I'm ashamed I've never heard of James Reese Europe, who Eubie Blake described as "the Martin Luther King of music". Locust Avenue, up to 1914 in his vinyl history of the world, features this great man here. The post also features the pianist Felix Arndt, possibly George Gershwin's teacher, whose sto...

I'm not sure why I haven't seen this video yet but I cam across it today and it's very interesting. As you will see below here are some singers performing a gospel/R&B version of Racheim.The question of course is who are these guys? Are they non- Jews who got paid to sing the songs phonetically?(Thi...

For those of you who don’t know Rabbi Marcus is one half of the brilliant Jewish Music group, 8th Day. LOS ALAMITOS–Two local groups are looking to teach Jewish heritage and tradition using pickles. What can you learn from a pickle? According to the Chabad of Cypress and the Los Alamitos Heb...

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Enjoy a wonderful Chanukah celebration of the diversity of today’s Jewish music by Washington, DC artists. Tomorrow night, at Strathmore in North Bethesda, musicians from around the DC area are staging a live version of the Strathmore Music Center-produced CD, A Chanukah Feast . From klezmer b...

More along this sort of line from Noga, Matt, P&S, More along this sort of line from Soul Sides. And some klezmer hip hop from Sound Roots....

From my live cam chat: HymenRothofMiami: Christian music and art helps bring Christians closer to Christ HymenRothofMiami: Jewish music just bores. HymenRothofMiami: And there is no Jewish art HymenRothofMiami: Love this music…shiksas singing their love of Jesus. HymenRothofMiami: Better that ...

I seem to have accumulated a whole series of posts relating to Yiddish cowboys. Here I linked to You Shall Know Us...'s post on Yiddish cowboys, which has an mp3 '“a real honest-to-goodness Jewish cowboy� named Harold Stern (he’s pre-law, single, and can ride bareback!) with Avram, a former Is...

Six 13 has released their latest in time for Chanukah: Via Sameach Music: Sameach is excited to present Six13's newest album, "Yesh Chadash". This was the group that turned the world of Jewish music on its ear with its groundbreaking style of hard-hitting a cappella – but true to the album's title...

One more for my Jew-ish music series: Yehudit Ravitz. I'm not sure who wrote "Samba Para Dos". Was it Lalo Schifren, Argentinian Jewish genius? Previous: Fly Varig to Tel Aviv...