Folk Fusion
Israeli expats are bringing the sounds of their youth to new jazz projects
| 7:00 AM Oct 29, 2009
Jazz and Jewish music have been talking to each other for a long time.
At first, this was a klezmer thing, as musicians like trumpeter Ziggy Elman brought their Eastern European baggage to “freilach jazz” in the 1930s. More recently, musicians like saxophonist Paul Shapiro, percussionist Roberto Juan Rodriguez, and trumpeter Frank London have married pre- ...

