West Coast Cool Jazz Klezmer Lounge Movie Soundtrack Music:
Can U dig it? I think it's safe to say there has never before been quite this confluence of stylistic tributaries in the history of recorded music. I suppose it's jazz, although of a very rare and arcane kind. A project like this could only come from the mind of Steven Bernstein. Not even such certified weirdoes as Jamie Saft, Curtis Hasselbring, or Josh Roseman could come up with this. Let's start with the musicians. D. J. Bonebrake, drummer for the late, great LA punk band X, is here . . . on... more info
Yiddish west coast free jazz, by way of the Catskills:
Another installment in John Zorn's Radical Jewish Culture series from his Tzadik label, "Diaspora Hollywood" is Steven Bernstein's third album for this series. Inspired by the plight of Jewish composers who fled Europe during the Second World War, "Diaspora Hollywood" mixes classic west coast cool jazz with traditional Yiddish melodies and subtle free form improvisation to create a style both familiar and unheard. After discovering that west coast jazz stylists Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne played... more info
Tracks:
Yis May Hoo
King Kong - Steven Bernstein, Bernstein, Steven [
Jehudis Bas Zion
Hollywood Diaspora - Steven Bernstein, Bernstein, Steven [
Meyer Lansky - Steven Bernstein, Bernstein, Steven [
B'rich Sh'me - Steven Bernstein, Rosenblatt, Josef
