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Jake Shulman-Ment

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  • Genre: Acoustic / Experimental / Folk

    Location BROOKLYN, New York, US

    Profile Views: 28729

    Last Login: 4/11/2012

    Member Since 8/25/2007

    Website cdbaby.com/cd/jakeshulmanment

    Record Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    Born in New York City, violinist Jake Shulman-Ment is among the leaders of a new generation of Klezmer and Eastern European folk music performers. He has performed and recorded extensively throughout North America and Europe since the age of fourteen with groups including Romashka, MetróFolk, Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird, the Klezminors, the Village Klezmer Quintet, and Art Bailey’s Orkestra Popilar. Additionally, he has toured and recorded with such luminaries as David Krakauer, Frank London, Duncan Sheik, Kálmán Balogh, Alicia Svigals, Michael Alpert, Deborah Strauss, Jeff Warschauer, Adrienne Cooper, Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys, Fleytmuzik, Di Naye Kapelye, Életfa Hungarian Folk Band, and many others. Jake has created, directed, and performed music for a number of theater pieces, including several shows with theatrical wizard Jenny Romaine of Great Small Works, and the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater. He co-founded and regularly performs at “Tantshoyz,” New York's monthly Yiddish dance party sponsored by the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, and is frequently invited to accompany dance workshops led by Yiddish dance master and world-renowned ethnomusicologist Walter Zev Feldman. His wide range of styles includes klezmer, classical, Romanian, Hungarian, Gypsy, and Greek. His classical music experience has consisted of performances with orchestras and chamber music groups throughout New York and New England, as well as study with internationally renowned concert artist Gerald Beal and widely acclaimed violin pedagogue Joey Corpus. An internationally in-demand teacher, Jake has been a faculty member of New York's Henry Street Settlement, KlezKamp, KlezKanada, Klezmer Paris, and Yiddish Summer Weimar. An avid traveler, Jake has made several extended journeys to collect, study, perform, and document traditional folk music in Hungary, Romania, and Greece. Jake's newly released album, "A Redele" (A Wheel), is a ground-breaking, original klezmer violin album, showing his wide range of capabilities, from traditional klezmer to original compositions, from brilliantly arranged Yiddish and Hungarian vocal tunes, to fresh improvisation. For more information, and to buy the album, please visit: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jakeshulmanment .. .. ..

  • Members

    might include: Benjy Fox-Rosen: vocals, bass Pete Rushefsky: tsimbl Art Bailey: accordion Ben Holmes: trumpet Alexander Fedoriouk: cimbalom; Other bands I play with include Romashka, Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar, Fleytmuzik, MetróFolk, Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird, and Frank London with Strings. .. .. ..

  • Influences

    Alicia Svigals, The Klezmatics, Bob Cohen, Naftule Brandwein, Abe Schwartz, H. Steiner, Leon Ahl, Joseph Moskowitz, Cantor Joseph Shlitsky, Berele Chagy, Samuel Kwartin, Gershon Sirota, Ion Dragoi, Taraf de Haidouks, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Stathis Koukoularis, Rosa Ashkenazi and her Band, Fodor "Neti" Sandor, Szazcsavas Band, Magyarpalatka Band, Muzsikas, Led Zeppelin, Bearded Nebula, No Smoking Orchestra, David Oistrakh, Nathan Milstein, Jascha Heifetz, J.S. Bach, Johannes Brahms, Joey Corpus, and my ever-inspiring late teacher Gerald Beal, just to name a few.

  • Sounds Like

    I dunno, you tell me...

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