Yiddish Music Reissue Series on Sony Legacy

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                    SONY LEGACY YIDDISH MUSIC REISSUE SERIES
                     INAUGURATED WITH THREE HISTORIC TITLES:

o TANZ! FEATURING DAVE TARRAS & SAM AND RAY MUSIKER, PIVOTAL 1956 LP;

o ABE SCHWARTZ: THE KLEZMER KING, CELEBRATING HIS CAREER AS COLUMBIA RECORDS 
A&R TALENT SCOUT & ORCHESTRA LEADER FROM 1917 TO 1935;

o FROM AVENUE A TO THE GREAT WHITE WAY: YIDDISH & AMERICAN POPULAR SONGS 
1914-1950, ESSENTIAL DOUBLE-CD SURVEY WITH 50 VINTAGE TRACKS   9 previously 
unreleased performances on FROM AVENUE A include Molly Picon, Al Jolson, 
Sophie Tucker, Gene Krupa, George and Ira Gershwin ? and Irving Berlin?s 
"What Am I Gonna Do" and more! 


    Unveiling for the first time in modern recording history its vast catalog 
of performances rooted in the vibrant Yiddish repertoire that would become 
the building blocks of today?s successful klezmer revival,  Legacy Recordings 
(a division of Sony Music) is issuing with three landmark titles. 

  TANZ!, the most sought-after LP in all of klezmer lore, in which legendary 
clarinetist Dave Tarras and his son-in-law Sam Musiker (veteran of Gene 
Krupa?s big-band) collaborated in 1955 on the groundbreaking fusion of 
traditional klezmer with a jazz head, digitally remastered from the original 
studio tapes including two previously unreleased alternate takes; 
  ABE SCHWARTZ: THE KLEZMER KING, a celebration of Columbia Records? 
pioneering talent scout circa 1917 to 1935 ? A&R man, bandleader, arranger, 
and composer ? on 25 tracks digitally remastered from new 78 rpm pressings by 
various artists and orchestras  including  klezmer forefathers Dave Tarras, 
Naftule Brandwein, and Shloimke ("Sam")  Beckerman;
  FROM AVENUE A TO THE GREAT WHITE WAY: Yiddish & American Popular Songs 
1914-1950, an essential 50-track double-CD digitally remastered collection 
that explores the roots of Yiddish recordings (by everyone from Nellie Casman 
and Peisachke Burstein to Cantor Yosele Rosenblatt) and the music?s entry 
into American pop culture (via Fannie Brice, Eddie Cantor, Benny Goodman with 
Peggy Lee, Cab Calloway, many more), with nine previously unreleased tracks 
by (among others) Molly Picon, Al Jolson, Sophie Tucker, Gene Krupa ? and 
Irving Berlin!  

The series was produced for reissue by Henry Sapoznik and Michael Brooks. 

For more information go to: www.legacyrecordings.com/klezmermusic


Henry Sapoznik

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