Rotating cast of characters. Other bands I play with include Romashka, Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar, Eletfa, 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, 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.
Violinist Jake Shulman-Ment is among the leaders of the new generation of Klezmer and Eastern European folk music performers. He has co-founded, performed, and recorded extensively throughout the United States since the age of fourteen with groups including Romashka, MetróFolk, the Klezminors, the Village Klezmer Quintet, and Art Bailey’s Orkestra Popilar. He has performed with such luminaries as David Krakauer, Frank London, Duncan Sheik, Alicia Svigals, Deborah Strauss, Jeff Warschauer, Adrienne Cooper, Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys, Fleytmuzik, Életfa Hungarian Folk Band, and many others. Jake has created, directed, and performed music for a number of theater pieces, including several shows with director and artist Jenny Romaine of Great Small Works. He co-founded and regularly performs at “Tantshoyz,” the monthly Yiddish dance party at Manhattan's JCC. 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. Jake has been a faculty member of New York's esteemed Henry Street Settlement since fall 2007, as well as the Yiddish folk arts program, KlezKamp, since 2006. An avid traveler, Jake has recently collected, studied, performed, and documented traditional folk music in Hungary, Romania, and Greece. Jake currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
Great that you found me on myspace....and yes of course it would be great to hang/play with you in the not-too-distant....let's try to make that happen...In the meantime, let me know where you'll be,
take care, zay gezunt and see you in Europe sometime soonish
