In the Pocket New York Performances

“In the Pocket” at Iridium brings two distinct New York guitar voices into the same set: Israeli-born Oz Noy with his trio, and veteran guitarist Peter Bernstein. The format puts ensemble listening first, with the guitars trading roles against a rhythm section built for groove and harmonic turns. Noy’s jazz-rock-funk vocabulary meets Bernstein’s straight-ahead clarity, sketching a small map of how NYC jazz has absorbed electric language without leaving the swing tradition. The pairing reads less like a feature slot than a conversation with rules.