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Sep 27, 2008 · The more-or-less 25 essential klezmer recordings. My wife is putting together a list for librarians of essential Jewish recordings—everything from classical to cantorial to Ashkenazic and Sephardic folk traditions. I tend never to make lists, never to recommend music.
- CD From Klezmania
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- Paul Brody's Sadawi in Lithuania
We cover Klezmer and more, focusing on the edges and the...
- Naftule Brandwein King of Klezmer Clarinet
Something wonderful happened to klezmer when it hit these...
- Michael Winograd Bessarabian Hop
Sure, many bands have some pastiche of common wedding tunes,...
- Shirim Klezmer Orchestra Naftule's Dream
Shirim Klezmer Orchestra / Naftule's Dream (1993, the...
- Alicia Svigals Fidl
In his album, Warschauer presented a repertoire of klezmer...
- Steven Greenman Stempenyu's Dream
Since the beginning of the revival 30 years ago, Klezmer...
- Flying Bulgars Tsirkus
This is not jazz or progressive music with some klezmer or...
- Klezmatics Rise Up
A few songs later, the band opens up with a Purim-song sung...
- CD From Klezmania
Apr 15, 2024 · This list of the top klezmer bands in the world includes all musicians who have released recordings that have gotten distribution, and is an up-to-date list. Klezmer groups and artists are shown below along with any additional genres in which their music belongs.
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This is a list of klezmer musicians : Michael Alpert [1] József Balogh. Gérard Barreaux. Shloimke (Sam) Beckerman. Sidney Beckerman. Ofer Ben-Amots. Alan Bern. Geoff Berner.
Amsterdam Klezmer Band, sometimes referred to as AKB, is a Dutch-Jewish musical group created in 1996 in Amsterdam. The band plays Yiddish and Klezmer music, but also incorporates sounds from Balkan, jazz, Romani, and hip-hop music.
- Jasper de Beer, Job Chajes, Alec Kopyt, Gijs Levelt, Joop van der Linden, Janfie van Strien
- 1996–present
- Theo van Tol
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
The collection consists of commercially recorded songs from 78 rpm records from New York City between 1910 and 1942, taken from the YIVO Archives. In his liner notes, Sapoznik discusses klezmer 's European background, its interaction with the American musical world (especially jazz), and the era in which the recordings were made.
Klezmer as we now know it was originally just referred to as Jewish music and was played by Jewish musicians in Eastern Europe for several hundred years prior to the Second World War. After the ...
The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band primarily plays klezmer music in a manner that has been described as high-energy, soulful, and horn driven. They perform dance music in a multitude of styles. They perform a blend of classical Eastern European klezmer music with a big band jazz style. Albums Album art for the Klezmer Band
