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Article: BackTracks

Ethnic Embraces

by Mike Jacobs
August 16, 2021

For the fourth installment in the continuing BackTracks series, we take a look at some notable releases that infuse their jazz with stylistic spice indigenous to different regions of the world—namely North Africa, the Iberian peninsula and the Balkans. As BackTracks was on a hiatus of sorts (and because these recordings seemed to emerge in matched ...

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Margot Leverett & The Klezmer Mountain Boys

By Margot Leverett

Label: Traditional Crossroads
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Cluck Ol' Hen & Kolomeyke 3:39 2. Klezmer Waltz 3:59 3. Russian Sher & Growling Old Man, Growling Old Woman 3:55 4. Git Morgn 4:40 5. Leather Britches 2:14 6. Leibes Tanz 3:40 7. Kentucky Dance Medley: Bill Monroe Meets Sid Beckerman 5:45 8. Lonesome Moonlight Waltz & Volich 5:47 9. Lonesome Fiddle Blues & Sid's Bulgars 3:43 10. F Major Bulgar 3:30 11. Sea of Reeds 2:05 12. A Redl & A Volich 3:56 13. Yiddish Folk Medley 4:24

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Margot Leverett: Margot Leverett & The Klezmer Mountain Boys

Read "Margot Leverett & The Klezmer Mountain Boys" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
December 25, 2003

To round out the Klezmer Mountain Boys, NYC clarinetist Margot Leverett has assembled a diverse and talented group of klezmer and bluegrass veterans. The delightful outcome is not a fusion, but instead a forum for these musicians to meet, strut their own stuff, and try out each other's styles. Consisting of bluegrass/klezmer medleys and uniquely performed ...