Klezmer Yale Strom & others - Cafe Jew Zoo (Yiddish) - Vocals: Elizabeth Schwartz

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Yale Strom with Hot Pstromi and Klassj: Klezmer - Cafe Jew Zoo

Composer/lyrics: Yale Strom; Arranged by Yale Strom & Jeff Pekarek & Norbert Stachel; Bass: Marty Confurius; Drums: Benny Koonyevsky; Vocals: Elizabeth Schwartz; Accordion: Peter Stan; Clarinet: Norbert Stachel

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Despite the album's title, this isn't a klezmer recording in the conventionally understood sense of the term. Rather, composer/bandleader Yale Strum employs the term as a signpost for a more fundamental germ or seed of Jewish music--the "DNA of klezmer," as he calls it in the liner notes--in the service of exploring the common ground between Eastern European klezmer, or Yiddish music, as we have come to think of it, and the more ancient, Middle Eastern roots o f Jewish music. It's diverse territory that Strum has examined on earlier albums, but never to the degree of success that he achieves here. On "The Bonesetter's Last Dance," for example, the Romanian-influenced violin melody soars over an irregular Turkish rhythm, while on "Imenu Malkatseynu," a feminist rewrite of the Hebrew prayer, "Avinu Malkeynu," Elizabeth Schwartz's multi-tracked Yiddish vocals are answered by Brazilian jazz-inspired saxophone. "Yekele the Bonesetter" also boasts a Latin-jazz tinge.

The title track, also featuring Schwartz, is a Strom original, a bit of latter-day Yiddish cabaret. The song, whose chorus translates as "We hoodoo and voodoo at the Cafe Jew Zoo," addresses the ambivalence the songwriter, and presumably many of his listeners, feel about klezmer's popularity in formerly-occupied German territories where Jewish life once thrived but is now all but extinct.

The album also features a couple of Stoliner Hasidic melodies on which Strom's violin dances with Andy Statman's clarinet, and a couple of melodies arranged for classical guitarist Fred Benedetti. Statman shows up playing mandolin on a Siberian-inspired waltz, and Mark Dresser introduces the sardonic "L'Chayim, Comrade Stalin!" with an appropriately dark, avant-garde double-bass solo. In sum, Strum has delivered another effort reflecting his restless eclecticism.

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http://www.voiceofklezmer.com/

http://www.hotpstromi.com/

CD Klezmer - Cafe Jew Zoo:

http://www.amazon.com/Klezmer-Cafe-Jew-Yale-Strom/dp/B00006I9HF

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Klezmer-Cafe-Jew-Zoo/dp/B00006I9HF/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8...

http://www.amazon.de/Cafe-Jew-Zoo-Yale-Strom/dp/B00006I9HF/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8...

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[robertocasitenore]

Bellissimo!!! Magnifico!!!!!

Roberto.

[MalkieZuss]

I agree with these comments - it's a wonderful CD. How could it have any negative votes, let alone so many???

[BigBadJooDooDaddy]

I have this CD - the whole thing is awesome