Clarinetist David Krakauer is known as both a classical virtuoso and a hard-rocking player of klezmer, the instrumental music of East European Jewry. Several years ago, he connected with DJ Socalled, ...
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There’s a branch of musical discourse, typified by the neo-classical puritanism of Wynton Marsalis, that likes to distinguish between “real” jazz and “fake” jazz. The “real” or “genuine” or “authentic ...
The re-acquaintance of klezmer, Eastern European Jewish modes and rhythms, with American jazz is currently at its height. Initially, Jewish immigrant musicians arriving during the late 1800s and early ...
During the the 1980s, when the traditional dance music of East European Jews known as klezmer was enjoying a revival, Pete Sokolow was called "the youngest of the old guys." "Now I'm the oldest old ...
This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. At the Orchard Estate ...
Clarinet great Michael Winograd will lead all-star musicians in a performance “Tanz,” a groundbreaking recording that flopped in 1956. (New York Jewish Week) — In 1955, a group of musicians gathered ...
Klezmer is the sound of the ghettos and shtetls, the music played at weddings and bar mitzvahs in the Old World. It belongs - or so I once imagined - to a world far away and long ago, to elderly ...
"This is not your zayde's (grandfather's) klezmer," says clarinet virtuoso David Krakauer, who has insistently expanded the idiomatic possibilities of contemporary klezmer music. Krakauer has turned ...