The Exiles of Israeli Jazz Musicians

ECUJE, 119 Rue La Fayette

Since the early 1990s, many jazz musicians from Israel have had to pass through New York or Europe to build their international careers.\n\nAnat Cohen, Omer Avital, Oded Tzur, and Gilad Hekselman remain based in the United States. Yaron Herman and Yoni Zelnik have chosen Paris. Others, such as Avishai Cohen, Yonathan Avishai, or Anat Fort, felt the need to return to Israel.\nThrough these trajectories, Alex Dutilh will tell a story of departures, apprenticing, circulations, and returns. An exploration of what exile t…