Jazz Articles about David Krakauer

David Krakauer/Various: Music from the Winery

by Elliott Simon
February 1, 2005

During a time when Jewish music became an integral part of the downtown NYC and world music scenes, clarinetist David Krakauer's Sunday klezmer brunch at Lower East Side's Tonic enabled multiple generations to rediscover their musical roots in the neighborhood where their forefathers discovered America. This offering chronicles those live performances, and whether it was a traditional “Chusidl" spiced up by the youthful Klezminors, Charm City Klezmer's fresh take on Yiddish theatre, or Metropolitan Klezmer's classic “doina" build into an ...

David Krakauer: Krakauer Live In Krakow

by Mark Corroto
March 2, 2004

Listening to this live klezmer recording reminds me of my mother sending me off to elementary school wearing green on Saint Patrick’s Day. She would say, “On Saint Patrick’s Day everyone is Irish.” I remember asking, “even Frank Sinatra?”

“Yes,” she would reply, “Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and even Annette Funicello.”

You see, David Krakauer reminds us that klezmer music is jazz or at least that jazz was born from that New Orleans cauldron of ...

David Krakauer: Live in Krakow

by Dan McClenaghan
January 15, 2004

The world of MTV isn't klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer's milieu, but if it were, a video for “Table Pounding," the opening track of Live in Krakow, might include a scene of four black-clad, bearded, traditional-looking Jewish gents cruising the streets of Krakow in a low-riding car. This car is is equipped with a muscular sound system that transmits the songs sampled beat, shaking the traffic lights as they roll along, giving the store front windows a seismic shiver as well.

David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness!: The Twelve Tribes

by Jerry D'Souza
October 3, 2002

David Krakauer seeks to expand the boundaries of klezmer music by going into the past and navigating his way through a current stream. To do this successfully, particularly where traditional music comes in, the structure should be pliable enough to be fleshed out with getting into a sag. The ones Krakauer has chosen lend themselves to his ministrations and that of his band with an ease that gives them enough relevance in the constant reshaping of what gets tucked under ...

David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness!: The Twelve Tribes

by Dan McClenaghan
October 1, 2002

Whoa, so this is klezmer! A freewheeling clarinet wailing in front of a hard rock beat, dueling it out with a screaming electric guitar. That's “Tribe Number Thirteen," the opening cut on David Krakauer's new neo-klezmer CD, The Twelve Tribes. A wild, wild ride.Krakauer started his career as a classical musician, studying at Julliard; but in the '80s, klezmer called. Klezmer is the often frenetic, highly improvised Eastern European Jewish folk music that came to this country with ...

David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness: The Twelve Tribes

by Elliott Simon
July 4, 2002

The packaging of the new Klezmer Madness CD, The Twelve Tribes, combines the ancient symbols for each of the twelve tribes of Israel with a World Trade Center intact view of downtown New York City. The CD itself is also a juxtaposition of Jewish themes, klezmer influence and NYC downtown jazz with rock, blues, Latin and even techno. The result is an album that is a delight to listen to while at times challenging the listener to redefine their views ...