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[Marek Boym]

Just back from another exciting performance by Isradixie.  That band
seems to be improving from day to day!
Very often it has new numbers.  Today it was the old standard "Sweet
Lorraine," with a newarrangement by Avram Felder, based on the Jimmie
Noone rendition.  Avram heard in on 20's Jazz , jotted down an
arrangement and sent it to Merton Cahm, the band's clarinet and tenor
sax player.  It started with just clarinet, soprano sax (in place of
Joe Poston's alto) and rhythm, but towards the end the whole band
joined in.   Jacques Sany was featured on A Moi de Payer, also a
Felder arrangement.  Actually, most, if not all, numbers are Felder
arrangements.
Wit hfour strong, pianoless rhythm section, Isradixie drives like mad.
 It has a banjo, a tuba, a washboard (doubling on ukele banjo) and
drums.  The front section of four - Felder on trumpet and flugelhorn,
Yossi Regev (trombone), the octogenerian Jacques Sany (soprano) and
another octogenerian, Merton Cahm, is outstanding.  How do they age so
well!
The audience was small but enthusiastic.  Usually there are more
people, but this has been a long weekend (Thursday was the
Independence Day), so many people were probably too exhausted to go
out in the evening.  There was plenty of parking in the huge parking
lot, normally full to capacity (the Shablul club is located in the
Tel-Aviv Port, which has become an entertainment area).  The washboard
player and singer Paul Moore is very entertainig, and hardly ever
sings the words straight.  On "Wonderfu World," for example, he saw a
sky of green (followed by "I'm stoned again and so may be you," or
something to that effect).  And he tells jokes, which   unforunately
are lost on a part of the audience, as they are in English.  Aharoni
Ben Ari and Shay Buxbaum (banjo and tuba, respectively) traded eights
to good effect.  I did not get the surname of the drummer, who osubbed
for the group's regular one.
Cheers