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Folk Fusion

Israeli expats are bringing the sounds of their youth to new jazz projects
By Alexander Gelfand | 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- ...

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Jazzed Up

New albums find inspiration in the Passover haggadah
By Alexander Gelfand | 7:00 AM Aug 27, 2009

I used to love Passover. Now that I have two small children, I tend to rush through the seders, hoping to tie things up before bedtime. But when I was a child myself, I savored those long nights: the special foods, the table packed with visiting cousins, and the songs, many of which we only ...