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Goodman was the leader of a racially integrated band named King of Swing. His jazz concert in the Carnegie Hall in 1938 was the first ever to be played there. [8] The concert was described by Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music.".
Jewish women have left their mark on the jazz music industry, making contributions both formally and informally. Miriam Bienstock (1923–2015), daughter to Russian-Jewish immigrants, played an important role during the early years of Atlantic Records, a label founded in 1947 that recorded numerous significant jazz and pop artists. Bienstock ...
Masada is a musical group with rotating personnel led by American saxophonist and composer John Zorn since the early 1990s.. Masada was the first ensemble to perform Zorn's compositions inspired by Radical Jewish Culture and written to be performed by small groups of musicians. [1]
Jewish Culture Festival brings together artists of Jewish culture from all over the world – music bands, soloists, choirs, jazz musicians, and dance teachers. The festival promotes a whole variety of different styles of Jewish music: synagogue song, hasidic, classical, Jewish folk and – very popular in Krakow nowadays – klezmer.
Pro Musica Hebraica defines its mission as aspiring “to expose our audience to the magnificent range of Jewish music and to present Jewish composers not as cultural curiosities or ethnic heroes, but as passionate modern artists who embrace the challenge of expressing their Jewishness through the creative medium of music.” [9] As the founders emphasize, this mission is flexible, not ...
Terry Gibbs Plays Jewish Melodies in Jazztime is a 1963 studio album by Terry Gibbs. It is the debut recording of Alice Coltrane , credited as Alice McCord or Alice Hagood. Track listing
The members come from different musical backgrounds. Drummer Richie Barshay plays jazz with Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea. [citation needed] Violinist Lisa Gutkin came from a predominantly Celtic background before joining the band. [citation needed] The Klezmatics' 20th anniversary concert took place at New York City's Town Hall on March 5
My Son the Jazz Drummer! (subtitled Modern Jazz Versions of Jewish and Israeli Songs) is an album by drummer Shelly Manne performing jazz adaptations of traditional and contemporary Jewish music, recorded in 1962 and released on the Contemporary label. [1] The album was re-released on CD in 2004 as Steps to the Desert.