Pete Sokolow
A jazz and klezmer pianist
1940-
Book Review: Charles B. Hersch, Jews and Jazz Improvising Ethnicity
https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/Alexander%2C%20Hersch_Review.pdf
Wild Man Blues
Directed by Barbara Kopple
Material Type:
Films
Year:
1997
Stan Getz: A Musical Odyssey
Directed by Herbert Dorfman
Documentary about jazz saxaphonist Stan Getz's three week trip to Israel tour of Israel in 1977 where he played with "local musicians, including a Kurdish drummer, an Arab quartet, a Hassidic wedding band and a Yemenite dance troupe adapting his unique style to the various ethnic sounds of Israel."
Material Type:
Films
Year:
1978
Jakie jazz 'em up Old Time Klezmer Music 1912-1926
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Performer
Produced by Harry Sapoznik and Michael Schlesinger. This album includes reissues of 13 78-rpm recordings originally made in New York between 1912-1926:
1. Mazl Tov Mekhutonim
2. Doina
3. Mamaliga
4. Sheyne Yugend Vals
5. Der Mesader Kedushin
6. Der Gasn Nign
7. Odessa Bulgar
8. Freitog Nokn'n Tsimes
9. Yidishe Doina /Jewish Eastern Melody
10. Koylyn
11. Oy, Vi Shayn
12. Dem Rebin's Husid
Material Type:
Recordings
Gershwin & The Klezmer
Performer
1. Swanee
2. Ballade for a klezmer
3. Babsi's Decision
4. Love is here to stay
5. Theme from G. Mahler's 1st Symphony, 2nd Mvt
6. Themes from "enemies- a love story"
7. Edna's Nigun
8. Three times Gershwin
9. Ora's Freilach
10. Bess, you is my women now
11. 7:40 a.m.
12. Nardis
13. This is my song
14. The dance of joy
15. Shpiel Klezmer, Shpiel
Material Type:
Recordings
Year:
1991
The Jazz Singer
Material Type:
Films
Year:
1927
Blue Note: The Story of Modern Jazz
Material Type:
Films
Year:
1997
A Musical Facade for the Third Reich
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Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Details Nazi attempts to purge German music of "degenerate" influences like jazz. Includes a discussion of the 1938 Entartete Musik ("Degenerate Music") exhibition in Dusseldorf.
Material Type:
Articles in Books
Year:
1991
Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany
Author
Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Presents a portrait of popular music in the Third Reich. Outlines the ways jazz and swing music, which were denounced as “undesirable” by the Nazis, became a form of expression and cultural resistance.
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1992
- A Polka Mazurka
- Niggun of the Meggid of Mezerich From the album, "The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim." This dance niggun is the seventh and last in a series of niggunim sung by Bratslav Hasidim as they dance after the Shabbat evening service on Friday night. Some have attributed the niggun to R. Dov Ber, the meggid of Mezerich.
- Kol B'ru'ei (Padua, Italy) From the album, "Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)." The poem depicts "all creatures" singing and praising the unity of God, and was recited in the Italian rite during the daily morning prayer. This melody was sung only on Rosh Hashanah (New Year) in the Italian tradition of Padua.
- Yigdal From the album, "Judeo-Carribean Currents, Music of the Mikve Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao," performed by Gideon Zelermyer. The Yigdal is part of the ceremonial section of the liturgical order of Shabbat and the Holy Days in the Curaçao synagogue. It is one of the ending hymns of the service.
- Eres Chiquita y Bonita From the album, "Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle," sung by Alicia Bendayan from Tetuan. This is a song about courtship, related to the Jewish rituals that mark the events of the life cycle.
- Sweet Shalt Be My Chant From the album, "Kulmus Hanefesh," performed by Yair Harel on voice and tar, and Matti Kovler on voice and piano. A sacred hymn attributed to Rabbi Yehuda ha-Chasid, this is a Chabad tune with a near-Eastern arrangement.
- Lyr II From the album, "The Music of the Mountain Jews." Lyr is a genre found among all Turkish peoples, consisting of long, complex compositions usually comprised of three parts.
- Gilu ha-Galilim (Rejoice Galileans) From the album, "Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946)." This is a Second Aliyah (1904-1914) song which became an integral part of the historical repertoire of Hebrew song. Both native-born and newly arrived pioneers sang this song in all circumstances.
- Saperi Tama From the album, "With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen." This is a girdle poem by Se'adia ben Amram. Saperi Tama is sung to many melodies and is one of Yemenite Jewry's most common poems.