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David Krakauer: Klezmer Madness!

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Label: Tzadik Records
Released: 1995
Time:
 49:14
Category: Jewish Music, Klezmer
Producer(s): Hugo Dwyer, David Krakauer
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.davidkrakauer.com
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Purchase date: 2016
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Africa Bulgar (trad., arr. Krakauer) - 3:42
[2] Bogota Bulgar (trad. arr. Krakauer/Alpert/Ortega) - 4:06
[3] A few bowls Terkish (trad., arr. Krakauer/Alpert) - 4:37
[4] At the Rabbi's Table (trad., arr. Coleman) - 5:14
[5] Doina / Death March Suite (trad., various) - 10:32
[6] Funky Dave (Tarras, arr. Krakauer/Rogers) - 4:17
[7] the Ballad of Chernobyl (Michael Alpert / trad., Alpert/Coleman) - 5:19
[8] Gong Doina (Krakauer/Licht) - 2:19
[9] Living with the H Tune (trad., arr. Krakauer/Alpert) - 6:03
[10] Rachab (John Zorn) - 1:27

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David Krakauer - Arranger, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Producer
Michael Alpert - Accordion, Arranger, Guitar, Liner Notes, Violin, Vocals
David Licht - Percussion

Anthony Coleman - Keyboards, Sampling
David Light - Arranger, Drums
Juan Ortega - Drums, Timbales
Oscar Ortega - Congas
Guillermo (Willie) Penate - Guiro
Adam Rogers - Guitar

Hugo Dwyer - Engineer, Mixing, Producer
Kazunori Sugiyama - Associate Producer
John Zorn - Executive Producer
David Newgarden - Associate Producer
Rojo - Assistant Engineer
Allan Tucker - Mastering
Aldo Sampieri - Design
Tanaka Tomoyo - Design Consultant
Barbara Rose Haum - Photography
Carla Gahr - Photography
Greg Muirheas - Liner Notes

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1995 CD Tzadik - TZ 7101


David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness sits on the edge of the Klezmer tradition and is always jabbing at its boundaries. The music is always a little bit more unbridled, a bit more passionate, and a tad more discordant than your bubbe's klezmer records, which is not to say that it falls into the same camp as other punk, pop, or jazz-oriented groups that treat klezmer like a quaint novelty. Krakauer, with his virtuoso clarinet playing and incredibly tight and talented backing band, always shows respect for the heart of klezmer music -- these songs orbit around a pure core. The only tune which truly journeys out into left field is "Living With the H," which deconstructs and reassembles the ubiquitous classic "Hava Nagila," a song which almost begs to be messed with. The effect is not unlike a jazz band who can tip their hats to tradition without having to hash out another tired version of "My Foolish Heart." Krakauer has accepted that klezmer has never been a static form of music and has no problem imbuing his own sense of creativity into Klezmer Madness within the constraints of this classic style.

Stacia Proefrock - All Music Guide



Like the Anthony Coleman album that follows this in this new series from tzadik, this album is more jazz than klez. Former-Klezmatics clarinetist Krakauer teams up with the group's drummer, David Licht, and Michael Alpert (Kapelye, Brave Old World) to push the jazz envelope a bit in a klez sort of way. Towards this end they have taken several klez standards (most often as heard on recordings by Naftule Brandwein) and "jazzified" them. The results aren't bad, although the clarinet playing is a bit more macho than I personally prefer. If nothing else, though, at least this feels both like klez and like jazz, and both are reasonably exciting--something I can't say about some earlier jazz/klez explorations.

Jazz fans might have more fun with this.

Ari Davidow - 7/8/95
 

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