When clarinetist Paul Green listens to the American twist on klezmer, or Jewish folk music, he hears the "punched out" rhythm of traditional eastern European folk mixed with the influence of jazz. In ...

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 ...

“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 ...

All it took was one klezmer improvisation workshop with Israeli clarinetist Giora Feidman for German mathematician Helmut Eisel to change his career course and devote himself to Feidman’s mentorship ...

LITTLE ROCK — The sound of the klezmer clarinet is what turned him on to klezmer music, says Meshugga Klezmer Band reed player and co-founder Jim Harper. “Israeli clarinetist Giora Feidman really ...

How does a musician reconcile the deep yearnings for one’s genetic roots with a determination to remain curious about the world outside? Clarinetist David Krakauer continues to find a way. As part of ...

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 ...

Classical musician and klezmer specialist Robin Seletsky will present a lecture and performance on music and the Holocaust on Sunday, April 15, at SUNY Cortland. Seletsky, accompanied by pianist Kim ...

"This is not your zayde's (grandfather's) klezmer," says clarinet virtuoso David Krakauer, who has insistently expanded the idiomatic possibilities of contemporary klezmer music. Krakauer has turned ...

As an opening salvo for last weekend’s Santa Barbara Symphony (SBS) program at the Granada, the orchestra plunged gamely and crisply into the bright, brisk fare of Mozart’s Overture to The Abduction ...