Klez N’ Zazou, new cd !

Zazou – the 1940s’ youth movement in Paris inspired by jazz and swing music – meets Klezmer on our new CD, with a wide range of emotion: the essence of the Gefilte Swing band.

We’ve got lots of Zazou, along with Jazz from New Orleans and the Prohibition era, plus some Yiddish-flavored French songs. It’s all there, along with rock and reggae !
The Gefilte Swing’s new album is totally zazou –call it barjo– meshugga – or just plain crazy !

That is what’s so wonderful about klezmer: open to all types of music, it works with everything, which is why we have invited ten guest artists: vocalists and instrumentalists making music together – Yiddish, jazz, and rock: Wa da la di dou da di dou la wa wa !

 

They talk about it in the press.

– New Folk Sounds / Dries Delrue, Article in dutch, august 2019
« If the klezmer and yiddish song revival appears to be behind us, this Gefilte Swing CD clearly places the genre on the frontlines of the musical scene. Klez N’ Zazou”is a CD to cherish. »

 

– Frémaux & Associés / Augustin Bondou & Patrick Frémaux
« Their nonchalant approach, rooted in the Zazou’s will to live life to the fullest, getting by on swing regardless of the cost, offers us a generous and reinvigorating hedonistic music. » (note – the Zazou, French equivalent of our 1940s’ Zoot-Suiter) »

 

– Bruno Guermonprez / Jazz News Magazine, september 2019
« Gefilte Swing perfectly unites those zones of influence that never bend to tradition, enthusiastically finding their place in today’s world. »

 

– Blues & Rhythm / Norman Darwen, october 2019.
« If your taste leans towards swing or klezmer,or maybe, as i said, if you just want something rather different, try and give it a listen. »

 

They talk about it too …

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