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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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The 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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When 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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When 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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