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Klezmer n' Jazz

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Artist Gefilte Swing
Artistical Director : Alexandre Litwak
Booklet : 12 pages
Number of CDs : 1

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The whirling twisting music form known as Klezmer, which originated among the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe, can have a sad or festive climate. Here it has all the sweat of a swing club in Harlem during the Depression, as the Gefilte Swing band, led by Alexandre Litwak, plays its own festive brand of jazz that borders on world music, with occasional forays into the world of pop. They nonchalantly borrow from the zoot-suit subculture with a shameless desire to live for swing and the result is hedonistic, generous and invigorating. And like the Carte De Séjour group in the 80’s, they also have their own version of Douce France, which Charles Trenet wrote during the war, only this time it’s sung in Yiddish… Augustin BONDOUX et Patrick FRÉMEAUX

LE POSTE PARISIEN VOUS ANNONCE… • FRANKRAYKH MAYN [DOUCE FRANCE] (CHARLES TRENET - LÉO CHAULIAC – 1943 © EDITIONS SALABERT - ADAPTATION EN YIDDISH PAR YITSKHOK NIBORSKI) • BENNY’S FREILACH [NIFTY’S FREILACH] (NAFTULE BRANDWEIN) • FREILACH À LA LITWAK [SHTILLER BULGAR - AND THE ANGELS SING] (TRADITIONNEL – ZIGGY ELMAN & JOHNNY MERCER) • DU SHAYNTS VI DI ZIN (ILIA TRILING & LILIAN ISADOR – 1943) • LEBEDIK UN FREILACH (LOUIS GILROD & PEREZ SANDLER - 1926) • MITSVE TENTSL & BUGHICI FREYLAKHS (TRADITIONNEL) • YID MEETS GOY [FREILACH YIDALACH] (TRADITIONNEL) • MASHAV (JOHN ZORN) • MAYN SWINGIN’ TATE [A YIDDISH MAME] (LEW POLLACK -1925) • YID UN GOY FANTASY [ORIENTAL HORA & FREILACH] (TRADITIONNEL) • TCHIRIBIM, TCHIRIBOM (TRADITIONNEL) • AL CAPONE (JACQUES GROBER).

DIRECTION ARTISTIQUE : ALEXANDRE LITWAK

Track	Author	Duration
01	Le poste parisien vous annonce… - Gefilte Swing	00'43
02	Frankraykh Mayn (Douce France) - Gefilte Swing	03'05
03	Benny's Freilach (Nifty's Freilach) - Gefilte Swing	04'19
04	Freilach à la Litwak (Shtiller Bulgar - And the Angels Sing) - Gefilte Swing	03'12
05	Du shaynts Vi Di Zin - Gefilte Swing	03'27
06	Lebedik un Freilach - Gefilte Swing	03'31
07	Mitsve Tentsl & Bughici Freylakhs - Gefilte Swing	04'24
08	Yid Meets Goy (Freilach Yidalach) - Gefilte Swing	04'48
09	Mashav - Gefilte Swing	04'55
10	Ikh Zing - Gefilte Swing	02'46
11	Mayn Swingin' Tate (A Yiddish Mame) - Gefilte Swing	04'14
12	Yid Un Goy Fantasy - Gefilte Swing	06'18
13	Tchiribim, Tchiribom - Gefilte Swing	03'33
14	Al Capone - Gefilte Swing	03'28