Andy Statman and Zev Feldman, Klezmer Music - Dave Tarras Tribute Concert 1978

Andy Statman (clarinet and mandolin) and Zev Feldman (tsimbl) were young researchers at the time of this concert and critically involved in getting this concert together.
Exploring the roots of klezmer and American bluegrass with improvised jazz, Andy Statman is universally acknowledged as one of the world’s most brilliant klezmer musicians. As an accomplished clarinetist and mandolin player, he has recorded numerous albums, from traditional klezmer and bluegrass to improvisations on niggunim, mystical melodies associated with Hassidic Judaism. He is the protege of klezmer clarinetist Dave Tarras. Statman received the National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellow Award in 2012.
Walter Zev Feldman is a leading researcher in both Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music. He performs on the traditional klezmer dulcimer, the cimbal, the Ottoman lute, the tanbur, and percussion in the Ottoman tradition. He has performed internationally with his group Khevrisa (“European Klezmer Music” Smithsonian Folkways), and with the Alexander Fiterstein Trio. His book, Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition, and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire (Berlin, 1996) is taught as a basic text worldwide. He is currently finishing his book Klezmer: Music, History and Memory, and is researching a new book on the transnational klezmer tradition of Moldova, utilizing field work and archival research in Moldova, Greece and Israel. He is also an authority on East European Jewish dance and teaches at the NYU Abu Dahbi.
Statman and Feldman released their album "Jewish Klezmer Music" in 1979.
1:30 Bessarabian Jewish Dance
5:30 Tune from Bahkal, Moldavia
7:43 Doyna from Bahkal, Moldavia
10:30 Table music from the Bianski Family of Visetsk
12:45 Bessarabian Waltz from the playing of Petra Zigeuner
14:55 Bessarabian Tune
17:05 Sirba
This concert, on November 19, 1978, was presented by the Balkan Arts Center, which is now called the Center for Traditional Music and Dance (www.ctmd.org).

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amazing music!! great early footage of Andy Statman aswell!

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The beginning of the Klezmer revival...

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Откуда эта музыка ? An answer, anyone?
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