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Naftule's Dream
Naftule's Dream grew out of the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, a Boston-area group that had already been playing traditional klezmer for 14 years before Newton, Massachusetts-born clarinetist Glenn Dickson and accordionist-songwriter Michael McLaughlin spun off a more adventurous, improvisation-focused outlet from within it. The band released two records on their own, "Search for the Golden Dreydl" in 1997 and "Smash, Clap" in 1998, before going on to record three further albums for composer John Zorn's Tzadik label under its Radical Jewish Culture series, a significant marker of downtown-avant-garde credibility. The Boston Globe praised the group for fusing "klezmer music, Phish-like improvisation, and radical Yiddish poetry," a description that captured how directly the band pushed past traditional acoustic klezmer instrumentation and arrangement. Their combination of their roots in a 14-year-old traditional klezmer orchestra and their three albums on John Zorn's boundary-pushing Tzadik label has made Naftule's Dream one of the most musically adventurous bands in the klezmer revival movement.
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The Klezmatics
The Klezmatics formed in New York's East Village in 1986 and won the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album for "Wonder Wheel: Lyrics by Woody Guthrie," built around 12 previously unrecorded Guthrie lyrics the band set to new klezmer-rooted music — making them the only klezmer band ever to win a Grammy. Guthrie's estate had been sitting on notebooks full of unused lyrics, some touching on Jewish and Hanukkah themes from his years living in a Coney Island building with many Jewish neighbors, and The Klezmatics' project turned a selection of them into a genuine cross-genre collaboration decades after Guthrie's death. Across nearly four decades together, the band has released 13 albums blending traditional Yiddish material with jazz, gospel, punk, classical, Latin, and Balkan influences, and topped the Billboard World Music Chart along the way. Their combination of the genre's only Grammy Award and their nearly 40-year run blending klezmer with everything from punk to gospel has made The Klezmatics the most significant band of the klezmer revival movement.
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