Jazz Articles about Jim Guttmann

Jim Guttmann: Bessarabian Breakdown

by Raul d'Gama Rose
September 15, 2010

Surely Bessarabian Breakdown is a contender for one of 2010's most interesting albums . It has been a year for a sort of mini-revival of roots music, and klezmer has received wide attention--as much as the blues and other folk music. Against that backdrop, Jim Guttmann's Bessarabian Breakdown must be well received. It is a sleek production that sings passionately of a music that arguably originated among the Levites in Biblical times. However, the repertoire that has been handed down ...