Tag Archives: Klezmer music

Yom’s Songs for the Old Man

I’m ambivalent about the way my music streaming service uses an algorithm to guess what kind of music I might like to hear next, but sometimes it comes up with a real winner. When it served up a track by … Continue reading

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Andy Statman’s Old Brooklyn

My introduction to Andy Statman is intimately associated with my introduction to Brooklyn. On the first night of my first visit to New York, visiting a friend who was living in Brooklyn in 2002, I attended a jazz clarinet performance … Continue reading

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Chava Alberstein’s End of the Holiday

This review was contributed by Kate Danemark. When I requested this CD of klezmer music I was expecting something totally different. Klezmer is upbeat, slightly discordant, generally obscure party-type music. Klezmer is “Hava Nagila.” This is, well, different from that, … Continue reading

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Beyond the Pale’s Routes

Beyond the Pale, formed in 1998 in Toronto, is a young quintet making lively klezmer-based music. The fact that they’ve played more than 200 gigs in their three years together has paid off in a top-notch debut recording. Routes is … Continue reading

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