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Queen Kong: Fray

Read "Fray" reviewed by Troy Dostert


Providing further evidence of the capaciousness of the Toronto jazz scene, Queen Kong is a neo-klezmer outfit that brings smart musicianship and some crafty grooves to its debut, Fray. Although the name of the band has a facetious aspect, there's nothing flippant about Queen Kong's music, as it mines a rich vein of cultural resources in the course of its eleven engaging tracks. The music's provenance in the covid pandemic is indicated on the opener, “Kavod-19," a tribute ...

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Dana Sandler: I Never Saw Another Butterfly

Read "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Tender is that memory nearly lost. Theresienstadt was a concentration camp and ghetto established by the German Schutzstaffel during World War II in the Bohemian fortress town of Terezín. Theresienstadt had two purposes: it was a coordinating center ahead of the extermination camps, and an erstwhile retirement community for elderly and prominent Jews intended to mislead their respective communities about German intentions. Camp conditions were engineered to hasten the death of its prisoners through inadequate diet and overwork, while the ...

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Michael Winograd: Bessarabian Hop

Read "Bessarabian Hop" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Giovane clarinettista (è nato nel 1982) dalle molteplici collaborazioni, Michael Winograd (noto anche con il nome di Garf Pinsky) è solito muoversi nel variegato mondo della nuova musica ebraica (ha tra l’altro collaborato con i Klezmatics e faceva parte del gruppo dei Khevre). Qui si presenta con un progetto a proprio nome, alla testa di un settetto tipicamente klezmer nella struttura (spicca solo l’assenza del violino, sostituito però dal mandolino) e nel programma. Il carattere assai filologico del lavoro lo ...


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