February 21 at
All Souls at Sundown:

Itai Kriss, flute

Aaron Goldberg, piano
Gianluca Renzi, bass
Yonadav Halevy, drums

and the poetry of Joy Harjo



Itai Kriss is a dynamic flutist whose musical style encompasses jazz, Latin and Middle Eastern sounds. Trained in Israel, Itai currently resides in New York where he continues to play with some of the most exciting jazz musicians in town, including Dafnis Prieto, Harry Whitaker, Joe Locke, Gregory Hutchinson, Andy Gonzalez, Omer Avital, Yosvany Terry, Edmar Castaneda, Avishai Cohen, Eric McPherson, Jason Lindner, Alon Yavnai, and Aaron Goldberg, to name a few. Itai Kriss is currently involved in writing for and playing in a variety of ensembles including The Itai Kriss Quartet and La Bola. He is an arranger, producer and musical director for Latin, jazz and pop recordings, and his own albums include The Shark and Sababa.

Winner of the National Book Award and author of six volumes of poetry, Joy Harjo is recognized as one of our foremost poets. She belongs to the Muskogee Nation, teaches at UCLA, and travels widely playing saxophone with her band Poetic Justice. “If Whitman were a Muskogee jazzman, he would have written this…a stunning, mature, wholehearted, musical series of poems…brilliant, unforgettable.” (Booklist)