Posts Tagged “Koret Foundation”

  • Mazeltov, Mis Amigos Rocks San Francisco

    September 1st, 2010 | Blog, Events, Mazeltov, Mis Amigos | admin | No Comments

    Thank you, San Francisco, and to everyone who came out to see our sold-out show at Yoshi’s. Grammy award winning Arturo O’Farrill oversaw a dazzling recreation of Mazeltov, Mis Amigos, the 1961 album we unearthed and re-released last year. The gig rocked. Larry Harlow, “El Judio Maravilloso”, jousted with The Sway Machinery’s Jeremiah Lockwood. …

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  • Mazeltov, Mis Amigos Rises Again

    July 1st, 2010 | Blog, Larry Harlow, Mazeltov, Mis Amigos | admin | No Comments

    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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