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jazz
Trumpeter gives cantorial classics fusion makeover
Ten years ago, this would not have been: Steven Bernstein, a jazz trumpeter whose most popular bands include the Sex Mob and a Kansas City-style big band, leading a group playing jazz-inflected cantorial tunes. But at a recent Sunday night gig at the Jazz Standard in New York, Bernstein was doing just that.
Eight Jewish albums hit high notes in ’07
Jewish music of 2007 reviewed.
Master of musical fusion blends klezmer with salsa
Practitioners of world music are constantly exploring ways to fuse disparate musical strains in new and interesting ways. Given all that, it should not be a surprise that there is a new group that combines klezmer with salsa. Odessa/Havana — \”The Explosive Jewish/Cuban Musical Mash-Up\” — a musical project that brings together these two musical traditions in a jazz context will perform at the Skirball Cultural Center at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 29.
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Versatile Israeli Violinist Gains ‘Dream’ Hip-Hop Hit
For Israeli violinist Miri Ben-Ari, doing the unexpected is standard fodder; so it should come as no surprise that her new single, \”Symphony of Brotherhood\” (featuring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.\’s \”I Have a Dream\” speech weaving in and out of an extended string solo) topped the charts just one month after its radio release.
Dad’s Gone, but His Melody Lingers On
When a person is slightly famous mostly for one thing, that thing becomes the one thing about him when he dies. So it was that Dave Blume, my father, over and over again in late March was noted as the composer of that likably odd 1966 hit, \”Turn Down Day,\” a pop turn on what began as one of his jazz compositions.
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