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Klezmer world will remember the 'youngest of the old guys'
(New York Jewish Week) — The late Brooklyn klezmer musician Pete Sokolow would sometimes take the stage as “Klezmer Fats.” But many players used a different sobriquet to refer to the pianist, who served as a link between generations: “the younges...
An ahead-of-its-time klezmer album will be performed live for the first time
(New York Jewish Week) - In 1955, a group of musicians gathered in a Manhattan recording studio and committed to tape 16 tunes. When the LP, "Tanz," was released the following year, it barely made a...
'Married to the Mob,' but under a chuppah: A new memoir details a Jewish family's crime ties
(New York Jewish Week) - The Geiks weren't your typical Bronx working-class Jewish family. The father ran a mob-protected trucking company in Manhattan's Garment District. One brother, an NYPD...
