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We’re less than two months away from the official release of Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations, coming out September 14, and the reviews are starting to come in. Sonya Alexander of Examiner.com calls Black Sabbath “the first compilation of its kind . . a jewel of a musical fervor,” and …
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If you’re in NYC this weekend, check out this awesome event at Governors Island, led by Regine Basha, friend of the Idelsohn Society.
This Saturday, July 17th, from 12-4pm, Regine is hosting a tutorial on ‘Tuning Baghdad’, related to the field recordings she had done with elderly Baghdadi musicians of the 1940s-a time when Jews, …
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Save Kutsher’s. To many of the musicians we salute, it was the Madison Square garden equivalent of its day. The place is still stunning. Like taking a time machine back to 1962. Do it. Do it.
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In 1961 the legendary jazz label Riverside Records released Mazeltov, Mis Amigos, an album of “Yiddish favorites in Latin tempo,” by Juan Calle and His Latin Lantzmen. The band who performed these mid-century dance floor fusions was an only-in-America supergroup that wasn’t as Jewish as their name made them sound. Juan Calle was John Cali, …
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The Idelsohn Society is thrilled to announce that our latest album,Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations, will be released on September 14. Hear Johnny Mathis croon Yom Kippur songs and the Temptations groove out on “Fiddler on the Roof”. Also featuring Aretha Franklin, Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, and others, …
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