate may rarely go together, but tonight they did. This was top quality jazz: smooth and cool in places, intense and hot in others. Gilad was performing with regular partners The Orint House Ensemble (Frank Harrison, piano; Yaron Stavi, double bass; Eddie Hick, drums ) and also The Sigamos String Quartet. The set was inspired by Charlie Parker's Bird With Strings album, but, as Gilad acknowledged,there was too little Parker and too much Atzmon for it to really qualify as a tribute evening. The rare combination of strings with jazz definitely worked well, adding an extra texture which blended in most productively.

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