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The Klez Dispensers: New Jersey Freylekhs

Read "New Jersey Freylekhs" reviewed by Elliott Simon


With their exuberance, musicianship, and ability to have any audience get up and dance, the Klez Dispensers have become the house band for klezmer's newest wave. New Jersey Freylekhs draws inspiration from the experimental jazz/Jewish interchanges of the late 1950s where bop added to klezmer's established relationship with swing. A potpourri of interesting interpretations and newly composed music, NJ Freylekhs features tension filled improvisational doinas that find release through up-tempo freylekhs.It is obvious throughout that the Dispensers are ...

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