Nigunim

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Imagine the Klezmatics in a small club, or maybe it's a living room, and it's just a subset of the great New York klezmer updaters, playing without a drummer, without a bassist, and without the great Alicia Svigals--keeping their core, trad-meets-modern sound solidly intact. In fact, it's just trumpeter Frank London and vocalist Loren Sklamberg. But there's a pianist, Uri Caine, who hops from the ivories to a harmonium and a Hammond B-3 organ. This is the record such a group would make, a record that sounds intimately familiar and close-at-hand from the very first moments. Sklamberg's Yiddish pushes the forward edge of the music, with London's rounded trumpet sounding its clarion calls in tandem with Caine's keyboards. The music is of such an unbelievably high quality that you forget there's no clarinet, no violin, and no rhythm instruments--just three klezmer pros rifling through Jewish urban cultural sounds and making a tremendous, danceable, joyous racket. If you're even a moderate klezmer fan, this is far more than your cup of tea. --Andrew Bartlett

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Average customer rating: NIGUNIM Deeply moving and highly musical

Nigunim Frank London , Lorin Sklamberg , and Uri Caine Manufacturer: Tzadik ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Styles | Music Klezmer | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: The ZMIROS Project Hazonos Carnival Conspiracy: In the Marketplace All Is Subterfuge The Days of Awe: Meditations for Selichot, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur Brother Moses Smote the Water ASIN: B00000DI0U Release Date: 1998-11-17

Tracks:

1. Eyli Ato
2. Belzer Medley
3. Mipney Ma/Peysakh Nign
4. Gerer Medley
5. Esn Est Zikh
6. Nign Leshabes Veyontev
7. Tsomo Lekho Nafshi - London/Sklamberg/Caine L
8. Zkhor Dovor
9. Avrom Ben Shmuel
10. Tayere Brider - London/Sklamberg/Caine L

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Imagine the Klezmatics in a small club, or maybe it's a living room, and it's just a subset of the great New York klezmer updaters, playing without a drummer, without a bassist, and without the great Alicia Svigals--keeping their core, trad-meets-modern sound solidly intact. In fact, it's just trumpeter Frank London and vocalist Loren Sklamberg. But there's a pianist, Uri Caine, who hops from the ivories to a harmonium and a Hammond B-3 organ. This is the record such a group would make, a record that sounds intimately familiar and close-at-hand from the very first moments. Sklamberg's Yiddish pushes the forward edge of the music, with London's rounded trumpet sounding its clarion calls in tandem with Caine's keyboards. The music is of such an unbelievably high quality that you forget there's no clarinet, no violin, and no rhythm instruments--just three klezmer pros rifling through Jewish urban cultural sounds and making a tremendous, danceable, joyous racket. If you're even a moderate klezmer fan, this is far more than your cup of tea. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

NIGUNIM.......2007-01-09

This music is an aquired taste, espescially for the goyim who might buy it. It is very moving & beautiful, with a lot of complex detail in the background. I never get tired of it & the first song is the best.

Deeply moving and highly musical.......2000-01-20

I think there ought to be a special award given to this album at the Grammys or somewhere. This is an artistic project of the highest caliber. Frank London, Lorin Sklamberg and Uri Caine have given the non-observant Jewish world an enormous gift with this CD. They selected Hasidic spiritual melodies that are rarely heard in the secular world and their intensity and beauty of the interpretations of these pieces cannot be described in words. From beginning to end this is an incredible recording. Lorin's singing on this version of Mipney Ma may even be stronger than anything he's done with the Klezmatics and that is saying a great deal. Also, what a beautiful idea bringing into this project the pianist Uri Caine. Uri's developed sense of harmony and his exquisite taste and sensitivity free up and, at the same time, push London and Sklamberg in ways I'd never heard before. And it ain't always serious, there is a playfulness and joyousness coming across as well. A few months ago I finally got to hear them perform selections from the CD in concert and it was just as musically and spiritually uplifting.

