There’s a branch of musical discourse, typified by the neo-classical puritanism of Wynton Marsalis, that likes to distinguish between “real” jazz and “fake” jazz. The “real” or “genuine” or “authentic ...

Musicians and fans will pay tribute to Brooklyn’s Pete Sokolow, who died in 2022, and his role as a generational bridge builder. (New York Jewish Week) — The late Brooklyn klezmer musician Pete ...

Recorded by the klezmer virtuoso Dave Tarras and a handful of respected NY jazz players, the record was a groundbreaking mix of traditional Eastern European Jewish dance music & jazz big band sound In ...

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. At the Orchard Estate ...

During the the 1980s, when the traditional dance music of East European Jews known as klezmer was enjoying a revival, Pete Sokolow was called "the youngest of the old guys." "Now I'm the oldest old ...

Klezmer is the sound of the ghettos and shtetls, the music played at weddings and bar mitzvahs in the Old World. It belongs - or so I once imagined - to a world far away and long ago, to elderly ...

Klezmer All-Star Bash. When: 8 p.m. Thursday. Where: Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York. How much: $21-62. For information, call (212) 247-7800 or visit carnegiehall.org. Forty ...

Every generation of artists faces its own peculiar set of challenges. When the first klezmer revivalists began breathing fresh life into Jewish music in the early 1970s, their task was not a simple ...

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In one of the Hasidic tales collected by Martin Buber, a great rabbi is visited one night by the voice of a wandering soul, looking for rest. "What did you do while you were on Earth?" the rabbi asks.