For perspective’s sake, I feel like I should share with you some background details about this concert review, given how I felt about it beforehand.

The Regatta Bar in Cambridge, Mass., is a dimly lit, homely and tight-fitting club tucked into the second floor of the famous Charles Hotel. It is the ideal setting for Israeli-American jazz collaboration Third World Love, which performed there before a sold-out crowd on March 12. On tour in celebration of their newest record and second U.S. release, New Blues, Third World Love riveted a mesmerized crowd with an organic combination of compositional forms that blend jazz, African, Latin and Middle Eastern music.