Music Review

Jews and the Abstract Truth (1997)

Hasidic New Wave
Reviewed by Rob Brunner | Apr 25, 1997
EW's GRADE
B+

Details Lead Performance: Hasidic New Wave; Genre: Jazz

Conventional klezmer this is not. Hasidic New Wave marries Hasidic wedding music to avant-jazz, spinning traditional Jewish celebratory songs into extended jazz improvisations that incorporate ferocious horn blowing and raucous electric-guitar solos. Deeply reverent but by no means faithful, Jews and the Abstract Truth is a decidedly unorthodox reading of orthodox culture. B+

Originally posted Apr 25, 1997 Published in issue #376 Apr 25, 1997 Order article reprints

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