(Jewish Music / South/ Eastern European Traditions / Klezmer / Shanachie) Maxwell Street Klezmer Band - Old Roots New World - 2002, APE (image+.cue), lossless

One of the first klezmer revival bands in the Midwest, the Chicago-based Maxwell Street Klezmer Band has been playing their blend of Yiddish pop tunes, dance music, and Jewish folk songs since 1983. Named after Chicago's busy marketplace, Maxwell Street Klezmer Band injects horn-driven energy into the music of the past. With guitarist and vocalist Lori Lippitz, co-founder of Yiddish Arts Ensemble and a cantor of the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregationin Evanston, leading the way, the 15-piece group pays tribute to the Klezmer masters while allowing their music to evolve.
Formed in 1983, Maxwell Street Klezmer Band has gone through numerous personnel changes. Only Lippitz and Mintz-born violinist, arranger, and music director Alex Koffman, ex-concertmaster of the Byelorussian Pops Orchestra, remain from the original band. Saxophone, clarinet, and flute player Shelley Yoelin, a professor of music and director of bands at Triton College in River Grove, IL, has been with the group since 1985. As of June 2000, Maxwell Street Klezmer Band features Kimber Leigh Nussbaum (vocals), Donald Jacobs and Jeff Jeziorski (clarinets), Ralph Wilder (clarinet, saxophone, flute), Gail Mangurten and Bob Applebaum (pianos), Sam Margolis and Audrey Morrison (trombones), Ivo Braun (trumpet),David Rothstein (bass), and Mark Ponarovsky and Steve Hawk(percussion).
In 1989, Maxwell Street Jazz Band joined with choreographer Lynn Shapiro to launch a non-profit organization, the Yiddish Arts Ensemble, to present family-oriented theater productions. In 1994, this organization grew into the Klezmer Music Foundation under whose auspices the Klezmer and Yiddish Music Institute, a weeklong series of concerts and workshops, is held annually in the Midwest. The organization also supervises a teenage band, Maxwell Street Junior Klezmer Orchestra.
Since 1996, Maxwell Street Klezmer Band has joined with Peter, Paul & Mary's Peter Yarrow and Jewish singer/songwriter Debbie Friedman for a Hanukah concert that has attracted an eager audience each year. The band's peak year came in 1998. They performed in New York at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in February and Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park in June. In November, they traveled to London, Munich, Vienna, and Amsterdam.
Craig Harris ~ AMG

Almost anything one writes about klezmer music sounds a bit serious. Originating from Eastern Europe, klezmer, or Jewish folk music, features clarinet and fiddle, but can also include tuba, trumpet, saxophone, flute, piano, percussion, and vocals. This information, however, fails to convey how much fun a group like the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band can be. Eclectic and occasionally outrageous, the 17-member band is bursting at the buttons with intensity. With bouncy instrumentals like "A Lively Honga" and happy vocals like "Play, Fiddle, Play/Yidl With the Fiddle," Old Roots New World reminds one of a cross between John Philip Sousa and cabaret. Kimber Leigh Nussbaum handles most of the vocals and her theatrical style on pieces like "Congratulations, Bride and Groom" captures the joyful spirit of a wedding celebration. Violinist Alex Koffman has done a fine job of providing lively arrangements for many of these songs and instrumentals, which must have been quite a task with all the musicians involved. The band does have a serious side, though it's easy to overlook it amidst so much excitement. A quiet, reflective "Leah's Saraband" crosses folk and classical traditions, while the lyric of "Springtime" recalls the Holocaust and how one woman attempts to continue with her life after the murder of her husband. The album ends with the ambitious "Klezmer Rhapsody for Violin," a 17-minute instrumental with multiple phases ranging from ecstatic to thoughtful. With Old Roots New World, the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band deliver an album that captures the band's abundant energy and versatility.
Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. ~ AMG

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