Re: short review of new David Krakauer CD

[Rachael Kafrissen <rokhl...>]

OK, you got us all excited. Did I miss something? When is it going to be
available?? I was just in HMV and didn't see it. More important, when is he
going to be giving a release party and performance ;-) ??

-rokhl

Seth Rogovoy wrote:

> 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
>
> ?SETH ROGOVOY IS ONE OF THE TRUEST, MOST DEVOTED AND MOST INTELLIGENT MUSIC
> WRITERS?. HE KNOWS AND EMBRACES ALL VARIETIES OF MUSIC, WRITING ABOUT THEM
> ALL WITH A RARE FLAIR AND ENERGY?. The volume is a definitive history of
> klezmer?. not just for musicians but for fans?. a lucid and well-paced
> history of klezmer?s evolution, near death and revival.? --- The Valley
> Advocate
>

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