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Klez-Edge: Ancestors, Mindreles, NaGila Monsters
ByJohn Zorn
saxophone, altob.1953
The amazing thing about this release from Klez-Edge, the latest offshoot of pianist

Burton Greene
piano1937 - 2021

Perry Robinson
clarinet1938 - 2018
Despite all this freedom there is a variety of styles here that klezmerphiles will relate to: "Mindrele," a Romanian hora or zhok; a super version of the traditional "Fun Tashlikh," appropriately re-titled "Funk Tashlikh"; and "Oy Joy," Greene's homage to the one that gets you lifted up in the chair and carried around the room. The closer, "Have Another Gila Monster," pillories, in a way only these guys can, this hackneyed tune so that by the time they are done, it comes to represent the entire musical industrial complex. This is not your grandfather's klezmer, but then again it is not your father's free jazz either. ">
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Ancestors, Mindreles, NaGila Monsters
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