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Orobas: Book of Angels, Vol. 4
(more) »rank: 115404by: Koby Israelite
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Songs of Our Fathers
(more) »rank: 42975by: Andy Statman & David Grisman
: :Another cross-cultural, acoustic-music synthesis is achieved on this collaboration between Grisman, the bluegrass/swing virtuoso who opens for Allison Krauss Thursday at Wolf Trap, and klezmer star Statman. Both are mandolinists, and on this album of seven traditional klezmer tunes, four Shlomo Carlebach compositions, and one Statman original, Statman challenges Grisman to play up to the tradition's standards, while Grisman challenges Statman to push the tradition's envelope. The result is a creative tension that keeps the music exciting. The two leaders are backed by a band that includes Meyer, classical guitarist Enrique Coria, and Phil Spector drummer Hal Blaine. For Grisman and Blaine, who ...
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Klezmer's Greatest Hits
(more) »rank: 175422by: Michele Gingras
: :Another cross-cultural, acoustic-music synthesis is achieved on this collaboration between Grisman, the bluegrass/swing virtuoso who opens for Allison Krauss Thursday at Wolf Trap, and klezmer star Statman. Both are mandolinists, and on this album of seven traditional klezmer tunes, four Shlomo Carlebach compositions, and one Statman original, Statman challenges Grisman to play up to the tradition's standards, while Grisman challenges Statman to push the tradition's envelope. The result is a creative tension that keeps the music exciting. The two leaders are backed by a band that includes Meyer, classical guitarist Enrique Coria, and Phil Spector drummer Hal Blaine. For Grisman and Blaine, who ...
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Klezmer Madness!
(more) »rank: 167337by: David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness!
: :Another cross-cultural, acoustic-music synthesis is achieved on this collaboration between Grisman, the bluegrass/swing virtuoso who opens for Allison Krauss Thursday at Wolf Trap, and klezmer star Statman. Both are mandolinists, and on this album of seven traditional klezmer tunes, four Shlomo Carlebach compositions, and one Statman original, Statman challenges Grisman to play up to the tradition's standards, while Grisman challenges Statman to push the tradition's envelope. The result is a creative tension that keeps the music exciting. The two leaders are backed by a band that includes Meyer, classical guitarist Enrique Coria, and Phil Spector drummer Hal Blaine. For Grisman and Blaine, who ...
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Best of Yiddish Songs and Klezmer Music
(more) »rank: 17238by: Various Artists
: :Another cross-cultural, acoustic-music synthesis is achieved on this collaboration between Grisman, the bluegrass/swing virtuoso who opens for Allison Krauss Thursday at Wolf Trap, and klezmer star Statman. Both are mandolinists, and on this album of seven traditional klezmer tunes, four Shlomo Carlebach compositions, and one Statman original, Statman challenges Grisman to play up to the tradition's standards, while Grisman challenges Statman to push the tradition's envelope. The result is a creative tension that keeps the music exciting. The two leaders are backed by a band that includes Meyer, classical guitarist Enrique Coria, and Phil Spector drummer Hal Blaine. For Grisman and Blaine, who ...
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Laughter Through Tears
(more) »rank: 145030by: Oi Va Voi
:Album Details:The English Group's Debut Album Finally Saw the Light of Disc after They Had Toiled Onstage for a Lengthened Period of Time, Garnering them Two Nominations Atr Bbc3's 2002 World Music Awards. The Group Fuses Klezmer with Modern Funky Dance Beats as Well as a Host of Middle Eastern Influences and Old World Influences...even Flamenco and Hungarian Folk! the Result is Some of the Most Exciting Music to Emerge on the World Scene in Quite a While.
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Dance Me to the End of Love
(more) »rank: 154355by: Klezmer Conservatory Band
:Album Description:Since 1980, the Klezmer Conservatory Band has been America's foremost klezmer and Yiddish repertory ensemble. Through extensive touring, radio and television appearances, and their recordings, they have spread this exuberant and diverse musical tradition farther than it has ever gone before. Dance Me to the End of Love returns the band to the roots of Yiddish music, featuring many seldom-heard songs passed along to them by their teachers and friends. But, as always with the KCB, every moment of these shimmering arrangements brings to the listener a feeling of newness and discovery.
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(more) »rank: 166663by: Craig Taubman
:Album Description:Celebrate Shabbat features the most recognized name in Jewish music singing a treasure of Shabbat songs.
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(more) »rank: 56447from: Sony
:Album Description:Celebrate Shabbat features the most recognized name in Jewish music singing a treasure of Shabbat songs.
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Tsirkus
(more) »rank: 150722by: Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band
: :Formed in 1987 by trumpeter-composer David Buchbinder, the Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band has captivated audiences throughout North America and Europe and has become something of an icon in the ensemble's native Toronto. Based in traditional Yiddish klezmer music of Eastern Europe married to modern elements of popular music, the Flying Bulgars' sound is an outrageous brand of jazz-folk that is at once celebratory, irreverent, and grandly stimulating. Tsircus, Yiddish for 'circus,' is the band's fourth recording and finds the group digging deeper into its Jewish roots while reaching well into the next century. The music is expectedly theatrical: strings weep and soar, horns ...