Average customer rating: Abe Schwartz -- King of Yiddish Music Old-Time American Roots Klezmer Music Joy, Joy, Happy, Happy Close your eyes and you're at a Jewish wedding Time warp

Klezmer King Abe Schwartz Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Styles | Music Klezmer | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: The King of the Klezmer Clarinet Yiddish-American Klezmer Music 1925-1956 Tanz! With Dave Tarras and the Musiker Brothers Klezmer: Early Yiddish Instrumental Music 1908-1927 From Avenue A to Great White Way 1914-1950 ASIN: B000066401 Release Date: 2002-04-30

Tracks:

1. Russishe Shehr - Abe Schwart'z Orchestra
2. Ch'Sidishe Nigunim (Hasidic Melodies) - Boibriker Kapelle
3. Die Reize Nuch Amerika (The Trip To America) - Abe Schwartz's Orchestra
4. Die Greene Cousine (The Greenhorn Girl Cousin) - Abraham Moskowitz
5. Russian Scissors - Oriental Orchestra
6. Dovid'l Bazetzt Die Kalleh (Little David Seats The Bride) - Dave Tarras
7. Gelebt Und Gelacht (Live And Laugh) - Phillip Greenberg
8. T'Kias 'Shofer Blosen' (Blowing The Ram's Horn) - Sam Beckerman
9. Hurra! Far Unzer Held Levine (Hurray! For Our Hero Levine) - Irving Grossman
10. Der Shtiller Bulgar (The Quiet Bulgar) - Jewish Orchestra
11. Roumanian Doina - Abe Schwartz & His Daughter, Miss Schwartz
12. Zorg Nit Mama (Don't Worry, Mama) - Abe Schwart'z Orchestra
13. Hora Midor De Romania (Roumanina Hora) - Unknown Orchestra
14. Nit Die Hagode, Nor Die Kneidlech (Not The Haggadah, But The Matzo Balls) - Abraham Moskowitz
15. Frauen Liebe (Lady Love) - Abe Schwartz Orchestra
16. Akdomes Un Af B'ri (At The Beginning And Daybreak) - Boibriker Kapelle
17. Roumeinishe Doina - Naftule Brandwein
18. Der Automobile - Morris Goldstein
19. Yosel - Abe Schewartz's Orchestra
20. A Galitzianer Tenzil (Galician Dance) - Sam Beckerman
21. Die Boibriker Chasseneh - Pt. 1 (The Boibrik Wedding) - Boibriker Kapelle
22. Russian Sher - National Dance - Russkij Orkestr 'Novinka'
23. Mameniu, Liubeniu (Mama, My Beloved) - Abraham Brandwein
24. Fihren Di Mechutonim Aheim-Tanz (Escorting The Parents Of The Bride And Groom Home) - Naftule Brandwein
25. Lebedig Un Frehlach (Lively And Happy) - Abe Schwartz's Orchestra

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It would be impossible to overstate Abe Schwartz's influence on the development of klezmer music in America. He was a fine violinist and pianist, an excellent composer, an arranger who added modern instruments like saxophones and banjos to the Old World sound, and a bandleader with a nose for talent who helped launch the careers of Dave Tarras and Naftule Branwein, among others. The Klezmer King collects 25 tracks from the 75 or so sides that Schwartz recorded for Columbia between 1917 and 1935. Schwartz was remarkably versatile, and the selections include traditional dance tunes like "Roumanian Doina," Yiddish pop tunes such as "Die Greene Cousine," which was later a hit for Benny Goodman as "My Little Cousin," and sly social commentary like "Der Automobile." Also here are three versions of the old melody "Russian Sher," which were recorded in 1917, 1927, and 1935. Listening to them, you can trace Schwartz's style as it evolves from its European roots to a more American version of klezmer. The sound quality of these rare recordings is outstanding; there are almost no clicks, pops, or hiss to mar the music. The Klezmer King is an essential recording from one of the pioneers of New World klezmer. --Michael Simmons

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Abe Schwartz -- King of Yiddish Music.......2007-02-22

Abe Schwartz was an American klezmer pioneer who discovered such talents as Dave Tarras and Naftule Brandwein as well as inspiring the contemporary klezmer revival bands. Don't miss this collection of his original recordings.

