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Jazz Talmud + Ayn Sof Arkestra at
Courtesy of Sixth Street Synagogue | Posted on September 21, 2010
When
Mon, September 27, 2010
7.30pm
At Door
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Musicians
Frank London
trumpetGreg Wall
saxophoneAaron Alexander
drumsEyal Maoz
guitarUri Sharlin
accordionPam Fleming
trumpetPaul Shapiro
saxophoneAbout
Monday September 27th, 7.30pm
Cell Theater @ 338 West 23rd Street (b/n 8 & 9 Avenue)
JAZZ TALMUD: WORLD PREMIERE + AYN SOF ARKESTRA
ft. 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. ...