This year Klezmokum celebrates 26
years of performances and 8 recordings!
By popular demand, “Klez-Evergreens” project has been
extended with many new pieces added for the next concert season: the first half
of 2015.
Klezmokum and Klez-Edge
(a quartet instrumental version of the band) have a wealth of material from
many years of existence which deserve greater listening and performances for
the public..
Some of these pieces were only performed
a few times and have been re-arranged in a new format for this tour. In addition there is some great music by
composers that use Jewish modes (scales), also arranged for this new project
including the poignant film piece Theme
from Schindler’s List by John Williams, a new composition entitled Judaic-Indian
Song based on a lovely theme by jazz composer Wayne Shorter, the new
Jews & Gypsies Suite II, (a follow up from the first Jews &
Gypsies Suite--from our Le Dor Va Dor CD recording in 2000), modern
arrangements of songs from Fiddler On the Roof , and great song
standards from Harold Arlen (Hyman Arluk). Added to the program will be modern version
of the classic klezmer pieces Yikhes (Ancestors-1911) Yiddish
Blues (1919), Flatbush (Brooklyn)
Waltz by klezmer composer Andy Statman, and classic klezmer dance
pieces like Araber Tanz, Bolter Bulgar, and Bay a Glezele
Mashke. Included will be the Klezmokum classics In the Footsteps of the
Bratslav, and Burton Greene's
composition Moldavian Blues and another recent composition: The Struggle Can Be Enobling. Held over most likely from the first project
will be Ketsad M’rakdin and the Chassidic piece Zhuritze Chlopotzi. This promises to be a program of broad
spectrum, with a wide variety of musical colors, contrasts, and rhythms
inspired by many cultures with links to Judaism.
As the great Dr. Martin Luther King once
stated: “It’s either one world or no world.”
Announcing the latest member of Klez-Edge and
Klezmokum:
Saxophonist Alex Coke.
Alex has an extensive history in jazz and
klezmer and fits right into our group with some great energy!
He has performed with the Austin
Klezmorim, David Krakauer, and in Holland for years with the Willem
Breuker Kollektief.
Klez-Edge is :
Alex Coke (Austin Texas /
Amsterdam)—Saxophones and Flutes
Larry Fishkind (New York /
Amsterdam)—Tuba
Roberto Haliffi (Tripoli Libya
/Amsterdam)—Drums
Burton Greene (Chicago /
Amsterdam)—Piano, Composition and Arrangements
Concerts Scheduled in 2015:
7
March Festival: Days of Jewish Culture in Chemnitz,
Germany
26 April Apeldoorn Synagoge, 15:00, Paslaan 18, 7311AL
Apeldoorn
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