Old-Time American Roots Klezmer Music.......2004-04-15

Abe Schwartz and his orchestra developed and defined klezmer music in America from the mid-1920s up until the 1940s and early '50s. If the beginning sounds of American roots klezmer music is of interest, this is the CD you want. I find that half-way through, my mind wanders. It sounds too schmaltzy for me. I love Central European and Balkan style music ... this CD has diluted versions of this styling. This CD contains Central/East European "cross over" music that is becoming Americanized. In reality it is not quite either, besides the violin, there is the requiste clarinet, other instruments are saxaphone, tuba, piccolo, alto sax, bass sax, drums, and other percussions. The music occasionally sounds like a Balkan Brass band ... fortunately the longing and nostalgia of the klezmer sound, the Jewish roots are evident in all the tracks. The 'sher', 'doina', and 'hora' are types of dance music played by this famous composer, bandleader, and fiddler. My favorite is "Escorting the Parents of the Bride and Groom Home" ("Fihren Di Mechutonim Aheim-Tanz') which features Naftule Brandwein on the clarinet. His improvisations and glissandos are brilliant. The famous klezmer clarinetist, Dave Tarras, is also featured on many of these recordings. "Hasidic Melodies" ("Ch'sidishe Nigunim") is one of my favorite examples of his playing. His command of the clarinet and the creative musical phrasing is phenomenal. "The Greenhorn Girl Cousin" ("Die Green Couisine") is famous for the music, lyrics, and message which brought to the public's attention the bad working conditions in the sweatshops, the first job of immigrants arriving in the USA. It is a catchy tune with Abe Schwartz featured on the violin and Abraham Moskowitz singing the vocals. Spin-offs of this song were written by many including one by Benny Goodman. Overall, if discovering and investigating early klezmer roots music is your goal, this CD will meet your criteria with highest expectations. Otherwise, give me "The Klezmatics", "The Klezmer Conservatory Band" or any modern klezmer group which expresses the music in a more explosive and exciting manner. For me, the modern sound is much more appealing than the early roots which is on this CD. Erika Borsos (erikab93)

Joy, Joy, Happy, Happy.......2004-02-05

I came to Klezmer music via Izaak Perlmann's "In the Fiddler's House," which is one of my all time favorite CDs. I'm just learning about the genre, via other Amazon reviewers, so have just recently arrived at this and other "Klezmer roots" CDs (Dave Tarras, as another reviewer mentions, is also excellent). It's just exceedingly harmonious, well orchestrated, tightly knit music, transported from the old world to the new. The tradition lives on, and an increasing number of us goyim are coming to appreciate it. Sound quality, these can't compete with modern recordings like those of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, or the Klezmatics, but it will definitely give you an idea of where they learned from. Mazaltov!!

BK

Close your eyes and you're at a Jewish wedding.......2003-03-31

If you've ever heard new groups like the Yiddish Cup Klezmer Band and The Klezmatics and marveled at how they got all those great old tunes, look no further. Abe Schwartz, the Klezmer King is now available on CD. Before this, 78 RPM records these were remastered from was the only place you could hear him.

The Klezmer King album is old, both in sound and style. But keep in mind that clarinet klezmer is more of an American thing. This music is a generation or two removed from the original originals. Songs called Russian Sher and Roumanian Doina indicate that, just like today, wedding musicians from the old country were jamming the hits of the day as well as the "Jewish" stuff.

But it was guys like Schwartz, Dave Tarras and the Musiker Brothers, whom the new wave learned from. But unlike the younger versions, these melodies don't seem to have jazz-like improvisation. They are straight ahead rollickers, heavy on catchy rhythm and melody. There are a total of twenty-five tracks on the album and most are short and fast.

