Re: Klezmer/Jazz

[George Robinson <GRComm...>]

Jeff --

I would also suggest a listen to the Paradox Trio. Matt Darriau, their
reedplayer and putative leader, is a jazz musician by training and
inclination (one of his other gigs is with a post-bop big band from
Boston called Orange Then Blue). They play a very hot mix of Eastern
European, Middle Eastern and klezmer influences with a lot of post-bop
jazz underlying it all. Live they really blow the roof off the house; I
think their studio stuff so far is very nice, but it misses some of the
intensity of their live sets.

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