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Jim Guttmann

From Carnegie Hall to smoky dives, from Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw to the legendary folk music venue Club Passim in Cambridge, Massachusetts, bassist Jim Guttmann has played everything from klezmer to classica--and most styles in between. In a remarkable career spanning more than 30 years, he’s performed with a myriad of groups including the Klezmer Conservatory Band, singers Eartha Kitt and Mark Murphy, the Really Eclectic String Quartet, blues masters Johnny Shines and James Cotton, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Texas swing legend Tiny Moore, new acoustic music guitar virtuoso Russ Barenberg, the Artie Shaw Orchestra, and many more

Bessarabian Breakdown

By Jim Guttmann

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2010
Track listing: Philadelphia Sher; And The Angels Sing; Descarga Gitano; Doyne, Hora, Sirba; Cuando El Rey Nimrod; Bessarabian Breakdown; Sadegurer Chusidl (Take Off That Shmatte); Bb Freylekhs; Dark Eyes (Ochi Chyornye); Beregovski 90: Skocne; Firn Di Mekhutonim Aheym.

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 ...

Klezmer Conservatory Bassist Jim Guttmann Ranges from Klezmer to Clave on His Debut Release as a Leader

February 16, 2010

Jim Guttmann takes on the Jewish and Klezmer repertory with abundant humor, passion, and a refreshing dose of over-the-top rowdiness." --Dr. Hankus Netsky, Founder and Artistic Director, Klezmer Conservatory Band Bessarabian Breakdown (Kleztone Records) has been a long time coming. For more than 30 years, bassist Jim Guttmann, best known as the anchor man in the ...