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Hot Club De Norvege: Django Music
by Warren Allen
Gypsy jazz is hip again, with Hot Clubs springing up from Detroit to Cowtown. So in a world full of Django Reinhardt idolizers, how does Oslo's Hot Club de Norvege stack up? Suffice it to say that Svein Aarbostad (bass), Jon Larsen (guitar) and Per Frydenlund (guitar)--who have been friends since childhood--have been working on this ...
Garry Dial and Terre Roche: Searching for Identity in Revitalized Anthems from Around the World
by Warren Allen
Pianist Garry Dial and vocalist Terre Roche want to know where you're from. In the city of New York, surrounded by so many people whose ancestors once crossed through Ellis Island, or who have themselves only recently come to call this country home, Dial and Roche are curious to find the connection between musical and a ...
Daniel Zamir: I Believe
by Warren Allen
Since he first appeared in New York as a wildly blowing teenage alto saxophonist, Daniel Zamir has toned down just a little. An Israeli who grew closer to his Judaism while abroad, he has since returned to the Holy Land, and these days, plays exclusively soprano sax. I Believe, an American release, shows a fiery but ...
John Zorn: Filmworks XX: Sholem Aleichem
by Warren Allen
Composer John Zorn continues his remarkably productive 2008 (at least seven releases to his name so far) with Volume XX of his Filmworks series. Zorn assembled these pieces for the soundtrack to a documentary about Sholem Aleichem, the 19th century Jewish author whose character Tevye inspired Fiddler on the Roof. In the liner notes, ...
