| Shmutsige Magnaten | ||||
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| Released | 21 February 2006 | |||
| Recorded | 1 July 2005, Kupa Synagogue, Krakow, Poland | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 61:27 | |||
| Label | Tzadik TZ 8106 | |||
| Producer | Anthony Coleman | |||
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Shmutsige Magnaten (subtitled Coleman Plays Gebirtig) is a live solo album by pianist Anthony Coleman performing the songs of Mordechai Gebirtig recorded in Poland and released on the Tzadik label in 2006. [1]
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| Allmusic |   [2] |
In his review for Allmusic, Thom Jurek states "Coleman is a master, and if you're at all interested either in Yiddish music or solo piano recordings that transcend jazz, blues, and other folk forms, let Shmutsige Magnaten be it". [2]
All compositions by Mordechai Gebirtig except as indicated
Mordechai Gebirtig, born Mordecai Bertig, was an influential Yiddish poet and songwriter of the interwar period. He was shot by Germans in the Kraków Ghetto, occupied Poland, during the Holocaust. A number of his Yiddish songs are still sung to this day, including Es brent, Reyzele, Moyshele Mayn Fraynd, and Kinder Yorn.
Anthony Coleman is an avant-garde jazz pianist. During the 1980s and 1990s he worked with John Zorn on Cobra, Kristallnacht, The Big Gundown, Archery, and Spillane and helped push modern Jewish music into the 21st century.
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Lake Biwa is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith released on John Zorn's Tzadik label in 2004. The album contains four pieces composed between 2000 and 2004.
Kabell Years: 1971–1979 is a four-CD box set released on Tzadik Records compiling American jazz trumpeter/composer/inmproviser Wadada Leo Smith's earliest albums which were originally released on his own, privately pressed label Kabell along with additional previously unissued material from the same era. The set includes the previously released material from Creative Music - 1, Reflectativity, Song of Humanity and Solo Music: Ahkreanvention.