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“Jews on Vinyl” in the LA Daily News
May 25th, 2010 | Blog | admin | No CommentsThe LA Daily News had a great piece on the Idelsohn Society and the “Jews on Vinyl” exhibition at Skirball (now through September 5th).
KPCC, Southern Califnornia’s public radio, also interviewed our own Josh Kun last week about the exhibit. Listen to it here.
To celebrate the music of “Jews on Vinyl”, Skirball is …
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Skirball Exhibits ‘Jews on Vinyl’ Through Sept. 5
May 23rd, 2010 | Blog, Irving Fields, Press | admin | No CommentsWhen he was a kid, Roger Bennett inherited his mom’s record player and with it came her collection of LPs. Among the jackpot of Beatles on vinyl was the 1959 recording “Bagels and Bongos” by the Irving Fields Trio.
That little-known gem of mostly Jewish songs set to a Latin tempo “tells us the boundaries …
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Jews on Vinyl at the Skirball Center
May 21st, 2010 | Blog, Press | admin | No CommentsWhen you hear the words “Jewish music,” you may not think of much beyond “The Dreidel Song” and “Hava Nagila,” but there’s a lot more to it than those two ditties! Josh Kun and the Idelsohn Society has been researching the world of Jewish music for years. Now, he shares his vast vinyl collection at …
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Dawn 2010 Idelsohn Society Mix
May 17th, 2010 | Avram Grobard, Blog, Irving Fields, Mixtapes, Music, The Barry Sisters | admin | No CommentsAt the May 15th Dawn Festival in San Francisco, the Idelsohn Society provided this soundtrack of old, archival, vintage recordings, mixed that in with some contemporary remixes to get the crowd moving. The Barry Sisters, Machito & his Afro-Cubans, mixing up to bands like Soulico, from Israel, as well as a kind of crazy, eight-minute, …
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