It's Track 2 of this 1994 CD, "Brave Old Hora," that opens the show every week.
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An instrumental album of traditional klezmer tunes from the former violin player for The Klezmatics.
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Punk meets klezmer; we caught this band live at the Bowery Ballroom and got hooked.
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All-female klezmer outfit led by drummer Eve Sicular.
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A classic. This 1994 album, with its open homoeroticism and its jazz, punk, and world music influences, spawned many imitators.
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Clarinetist Margot Leverett combines klezmer and bluegrass traditions.
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Klezmer meets experimental jazz on the Tzadik label, with Ben Goldberg on clarinet, Dan Seamans on bass, and Kenny Wollesen on drums. You've probably heard us play track 4.
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From the great Masada series, led by John Zorn on alto sax, with Dave Douglas on trumpet, Greg Cohen on bass, and Joey Baron on drums. Track 4 gets heavy play.
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Here Yale Strom combines Gypsy, jazz, Arabic, and Afro-Cuban music with traditional klezmer; we return again and again to some of these tracks.
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Old school. We've been known to pull out his swingin' version of "Dayenu," on track 22.