The instruments employed are the violin, played by Schwartz, the clarinet and horns. The beat is so danceable that you forget there's no percussion. That's traditional, because back in the old country, if the klezmorim had any percussion at all it was just a bass drum.

For you Yiddish speakers, The Klezmer King is not all instrumental. There are tracks that start with lively shouts as well as straight singing pieces like Mameniu Liubeniu or the satirical Hurra Far Unzerheld Levine.

Then there's Die Bolbriker Chasseneh, which has Schwartz introducing a bride and groom in between slow music. He raises his voice, half speaking and half singing in rapid-fire Yiddish. Then he gasps out that the couple is now officially married and the band breaks into fast, bouncy jamming. Close your eyes and you can imagine you're one of the guests. That goes for most of the tunes here.

If you didn't know the difference between a bulgar and freilach and nigun before, you better start learning. Abe Schwartz taught long of young folks about what it takes to be a king of klezmer. Companion CDs of Dave Tarras and the Musiker Brothers are available from Legacy Recordings.

Time warp.......2002-08-11

Listening to the 25 old but timeless cuts on this set of remastered Yiddish greats provides many layers of enjoyment. In hearing these long-forgotten tunes, one enjoys clarinet and violin strains influenced by ancient melodies and traditions. And some will recognize varied renditions of old favorites. The 6th cut, for example, Dovid'l Bazetzt die Kalleh, is engrained into my memory from Jewish Music, a Benedict Silberman recording, circa 1955, of Yiddish orchestrations.

The music is all decidedly Eastern European. The Roumanian Doina, for example, played by Abe Schwartz (violin) and his daughter, strongly resembles the brilliant Rom music generated by the same region.

No wonder. Born in Bucharest, Romania, Abe Schwartz (1881-1963) emigrated to the U.S. with his parents in 1899 and became the most influential composer, fiddler and bandleader to shape and define modern U.S. klezmer groups. He arrived in the musical establishment via an acquaintance from small jobs with David Nodiff, a part-time composer and so-called A&R (for artist and repertoire) man for Columbia Records, who helped bring klezmer and other ethnic musicians to record companies. Nodiff hired Schwartz in 1917 to find new Jewish talent and head up instrumental recording sessions.

This recording provides some of the time and style progression of Yiddish American music from 1917, when Schwartz recorded Russian Scissors for Columbia with the Oriental Orchestra. In 1927, he recorded the same tune again as Russishe Shehr, in a brassier rendition played by his own orchestra. Still a later 1935 version can be heard in Russian Sher National Dance, the 22nd cut, recorded with the Orkestr Novinka. (And that is the most recent recording here.) The musical and stylistic progressions from 1917 and 1918 through 1935 are admirably explained in an accompanying 8-page pamphlet.

This is not the jazzy stuff many will remember from the 1940s and 1950s. It came before the Barry Sisters, before Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras. Abe Schwartz was their mentor.

What you get here is a time warp, filled with early 20th century Jewish musical genius. Alyssa A. Lappen

Average customer rating: music for the global neighborhood

This is the Afro-Semitic Experience Warren Byrd , and David Chevan Manufacturer: Hmg Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music International Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Abayudaya - Music from the Jewish People of Uganda El Danzon de Moises The Days of Awe: Meditations for Selichot, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur The So Called Seder: A Hip Hop Haggadah Agua Pa' la Gente ASIN: B0000645EF Release Date: 2002-03-27

Tracks:

1. Eliyahu HaNavi
2. Tashlikh
3. Sha Shtil
4. Better Get Hit in Your Soul
5. Nefesh
6. Aalafiya/Shir LaShalom
7. Water From an Ancient Well
8. Waters of Babylon

Album Description

Chevan and Byrd's third CD offers a mix of Jewish and African-American music both sacred and secular. This time they are joined by The Afro-Semitic Experience, an ensemble dedicated to preserving, promoting and expanding the rich cultural and musical heritage of the Jewish and African diaspora. Imagine a band that understands and can present interpretations of music from traditions as rich as Gospel, Klezmer, Nigunim, Spirituals, and Swing and you have the Afro-Semitic Experience. This is a group that is as comfortable playing a freylakh as they are swinging a blues, that knows how to play either a bulgar or some funk. Multi-cultural soul. On this, the group's first album, they present a set that travels the Afro-Semitic Experience in all its multi-dimensional splendor.

