Jazz Articles about Yale Strom

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Yale Strom: Borsht with Bread, Brothers

by Elliott Simon
February 5, 2008

Based largely on his many visits to Eastern Europe, violinist Yale Strom paints pictures in his music, writings and films of a pre-WWII shtetl music scene where Gypsy (Rom) and Jewish musicians slipped in and out of each other's traveling bands. This porous musical culture resulted in many of the tunes on Hot Pstromi's Borsht with Bread, Brothers. Hot Pstromi includes an interesting mix of jazz/world musicians like Klezmatics founding drummer David Licht, accordionist Peter Stan (Slavic ...

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Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi: The Absolutely Complete Introduction to Klezmer

by Elliott Simon
October 8, 2006

In addition to being an author, a filmmaker and a violinist of the first order, Yale Strom is also a musical archivist. His frequent trips to Eastern Europe and interviews with Rom musicians have done much to advance our knowledge of what the music was like when the archetypal klezmers and gypsies roamed the countryside and shared repertoire. Drawing upon classic archival material and his own painstakingly assembled tunes, Strom and his band Hot Pstromi present The Absolutely Complete Introduction ...

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Yale Strom with Hot Pstromi & Klazzj: Klezmer

by C. Michael Bailey
July 25, 2003

Yale Strom kicks off the Café Jew Zoo festivities with an explanation about the roots of klezmer, as it relates to his vision of New Jewish Music.

The range of music emanates from the DNA of klezmer, which is the melismatic prayer modalities chanted by the ancient Hebrews of the Middle East. We klezmorim today often overlook that Abraham came from Ur in Iraq, and not Uman in Ukraine. Thus, in tunes like "Bonesetter’s Last Dance," "Dorohoi Khusidl," "Hora ...