short review of new David Krakauer CD

[Seth Rogovoy <rogovoy...>]

There are a few klezmer artists who with each album keep pushing the music
forward, building firmly upon tradition while making new, highly personal
statements for their time. Clarinetist and composer David Krakauer is one of
the best.

On his aptly-titled new CD, "A New Hot One" (Label Bleu), he has come up
with the most successful fusion of experimental, cutting-edge klezmer that
remains rooted solidly in the tradition. Krakauer’s original compositions
and his new arrangements of old klezmer standards acknowledge the music of
our present-day global village while speaking with a strong Yiddish accent.

We know little of the great immigrant-era clarinetist Naftule Brandwein, but
enough that it’s fair to say that if he were alive today and in his prime,
he’d be making music like that of Krakauer: bold, spirited, witty,
danceable, poignant, and always inventive and exciting.

--Seth Rogovoy
author of "The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover's Guide to Jewish Roots and
Soul"
http://www.algonquin.com/catalog/pagemaker.cgi?1-56512-244-5

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