Customer Reviews:

music for the global neighborhood.......2002-10-17

Brilliant. When I heard a track played on DC's WPFW, I knew I had to get this. Some of the pieces reminded me of The Word with John Medeski, Robert Randolph and the Missippi All-Stars. Other tracks, such as the cover of "Waters of Babylon," are mellow. I liked all of them.

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Nigunim Hassidic Melodies Manufacturer: Beth Hatefutsoth ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000CAPRZ Release Date: 1990-10-01

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Purim Sameach Binyomin Ginzberg Trio Manufacturer: jewishmusician.com ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music International Folk | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000CAFSSC Release Date: 2005-03-01

Tracks:

1. Mishenichnas Medley (Mishenichnas I, Shoshanas Yaakov I, Layehudim I)
2. Mordechai Medley (Ish Yehudi, Sasson Viykar, Kein Tihyeh Lanu)
3. Debka/Hora Set (Shoshanas Yaakov II & III)
4. Layehudim Medley (Layehudim II, Revach, Chayav Inish)
5. Layehudim (Layehudim III)
6. Al Hanisim Medley (Al Hanisim, Utzu Etza, Vayehi Bimei Achashverosh)
7. Klezmer Medley (Purim Nigun, Nifty's Freilach)
8. Mishenichnas Adar (Mishenichnas II)
9. Zechira (Timche)

Product Description

Purim Sameach gathers together Purim tunes from around the world, from Chassidic nigunim to traditional Israeli songs, and from Klezmer melodies to contemporary Jewish folk rock. The tracks feature The Binyomin Ginzberg Trio in both woodwind and guitar trio formats, as well as one track with a guest fiddle player, and one track featuring a collaboration between members of the guitar and woodwind trios.

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Hupp Cossack! Volume 1 Avraham Fried Manufacturer: Musical Treasures ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000JQLVZ8

Product Description

Hupp Cossack by Avraham Fried. A collection of Chabad niggunim which range from stirring, profound and introspective, to lively tunes expressing the joy of serving God. These nigunim reveal the profundity of mind and inspiration of the heart as felt by the Chosid in his service of avodas Hashem. A Chabad nigun refines the singer and transforms him into a more spiritually-sensitive person. Label: Sameach, 1996 Track Listing: 1. Niggun Simcha 2. Essen Est Zich 3. Hupp Cossack 4. Niggun For Shabbos and Yom Tov 5. Niggun Simcha 2 6. Keili Ato 7. Nye Zhuritzi Chloptzi 8. Ach Leilokim 9. Niggun Simcha III 10. Haneros Halalu 11. Niggun Simcha IV 12. Tzomo

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Miriam Ahuvat-El Hassidic Shabbath Songs & Nigunim of Karlin ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000SDWFWU

Product Description

1 Yevarekh (Instumental) 2 Yom Ze Mekhubad 3 Yom Shabaton 4 Yah Ribon 5 Tzur Mishelo Akhalnu 1 6 Turkish Nigun 7 Ashrei Ha'am 8 Yababam 9 Vetaher Libeinu 10 Torat Hashem Temima 11 Tzur Mishelo Akhalnu 2 12 Menukha Vesimkha 13 Shir Hamaalot 14 Birkat Hamazon 15 Yevarekh 16 Yah Ekhsof

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Nigunim 1 Best Folk Dances Bentzi Tiram Manufacturer: Hataklit Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000DER0X Release Date: 2000-01-24

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Nigunim 2 Folk Dances Bentzi Tiram Manufacturer: Hataklit Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000DER02 Release Date: 2000-01-24

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Hassidic Melodies Nigunim Manufacturer: Israel Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Israel | Middle East | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000019YS Release Date: 1994-05-17

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