French clarinetist Yom electrifies klezmer, the musical tradition of Ashkenazi Jews from Central and Eastern Europe. On his new album You Will Never Die, recorded with the Wonder Rabbis, electric bass ...

Clarinet great Michael Winograd will lead all-star musicians in a performance “Tanz,” a groundbreaking recording that flopped in 1956. (New York Jewish Week) — In 1955, a group of musicians gathered ...

The re-acquaintance of klezmer, Eastern European Jewish modes and rhythms, with American jazz is currently at its height. Initially, Jewish immigrant musicians arriving during the late 1800s and early ...

I mean, for one thing, it had a virtuoso clarinet tradition, so that if you wanted to play klezmer clarinet there was a lot to learn, and that was fun. So you really had to study and I dug that. But ...

Klezmer legend clarinetist David Tarras will be center stage for the first time in decades on May 5, thanks to the efforts of klezmer violinist and ethnographic field researcher Yale Strom. Strom and ...

“Energy is eternal delight,” the poet William Blake said, and klezmer music proves his point. For centuries throughout Jewish Eastern Europe, rhythmically high-strung klezmer bands, which often ...

New York Jewish Week — In 1955, a group of musicians gathered in a Manhattan recording studio and committed to tape 16 tunes. When the LP, “Tanz,” was released the following year, it barely made a ...

You only need to hear a few seconds of klezmer music to identify it as Jewish. With an exuberant clarinet, sometimes laughing, sometimes wailing, its distinctive sound is formed out of eastern ...

In 2010, Leeav Sofer was in university studying clarinet and voice. To help pay for his education, he’d play piano at weddings and private parties. After one wedding, Sofer was talking to an elderly ...