Jazz Talmud + Ayn Sof Arkestra at

Monday September 27th, 7.30pm
Cell Theater @ 338 West 23rd Street (b/n 8 & 9 Avenue)

JAZZ TALMUD: WORLD PREMIERE + AYN SOF ARKESTRA
ft. Jake Marmer (poetry), Frank London (trumpet), and Greg Wall (saxophone/clarinet).

Jazz Talmud is a poetry and music project with Talmudic modes of dialog, spontaneous interpretations, interruptions, arguing, and the ecstatic attempts at wisdom. The poems mimic Talmudic rhetoric, style and turns of phrase, as they reflect on the contemporary Jewish experience, jazz, dreams, loneliness and more. The horn players, acting as Talmud’s interpreters Rashi and Tosefot spontaneously riff on the spoken material and each other’s reaction to it. ...

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Monday September 27th, 7.30pm
Cell Theater @ 338 West 23rd Street (b/n 8 & 9 Avenue)

JAZZ TALMUD: WORLD PREMIERE + AYN SOF ARKESTRA
ft. Jake Marmer (poetry), Frank London (trumpet), and Greg Wall (saxophone/clarinet).

Jazz Talmud is a poetry and music project with Talmudic modes of dialog, spontaneous interpretations, interruptions, arguing, and the ecstatic attempts at wisdom. The poems mimic Talmudic rhetoric, style and turns of phrase, as they reflect on the contemporary Jewish experience, jazz, dreams, loneliness and more. The horn players, acting as Talmud’s interpreters Rashi and Tosefot spontaneously riff on the spoken material and each other’s reaction to it.

AYN SOF ARKESTRA & BIGGER BAND

NYC’s newest addition to the canon of new Jewish influenced music and culture, the Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band, under the direction of saxophonist Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall and grammy winning trumpeter Frank London.The Arkestra consists of some of the most innovative artists on the scene today, such as Pam Fleming, Paul Shapiro, Aaron Alexander, Fima Ephron, Eyal Maoz and many others. The repertoire will consist of original compositions and arrangements of the members and guest composers, in the great NuJu/Rad Jew/SunRaJoo tradition.

$15 cover/$12 for students

http://jakemarmer.wordpress.com/jazz-talmud-premiere/

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