New Jazz Album of Yiddish Songs Features Local Cantor, Manhattan Transfer Singer Janis Siegel
Photo: www.mazelthealbum.com A Yiddish jazz album featuring the nine time Grammy-award winning singer Janis Siegel from The Manhattan Transfer, a Grammy-nominated pianist, John Di Martino, and Cantor Daniel Kramer from a Port Jefferson Station synagogue in his recording debut? This unlikely trio came together when Di Martino (ironically the only non-Jew from the group) became fascinated with Yiddish songs, which happened, according to a press release, after he heard blues singer Alberta Hunter perform “I Love You Much Too Much” in Yiddish (Ich Hob Dich Tzufil Lieb). An unusual c...
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