Anat Cohen’s post-Passover show
The Israeli clarinetist’s new album features both jazz and the captivating sounds of Brazilian choro By MORDECAI SPECKTOR After Jewish ...
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Janis Ian is still standing and singing
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Saturday Night Live recently re-broadcast its first show, from 1975. The musical guests were Billy Preston and ...
Jorma Kaukonen tells stories of America
Jorma Kaukonen, who played electric guitar with Jefferson Airplane and plays acoustic guitar with Hot Tuna, says that his song ...
Herb Alpert lives the creative life
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Trumpeter and bandleader Herb Alpert shot to worldwide fame with the 1962 song “The Lonely Bull.” The ...
The Cookers come to town
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR David Weiss, a talented jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader, is back in New York City, after ...
Diaspora soul man
Trumpeter Steven Bernstein returns to Minneapolis on Aug. 6, for a show at the Dakota with Billy Martin’s Wicked Knee ...
From the Airplane to Hot Tuna
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Near the end of A Serious Man, the 2009 film by the Coen brothers (who shot most ...
A wizard of the banjo
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Musicologists say that the banjo had its origins in West Africa. A number of banjo-type instruments have ...
Upcoming: The Idan Raichel Project, May 14
Idan Raichel Israeli music luminary Idan Raichel talked with the American Jewish World this week, via telephone from his home ...
Music from both sides of Jerusalem
David Broza gathered a cast of talented Israeli and Palestinian musicians, along with some special guests, to create musical magic ...
