Articles Tagged “Yiddish”

  • yiddish-twist-orchestra

    Yiddish Twist Orchestra return to their East End roots

    by Caroline Westbrook on Oct 20, 2011 | No Comments

    Fans of Jewish music are in for a treat this winter as allstar group The Yiddish Twist Orchestra take to the stage at a new arts festival in London’s East End. The band – who…

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  • Jewish Latin Jazz

    Latin jazz with a Yiddish flavour

    by VOAnews on Sep 17, 2011 | No Comments

    Mix the pounding, hip-swaying drums of Afro-Cuban jazz with lilting Jewish tunes from mid-1900s New York, and what do you get? Jewish Latin jazz. At a performance at Yoshi’s Jazz Club in San Francisco, the…

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