Re: short review of new David Krakauer CD

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

The new Krakauer should have been released in this country as of a couple of 
weeks ago--the press releases say, "March 13" and Amazon.com lists it as 
available.

I don't think I've heard of any release concert, although he =is= 
giving a recital later in April, according to the KlezmerShack calendar,
http://www.klezmershack.com/klezcalendar.html

ari

At 04:39 PM 4/1/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>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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