Posts from the “Music” Category
In honor of the holiday season, we are proud to offer this little mix of music culled from our various albums, archives and projects. There’s plenty of choice old-school tracks mixed in with new school Idelsohn exclusives like the re-mix of the Yemenite Trio by Soulico’s DJ Sabbo. Songs from Lionel Hampton and Marlena Shaw …
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Geula Gill was a stand out among several beautiful Israeli songbirds of the 1960s who took the US by storm (like Hannah Ahroni and Shoshana Damari). She was popular both in Israel and the US, putting out several albums in both countries and appearing on radio, television and Broadway. She recorded with the infamous Theodore …
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The remarkable Gregor Ehrlich cut this short piece which takes us back to one lazy day at the end of summer in which Arturo O’Farrill lead a cast of thousands in a recreation of Mazeltov, Mis Amigos. This snippet includes glimpses of Sway Machinery’s Jeremiah Lockwood, Arturo, and Irving Fields, who incidentally is celebrating …
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Ok. we are a little late on this one. In honor of Yom Kippur which took place last Monday, we proudly present this masterful rendition of the opening prayer Kol Nidre by none other than Mr. Johnny Mathis, who mastered Aramaic to add this tune to his 1958 release “Good Night, Dear Lord.” We played …
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Jody Rosen, great friend of the Idelsohn Society and the gent who put our Jewface CD together took Sophie Tucker back to where she belongs on Sunday–the front page of the New York Times Arts Section. Rosen’s brilliant feature on the “Last of the Red Hot Mamas” coincides with the release of a new anthology …
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