Paul Shapiro's Ribs & Brisket at The Triad Theater

Paul Shapiro’s Ribs & Brisket has been performing internationally since the release of Essen (Eat in Yiddish) on Tzadik Records. The band plants their feet firmly where the Borscht Belt meets 52nd Street blowing Yiddish, jazz and blues.

A recent iteration called Ribs & Brisket Plays the Music of Mrs. Maisel added the Barry Sisters, Blossom Dearie and Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee to their already eclectic, humorous and virtuosic repertoire. With classics like Slim Gaillard’s Dunkin’ Bagel and Shapiro’s own Oy Veys Mir the ensemble swings hard and the singers rock the mic.
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Paul Shapiro’s Ribs & Brisket has been performing internationally since the release of Essen (Eat in Yiddish) on Tzadik Records. The band plants their feet firmly where the Borscht Belt meets 52nd Street blowing Yiddish, jazz and blues.

A recent iteration called Ribs & Brisket Plays the Music of Mrs. Maisel added the Barry Sisters, Blossom Dearie and Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee to their already eclectic, humorous and virtuosic repertoire. With classics like Slim Gaillard’s Dunkin’ Bagel and Shapiro’s own Oy Veys Mir the ensemble swings hard and the singers rock the mic.

The New Yorker writes …a heaping platter of rhythm and blues and jazz served with a schmear of classic Yiddish culture is the special of the day for this joyful outfit, led by the exuberant saxophonist Shapiro.

Kirk Silsbee writes …the band plays like a juke joint combo used to dodging beer bottles and bullets. Shapiro's nasty tenor sax breaks would have qualified him for duty at Duffy's Gaieties on Cahuenga Boulevard, when Lenny Bruce emceed for the peelers in the '50s.

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