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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...

Joy To The World The Klezmonauts Oy To The World Genre: Holiday Amazon MP3: Joy To The World (the Klezmonauts) The spaceship is on its dull, free-return-trajectory back to Earth, about to re-enter the atmosphere…when the crew suddenly sees a purple glow enveloping the blue planet! It flashes o...

Alle tre di un martedì notte il Levontin7 trasuda adrenalina da jam session. Ruslan Gross, il ventinovenne leader dei Kruzenshtern&Parohod, lucida il clarinetto e lo ripone nella custodia. «Siamo l’icona della società israeliana contemporanea», dice. Ruslan &egrav...

A lot of lip service gets paid to the historic alliance between African-Americans and Jews. The actual experience of that history is a lot more complicated. All it takes is something like the recent media circus surrounding Reverend Jeremiah Wright to remind us that tensions below the surface can co...

I'm back from 2 weeks in Europe with a quick post. More this weekend, including a treat from Paris (French label Rob Swift release, hard to track down here). But first . . . Ropeadope Records will release The Harlem Experiment , the third album in its city homage series, on October 30th. Following o...