JAZZ TALMUD: WORLD PREMIERE + AYN SOF ARKESTRA
featuring Jake Marmer (poetry), Frank London (trumpet), and Greg Wall (saxophone/clarinet).
Jazz Talmud is a poetry and music project with Talmudic modes of dialog, spontaneous interpretations, interruptions, arguing, and the ecstatic attempts at wisdom. The poems mimic Talmudic rhetoric, style and turns of phrase, as they reflect on the contemporary Jewish experience, jazz, dreams, loneliness and more. The horn players, acting as Talmud’s interpreters Rashi and Tosefot spontaneously riff on the spoken material and each other’s reaction to it.
NYC’s newest addition to the canon of new Jewish influenced music and culture, the Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band, under the direction of saxophonist Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall and grammy winning trumpeter Frank London.The Arkestra consists of some of the most innovative artists on the scene today, such as Pam Fleming, Paul Shapiro, Aaron Alexander, Fima Ephron, Eyal Maoz and many others. The repertoire will consist of original compositions and arrangements of the members and guest composers, in the great NuJu/Rad Jew/SunRaJoo tradition.
$15 cover/$12 for students
This project has been made possible in part through support from the Dorot Foundation
Comments
Gee, whoever would have thought there could be such a thing as "Jazz Talmud"? The picture that combination of words brought to mind was rabbis arguing over each musical note. That seemed to be the antithesis of jazz because it relies heavily on improvisation.
Ah well, I guess the wise men argued themselves into a modus vivendi with the music because... here it is!
:)
This is so cool, would never have thought of putting this together and pulling it off...but they did.
good write up
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