Apr.21,2016 Jake Shulman-Ment Trio, w/Yoshie Fruchter & Richie Barshay

Jake Shulman-Ment
Jake Shulman-Ment

This will be the debut concert of a brand-new eclectic supergroup, with each member bringing their mastery of a myriad of styles. The resulting sound is something quite new, traveling through veins of rock, avant-garde free improv, classical, and Romanian folk music, all finding it’s place within the expressive language of klezmer.

 Jake Shulman-Ment – violin

Yoshie Fruchter – electric guitar

Richie Barshay – drums, percussion

Born in New York City, violinist Jake Shulman-Ment is among the leaders of a new generation of Klezmer and Eastern European folk music performers. He has performed and recorded internationally with Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird, Di Naye Kapelye, Adrian Receanu, The Other Europeans, Frank London, Duncan Sheik, and many more. Jake has been a faculty member of New York’s Henry Street Settlement, KlezKamp, KlezKanada, Klezmer Paris, the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival, Yiddish Summer Weimar, and other festivals throughout the globe. In 2010 Jake received a Fulbright research grant to collect, study, perform, and document traditional music in Romania. Jake’s debut solo CD, “A Redele (A Wheel)” (Oriente Musik, 2012) was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award.

 

Yoshie Fruchter is a guitar, bass, oud player and composer whose band, Pitom (Tzadik Records) has received critical acclaim from Jazz Times magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Guitar Player Magazine and many more.  The unique blend of rock, jazz, experimental and jewish styles in his playing and composing is a defining characteristic of his music.  He has toured the US and Europe with Pitom and other groups, playing the Atlantique Jazz Festival in France, the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival, Saalfelden Jazz Festival in Austria and others.  He recently released an album on the new Jewish record label Blue Thread Music of post-rock arrangements of old cantorial recordings entitled Schizophonia.

 Yoshie is also a sought-after freelance musician in New York City in bands ranging in style from acoustic world music to heavy metal and has performed with John Zorn, Cyro Baptista, and Frank London, among many others.

Percussionist Richie Barshay, noted for his work with the Herbie Hancock Quartet, has established himself as a prominent musical voice of his generation and is regarded as “a player to watch” by JazzTimes magazine. On tour and recordings his diverse résumé includes Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Esperanza Spalding, The Klezmatics, Fred Hersch, Kenny Werner, Lee Konitz, Natalie Merchant, David Krakauer, Fred Wesley, Claudia Acuña, Bobby McFerrin and Pete Seeger among others. Since 2004, he has led outreach projects as an American Musical Envoy with the U.S. State Department in Asia, Africa, South America, and Europe. Now based in New York City, Richie began playing Jazz and Afro-Caribbean music during his youth and has expanded his focus to Indian rhythmic concepts and tabla, inspiring his 2007 recording debut Homework on Ayva Records. “Homework introduces a major rhythm voice on the rise” says Downbeat magazine, and The Guardian (UK) praises “the arrival of a major innovator who also knows how to have fun.”

Jalopy Theater and School of Music!!
315 Columbia Street Brooklyn, New York 11231
phone 718.395.3214  www.jalopy.biz

Klezmer Instrumental Workshop led by Jake Shulman-Ment 6:30pm-8:00 $25 per class,

Concert begins at 8:30pm – $15 Jam Session follows

Concert 10:15-11:00ish Full night pass – $35 (includes Workshop, Tantshoyz & Jam)

Upcoming Events:

May 12 The Adam Moss Trio

May 19 Aaron Alexander – Klez Messengers w/M. Winograd & P. Farrell

May 26 Jewish Women of Rebetika featuring Carol Freeman

June 2 Jeff Warschauer, Deborah Strauss & Aaron Alexander

June 9 Brian Glassman’s Klezmer Jazz Alliance

June 16 Susan Leviton and Lauren Brody

June 23 Season Finale, featuring The Workshop Band Performance & The Dave Levitt Trio

June 30 TBA

July 7  Encore Double Bill! w/the bands,  Fraydele & Tsibele

questions? Email: newyorkklezmer@gmail.com

www.nyklezmer.com

Support for the New York Klezmer Series is provided by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency in partnership with Governor Andrew Cuomo.