DAVID KRAKAUER – Klezmer à la Bechet

David Krakauer (born September 22, 1956) is an American clarinetist who performs klezmer, jazz, classical music, and avant-garde improvisation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTYKT9hGJeQ&ab_channel=DJY0gi Krakauer's performance career focused on jazz and classical music before he joined The Klezmatics in 1988. He sees klezmer as his "musical home," saying "I can write music within klezmer, improvise, do experimental stuff, be… Continue lendo DAVID KRAKAUER – Klezmer à la Bechet

ZEV FELDMAN & ANDY STATMAN – Gypsy Hora & Sirba

Zev Feldman is an internationally recognized, GRAMMY-nominated independent record producer and the Co-President of Resonance Records in Los Angeles. He is also a consulting producer of archival and historical recordings for Blue Note Records. He's been dubbed "the Indiana Jones of Jazz" in Stereophile magazine and is widely known as the "Jazz Detective." Over the… Continue lendo ZEV FELDMAN & ANDY STATMAN – Gypsy Hora & Sirba

FANFARE CIOCARLIA & ADRIAN RASO – Swing Sagarese | Live @ Montreal Jazz Festival (2016)

Fanfare Ciocărlia is a twelve-piece Romani Balkan brass band from the northeastern Romanian village of Zece Prăjini. They are known for their fast, high-energy music with complex rhythms and high-speed staccato clarinet, saxophone, and trumpet solos. Wikipedia The Montreal International Jazz Festival is an annual jazz festival held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Jazz Fest… Continue lendo FANFARE CIOCARLIA & ADRIAN RASO – Swing Sagarese | Live @ Montreal Jazz Festival (2016)

FANFARE CIOCARLIA & ADRIAN RASO – Live @ Montreal Jazz Festival | Fvll concert (2016)

Fanfare Ciocărlia is a twelve-piece Romani Balkan brass band from the northeastern Romanian village of Zece Prăjini. They are known for their fast, high-energy music with complex rhythms and high-speed staccato clarinet, saxophone, and trumpet solos. Wikipedia The Montreal International Jazz Festival is an annual jazz festival held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Jazz Fest… Continue lendo FANFARE CIOCARLIA & ADRIAN RASO – Live @ Montreal Jazz Festival | Fvll concert (2016)

THE KLEZMATICS – Klezskalypso (Teach the ska)

The Klezmatics are an American klezmer music group based in New York City, who have achieved fame singing in several languages, most notably mixing older Yiddish tunes with other types of more contemporary music of differing origins. They have also recorded pieces in Aramaic and Bavarian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfrtull7udI&ab_channel=TheKlezmatics-Topic The group formed in New York's East Village… Continue lendo THE KLEZMATICS – Klezskalypso (Teach the ska)

RABBINICAL SCHOOL DROPOUTS – Maimonides (2006)

The Rabbinical School Dropouts is as crazy a group of kooks as you could want. Sun Ra, the Hampton Grease Band, Frank Zappa and the Klezmatics all rolled into one, the music of the Friedmann brothers is fresh and imaginative. Their ten-member big band (featuring oboe, mandolin, bassoon, theremin, toy piano, tablas, etc.) storms through… Continue lendo RABBINICAL SCHOOL DROPOUTS – Maimonides (2006)

ŞATELLITES – Live on KEXP

Şatellites are another exciting act from the celebrated Tel Aviv music scene, and here at Batov Records we love them! Formed earlier this year, the group comprises talented vocalist Yuli Shafriri on the synth; Itamar Klüger on the baglama & bouzouki; Ariel Harrosh on the bass, and Azriel ‘Raz’ Man on the drums. The band plays anything from Anatolian rock… Continue lendo ŞATELLITES – Live on KEXP

JOHN ZORN – The Dreamers (live @ Moers Festival, 2006)

The Dreamers is an album by John Zorn released in 2008 featuring performances by a band which would later become known as The Dreamers. It is viewed as continuation of the Music Romance tradition expressed on his 2001 album The Gift. The Moers Festival is an annual international music festival in Moers, Germany. The festival… Continue lendo JOHN ZORN – The Dreamers (live @ Moers Festival, 2006)

JOHN ZORN – Kristallnacht (live @ the Knitting Factory, 1992)

John Zorn's live performance of his visceral suite "Kristallnacht", depicting a timeline surrounding the Nazi pogrom against Jewish sites and businesses on 9-10 November 1938, had a shocking effect on audiences in Munich and New York. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eFIFOBTzFg The New York Times offered this review of the 1992 performance at the Knitting Factory: "Kristallnacht," John Zorn's… Continue lendo JOHN ZORN – Kristallnacht (live @ the Knitting Factory, 1992)

JOHN ZORN’S BAR KOKHBA SEXTET – Live @ Warsaw Summer Jazz Days (1999)

John Zorn's Bar Kokhba Sextet live @ Warsaw Summer Jazz Days, Sala Kongresowa, Warsaw, Poland June 25 1999 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQoIDkVO3mo SET LIST: Intro Lilin Khebar Karet Eitan Teli Kisofim Jachin Kol Nidre Gevurah Bar Kokhba Sextet: Mark Feldman: violinErik Friedlander: celloMarc Ribot: guitarGreg Cohen: bassJoey Baron: drumsCyro Baptista: percussionJohn Zorn: conductor