Bill Charlap Trio draws on a vast repertoire
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The piano trio is a venerated configuration in the world of jazz. Jazz pianists have told me ...
Tag: Irving Berlin
Gershwin and his friends
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR A conversation with Les Block, our local music maven, wends through time and space, and touches on ...
Everything’s coming up Jewish at The Heights
by MAX SPARBER Community News Editor The Jewish influence on film is pervasive, a case comprehensively made by critic Neal ...
Those madcap Marx Brothers onstage
The Cocoanuts, the Marx Brothers’ first film, originated on the Broadway stage, and now returns to the Guthrie stage By ...
‘2 Families – 1 Groove’
Ben Sidran returns to the Dakota Jazz Club, where he and his son, Leo, will play with local luminaries Billy ...
Irving Berlin’s ‘love song’
God Bless America: The Surprising History of an Iconic Song, by Sheryl Kaskowitz, Oxford, 224 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by NEAL ...
Max Raabe’s gonna party like it’s 1929
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Singer Max Raabe stands erect before the microphone, garbed in a tuxedo and tails with his blonde ...
Roni Ben-Hur teams with bass ace Santi Debriano
Some AJW readers might have seen Israeli jazz guitarist Roni Ben-Hur play at the St. Paul JCC in February 2011. ...
Famous Jews in American music — from Irving Berlin to Matisyahu
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR It’s hard to imagine American popular song without the contributions of Jewish composers and lyricists. Names like ...
Yiddish Farbrengen to be held Jan. 31
The next gathering of Yiddish Farbrengen will take place 1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 31 at the Shaller Family Sholom Home ...
