Archive for April, 2009
Missing My Music
So normally it’s a post that sparks the comments. This time, a comment to a different post inspired me to pull out my laptop and start typing. Talk to six different people and you’ll hear six different minhagim of how they deal with music during Sefira. Don’t listen at all. Listen but only in the [...]
Miami Experience Concert Review
Note: Pictures from COLLive. I’m finally home. After my GPS threw me “off the derech” so to speak. I was trying to get home from Brooklyn and it sends me through Manhattan of all places. I must have spent an hour in traffic in Manhattan. Why is there gridlocked traffic at 11:30PM!? Anyway, I doubt [...]
Best Of: Tzlil V’Zemer
Out of the major boys choirs that have popped up over the years in Jewish music, Tzlil V’zemer stands out with regards to two aspects: its arrangements, and its selection of soloists. The arrangements, as much as many of them cry out “Eighties!”, were really ahead of their time. No other choir experimented or had [...]
Best Of: Abie Rotenberg
Abie Rotenberg. If he composed it, it’s probably going to be good. There aren’t too many composers who are that good that their name next to a song means quality. I would place him second only to Shlomo Carlebach (Yossi Green would be third) in the top Jewish composers list. His songs are hartzig, earnest [...]
JM Derech: Miami Yovo Review
Hello again fellow readers. It’s an honor and a privilege to be given the chance to guest post here on the Jewish Music Report. You can check out my blog, Jewish Music Derech for more fun posts and reviews from yours truly! Let me start out this review by saying how impressed I am with [...]
Mazel Tov!!
If I told you that we here at Jewish Music Report were in some small way responsible for making a shidduch, would you believe me? Of course, you wouldn’t. This is just a Jewish music blog. We review CDs, talk about music. CDs we’ve loved. Artists we’ve met. Shadchanim? You must be kidding. Let [...]
ABD Debut Album – CD review by “the Sheichet”
ABD Debut Album – a CD review by Mendel “the Sheichet” Not much was known about this group before they came out, but I from what I had heard I was expecting a half-baked Dveykus imitation. Obviously I had heard wrong. While there are most certainly large doses of Dveykus influence in this group’s style, [...]
Interview: Oorah ’09 winner Yonatan Shlagbaum
The JMR’s Mendel the Sheichet spoke with Yonatan Shlagbaum, winner of the 2009 Oorah Auditions Contest. Mendel spoke with Yonatan about his background in music, his thoughts on winning the contest, his plans for the future and more. We felt that Shlagbaum’s Oorah track, as much as it showcased his voice, only shows one side [...]
JM Derech: Acheinu 3
Let me start out with an apology, for I have lost my Acheinu 3 booklet, and it is nowhere to be found! I have looked far, I have looked near, but I could not find the lost booklet! So, because of this, I’m going to have to review this by ear! Oh, Shapiro Brothers! You [...]
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